Max speed

[Alex321]

What?- just like bikes without electrical assistance! Remember it's quite easy to exceed the legal assisted speed by just pedalling harder. It's not the speed that's the problem, it's the user- assisted or not. And yes the legal assisted speed for e-road bikes should be increased - to 18mph.

While it is reasonably easy to exceed that speed by pedalling harder, it is only relatively experienced cyclists who can do that for more than a few second, and one would hope that the more experienced cyclists would also have a decent awareness of when it is safe to travel at those speeds. With an e-bike anybody can rid at the highest speed it assist at, even if it is your very first time riding one.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Others have very competently rebuffed this spurious and largely-unsupported 'claim' of yours and a few others. I suggest you read their posts.

? is this a reply to my post? If so what spurious claim? I'm suggesting that in the wrong hands any bike, assisted or not, can be ridden dangerously, without care and without regard for one's own or other's safety. In my personal view, an assisted level of 18mph would be a realistic level for e-ROAD bikes.

 

[youngoldbloke]

How many of those posting actually ride e-bikes?

 

[lazybloke]

I was doing 40 mph the other day on my etrike.............down a steep hill and the motor had switched off some time earlier.

Must have been a steep hill .

I've heard Gravity Sucks, so I conducted a scientific experiment to assess its effect by rolling down a local hill. A long but not excessively steep descent.

Started freewheeling at 13.6 mph and peaked at over 40mph.

I've not tried an ebike, but I would imagine they are subject to the same laws of motion as conventional bikes.
v=u+at

 

[Biker man]

How many of those posting actually ride e-bikes?

That's a good question.

 

[Biker man]

We should change to left-hand drive cars to assist in any future trade deals.

Wait, no, that would actually really work in America's favour! Scratch that. As you were.

You are being silly that's the only polite thing I can say.

 

[Biker man]

thousands

Just show them some respect it would be a pretty dull world without America .

 

[Drago]

We should change to left-hand drive cars to assist in any future trade deals.

Wait, no, that would actually really work in America's favour! Scratch that. As you were.

One must concur.

The problem is the words "american workmanship" are usually assciated with the words "shoddy" and, if you're lucky,"mediocre". Despite being cheap theres a good reason their cars never took off here, even in the modern age when they're relatively economical and normal by local standards of taste.

Ditto american electronics.

Ditto american clothing.

Even the best 'American' musical instruments are made in Japan or Indonesia.

There is very little that the Americans manufacture well themselves outside of weaponry. We can get much better for less from other countries, and so we do. It'll take a bit more than a few high performance ebikes to change any of that.

 

[Biker man]

One must concur.

The problem is the words "american workmanship" are usually assciated with the words "shoddy" and, if you're lucky,"mediocre". Despite being cheap theres a good reason their cars never took off here, even in the modern age when they're relatively economical and normal by local standards of taste.

Ditto american electronics.

Ditto american clothing.

Even the best 'American' musical instruments are made in Japan or Indonesia.

There is very little that the Americans manufacture well themselves outside of weaponry. We can get much better for less from other countries, and so we do. It'll take a bit more than a few high performance ebikes to change any of that.

 

[Biker man]

Aren't jeans American and maybe you have heard of Google and the Internet they is also Jeep Boeing anyway I thought this site was a ebike site .

 

[Alex321]

You are being silly that's the only polite thing I can say.

That is rather his point.

He is only extrapolating from the things you are saying, in order to show the silliness of some of your arguments.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Aren't jeans American and maybe you have heard of Google and the Internet they is also Jeep Boeing anyway I thought this site was a ebike site .

Not American, no. The fabric we recognise as jeans originated in Europe, either in Genoa, Italy (from which we get 'jeans') or from Nîmes, France (from which we get denim, meaning "from Nîmes").

 

[winjim]

They saved us in WW2 and thousands of deaths in the 1st WW and
Wise guy.

Nobody died for our freedom in the world wars. They died because the government of the time conscripted them to go and fight. Possibly because they believed there was a threat to their own country or to help other people suffering under occupation. Nobody landed on Omaha Beach thinking that they'd better be prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice so that in seventy-five years time you could ride an electric bike as fast as you want.

 

[Biker man]

Not American, no. The fabric we recognise as jeans originated in Europe, either in Genoa, Italy (from which we get 'jeans') or from Nîmes, France (from which we get denim, meaning "from Nîmes").

You are a mine of information.

 

[Biker man]

Nobody died for our freedom in the world wars. They died because the government of the time conscripted them to go and fight. Possibly because they believed there was a threat to their own country or to help other people suffering under occupation. Nobody landed on Omaha Beach thinking that they'd better be prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice so that in seventy-five years time you could ride an electric bike as fast as you want.

That is the most stupid post yet my Grandad was on the western front and said if the Americans hadn't come in tens of thousands of lives would have been lost .