Use of electric bikes by younger people.
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Drago
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Pretty crap KoM if someone doing 15.5mph can beat you...
But do you own a washing machine?
mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
I've always been an analogue cyclist since youth.
Commuting, leisure, towing the kids and luggage about, and touring.
But I'm considering getting an e-bike to help tow stuff for my work.
As some of that involves evenings, and biggish hills.
On energetic days could still do it on a normal bike.
But I know I'd be far more likely to take an e-bike on those days when I was already a bit overstretched.
I expect there were a few old duffers aghast at the idea of 12 gears being available at one time..
"12 gears ?? Ay dunno, in mah day we ad one, if we were lucky, and we'd tow a granite boulder up t' middle ot road with whole family sat on it - ont way t'mill"
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I just don't understand this obsession with couches. I sit on a rock and it's never done me any harm.
A rock luxury, we only had stalagmites in our cave.
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For me very little cycling stuff is value for money, most bikes fall into that category, lots of clothing, turbo trainers, tyres, wheels the list is virtually endless
mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
Don't be ridiculous..
When there's that perfectly good rock in the river to beat the linens on ??
Such profligacy
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How do you join, do I have to find a horses head, or will the horses arses on this thread count?
Jenkins
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anothersam
SMIDSMe
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- Far East Sussex
On yesterday’s ride I was passed (again!) going up quite a steep hill by a family of three. The father had his arm on his young daughter and was pushing her along, a paternal bicycle lift.
View: https://youtu.be/7j1PgmMbug8
The adults were riding with electrical assistance, but it was a marvelous thing to see.
They've come a long way.
View: https://youtu.be/7j1PgmMbug8
The adults were riding with electrical assistance, but it was a marvelous thing to see.
They've come a long way.
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An interesting topic started there, what do you consider value for money. I consider the costs involved when I spend, certainly a tyre does not cost much in terms of base product but a lot of costs involved in getting it from tree to your hands.
SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
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Quite possibly but the car driven by an old person is likely to be registered to it's real owner, be reasonably roadworthy, and be properly insured - so injured parties have some legal redress.
On the other hand, the irresponsible muppets riding around on illegal electric scooters and illegally de-restricted e-bikes aka unregistered electric motorcycles, when they cause accidents, are generally going to do their utmost to vanish from the scene ASAP and avoid accepting any responsibility for their actions.
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At the risk of going off-topic & onto a interesting topic not this mundane one, your choice of tyres, compare their cost of a car tyre then compare it with the cost of a bike tyre. I just feel that manufacturers of cycle products live on the profits of the vanity of riders, not that they are alone, tying people into a brand is big business.
My thoughts are the base product is pennies on both, the handling costs through the supply chain could be more for cycle stuff as they sell fewer of them.
