Electric Bikes: A Less-Polluting Option For Commutes & Errands In The “New Normal”
Electric Bikes: A Less-Polluting Option For Commutes & Errands In The “New Normal”
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! My commute now mostly consists of the distance from my bedroom to the laptop in my home office (with a short detour to the kitchen for coffee) because I’m fortunate enough to have a job and employer that allows ...
If you make a way for me to travel safely without potholes within an inch of passing cars, I'll buy an electric bike and ride it everywhere.
Sorry, best we can do is Mad Max.
I just ride around with a flame thrower and spray off a warning jet when cars get too close.
The pot holes are terrified of me because of the flame thrower, so they just get out of the way.
It's great fun, but I know I'm totally screwed if I crash.
Also, I'm pretty sure the tank hurts the range on my bike real bad.
Supposedly, heavy giga-cars are the reason for so many potholes. Much harder to design asphalt for longevity supporting obese mammoths than simple sedans, much less bikes.
Whatcha gonna do about the rain?
"There is no bad weather, just inadequate clothing" is what we tell ourselves in Norway to not get too depressed by the shitty weather.
Are you made of sugar?
Ride a bike in the rain 🤷
Where I live is way too hilly and way too close proximity to cars so I won't be doing it at all, I just walk into town instead.
Wear a rain coat?
You sound like a city girl who for the first time in her life saw a forest
How do I stop someone from stealing it? I'm for it but I live in suburbia and the stores don't have bike racks for anything other than a parking lot. It's not a "bad" area but it has people. A $500 bike is one thing but a $1500 bike is another.
I don't think there is any secure bike parking as mentioned in the article and I'm not talking daily commute to work. If anyone has any tips I'm open to ideas.
You can get a $1500 electric bike? The only ones I've seen at the bike shop all start around $5000. I can get a car for $5000.
You can get e-bikes for under 2k but they have some definite drawbacks. I wonder if the ones in the bike shop are all super high end models or mountain bikes. Even very nice e-bikes are around 3k, if they're designed for city use. Check out this list here https://bikexchange.com/best-electric-city-bikes/
Place near me sells electric bikes for like $2200 CAD so about $1600-$1800 US
You can get a new bike for $5000. You can't get a new car for $5000 (unless you live in China). You can get a car for $5000 of course, but it won't be a nice new car.
I've kept a chain around both of my scooters' stems for the years I've been riding each of them and have not had a problem yet. Two things to note: I'm not in NYC and I keep it racked in high visibility areas in daylight. Honestly with the price of bikes a 1200 scooter with a thick chain isn't worth the trouble me thinks.