Electric bikes !!
Lets talk about your electric bikes and what you think about them ! We have had our fat tire , twenty inch , folding bikes for two weeks and have been riding them 8 to 12 miles per day . We pedal con...
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Lantley wrote:
I get it on speed but E bikes are no faster than regular bikes.
I am often get passsed by regular non E-bikes all the time.
Your gripe is with the biker not the bike.
You must ride/bike at a speed appropriate for the conditions, no different than driving a car.
Appropriate speed applies to both Ebikes and non E bikes.
I agree, we often get passed on our e bikes by other bikers. Now I will admit it is easier for us to go faster on the e-bikes than we would or had been going on our regular bikes, (uphill) but on level ground we travel at about the same speed.
Now for e bike ratings, the two common systems (pedal assist and throttle assist) have built in motor control for electric assist to quite at 20 mph. But it is easier to go 20mph+ on level ground e bike or not. and downhill even easier.
Now our e-bikes are pedal asist, not throttle assist and when you stop pedalling, just like a regular bike you slow down. you MUST keep pedalling to maintain speed. Throttle assist bikes can keep going with the throttle only.
