What do you like best about your E-Bike

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What do you like best about your E-bike?

I don't have to pay for registration or license
8
10%
It's my main means of transportation
3
4%
My E-bike gets 300 to 500 mpg equivalent and I don't have to buy gasoline
5
6%
My Wife or Girlfriend won't let me have a real motorcycle
2
2%
I don't have to sit in traffic waiting, and feel smarter & smug towards the mass of drivers
3
4%
I have a lot of fun and can feel the power when I'm on my E-Bike
23
28%
I Just love to build, tinker, and create E-Bikes
29
35%
Are you really asking these questions? All OF THE ABOVE!!!
10
12%
 
Total votes : 83

What do you like best about your E-Bike

Postby TMaster » Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:11 pm

So I finally built up my first e-bike after contemplating for almost a year. And Wow, I never thought it would be so much fun! It's got me wanting to build up a second one! I had a smile on my face for like 2 hours strait when I first rode it.
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Re: What do you like best about your E-Bike

Postby zenon » Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:16 pm

TMaster wrote:So I finally built up my first e-bike after contemplating for almost a year. And Wow, I never thought it would be so much fun! It's got me wanting to build up a second one! I had a smile on my face for like 2 hours strait when I first rode it.


Its a feeling that is hard to describe to a non ebike riders, I bit your face still hurt's :D

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Top speed 60km/h
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Re: What do you like best about your E-Bike

Postby RythmshiP » Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:16 am

I must add a category because the silent running of my e bike has me quite enamored :mrgreen:
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Re: What do you like best about your E-Bike

Postby yopappamon » Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:05 pm

I love being outside in sunny southern California.
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Re: What do you like best about your E-Bike

Postby Ykick » Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:13 pm

Many elements to enjoy but being able to bicycle at or above the level of a top athlete while being broken, old and fat is pretty damn cool...
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Re: What do you like best about your E-Bike

Postby Drunkskunk » Sat Oct 01, 2011 5:32 pm

No Altruistic reasons here. I'm not saving the world. I'm not even saving money.

The best part of riding a bike as a kid was getting to coast down some long hill. Ebikes let you do that up hill :D
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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Re: What do you like best about your E-Bike

Postby SamTexas » Sat Oct 01, 2011 10:14 pm

zenon wrote:
TMaster wrote:..., I bit your face still hurt's :D

Of course his face hurts and will continue to hurt until you stop biting it.
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Re: What do you like best about your E-Bike

Postby kmxtornado » Mon Nov 28, 2011 3:39 pm

Actually, the best part is being stealth and seeing all the odd looks roadies give when they see us riding past them up hill or on the flats.
- My very first e-bike conversion ever: http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32668&p=474570#p474570
- Build Blog (more detailed than the above thread): http://e-bikeconversion.blogspot.com/ (20mph)
- Ultra mini folding bike upgrade (in-progress): http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=33471 (12mph > 18mph)
- Recumbent Tadpole Trike completed Aids Life Cycle ride from SF to LA: http://kmxtornado.blogspot.com (27mph flats)
- Catrike Speed (in process)
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Re: What do you like best about your E-Bike

Postby tomk2 » Mon Nov 28, 2011 3:44 pm

Being on a Stealth E Bike and watching the faces (in my rear view mirror) of the "Tour de Fou Fou crowd" is priceless!!!
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