TheSlogger
1 mW
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- Jun 18, 2014
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Here in Vancouver there have been a couple of high profile cycling deaths; last year a lady fell under a bus trying to get around a pedestrian, another person was killed by a truck on a busy street. I've been commuting on a regular mountain bike, rain or shine for about 3 years before getting my motor kit, and in that time I wiped out only three times. I can say with reasonable certainty that the only cause for my falls was because I was tired.
There's a dude lives near me, works near me, in way better shape than me, rides every day about 50 km. I saw him the other afternoon at a stop light on a really hot day, and when it turned green he wobbled pretty good before straightening out. I thought, It's the wobble that gets ya. I think about the lady who got crushed by the bus. Was she tired out? Would an inexpensive electric motor have given her a quick boost to avoid tragedy? All I know is I haven't wiped out once since I got my motor. Not even close.
So in conclusion, we need to make electric biking more mainstream. Right now people think we're a bunch of crackpots, wiring up a bunch of D cells to a weed whacker bolted onto a stumpjumper. They need to find out that it's not horribly expensive to electrify your bike, and that unobtrusive systems like the BBS02 are available. Of course there will always be cycling purists who would never sully their rides, and more power to them, but the bottom line is an electric bike can get you home safely, which is all that matters in the end.
There's a dude lives near me, works near me, in way better shape than me, rides every day about 50 km. I saw him the other afternoon at a stop light on a really hot day, and when it turned green he wobbled pretty good before straightening out. I thought, It's the wobble that gets ya. I think about the lady who got crushed by the bus. Was she tired out? Would an inexpensive electric motor have given her a quick boost to avoid tragedy? All I know is I haven't wiped out once since I got my motor. Not even close.
So in conclusion, we need to make electric biking more mainstream. Right now people think we're a bunch of crackpots, wiring up a bunch of D cells to a weed whacker bolted onto a stumpjumper. They need to find out that it's not horribly expensive to electrify your bike, and that unobtrusive systems like the BBS02 are available. Of course there will always be cycling purists who would never sully their rides, and more power to them, but the bottom line is an electric bike can get you home safely, which is all that matters in the end.