Do you jump curbs with your ebike? (a poll)

[Reid Welch]

Yes I do, up, down, fast, slow, and it's fun!

hardtail steel, plain steel front fork, front eZee, weight distribution heavily to the rear, very low pressure Big Hank slicks, Thudbuster, 15lb Ping in a steel rear basket tied to a steel, Wald rack,
fastened to the steel dropouts with 1/4 28 socket head screws with nuts. Pretty secure so far!

I like to bomb without harming my ass, or the bike, and rarely if ever stand on the pedals at all.

Do you fly too? No reservations needed. :lol:

 

[Ypedal]

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[Zoot Katz]

Would you jump curbs with this bike?

The front end is light but really doesn't lift easily due to the long wheel base.
The front can slide out pretty quick if too much brake is applied on slimey surfaces.

I ride down curbs gently especially if there's beer, breakables or a honey on the back.
However the motor (X5304) will power the 26" rear wheel over curbs from a foot planted dead stop by unweighting the saddle and pushing forward with a bit of throttle.
. . . hmmm, Maybe I should try that with my bumm planted on the Brooks boinger and just add more throtte. The high bottom bracket makes it doable.

 

[Mathurin]

I wish...

Can only get my ebike up to about 1/3rd height of the average curb at the moment, so jumping them ain't gonna happen. Mostly from my heel sucking, but also the bike is a massive ~26kgs with the smallest battery, ~20kg without it. Tho I could jump it well enough before, but now I just slow down and roll up curbs, it's pretty lame.

But then, I can now jump potholes fairly comfortably, small jumps off speed bumps or rolling off curbs are no longer an issue, can sorta do wheelies again, can sorta sprint - at least acceleration isn't as eventual anymore, can ride around as long as I want, do not have to dismount and walk up the slightest grade like 8% and have to stop every 30m because of the pain (heel couldn't bend that much), no longer carry crutches or a walking cane on my bike, just getting on it was a challenge.

Quite a progression in just a few months, so I'm expecting in a year or so I'll be able to jump curbs casually again. Don't really expect to able to use stairs or go off truck loading docks again, but I'm not selling my Oryx just yet - it needs some cleaning up and a set of not too shoddy looking tires so I can get a good price.

 

[Zoot Katz]

hehehe, I remember riding with a cane and my new ti tibia.
Off the bike I was still a gimp. On the bike everything worked normally.

 

[biohazardman]

There are a couple spots I used to ride regularly where the bike lane magically ended as the road narrowed and then forty yards later it re-appeared as the road widened. I took the sidewalk for the 40 yards of missing bike lane and jumped off the curb when it started again. Crummy stock GM spokes broke often back then but the 12 gauge Sapims never have. Older Schwinn 7075 tubed hardtail took it in stride.

 

[dogman dan]

With a front hub, I wouldn't call it a jump. I do go down curbs, slowly. But up is a stop and lift the wheel up thing.

 

[Link]

Eff no. Bottom of the racks slam into the rear wheel. Not good. :?

 

[swbluto]

I didn't really change my curb-dismounting behavior when I went electric but I didn't "jump" anything to begin with, I more like rolled off. I did hop my front tire onto curbs, though.

 

[Drunkskunk]

Curb?
Was that what that was?


I slow down to go up curbs. Usualy to 20mph or so. I ignore them going down, but then I go down stairs, steps, retaining walls...
2.5 inch hookworms, and a DH with 8 inches of travel make curbs disappear.

 

[Reid Welch]

I wish...

Can only get my ebike up to about 1/3rd height of the average curb at the moment, so jumping them ain't gonna happen. Mostly from my heel sucking, but also the bike is a massive ~26kgs with the smallest battery, ~20kg without it. Tho I could jump it well enough before, but now I just slow down and roll up curbs, it's pretty lame.

But then, I can now jump potholes fairly comfortably, small jumps off speed bumps or rolling off curbs are no longer an issue, can sorta do wheelies again, can sorta sprint - at least acceleration isn't as eventual anymore, can ride around as long as I want, do not have to dismount and walk up the slightest grade like 8% and have to stop every 30m because of the pain (heel couldn't bend that much), no longer carry crutches or a walking cane on my bike, just getting on it was a challenge.

Quite a progression in just a few months, so I'm expecting in a year or so I'll be able to jump curbs casually again. Don't really expect to able to use stairs or go off truck loading docks again, but I'm not selling my Oryx just yet - it needs some cleaning up and a set of not too shoddy looking tires so I can get a good price.

Humour break. I am glad you are healing up after that nearly fatal accident, Mathurin. That was no joke. It really happened. Mathurin can supply a link to the relevant posting report.
As always, he makes no big deal of the ordeal. He's a quiet hero.

We never know what the future brings.

A word to the wise: NEVER sell that Oryx!
It is the best darned little vacuum on the market.
And believe me, I know things that suck perfectly clean!
Be well. Change your dirtbag regularly, pal.

The newest model is perfect for computers!

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I really must CURB my alleged humour! JUMP!

 

[Anonymous]

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[Toorbough ULL-Zeveigh]

the freedom from being funneled by curbs is a big advantage in bike's performance envelope that i'm not prepared to give up.
downcurb i don't so much as bat an eyelash & is part of my regular route.
but the extra weight on a hardtail limits upcurb height to less than half or else slowing to almost a stop.
haven't broken a spoke yet in thousands of miles either.

while trykes & bents intrigue me, i'll probably never own one precisely for that reason of no curb hopping ability.
unless someone can shoe me how this guy managed to catch air.
...oh the humanity!!

which reminds me, are we ever gonna hear again from herr flaschinderadeemajahd? (sp)
in these uncertain turbulent times he might be the keekinderpantz we need right now.

 

[Reid Welch]

which reminds me, are we ever gonna hear again from herr flaschinderadeemajahd? (sp)
in these uncertain turbulent times he might be the keekinderpantz we need right now.

Oh, he's here. One moment while I phone Chermany.....

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Halloo, everypiple! Jumping curbs is easy in my town. It's der jumping of der pedestrians that makes for eggcitements!.

Historical facts: stainless steel thick spokes in a small wheel with a giant hup motor ist very, very hard on the spokes. Stainless steel is for forks and spoons and pretty bikes!
It is not a strong or reliable medal! It breaks without warn! Vee used to all be using carbon steel for spokes: yes, they rust and look ugly, but they neffer would break.

Do you know that tuners of pianos tune carbon steel wire, made the same way as it was made in 1870? Even the alloy has not changed. Foolish, foolish manufacturers once tried to make rust-less piano wire. Stainless steel: good for forks and spoons (not the kind on bikes) but no good for piano wire: it stretchs under tension and never keeps a tune.
In bikes, if we make a stiff "strong" spoke, and that spoke is short in length, and it is stainless, it is much more liable to break in time.

For dis reason I command only 26 inch veeels with slender or normal spokes, for the "give": they are like piano wire, even though today they are of that awful stainless "steel",
which is not a steel at all!

Pardon my accent. My hinglish improves, yet, with age, i grow more stupid and verbose.
Verbose means that I drink too much beer, den I talk too very much outside my field:
flower arrangements for funerals.

Danke, all,

Herr Aflaschcindernose

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PISS: der exdension of der logic: the smaller the hup modor, der bedder.
And the longer der spoke, der bedder.
A huge wheel with long spokes would neffer brake spokes up on curb hopping.
Too, it is here that a front hup moder haff der advantage over the rear moder:
less weight upon it and you can PULL up the front, reliefing it of der brute weight.
A rear hup moder wid a heavy man must climb over a fat curb or pedestrian with caution!
Das ist allen. It was accident so for free I made for his family a fine arrangement of lillies: Gut Luck spelled on a big horseshoe. Efferybody cried but not for Allen.

HA