Ebikes in Sydney

[Fush]

Wow i have to say after not seeing any ebikes for a long time in the last two week I have now seen 6 ebikes, 3 of them today, plus a few petrol assisted ones...(god dam they smell, make a lot of noise and on top of that don't go very fast)

Sales must have picked up quite a bit lately... or they might just go a completely different route then i usually take to get to uni.

Anyway I saw two DIY jobs today, one looked like a crystalyte 4 series with 3 sla's in the centre of the frame...the poor guy almost got hit by a car at the next set of traffic lights...(car tried to turn left across a bike path without looking, angry words where exchanged)

Second DIY I saw was a chain driven one... I didn't get to see what type of batteries he was running, they guy was travelling away from me but I did notice it made a lot more noise then the previous hub one.

Third bike I saw today (and I am sorry to anyone who owns one of these) was the most fugly thing I've seen in a long time, it's one of the bikes that look like a scooter with pedals ...not only did it just look strange and stupid but it was pink/purple and it was been ridden by a guy..I sorry anyone who owns and rides one of those things is not cool.....yeah yeah it may be practical because you can store stuff in the that little box at the back and everything is internal and its hard to steal...not that any respectable thief would take one, its also incredibly slow and is fugly i give it a score of "F".

I saw some other factory ebikes the other day, which where basically hub motors on the front with the SLA box back behind the seat...however performance wise they are all going suck considering Australia's wimpy 200w limit on ebikes

Anyway they seem to be more popular of late... I am still poor after paying my uni fees off so no ebike for me yet..hopefully soon.(i was so close to buying last week and then bloody college comes along and wipes me out....typical)

Regards


Andrew

 

[Mark_A_W]

Yep, I've seen a few in the last couple of weeks.

All hub motor style.

 

[numberonekiwi]

if you were to go past solarbbq's place im sure you would find several I am thinking he lives somewhere there

 

[Geebee]

Hey I have one of those, and tend to agree with you, very practical if you can't pedal for some reason as pedalling is a joke.
The worst part is that it is the best looking ebike I have.

Not standard though 500w motor and bypass relay for climbing (peaks at a shade under 1 kw), it will sit on 35 kph for a looong time, and its about to get a power bulge in the floor for bigger batteries.
Best of all the paper work all states it is 200w.
Oh and if you lived on the flat (I don't) it would be real easy mod to get 45+ kph out of it.

 

[Fush]

if you were to go past solarbbq's place im sure you would find several I am thinking he lives somewhere there

Hahaha...well he lives in Newcastle which is the equivalent distance of Auckland to Tauranga.

Geebee, yours doesn't look as bad as the one I saw...i think the most major fugly factor was mainly due to the colour scheme on the bike, bright Pink and Purple...YUK!!!

But I am still not a huge fan of the design...you can't really look at it and call it a bike...its a scooter with pedals, and the pedals are purely there to get through the loophole in the law so it doesn't have to be registered.

 

[Toorbough ULL-Zeveigh]

...not only did it just look strange and stupid but it was pink/purple and it was been ridden by a guy..I sorry anyone who owns and rides one of those things is not cool.....



Andrew

What have you got against a guy riding something colored pink?
Dems phyten woids.

:lol:

 

[xyster]

...not only did it just look strange and stupid but it was pink/purple and it was been ridden by a guy..I sorry anyone who owns and rides one of those things is not cool.....
Andrew

What have you got against a guy riding something colored pink?
Dems phyten woids.

:lol:

Yah! Anybody who judges a book by its cover and harbors bias against people who ride an EV of a different color ... is not cool.