First electric bike journey with the wife.

[recumpence]

Hey Guys,

I built my wife a Giant Revive with a 3210 and 10ah of lipo a few years ago. She rides it and really enjoys it. But I have not had a decent bike for myself since building it for her until recently. Today she asked if I would like to take out the bikes? I said sure! So we rode for about 4 miles. No big deal, but it was truly a blast. This was a very different experience sharing an ebike trip with her.

How many of you ride with your wife?

Matt

 

[EVTodd]

Hey Guys,

I built my wife a Giant Revive with a 3210 and 10ah of lipo a few years ago. She rides it and really enjoys it. But I have not had a decent bike for myself since building it for her until recently. Today she asked if I would like to take out the bikes? I said sure! So we rode for about 4 miles. No big deal, but it was truly a blast. This was a very different experience sharing an ebike trip with her.

How many of you ride with your wife?

Matt

Hey Matt!

I ride with my wife at least three times a week. We have a nice little route that's 7 to 10 miles depending on which way we go.

It really is a lot of fun. My average speed goes down a bit when she's with me but it's because we spend time chatting and enjoying ourselves more than racing to get somewhere.

It's good fun for sure. She's a huge ebike fan now which makes my hobby easier to justify. lol

 

[cal3thousand]

I ride with my wife whenever I have a working bike and a free weekend. We like to pull our daughter in the trailer down to the beach to play and back.

She rides a bike every day and isn't even licensed to drive. I'm kinda jealous of her.

 

[Ykick]

Missus Ykick thoroughly enjoys ebikes. Several years ago we rode all over Yosemite valley and had such a blast.

More recently, between So CA beaches or NYC waterfront she's very hooked.


Although she's not quite "ready" for serious traffic work yet she's fine for bike/walk paths and trails.

 

[DanGT86]

I have E-biked with the wife a few times. It's really fun. She is full throttle the whole time so it can be a little frightening to watch. I try to keep her on the slower bike with the brighter headlight now that I have seen her ride. I actually just got her bike running with a 12turn 9c motor in a 26" wheel. That winding should slow her down a bit. I had so much fun riding with her that I took a break from my primary build to get her bike going just to be sure I would have a riding buddy.

The first two Ebikes I built were for my parents so currently there are 3 running bikes in the family. It is way more fun to ride with people. I find that I can get so wrapped up in the technical bits of Ebikes that I sometimes forget to enjoy the ride. Its neat to see other people get the EV grin. Anybody with a wife that supports this obsession is lucky.

Just be careful letting anyone near an ebike that is not used to bikes in general. I have had a lot of close calls letting people ride our mild hub build. For some reason having a motor seems to make people forget the basics of riding a bike. Its like some kind of EV hypnosis I don't yet understand.

 

[docnjoj]

My wife and I ride 4-5 times per week, normally. She works from home and I am "semi retired" but also teach online from home. It helps to keep us both in shape, as out trips are all about 20 miles and take 1.5 to 2 hours. Bike trails and a "secret" lap circuit.
otherDoc

 

[recumpence]

We went for a 16 mile ride yesterday. Her bike had 1 mile left in the pack.

Looks like I need to add more cells so we can go on longer rides.

Matt

 

[cheekybloke]

I dont ride with the missus as i only have 1 e bike at the mo.
She has had a couple of rides but forgot to switch off the bike when dismounting and twisted the throttle then got slammed into the floor,dont worry the bike was fine
darren

 

[spinningmagnets]

Mine just watches cooking and home decorating shows, and then wants to move around our furniture afterwards.

 

[skaplan]

I ride with the wife regularly (mostly on local trails) on our KMX trikes. It's been one of our favorite passtimes these past few years, and just keeps getting better.

 

[recumpence]

My 16 year old son and I rode a total of 24 miles today with the bikes. That was a lot of fun.

Two bikes are much better than one.

Matt

 

[tomcortijo]

I usually o ride with my wife (and our kids), best way to get out of the house. Getting our new bikes this week!