John in CR
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liveforphysics said:John in CR said:Arlo1 -This is the forum about lightweight electric racing solutions...
Lock- Damn. Where's the forum for folks that just want to get to work and lug the groceries home?
John- Just do like I do, and while you're out on your ebike going to work or fetching groceries hunt down every scooter and small motorcycle you can find and race them. 8)
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That's what it's all about for me. The best utilitarian function + the best performance. Having your cake and eating it too is so satisfying. Your bikes are some of the very best at it John.
You're too kind my world traveling friend. Definitely not the best, though Blue has been a real work horse as a car replacement, so I'd stack it up with anything in terms of time saving utility. My goal is that each new build has to be better than all prior in at least one respect or it gets hacked up pretty quick (4 or 5 ebikes no one has seen went this route in the past year). Another goal is to get some many different types of e-powered things on both land and water by the middle of dry season that you simply won't be able to resist coming down for another visit. We gotta start working on a valid business reason for your trip.
Imagine what our ebikes will be like in 10 years, or even 5. That's enough to make me just shrug off the scams. Hopefully this version of cold fusion turns out to be real, but ebike advancement won't be hurt even if it doesn't. In fact, in some ways I think it's better not to be able to leap directly to ecars, because at some point the realization has to come that an extreme weight reduction of all motor vehicles is such a good thing, and us ebikers are riding the crest of that wave with that realization that few truly "get".
John