What's the REAL Way to Promote the Electric Bike Culture?

[t3sla]

Heinzmann

Daamit man, speak on this!

• It's pretty simple, for the most part you have to get people on an ebike so they can ride it and be like, woah.

• Second thing is don't waste your energy on frocktards, if you really wanna mess up their day tell their wife if they buy it they can gate crash their husbands sunday ride alone time....Love the blank dead look you get.

Working at a few industry events that promote ebikes changes the way you view things, people have a lot of questions but when you tell them that it's as easy as charging their phone (for retail bikes), everyone is desensitized to saving the environment and money so you have to engage them with a feeling of enjoyment (which the bike provides)

The way you really win the game is you make a scooter with bicycle parts, that means you have practical power with cheap serviceable parts.

At the end of the day it's about what gap you want to bridge.
Americans want their throttle, Europeans are down with torque sensing and developing nations want a cheaper than scooter alternative.

 

[e-biker]

It would be easier to promote if we had bicycle lanes on all roads so people were not dodging cars. and bike lanes also make for a cleaner road cuz all the glass and nails are in the bike lanes LOL.

 

[Architectonic]

Climate in Denmark is warm and lovely moderate

Today maybe, but not for the rest of the year. Danes probably think it is warm in my town in Winter.

Copenhagen today: Max: 24, Min: 17 (summer)
Adelaide today: Max: 15, Min: 6 (winter)

Australia i think is lot like Finland. On the other end of the extreme. Lots of empty land. You don"t want your car to broke down middle of the hot desert, as you don"t want that to happen middle of the empty arctic wilderness either.

Australia has a whole lot of nothing, but half the population live in just two cities (Sydney and Melbourne) and 95% live in large urban areas >100,000 people. There really isn't any need for anyone to be driving their cars out dingo whoop whoop.

Bicycles are ideal for small towns, but larger cities need high quality cycling infrastructure so that normal people (eg. your wife and kids) feel safe riding around for many of their journeys.

 

[The Stig]

Bicycles are ideal for small towns, but larger cities need high quality cycling infrastructure so that normal people (eg. your wife and kids) feel safe riding around for many of their journeys.

Yup yup, and for "normal" people to enjoy learning to start ebiking/biking, the bikes them selves would have to become a lot more new-user friendly. If you gave a new out-of-the-box production ebike to someone who has no experience(but can balance on a bicycle) and they try use it for the first time to go somewhere, park, and come back... Chances are they'll have a bad experience, with a lot of confusion and inconvenience. Some of the issues may be related to controls, seat height, flats from hitting curb-like things, stolen parts due to quick releases, safety issues from lack of built in lights... Wheres if a "normal" person were to get a new iphone and they can figure it out because everything is intuitive, and they'll enjoy the user experience! (a big factor in the success of the iphone... BTW I'm a die-hard Nexus phone fan)