My New Electric Bike

[freegeeks]

 

[DivideBYZero]

Heh, pretty cool.

 

[Numenorean]

FAIL

 

[Mike Gayner]

Why?

 

[freegeeks]

FAIL

hey, I commute 70 miles on this, gets me through traffic and I have a decent workout

it's a WIN / WIN

 

[BarkingGhostar]

hey, I commute 70 miles on this, gets me through traffic and I have a decent workout

it's a WIN / WIN

Bigger fail.

 

[freegeeks]

Bigger fail.

explain?

 

[Drako]

You need to adjust your seat.

 

[freegeeks]

You need to adjust your seat.

nah, it's fine

 

[Drako]

nah, it's fine

The seat angle should be horizontal.

 

[freegeeks]

The seat angle should be horizontal.

must be the angle of the pic, it is horizontal

 

[Texashiker]

Looks like some kind of reject from the 1940s.

You really drive that thing 70 miles round trip?

 

[Aharami]

I guess the people calling fail don't realize that the OP lives in Europe (Holland, IIRC), where bicycles are a lot more common as a viable mode of transportation than here in the US

 

[Aharami]

what's the max speed of that thing, OP?

 

[freegeeks]

Looks like some kind of reject from the 1940s.

You really drive that thing 70 miles round trip?

yep, it's actually just as fast as my car during rush hour because of traffic
it's a pedal assisted electric bike, goes 45 km/h

top tech from Germany

 

[freegeeks]

what's the max speed of that thing, OP?

45 km/h

 

[freegeeks]

I guess the people calling fail don't realize that the OP lives in Europe (Holland, IIRC), where bicycles are a lot more common as a viable mode of transportation than here in the US

close, I'm from Belgium

and yes, bicycles are widely used here

 

[Evadman]

That's pretty cool. I just bought a conversion kit for a bike from Currie for $300. I have only ridden down the battery twice (just put it on an old bike over the weekend). It's max speed is the same max speed as the bike was normally, of about 16. Not sure on actual range yet, but I would estimate it at > 5 miles so far.

I'll do a proper review once I ride it more.

 

[VtPC83]

You should get the bike where you pedal and it goes as fast as a scooter... I'll try to find the link

Found it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzsHFka92X8

 

[xochi]

I am in the market for a new Trek Mountain Bike and noticed these on their website.

http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/collections/electric_assist/

They are costly but interesting.

 

[Numenorean]

hey, I commute 70 miles on this, gets me through traffic and I have a decent workout

it's a WIN / WIN

Decent workout would be a regular bike.

 

[busydude]

How much did this thing cost?

 

[Miramonti]

You should get the bike where you pedal and it goes as fast as a scooter... I'll try to find the link

Found it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzsHFka92X8

Peddle, Forest, peddle!

 

[freegeeks]

You should get the bike where you pedal and it goes as fast as a scooter... I'll try to find the link

Found it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzsHFka92X8

that's what mine does, for every watt you put in, this thing just muplies it, so 100 watt becomes 300 watt total, you still have to pedal, you just go faster

 

[freegeeks]

How much did this thing cost?

5k euro