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I cycle 24km to work across the city each way on an ebike. It’s the fastest mode of transport available to me, even limited to 25km/h. The bike takes an hour,
by knolan 7y ago
I cycle 24km to work across the city each way on an ebike. It’s the fastest mode of transport available to me, even limited to 25km/h.
The bike takes an hour, the bus 90 minutes because of its indirect route, and the car about the same with morning gridlock. You could do it in 35 minutes with no traffic.
When I take the bus I arrive to work tired and groggy. When I cycle I arrive energised. I don’t drive because parking on campus is usually impossible.
The problem is that there are limited shower facilities and the ones in my building are extremely grotty, so much so that some colleagues have stopped cycling. Appeals to facilities has only resulted in them locking one of the showers permanently. If more people cycle that’s great but it’ll have knock on effects on other infrastructure and organisations need to pull their finger out and make changes to encourage cycling.
- scrollaway 7y ago24km? What's your bike's range? Over here ebikes are just about limited to 25-30km on full charge. Do you charge it at work?
- koyote 7y agoSo I don't own an ebike but I've rented an MTB ebike a short while ago and was able to comfortably do 70km while still having over 1/4 battery left. That being said, I did not have it set to the max the whole way. Mostly spent in eco mode which is more than enough
- scrollaway 7y agoWow, 70km! Where I live that's crossing almost half the country. I didn't know some ebikes had such a range.
- lm28469 7y agoSome are pretty good, I think the last one I rented had 80 to 160km range depending on the power setting/terrain. I used it to visit around my home town, climbed hills (paved and in the woods), visited small towns 35km away, climbed the steepest road (7km, 600m height difference) in the area on full power, &c. and never worried about the battery. If I ever move back to the country side I'll get one for sure. You can even remove the 25kph limit and make it go up to 50kph if you get a license plate / insurance.
- koyote 7y agoEbikes have improved a lot in recent years. Bosch makes a large amount of the batteries used in ebikes and they have a handy website indicating what kind of range you can expect: https://www.bosch-ebike.com/au/service/range-assistant/ https://www.bosch-ebike.com/au/service/range-assistant/
- knolan 7y agoIt's a Specialized Turbo Vado 4.0. The range is advertised at 80km and I've gotten about 75km out of it on a single charge with some steep hills. It was not a cheap bike so I keep it in my office and I have a charger at home and at work should I need to top up.