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Sounds like your next car is going to be a bike then
Electric bikes are awesome
Indeed they are but even if I lived somewhere with decent bike infrastructure I wouldn't want to commute on one in the winter.
I bought one in February and it’s absolutely amazing. I live next to a mountain range and to just bike into the mountains and forests is incredibly nice. My buddy instantly got jealous and then bought one himself, so we now quite often go for trips. I had wanted one for years and had been saving money to buy one for about 18 months. Zero regrets, even though I have had a ton of injuries already, including a broken arm.
The biggest downside is that they're expensive. I did an ebike conversion on my old mountain bike and that was pretty easy. It works really well too. Buying a nice 5-10 year old bike of your preference and converting it is definitely the way to go if you want to save some money.
I did that with a dirt cheap Walmart bike and I'm having so many problems, all of them with the dirt cheap Walmart bike parts, the actual e-bike kit has never given me a single problem.
Yeah I could imagine that would cause some issues. Those bikes don't seem to be the best quality. I suppose the bright side is that there's no reason you couldn't find a used bike somewhere and move the motor and battery to that bike instead. You can't do that with any of the manufactured e bikes that I'm aware of
My bike runs on tofu haha.
But real, e-bikes are cool. Kind of jealous when I'm going up a hill and see someone just like gliiiide past me. But then I do also like the free endorphins so it's a balance.
The good ebikes let you dial in the exact level of assistance you want
That sounds cool and expensive!
Having a few different levels is standard these days
or it won't be manufactured after 2013.