Recent content by GoGranny51

Good luck with your continued quest for what you and your wife want and need. Update from here: took my new Vida E to Destin FL. Although this will sound laughable to some, there are actually some gentle hills east of there towards Seaside- at least compared to the surrounding Gulf Coast. I...

Thanks! Appreciate the offer!

Good advice, and I’ll look into getting one. When I finally get the bike to NC and the hills, it’s always fairly cool. So such a jacket would be a good investment. Thanks!

Awesome to hear you are also a Mississippian! I grew up in NO but fell in love with the coast as a kid. Fortunately, my AR hubs loved it here, also. Yes, often say I don’t live down here bc I like it cold!!! So on days like today, high temp maybe 52 with 17mph winds, I’ll play tennis instead...

Glad you were able to get out and enjoy your new ride today! My longest ride so far has been one mile, so 11 sounds good to me! Been too cold or too wet (at least for me!) every day even here on the MS coast. Also good your knee seemed to tolerate the strain pretty well. Did you encounter...

Update: finally picked up my new bike a couple of days ago from Bicycle World in New Orleans. It's hard to imagine I considered buying online now that I know how helpful the folks at the shop have been! The 70 mile drive home with the bike on my new Kuat rack was totally worry-free, no noise...

Thanks for the link. I appreciate all the shared info and tips you gave in your videos. It’s more than I have been able to find online regarding my new bike!

Thank you for the info. Did you add anything else? I know I want a water bottle, and I’ll probably add a rear rack at some point. Don’t think I’ll want or need fenders, tho…

Good to hear you had fun! Dumb question: do these bikes come with an actual display or do you have to use your phone screen? Neither bike I tried had one attached. But I forgot to ask! On a positive note, my bike is ready and I’ll pick it up this week!

If you DO try out it’s max, 28 mph, we all wanna hear about the experience!!!

Oh wow. I so hope you aren’t discourages about all this. I saw that bike and really liked it. But the lbs also had the Vida low step. So that was a better fit for me. Personally, I love the looks of your bike better than my pretty red one. The mid step would be my preference if I wasn’t my...

Thanks!!! I’m really excited! Have you purchased a rack?

Welcome! Learning about an ebike is , for sure, a journey of its own! I learned SO much from these forums and videos. Of course, shopping at this point in time has it’s drawbacks bc of supply issues. And unless you live in or near a good sized city, options of even test-riding bikes are...

Thank you both for your quick replies. My eyes are crossing from all the research I’ve done. But I don’t think I would have EVER felt educated enough to make a decent decision on a bike w/o these forums. So I’ll listen and learn here.