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Amish country Pennsylvania (Lancaster County). Morning ride to a lookout tower that was formerly used for corn storage.

We don't have a car - that's what motivated the post in the first place. If we owned a car, I would install a hitch mount on it. We live in Manhattan where it costs more just to to park a car than a mortgage in most of the rest of the country and where frankly a car is more of a hassle than a...

There're definitely vibrations, but the camera cube and padded pannier both absorb all the jarring vibrations. The QL3.1 system is very secure, so the pannier isn't rattling around on the side; it's pretty firmly secured to the rear rack. The vibrations of the bike aren't enough to worry me --...

Yes, totally! That's key - easily bringing along. That's why I use the QL3.1 system version of the Downtown 2 bag -- it has a shoulder strap and is super easy to disconnect and take along (literally just lift a small metal wire and pull it off).

Well, I'm glad that buying a $35k van isn't ACTUALLY the "cost of doing business" for using an ebike - that defeats the whole purpose of having the bike in an urban environment in the first place! :)

Great advice! Thanks all! A bunch of suggestions I hadn't even considered. I like the idea of bringing a handlebar bag, but most of them look like they mount where my Bosch Intuvia display is mounted. Are there other ways to mount other than literally on the handlebars in the center? The other...

Hi all, I consider myself a "serious hobbyist" photographer -- not professional, but have been exhibited a few times and try to carry a "real" camera with me more or less everywhere I go. Phones have come an amazingly long way, but are still nowhere close to a match for a real camera&lens with...

Ha, I'm just glad I didn't have to buy a $35k accessory van for my new ebike!

Final update: took it on i95 today on our trip to NJ and PA and it was completely fine. Almost no movement, and nothing out of sorts. Everything and everyone arrived in one piece without incident.

No problem! Here's one of the bikes locked together on the Greenway as we ate lunch on the Hudson a week or two ago :)

They're very different, but I like the Gazelle for a comfortable and fast commute (about 10 miles on the West Side Greenway each way). Being able to go 28mph effortlessly or get 50-60 miles of range is really nice and welcome flexibility. And it has the power to make towing the Burley with my...

Curious what you think about the GoCycle GX in this class of bikes. It's a lot of propriety parts, but a really solid and compact folding bike. After going back and forth on whether to get a more traditional sized bike vs a folding bike like the GoCycle, I ended up purchasing a Gazelle cityzen...

Here's an update with actual data after experimenting with trunk-mounting the ~42lb e-bike. It was a success! It's completely secure and doesn't budge even at 80-85mph on the highway. I also went quickly over some speed bumps to get a lot of bouncing going on and the bike doesn't move. It's...

I appreciate your alarmed concern, and will certainly be cautious with it, only doing the longer drive if the shorter one shows no issues, but I’m decreasingly worried the more I speak to experienced people. I just spoke to a downhill mountain biker (also a professional bike mechanic) who said...

Ha, neat, not far from Centralia which I've been meaning to visit. I grew up in central PA and will be going back to visit family over the weekend of the 4th. We'll be closer to the Enola low grade rail trail though.

No suspension on the trailer - probably the one thing I regret about getting that particular model (Burley Honey Bee), which is otherwise very nice. It has larger wheels that dampen most bumps reasonably well even without suspension, though, and turns into a stroller for when we get to our...

I’m no expert, but I went with a Gazelle CityZen T10 Speed for the comfort, reliability, trusted brand (they’ve been around for 100+ years), high quality components, and super slick Dutch styling. I maintain 27-28mph on a 10 mile each way NYC commute pretty easily, at least in non congested...

The Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge in NYC, of The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge fame.

Thanks, all, for your responses. A few clarifications. 1) the Prius is not mine. That's a picture of a Prius we used with our old bikes to show that we'd already mounted bikes at our possibly over the single bike maximum without issue in the past. I'll be putting it on a rental car which will...

Thanks, although living in NYC we don't own a car. Hitch mounting is not an option for us as it's too much of a tossup as to whether there will be a hitch to connect the rack to. What I'm trying to understand is why it matters whether there's 100lbs distributed between 3 bikes vs 1 bike that's...