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STePS 8000 is an older motor. STePS 6100 and 5000 are newer motors that are more efficient. That's why I highlighted them in my post.

Oof, I'd be disappointed if I used up 10 whr/mile or more. That would suggest I wasn't pedalling nearly hard enough! :) In my experience, Shimano and Yamaha seem to get the best range on a charge on average. Shimano is particularly impressive on the entry level, where both the STePS 5000...

At what level of assist? Low? Medium? High?

A difference is that both a Toyota and a Porsche are street legal. Car regulations tend to limit the behaviour of the driver, not the capabilities of a car. However, e-bike legislation tends to limit what an e-bike is capable of doing, not limit the behaviour of the rider. Whether those...

You can do that, but likely not legally. Most jurisdictions appear to dictate what an e-bike is capable of doing at its maximum, not what it's capable of being limited to through mode selection.

Presuming a good quality battery and charger, I'm not so worried about rebalancing. My typical procedure is: - wait 30+ minutes after a ride before putting the battery on charge - charge it up to 70% with the slowest charger I have (using a timer to cut the power automatically) - when going...

Congrats! Glad to hear you got out on the bike and had a good experience. :D

I don't know for sure, but I can speculate. Shimano STePS motors like the E6000, E6100, and E8000 freewheel and cannot pedal backwards, but the E5000 motor does not freewheel at the crank so can be pedalled backwards. The E5000 is the least expensive and lightest weight option in Shimano's...

We do see a fair number of Voltbikes coming in to our bike shop, so they do seem to be becoming a big player. I wonder how many bikes they sell in a year? I'm actually not at all sure whether direct-to-consumer or local bike shop e-bikes are bigger in Canada. It's actually possible that they...

Any updates on Calamus? I see they're double their goal now, and have now added some features such as blind spot warnings by vibrating the grip. Or was that already in there, and I'm just finding out about it now?

In Southern Vancouver Island, there is a fair bit of enforcement of people buying electric scooters that pretend to be e-bikes. If people take the pedals off, they're likely to get ticketed. Though some people have successfully beat the tickets. Class 3 e-bikes are a grey area here. The...

I somehow missed replying to this post. Yes, the Tour de Victoria explicitly allows e-bikes! :D It's not a grey area, they specifically take the time to note that they're allowed. Very progressive for a gran fondo, IMO. I did the Tour de Victoria on an e-bike last year, and I'll probably do...

Europe has the benefit of denser communities for sure, meaning shorter travel distances on average. But they sell a lot of e-bikes even in parts of Europe that get a lot of snow, so perhaps an analysis of how they do that would be of value. I don't blame you on the snow front. I'm lucky...

Someone should tell Car and Driver magazine that bicycles and e-bikes *are* vehicles. They're recreational vehicles for some, and transportation vehicles for others, but they're vehicles either way. So if there are 12 million electric cars being sold, and 40 million electric bicycles, then...

This statement appears to also be based upon another misunderstanding. You seem to think that the frame would not change for me between a flat bar bike and a drop bar bike. That's false. Flat bar bikes and drop bar bikes typically have very different geometries, and for good reason. Your...

Oh, and to explicitly answer this question, yes I absolutely did. The iZip E3 Moda and the Raleigh Tamland iE are very similar bikes from the same company, but one is set up like a flat bar hybrid and the other is set up as a drop bar gravel bike. I costed it out, but it was actually cheaper...

Did you read my entire post? It seems like you may not have. There was absolutely no lost money, as I have stated many times previously. I agree with you that bars are cheap, but as stated previously, drop bar gears and brakes are not. It can easily cost $1000+ CAD for a good set of modern...

I'm genuinely curious, how was I supposed to "research" my way into knowing how my forearms would react after 6-9 months of riding a drop-bar bike? A few months in to that experiment I was loving it and would definitely have built up a drop bar bike, but 6-9 months into that experiment I would...

I appreciate your impassioned contributions to this forum, but some of the language in your post is pretty unnecessary and unhelpful IMO. I'm certainly not going to tell you to go screw yourself or go piss off, or any of those other things. Anyway... 9 months ago, if I was buying/making the...

I can't research my way into an *experienced* opinion. I knew what was on the market, but I wasn't sure what *I* wanted yet. Did I want a flat bar or a drop bar? A rigid fork or a suspension fork? How much extra was I willing to pay to save how much weight? I was well versed in what was on...