Thanks sc00ter. I wouldn't have survived if I hadn't been wearing full motorcycle gear. My brains would've been all over the road. Some of my friends think I'll be in more danger on an ebike but I don't think so!
It is a way easier to stop an e-bike, especially if the person riding it is lightweight and the e-bike is not overly heavySome of my friends think I'll be in more danger on an ebike but I don't think so!
(Always wear a helmet!) I was totally confident Vado would stop in time, and she indeed stopped It made me totally confident my e-bike handled perfectly!
i am surprised more people do not get into trouble about their badass" nobody gonna hurt my mailbox thingys,that one that about to do you in was obviously a "hazard to navigation" and as such liable to legal recourse,there are rules and regulations governing such thingsmhere you are allowed a 3.5x3.5 treated pine post,no crankshafts railroad steel or anything like that,glad you survived.I wish I had sold it before I put it back on the road. I hadn't ridden in 4 1/2 years because of my arthritic hands but last June I drove my Prius off the road to avoid a collision about to happen between a pickup truck and a tractor pulling a round baler. With no shoulder I drove down an embankment (in control) but it ripped up the undercarriage and one side so the car was totaled. I needed transportation just to look for another car so I put the Helix back on the road. Coming down my country two-lane road I was leaning into a blind curve, in the middle of my lane, when a giant dump truck carrying rock came around more than halfway into my lane. I had to come out of the lean and wound up on the gravel-strewn shoulder in the curve. I didn't want to lay it down on the gravel by leaning so I slowly was making my way back to the blacktop when I clipped a stealth mailbox (looked like it was on a wood post but it was obviously fake plastic wood over a steel T-bar set in cement), which threw me and the bike sideways into the road. Popped a hole in the motor case where the oil fill bolt was and smashed 8 ribs on my left side and 1 rib on my right. It took me a few minutes to get up off my face and start walking to my friends house nearby. I never got the bike back.
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I actually don't know. I'm waiting to hear from the shop but I haven't called him because I'm still trying to figure out how to get there to pick it up, other than hitchhiking.
That would certainly be the best if he could deliver the e-bike to you...I actually don't know. I'm waiting to hear from the shop but I haven't called him because I'm still trying to figure out how to get there to pick it up, other than hitchhiking.
After I read this last night I called the LBS at 7AM and got the owner in the shop and asked him if the bike was ready. He said he had been alone in the shop all week so was building it tonight. When I asked about delivering it he said he wouldn't be able to for at least a week because he was only closed on Tuesday and, since his dad had died this past winter he was going "down" to visit his mom and help her with the house on his day off since she's alone now. What could I say? I told him he is a good son. I really appreciate when my son comes down and helps me here as well.
You even cannot imagine how much I am sympathizing with you!After I read this last night I called the LBS at 7AM and got the owner in the shop and asked him if the bike was ready. He said he had been alone in the shop all week so was building it tonight. When I asked about delivering it he said he wouldn't be able to for at least a week because he was only closed on Tuesday and, since his dad had died this past winter he was going "down" to visit his mom and help her with the house on his day off since she's alone now. What could I say? I told him he is a good son. I really appreciate when my son comes down and helps me here as well.
So, I'm still sucking around to get a ride to the shop. I've checked all the bus routes. . . I think everyone here understands how much public transit sucks in the US. In one direction, the bus from NYC to the upstate towns is discontinued until further notice, the local rural route from the nearest town (6 mi or 12 mi away) have been cut back severely and the only bus I can get from the bigger town to Ithaca is a commuter that leaves at 6:15AM and the local route to get to it doesn't start until after 9. I'm contemplating just riding a regular bike down to the main road, leaving it at the fire station and hitchhiking. (sigh).
Since this forum is international, I'll take a chance on saying, the US sucks when it comes to environmentally sound transportation options.Since becoming car-less, I've really learned how few of my "friends" are really friends. When I did have a car, it was always on me to drive to where they live. I'm "too far out of the way" for them to bother coming here, even when I had 9 broken ribs or a torn rotator cuff.
At least my donkey loves me.
So are we suggesting regular routes in areas that wouldn't have enough ridership to come anywhere near paying for itself? How would that affect your taxes? The environment?
No need to comment my post either 
Yes many in the US have a very strange relationship with their cars. There are those that love having the largest vehicle possible just outside of a semi truck, and then using it solo.the US sucks when it comes to environmentally sound transportation options
I want to tell you that you went off-topic Brian, because GR intentionally went off-topic. Do not follow that way, please
Well, I was responding to burrobabe. But as penance, I will leave my battery turned off for the first 2 miles on my next rideI want to tell you that you went off-topic Brian, because GR intentionally went off-topic. Do not follow that way, please
The transportation situation of @BurroBabe has nothing to do with her selection of an e-bike, right?
How am I off topic when the OP and others are lamenting that they don't have public transport to rural locations.I want to tell you that you went off-topic Brian, because GR intentionally went off-topic. Do not follow that way, please
The transportation situation of @BurroBabe has nothing to do with her selection of an e-bike, right?
Can't help it... You're a walking talking stereotype.
Yet you read every single post I write thought you repeatedly state I'm ignored. The very definition of a troll.Just ignore him to the bitter end
Ummmm, donk, not mule. She packs, I walk. It would take about two days...I say ride the mule to the LBS and let him take an Uber back home.
Thanks Stefan, this forum needs a Hug emoji for a reaction!@BurroBabe: A heads-up: Do not even try to feed the well known Forum troll GR. Ignore him or he'd generate a flame war. His latest post is a known technique called "diversion", which was described by one Herr Schopenhauer in his Eristic a long time ago. He went off-topic to provoke you going off-topic, too
Now, he'll use a racial slur against me. Just ignore him to the bitter end
You caught me just in time... it's so tempting, especially when they spout misconceptions fed to them by the misinformation machine. 
