Back Roads

[oldmancoyote]

Call me Oldmancoyote. I bought a Lectric xp 2 to explore the forest using back roads and gated logging roads. My experience is that the bike is unstable, even dangerous, on irregular roads like this. Perhaps this is due to my old age. I'm sure that I will have other issues to discuss, but for a while I'm working on making the bike more stable.

 

[Angela M.]

I'll let the pros give you helpful advice but I just wanted to welcome you to the forum. I hope you're able to make the bike more stable so you can enjoy it.

 

[JGcycle]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[Taylor57]

Call me Oldmancoyote. I bought a Lectric xp 2 to explore the forest using back roads and gated logging roads. My experience is that the bike is unstable, even dangerous, on irregular roads like this. Perhaps this is due to my old age. I'm sure that I will have other issues to discuss, but for a while I'm working on making the bike more stable.

Probably not the best for back roads and logging roads unless you modify the steering component. I think the newer models have a front suspension. We modified out original Lectric with new front suspension, new steering and a suspension seatpost. It would be fine for light offroading...

 

[indianajo]

I find modern bikes too twitchy. My Mother's 1946 Firestone safety bike was as stable as a rock. No hands across railroad crossings, no problem. With the same wheels & tires, my post 1985 mountain bikes & cruisers have had an annoying tendency to snap the wheel sideways & dump me over the handlebars on my chin. I view this as probably too little trail (or caster to use an automotive term) on the front fork. I was unable to get any custom bike builder to address the possibility of changing the front fork rake. I've solved my on-road problems with a stretch frame cargo bike, that puts my weight on the front tire (see yuba bodaboda left). Same 26"x2" tires. How that would help off road I don't know, I don't ride over 3 mph on grass and no gravel at all except in road construction zones. I'm age 72.
I thought of putting lead weights on the spokes of the front wheel to increase gyroscopic stability. The Firestone bike did have a steel rim. I haven't had to with the bodaboda. I do ride knobby tires to prevent flats, about the heaviest 2.1" tire made.