bikatwk
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Thanks!
First eBike, please help me decide from these few
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larry-new
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There's riding, which I'll call (for the purposes of this discussion) expecting the bike to do it all, and there's climbing a hill, with the bike helping.
Yesterday I climbed a road on the Niagara Escarpment, basically the hill that causes Niagara Falls. My Rad City helped, but I was in first gear (35", or 52-34) and it went slowly, as I expected. My Rad City would not have done it on it's own, or maybe without my 250# ballast, but we both contributed successfully.. I should have been tired, but I was not. The bike stayed in Pas3, within it's wattage limits.
I've lived in SF, and there are ways around the steep climbs...let the cable cars bring you from downtown (where I lived) to the Wharf
( where I worked) directly...I'd go around by the water on a bike.
SO, reminiscences aside, if you want a badass hill devourer, they make them...a geared motor, a good oomph measured in Newton Meters, and another charger at work to replenish. Fatter tires (2"+) to cross the slippery tracks, too. A loud bell, as loud or louder than the cable cars. You will have disc brakes, far better than the lever and 2x wood the cable cars attempt to stop with. Best to stay uphill of them.
Yesterday I climbed a road on the Niagara Escarpment, basically the hill that causes Niagara Falls. My Rad City helped, but I was in first gear (35", or 52-34) and it went slowly, as I expected. My Rad City would not have done it on it's own, or maybe without my 250# ballast, but we both contributed successfully.. I should have been tired, but I was not. The bike stayed in Pas3, within it's wattage limits.
I've lived in SF, and there are ways around the steep climbs...let the cable cars bring you from downtown (where I lived) to the Wharf
( where I worked) directly...I'd go around by the water on a bike.
SO, reminiscences aside, if you want a badass hill devourer, they make them...a geared motor, a good oomph measured in Newton Meters, and another charger at work to replenish. Fatter tires (2"+) to cross the slippery tracks, too. A loud bell, as loud or louder than the cable cars. You will have disc brakes, far better than the lever and 2x wood the cable cars attempt to stop with. Best to stay uphill of them.
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