I'm Steph.
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Taylor57
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You mess with the Bull, you get the horns?
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CB Mac USN
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Wow, I am really impressed with your BIKE! Never EVER Saw Anything like it - a big THUMBS UP!
WI Steph
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Thank you very much. While I usually frown on attachment to material things, I have always felt bikes and boats need a name, and a personality. Maybe it will inspire you on your bike (?)
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That's kinda awesome! 
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Kinda?That's kinda awesome!
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Welcome. Where do you ride? What do you like about your bike? People who make music think of their instruments a living things, not stuff. I think it is the same with bikes. They are extensions of myself and self-expression but more than that have personalities and are worthy of love at least as much as a good dog. Other's will run a bike into the ground as a disposable thing. Then blame it.
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Well, this bike I ride for errands if I have to go into town (5 miles away), and I use it to commute house to farm (11 miles). Mostly country roads. It is my only e-bike and is totally different from all my other bikes. It is big and heavy, and when I started riding it, I thought, "This is like riding a freakin' bull around!"... and the rest is history.
What I like about it (aside from the obvious goofiness) -I am getting on in years, and having an e-bike keeps me riding when the weather is bad, or I have to buck headwinds, or haul loads. And it is fast. I did lighten it a bit, added the fairing, and upped the gear inches with different sprockets and chainring, and the motor no longer cuts out when I am going over 25mph, so I zoom.
Yes, I have always felt a bicycle is a symbiotic partnership with a machine one doesn't experience with most technology. It breaks my heart when I see bikes abused or abandoned.
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Right on! I like that you have made your ebike fit your needs.
Too many people try to fit in with the ebike elite crowd on here.
I also live in the country off grid in a cabin and people think I am a bit odd but I have been 20 years with no house payments and no utility bills and freedom to do what I love.
Do you have a trailer for the ebike?
I got one for hauling large loads and my adventure dogs around.
Too many people try to fit in with the ebike elite crowd on here.
I also live in the country off grid in a cabin and people think I am a bit odd but I have been 20 years with no house payments and no utility bills and freedom to do what I love.
Do you have a trailer for the ebike?
I got one for hauling large loads and my adventure dogs around.
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I have a couple trailers that are set up so they can be used with a few of the bikes, but the Taurus carries so much, I haven't had to use them. I haven't ever had a dog that would put up with riding in a trailer, and the current dog is 140 lbs, and very skittish.
BTW, I am starting a solar installation at the farm.
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If you have any question I am always happy to help!
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I will tell you as an Old Sailor (22ft Sailboat named "Sea Crow") and my Old TJ Jeep named "Eugene" I agree those do have a personality and therefore must be named. However, I never thought of giving my E-ride a name (I have called it NAMES when it dropped the chain and jumped gears but.. that was just an old sailors reaction.) Thanks - I really like the idea of giving her a proper name! THANKS for sharing your thoughts - I am sure my Grand KIDS will be pleased when she has a name.
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I call my truck Bessie and my ebike trigger after the lone ranger's horse. Just wish I could get it to come when I whistle.
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Trigger is a super GREAT name - you probably need to wire a remote controller from a R/C plane with a set of helper wheels for balance then He'll come at your command! Maybe NOT! !!
PedalUma
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That has already been done. But, regrettably it only works one-day per-year. On April First! This vid is very worth watching.
I make special eBikes for people based on their specific needs. Such as, for a woman with no thumbs. Or bikes that carry one-week's worth of groceries, plus two kids up a hill, that do not look electric and still feel like just a bike, but one that is amplified like a guitar. Feels like a guitar, plays like a guitar but more. From now on, only because of this thread, I'll encourage all to name their bike within two days. I am just back from a 58 person group ride on a seven-foot cargo bike. Then went shopping. 'Lucile' was and I guess still is a guitar. Here she is in '72.
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Thank you! Glad you asked. I have always loved Brooks saddles, and have them on all my bikes. Some time ago, I was restoring/building a antique bike, and I bought a replica "hairpin" seat, like they had in the 1890s, mainly on "Penny-Farthing" bikes. (They still make them in India, but the seat leather is lower quality, and rock hard). The leather size and shape was similar to a Brooks saddle, so I drilled out the rivets on both, and with a little bending and shaping, riveted the Brooks leather on the vintage frame. (not too hard a job). I did it for looks, but discovered it was the most comfortable seat I ever used! So I had to make another for my main bike. The cylinder shaped tool box in the rear springs is traditional for that type of seat.
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