Since my "regular" bike is down with a bad shifter cable, I decided to take the Dash on a popular bike path here (Creve Coeur park, in Saint Louis county Missouri). I started on the West side on the Missouri river, where there is a parking lot. Went over the bridge (downhill), and entered the "park" area of the path. It's mostly flat, with a few climbs to go over bridges (rivers, streams, roads, etc.) Since I need to build my legs up, I did the ride in Turbo mode, but didn't use the throttle except once).
First, this bike rides quite nicely as non-powered. Secondly, it IS heavy, so those hills were a little rough. Thirdly, I could have really used a lower gear (but I wasn't using the bike for it's intended purpose).
The ride was about 17 miles, and on one brutal uphill, I used throttle only (my legs were pretty played out by then). It powered up the hill quite nicely with no pedaling. Nice to have that option when you are tired.
At the very end of the ride is a circle under a highway, up hill to a bike path over the Missouri river. Then, it was uphill for the entire bridge. My legs had recovered a little, so I decided to have a little fun. There were two road bikes in front of me, laboring up the hill (middle aged couple, but obviously fairly into biking based on their bikes). It put the Dash in PAS4, and started cranking HARD. I went past them like a shot, zoomed over the whole bridge at 27-28 mph, giggling like a school girl. I got to my car, had a nice rest, drink of water, walked a little to loosen up the 50 year old legs, and got the bike back in the car before they even made it to the parking lot.
So, I DID get some good exercise, had a thrilling ride, and (possibly) looked like super-dude.
I'm still giggling.....
Is that so wrong?
This bike was worth every penny!
