Looking For A Full Suspension Skinny Tire Step Through Commuter

[PCeBiker]

I live in a rural area and my road used to look a lot like that first photo after even a few hours of rain. My road used to be primarily clay. Oh how the redneck kids love to go mud bogging out here. I finally got a hold of our township and the road commission. They ditched our road on both sides and crushed about two feet of gravel into the road. It can still get bad, but you no longer require a lift kit and 4 wheel drive to get to your house.

We've got similar problems around here, but they have to barricade the roads instead, then fix the roads after the floods.

Not trying to hate on mud bogging(yes, I really am) but there is a time and place for everything.

I used to love shooting 30 foot rooster tails of mud 40 years ago.
My friends and I used to cover each other in mud if we stalled our bikes in the muck.

Can't do that that on an e-bike though.
500 Watts just doesn't cut it.

I rode my old e-bike to the grocery store a couple of years ago when there was 2" of slush on the sidewalk.
The ebike bogged down and stalled. Not even enough power to push through slush.

It is only a 250 Watt direct drive hub motor and I was going slow (so very little torque) but still ??!!

I had to walk beside the bike and use the throttle.
At least it had enough power to get itself through so I didn't have to push it.

 

[February]

$500 does not buy you even a good pedal bike. I deeply regret you wouldn't have a chance to experience what a good e-bike really is

I rode one of the first commercially available ebikes with assist and throttle back in the mid aughts. It was my brother's. So I haven't missed out completely. But yeah, I'm in a different world than some of you when it comes to what is available. Still, love my cheap VIVI! I don't regret the purchase and I would buy it again in a heart beat. At my price point, this is what a new ebike looks like. I see some used one's showing up on Craigslist already that must have initially cost over $1,000. My day may yet come. For a lot of us Americans, surviving the next four years means a lot of ugliness, hurt and hunger. Such is life.

 

[February]

We've got similar problems around here, but they have to barricade the roads instead, then fix the roads after the floods.

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I used to love shooting 30 foot rooster tails of mud 40 years ago.
My friends and I used to cover each other in mud if we stalled our bikes in the muck.

Can't do that that on an e-bike though.
500 Watts just doesn't cut it.

I rode my old e-bike to the grocery store a couple of years ago when there was 2" of slush on the sidewalk.
The ebike bogged down and stalled. Not even enough power to push through slush.

It is only a 250 Watt direct drive hub motor and I was going slow (so very little torque) but still ??!!

I had to walk beside the bike and use the throttle.
At least it had enough power to get itself through so I didn't have to push it.

Ah, no hate for the mudboggers, let the kids be kids I say, just wish people wouldn't do it where they know they are creating real problems for others. Everyone has acreage where I live. A neighbor a few miles away excavated a motocross course on their property for their son. Any one of my neighbors could make a safe fun mudbogging course, but I think most of the kids are taking their mudboggers to the Dunes At Silver Lake, Michigan now:

 

[PCeBiker]

I wanted a full suspension ebike as my first ebike but didn't want to spend the extra $500-$1000, so I bought a hard tail.
(my old e-bike for groceries doesn't count. It was just a toy and didn't cost much more than my skateboard)

The next year the full suspension ebike I wanted was on sale for $2,200 so I bought that.
Then, three months later, it was available in the color I wanted and the Huge 25 ah battery was available for only $150 more than the 19 ah that I got.

Ohh well.
I still love my full suspension e-bike, but I haven't riden the hard tail since I got the full suspension e-bike.