Overal Experiences; Positive and Negative

[soroush]

Hi Everyone.

My name is Soroush and I am a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
At the university, we have focused to develop the next generation of ebike for transportation.
For this stage of my research, I would like to kindly ask you to share your overall ebike experiences with me.

Thanks a lot

 

[Amish David]

Hi Everyone.

My name is Soroush and I am a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
At the university, we have focused to develop the next generation of ebike for transportation.
For this stage of my research, I would like to kindly ask you to share your overall ebike experiences with me.

Thanks a lot

Hi Everyone.

My name is Soroush and I am a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
At the university, we have focused to develop the next generation of ebike for transportation.
For this stage of my research, I would like to kindly ask you to share your overall ebike experiences with me.

Thanks a lot

At 50 I found my self struggling to make it up in the mountains where I live. I recently moved from Virginia mountains to the Tennessee mountains. Until I could get a stable built and my horse and buggy here I had to find an alternative. I purchase a all aluminum mountain bike 10 speed and hopes I would be able to get around fairly easy. Didn't work out so well. I purchased a 1000w/750w. Rear wheel hub and a 20 amp hour 48 volt battery fully charged just over 52v. Now going up the big Hills knowing I can get home easily and still able to breathe and my legs work is a huge difference. I'm extremely happy I made the jump in to the ebike. I can still pedal to a certain extent but when I feel myself getting exhausted I simply hit the throttle and let it take over. But at least this way I still get to get out and get exercise.

 

[Gator]

My experience is very limited, but I hope to increase my experience when I get my first Ebike this coming weekend.

From all of the research I have done finding a bike to purchase, one area of research or development I would like to suggest: Battery Technology.

From my reading and research, batteries only give back about 70% of the energy used to charge them due to heat and other factors.

This backup battery used for phones, tablets, and laptops gives back 80%. That is what they claim anyway. What is their secret?
https://zendure.com/products/a5-black I own two of these and I have no reason to doubt their claim.

They use a computer chip to make sure the battery does not overcharge other devices. This technology might be able to be reversed and a chip employed on Bike batteries to ensure they are not overcharged. Maybe a chip or processor could be employed to ensure the most output, ideal charge time, and the longest life for the battery. Maybe the chip or processor would be better used in the charger. I am not sure what the best route would be, but I think this is a viable research path if you are really looking for a way to make ebikes more mainstream. It might even be a way to use some sort of AI.

Good Luck and Welcome

 

[Reid]

At 50 I found my self struggling to make it up in the mountains where I live. I recently moved from Virginia mountains to the Tennessee mountains. Until I could get a stable built and my horse and buggy here I had to find an alternative. I purchase a all aluminum mountain bike 10 speed and hopes I would be able to get around fairly easy. Didn't work out so well. I purchased a 1000w/750w. Rear wheel hub and a 20 amp hour 48 volt battery fully charged just over 52v. Now going up the big Hills knowing I can get home easily and still able to breathe and my legs work is a huge difference. I'm extremely happy I made the jump in to the ebike. I can still pedal to a certain extent but when I feel myself getting exhausted I simply hit the throttle and let it take over. But at least this way I still get to get out and get exercise.

It is so good to have an Amish member. Someone already geared to the speed of real life. How nice to meet you!

 

[Reid]

Hi Everyone.

My name is Soroush and I am a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
At the university, we have focused to develop the next generation of ebike for transportation.
For this stage of my research, I would like to kindly ask you to share your overall ebike experiences with me.

Thanks a lot

My overall ebike experience is life-changing in an extraordinarily good way.

I first had an ebike a little over ten years ago. It was not very good, a cheap commercially produced bike with lead acid battery. It was not very satisfactory. A year later I got a front wheel geared hub motor kit from Canada, bought locally a basic cruiser bike, and ordered direct from China, a Ping brand battery.

I soon crashed the bike! I did not know how to ride a cruiser bike! Went head over the bars when I foolishing pedaled while going through a roundabout, and the low-hung cruiser bike pedal hit the pavement and pogo'd me a number of feet though the air, landing me on grass and then the bike went just over me and landed on the grass too. Well! That caused me to lose interest in ebiking.

But I watched and waited many years. I knew what I wanted to wait for: A lithium battery bike with pedals that will never accidentally touch the pavement. I recognized the value and performance of the Juiced Bikes CrossCurrent S.



My CCS arrived late last December. I have ridden it every day since. I gave up driving the car and use the bike for most all my needs. For the occasions when I cannot ride I will very reluctantly use our family car. When I go and tune and repair pianos I may summon a rideshare.

But, daily I ride my ebike manually for exercise. And when I want to go fast or far and not break a sweat, electric assist is there.

I have ridden manual bicycles casually since 1960 when I was six.

With an ebike I can confidenly state I will ride a bike productively and for my health, for my remaining life.

We all just want to get by. An ebike and some fortitude, enjoying that car traffic can be ridden around, and yes, recognizing that car drivers today are particularly dangerous because they are less attentive to their death dealing vehicles than ever before, I will still ride my ebike for health and for practicality, and extoll its virtues to every person I meet while rolling the bike.

"What a beautiful bike," is the universal compliment I get from every person who sees the bike, whether I am cresting a bridge and they are on foot looking at the bridge view, or in the store like our local Home Depot, where the bike and its fold-out basket in the rear serves as a shopping cart, "What a beautiful bike. Is it an ebike? I am afraid to ride a bike because of the traffic, it's crazy."

The more of us who exemplify the the lifestyle of the Dutch and just ride a bike, manual or electric assist, the more we help those poor drivers understand that yes, they can do it too.

I am trying to encourage other riders. Do you agree with my posting of this video?

The more people will ride a bike, the healthier we all will become emotionally and otherwise. There is safety in numbers of more people riding bikes.

 

[Reid]

There is safety in numbers of more people riding bikes

Soroush, that is the take-away I wish for you to amplify.

Ebikes enable anyone with normal equilibrium to ride. The more bikes, the more careful cars must be driven, the more conservatively.

More safety for ebikers comes when more biking is the norm, the transportation example for present drivers of cars, who may think,

I can slow down. I can defer. Yes, I would rather be slowed down by a bicyclist ahead than by another car in a traffic jam.

The cyclist, at least, is enjoying their life as a leaf on a stream.

The car driver can be taught that s/he is in a rush to the grave, and why should they be in such a hurry? What is their hurry for the 90% of errands that could be accomplished better, in a better-traffic-world, on a bicycle?

I am afraid to ride a bicycle in traffic. But, this typical person would not be afraid if bicycle riders on errands, without helmets, were more typical.

The Dutch have been said to be the most intelligent people in the world.