DaveMatthews
Dave's not here. Cheating since 2018
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- Canada
Really nice ride, with a great climb. Nicely done sir!
Show us pictures of where you ride your ebikes!
Jeremy McCreary
Bought it anyway
- Region
- USA
- City
- Carlsbad, CA
Exploring near home by ebike
K wanted to ride last Sunday, but we're in high tourist season now, and the Coast Highway's a madhouse on weekends. So we knocked around inland, looking for new places to explore.
One unexpected find at a nearby shopping center we go to often: A great new coffee stop.
Both us have driven by this place countless times but never gave it much thought.
It took being on a bike to finally notice the wonderful patio next to it. With shade and sofas, no less! Perfect spot to chill with a caffeine fix and a pastry on a beautiful Sunday afternoon ride.
Plenty of space for bike parking as well. No worries about bike security when you're sitting right next to it.
Moral of the story: If you haven't done so already, hop on your ebike and poke around your area to find the gems you never noticed from the car. They're often hiding in plain sight. You just need to go at bike speed to see them.
Getting it right the 2nd time
This ride with the missus would have been impossible without K's new ebike, the blue Velotric Breeze above. We headed inland to avoid the coast, and inland here means hills — the kind that get your attention.
And on her 1st ebike — a 70 lb, 500W torque-sensing hub-drive — she would've turned tail at the day's very first hill (11% max) .
But our hills are a breeze on the Breeze — a much more powerful, stable, and nimble 50 lb, 750W hub-drive. Now she'll ride anywhere with confidence. And as a result, she rides much more often. Big win for both of us!
My 2nd ebike, the yellow 38 lb Specialized Vado SL 1 mid-drive above, was also a vast improvement over the first (same as K's first in white). Would've ridden the SL if it hadn't been in the shop.
So I rode the old white bike instead and had a ball. Which reminded me of a point well worth repeating on EBR: Some members would turn up their noses at an ebike like this, but it's still great for backup and utility and beach riding (now its primary roles).
And for all its shortcomings relative to high-end bikes, it's still WAAAAAY better than no ebike at all.
K wanted to ride last Sunday, but we're in high tourist season now, and the Coast Highway's a madhouse on weekends. So we knocked around inland, looking for new places to explore.
One unexpected find at a nearby shopping center we go to often: A great new coffee stop.
Both us have driven by this place countless times but never gave it much thought.
It took being on a bike to finally notice the wonderful patio next to it. With shade and sofas, no less! Perfect spot to chill with a caffeine fix and a pastry on a beautiful Sunday afternoon ride.
Plenty of space for bike parking as well. No worries about bike security when you're sitting right next to it.
Moral of the story: If you haven't done so already, hop on your ebike and poke around your area to find the gems you never noticed from the car. They're often hiding in plain sight. You just need to go at bike speed to see them.
Getting it right the 2nd time
This ride with the missus would have been impossible without K's new ebike, the blue Velotric Breeze above. We headed inland to avoid the coast, and inland here means hills — the kind that get your attention.
And on her 1st ebike — a 70 lb, 500W torque-sensing hub-drive — she would've turned tail at the day's very first hill (11% max) .
But our hills are a breeze on the Breeze — a much more powerful, stable, and nimble 50 lb, 750W hub-drive. Now she'll ride anywhere with confidence. And as a result, she rides much more often. Big win for both of us!
My 2nd ebike, the yellow 38 lb Specialized Vado SL 1 mid-drive above, was also a vast improvement over the first (same as K's first in white). Would've ridden the SL if it hadn't been in the shop.
So I rode the old white bike instead and had a ball. Which reminded me of a point well worth repeating on EBR: Some members would turn up their noses at an ebike like this, but it's still great for backup and utility and beach riding (now its primary roles).
And for all its shortcomings relative to high-end bikes, it's still WAAAAAY better than no ebike at all.
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stompandgo
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- USA
I feel your pain. Things here have started to slow, but we have two more weeks until the kids have to go back to school. From the end of August until the middle of October is glorious. We call it "locals season". The summer home people stay until Thanksgiving or Christmas, so it's not just us, but the population is cut at least in half.
The Breeze with the MTX bag looks great. The white bike is an awful nice backup.
Stefan Mikes
Gravel e-biker
- Region
- Europe
- City
- Mazovia, PL
Certainly, certainly.
Had I no Specialized e-bike, I would be totally happy with my Lovelec. Pictured: My brother Jacek in early 2020 when I only owned the Lovelec and the big Vado
Chargeride
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I can barely see him, very dangerous
Stefan Mikes
Gravel e-biker
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- Europe
- City
- Mazovia, PL
I have for long suspected you of being colour blind, now it is proven
Biplaneguy
Active Member
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- USA
Took a ride today with Mary on the Nyack Beach (NY) bike path which runs 5 miles along the Hudson River from Upper Nyack to Haverstraw. A very nice ride. That's the new Tappan Zee Bridge (which also has a bike path) the the background. Last time I was here was 50 years ago with my parents and sisters.
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stompandgo
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- USA
You mean the Governor Mario Cuomo bridge.
Biplaneguy
Active Member
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- USA
Some may call it that.
Jeremy McCreary
Bought it anyway
- Region
- USA
- City
- Carlsbad, CA
Same here. Oddly enough, haven't heard anyone use "locals season", but I'm totally stealing it. Between the low population and the best-all-year weather, October's just spectacular here!
October was also the best month by far in Colorado. Sure wish I'd been smart enough to ride an ebike when we lived there, but the riding from home would have been pretty crappy.
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We live in the woods beside a river. Due to rocks and rapids, the river is not suitable for outboard motors, but we do get a lot of canoe traffic during the Summer months. Things drop off at the end of August, but weekend activity is still very high through until October when the Autumn colours start to wane. After hunting season in early November, we are down to locals. We are on a private road, and we live a pretty solitary life from mid-November until after the spring flood in April/May.
I ride my bike through to October, then use my stationary cycle to keep my legs in shape. Come April, I start riding again, taking advantage of what Mother Nature allows.
I ride my bike through to October, then use my stationary cycle to keep my legs in shape. Come April, I start riding again, taking advantage of what Mother Nature allows.
DaveMatthews
Dave's not here. Cheating since 2018
- Region
- Canada
Sounds wonderfully scenic. Pics would be awesome!
Getting off of my duff and learning how to post pics is moving up on my to-do list. Since I retired from a software engineer position 20 years ago, I have become somewhat of a Luddite. We do have cell service and Internet availability here in the woods, but the Internet is a cell/sat hybrid with limited data.Sounds wonderfully scenic. Pics would be awesome!
I lost all of my pics last month when we capsized our canoe while running a rapid, and the seal on the bag that my cellphone was in didn't hold. I now have a new phone and will start building a new album.
DaveMatthews
Dave's not here. Cheating since 2018
- Region
- Canada
I use a hosting site called postimages.org
Create a free account, upload your images, then choose the share icon and copy "Hotlink for Forums" and paste that in here with your text.
Biplaneguy
Active Member
- Region
- USA
I just use copy and paste to post pictures here and on other forums.
DaveMatthews
Dave's not here. Cheating since 2018
- Region
- Canada
One reason I like the hosting site is because it takes the burden off of this site, therefore the picture size is immaterial.
Biplaneguy
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- Region
- USA
That's a valid point. However, on other forums where I participate, users are requested not to host pictures offsite, because if the image hosting site closes down, as frequently happens with free sites, or the user reorganizes his albums, the link is broken and the image is lost to the forum. Storage is so cheap nowadays that it's rarely an issue.
Chargeride
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The Californian crazy rail ebike coast rider has made a new vid on a motoped legal in the state, not quite as polished , but its a very interesting 150m ride
DaveMatthews
Dave's not here. Cheating since 2018
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- Canada
This is true. My first hosting site was Photobucket, and they decided that all free accounts would require a hefty subscription, so I took my toys and left...
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