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Running out to get some last-minute cilantro halfway through salad construction, or missing supplies halfway through a a day of house construction, and so on. Since this could still steal away some of my exercise, I resolved to do more biking than before.Once I run low on steam, I twist the throttle and feel the electric joyride take over as we blast up to much higher levels of speed.

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Before turning on the motor, I give it all I’ve got, sprinting to fight the bike (and usually a trailer full of tools or groceries) up to at least 20 MPH on leg power alone.

So it functions like a super-heavy (60 pound) city bike that provides more exercise than normal.

When riding the e-bike, I try to leave the motor off whenever possible.

I take my nice low, slow, inefficient cruiser bike instead.

For casual trips like riding downtown to meet someone for lunch, I don’t even use the e-bike.

So anyway, I chose to do things a bit differently, setting up a few ground rules for my use of electric boost: This is just basic muscle math, the kind that should be part of the driver’s exam before you’re allowed to operate your first car. In fact, more fitness would be quite welcome, which means I need to pack more effort into each day. And indeed, it could have gone this way: Over the past year the technology has caught on rapidly and I now see plenty of e-bike riders out on the streets just coasting while the motor does all the work.īut when I look in the mirror, I notice that I have no desire to be any less fit. Since I was already in category “1” for at least 95% of my 1-10 mile trips, you’d think that I would have nothing to gain and everything to lose from juicing my bike. I figured that for any given longer-than-walking-distance trip, there are two categories of people: Had I sold out to the forces of convenience and comfort? My answer was that time would tell and I’d do my best to use the power responsibly. So my official position on the matter is now that Electric Bikes are Awesome.īut Isn’t this Just Modern Lithium-Ion Laziness?Īfter that first article, several Mustachians questioned my sanity.

You can EAT gigantic hills for breakfast and DUST entire pelotons of spandex-riders from the comfort of your flipflops and flannel shirt. These things could have a revolutionary impact on the lazy modern lifestyle and make cities of all sizes vastly more livable places. This is why electric bikes give me the feeling of Justice. You are riding a bike like you should be, creating virtually no pollution or noise, but you have a tireless olympic sprinter in your back pocket that you can unleash at the twist of a throttle.

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The electric bike combines some of the distance-devouring advantages of a car, with the city-friendly flexibility of a bike (you can bypass all traffic jams and jump freely between roads, bike paths and even dirt and unpaved areas to find the most direct route, and park for free right at your destination). But in the spirit of a good experiment, I decided to just add the thing to my bike fleet and see how it went for a year.Īs the months and seasons have rolled past, I have found myself blazing around town more frequently, with greater speeds and heavier loads than I ever thought possible, which has turned me into an unapologetic convert. As a profanely vocal proponent of muscle-only transportation, I was skeptical of the idea at first. Almost one full year ago, I built myself an experimental electric bike to see what all the hype was about.

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