The money i dident spend on fuel payed the E-Bike a long time ago! And my endurance also improved!
Not sure it’d be practical where I’m at with the towns being miles apart, but a great idea in more dense areas. How do you deal with transporting things like a trip to the grocery store?
My wife orders the weekly groceries home every 1-2 weeks. The delivery fee for purchases over 150.- is only 4.95, which easily pays for itself with the drive and the parking fee to the nearest shopping center (8km). In addition, in this setup i also have to carry the purchases only from the front door to the basement.
Edit: We use Public transportation a lot. For the normal bike we use the Thule Chariot Sport as a trailer. For the daily needs (fresh bread, somtimes mising butter or milk…) we shop localy in th village, also with bike and backbag or the biketrailer.
A decent cost, I’d guess the delivery is a store employee using a company vehicle since that’d be a heavy lift for $5 to take on in some 3rd party service or the employee’s car like most small shops. Persoannly I like going to the shop, even if it’s a little ways out just for the getting an idea on the fly aspect when walking by something.
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Now that’s some crazy getup, i suppose the range and speed is going to be influenced by the weight and battery capacity, could be an interesting bit of research. For me it’d maybe a max of 400lbs for the two of us (I’m 6’3" and in the 230 some range alone) plus a minion and cargo. Probabbly 500 actually just to give some overhead, never good to spec things just at capacity.
My car insurance is more than my bike’s initial cost.
Every year.
Forever.
I understand exactly what you mean. The insurance for me (accident-free and driving safety course) was 500.-, plus road taxes of c. 250.-… and that every year…
E-bikes for the win! Much love!
