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Just returned from a cycle with my 70 year old mum. She has a Pendleton ebike which she bought from halfords for about 700 quid.
The ride was only about 15 miles but hilly with some steep climbs and folks looked on in amazement as a pensioner with a basket on the front of her bike powered past them. I looked like a right tit on my 3 grand race bike being left for dust every time the road went uphill.
So if anyone is thinking of an ebike, but think they need to spend thousands of pounds .. My mum would definitely disagree as she had a great time
Caveat.. Obviously it would be absolutely hopeless off road!
That sounds great and good going on your mums behalf. Thing is, to most people £700 isn’t a cheap bike. Other than that I wholeheartedly agree with everything you wrote.
Edit - read title as cheap bikes so ignore the negative bit above. That’s a great price if it helps keep or get people in to cycling
Cool. My dad and his Mrs got "cheap " e-bikes last year. He's always been into a bit of leisure cycling, but since a knee replacement OP he hasn't the same range of movement as before which made riding a normal bike difficult. But with a bit of electric assist he has no problems now. I might not be a fan of e-mtb just yet, but I can see a point in time in my future when it may be the solution to help me keep riding.
That looks pretty good for the money, currently £600 at halfords.
Was about to write, as above, those Pendleton's are £600 before BC discount at the mo. Decent claimed battery mileage of 70 iirc, my only concern would be how the motor and perhaps the battery too cope long term over 5+ years.
We hired a Raleigh Modus 10-speed at Center Parcs the other week, Bosch motor, Mrs notg loved it as a non-cyclist away from CP (I did too, but only got a few tries around campus as not allowed off site, i escaped on hybrid MTB several times).
Just make sure you tag Strava rides as e-bike rides, I flagged a group of 7 earlier blatantly using e-bikes up Lynch Lane in Warnford doing ~15mph everywhere on a 99 mile ride, getting the Kom on a ~15% max gradient "wall" that links up to Old Winchester Hill Lane to create a cat4 climb with an evil start. 😉
Why would you look a right tit that the ebike powers up a hill quicker than a non motor powered bike no matter how much either cost.
Hmm, my mum turns 79 in July, I think her Spesh Cirrus she rides everywhere cost £350.
Cheap hybrids are great.
Caveat, she hired an eBike on holiday in Austria, so might be looking for an assisted bike in the next few years 🙂
Did 40km in the peaks yesterday with 1,400 metres of climbing, a year ago the doctors weren't sure I'd ever be able to ride proper MTB again because of an injury, E-mtb's are bloomin' ace!
Last year I got my my mum a step-thru E-number and she rides it all over the place, she never used her old Pashley.
There are legitimate concerns about unsafe homebrew conversions and idiots on de-limited bikes riding antisocially but when used as intended, E-bikes are a very postive thing IMHO.
Nobody of the goat, I’m not trolling, this is a serious question,
how many people will buy a bike like that pendleton and use strava? I’d have thought that those two groups were mutually exclusive tbh.
I can confirm my 70 year old mum isn't on Strava.. Yet!
Why would you look a right tit that the ebike powers up a hill quicker than a non motor powered bike no matter how much either cost.
I was half joking.. But when the bystanders don't realise that the bike with a basket riden by a 70 year old woman has a motor, the guy she passes in full lycra and on a carbon super bike looks a bit slow..
I was on my carbon road bike last year when i got dropped by an overweight farmer in a cloth cap on a stiff climb. Took me a few seconds to realise he was on an ebike as i turned myself inside out trying to hang on.
Will certainly get one when i get older/injured and normal riding becomes too difficult.
how many people will buy a bike like that pendleton and use strava? I’d have thought that those two groups were mutually exclusive tbh.
Well it has some routes to follow... though my confusion is really why would anyone care...
Some bloke on a road bike passed me in a road climb last weekend ... and I'm pretty sure the climb out of Peaslake will be on Strava somewhere...