When you get older you'll appreciate a heavy fat tire ebike more. Mine has 7gears, 750W-52V motor, 910 WH or 17.5 amp/hour battery, shock absorbing front forks, thump absorbing seat post, and hydraulic disk brakes. The controller works in pedal assist that reads the gears and compensates speed, or if you pedal harder, the throttle assist takes over for a bigger boost. I'm just short of 70 years old, don't care who passes me, and many won't if I push the bike to it's limits. I've come to appreciate the features, range, and comfort of my Pedego.
That makes a lot of sense @cubestone. The fat tire bikes are definitely more comfortable in my experience, and it makes sense why that would take priority over a light weight bike for your rides. It sounds like you’ve got a great all around e-bike. I’ve been wanting to test out the Pedego bike lineup, so hopefully I can make a review in the future. I would definitely appreciate that 750W motor too, the 350W motor on my Soltera leaves me wanting a little more power at times. Thanks for checking out the video 😎
The ride1up CF racer 1 is incredible value for money if your budget stretches to $2,300. Can use it as a commuter on the weekdays and do club rides on the weekends.
My first ride on my new Biktrix Juggernaut Hub Duo with 27.5 x 3 inch tires was with no power on. I wanted to know how sad I would be pedaling the heavy e-bike should I lose power. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. About the same as pedaling my analog bike with a full load of groceries. I wouldn't want to be more than 5 miles from home should that ever happen, but I could still do it with extra whining. I changed the pedal assist from 5 to 9 and use 1-2 most of the time, though a strong headwind will have me going to 3 or 4. I try to use the throttle as little as possible, but some times showing off at red light intersections is fun using 85 nm of torque. I still like to have fun at 67 years old.
That was smart to test it out like that. It’s nice to know you can ride without power, and approximately how far you would be comfortable going. I’d love to check out the Juggernaut sometime, that looks like a sick bike. That’s awesome to hear your out there having fun like that at 67, I hope to be doing the same, never stop riding! 😎
I would say a proper ebike doesn't need gears. The pedals could directly drive the generator, whose resistence can be set to match your power output. The generator then provides energy for the motor that drives the vehicle. If excess power is generated, a buffer battery can be charged. Otherwise it can be depleted to get ahead quicker (e.g. maintain speed on ascend). The second motor should also have a regenerative braking mode. This way you can get rid of most of the fragile mechanics on the bike and you don't have to worry that you run out of battery (if you want to make this compromise, then an e-scooter is cheaper, more reliable and more comfortable).
@@svr5423 I definitely agree when it comes to a well built high end single speed bike. However the majority of the single speed e bikes that I’ve tested personally and tend to see on the road do not fall in the well built category unfortunately.
Do E-Bikes Need Gears? No, unless you live in Switzerland on the Alps or you are buying E-MTB. Otherwise Belt driven single speed is more than capable going from 0-45km/h
@@DuBstep115 Even with the pedal assistance off, I still don’t receive enough resistance on single speed bikes, and even my Aventon Soltera 2 (which has gears) gets to that point.
Any new & expensive E-bike today should be running a belt drive and rear internal hub gears.
right there!
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When you get older you'll appreciate a heavy fat tire ebike more. Mine has 7gears, 750W-52V motor, 910 WH or 17.5 amp/hour battery, shock absorbing front forks, thump absorbing seat post, and hydraulic disk brakes. The controller works in pedal assist that reads the gears and compensates speed, or if you pedal harder, the throttle assist takes over for a bigger boost. I'm just short of 70 years old, don't care who passes me, and many won't if I push the bike to it's limits. I've come to appreciate the features, range, and comfort of my Pedego.
That makes a lot of sense @cubestone. The fat tire bikes are definitely more comfortable in my experience, and it makes sense why that would take priority over a light weight bike for your rides.
It sounds like you’ve got a great all around e-bike. I’ve been wanting to test out the Pedego bike lineup, so hopefully I can make a review in the future.
I would definitely appreciate that 750W motor too, the 350W motor on my Soltera leaves me wanting a little more power at times.
Thanks for checking out the video 😎
The ride1up CF racer 1 is incredible value for money if your budget stretches to $2,300. Can use it as a commuter on the weekdays and do club rides on the weekends.
My first ride on my new Biktrix Juggernaut Hub Duo with 27.5 x 3 inch tires was with no power on. I wanted to know how sad I would be pedaling the heavy e-bike should I lose power. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. About the same as pedaling my analog bike with a full load of groceries. I wouldn't want to be more than 5 miles from home should that ever happen, but I could still do it with extra whining. I changed the pedal assist from 5 to 9 and use 1-2 most of the time, though a strong headwind will have me going to 3 or 4. I try to use the throttle as little as possible, but some times showing off at red light intersections is fun using 85 nm of torque. I still like to have fun at 67 years old.
That was smart to test it out like that. It’s nice to know you can ride without power, and approximately how far you would be comfortable going. I’d love to check out the Juggernaut sometime, that looks like a sick bike. That’s awesome to hear your out there having fun like that at 67, I hope to be doing the same, never stop riding! 😎
I live in hilly terrain and would not want anything but my single-speed Rad Mission. I have altered it from 50/16 to 44/22 and that's it. Perfect!
I would say a proper ebike doesn't need gears.
The pedals could directly drive the generator, whose resistence can be set to match your power output.
The generator then provides energy for the motor that drives the vehicle. If excess power is generated, a buffer battery can be charged. Otherwise it can be depleted to get ahead quicker (e.g. maintain speed on ascend). The second motor should also have a regenerative braking mode.
This way you can get rid of most of the fragile mechanics on the bike and you don't have to worry that you run out of battery (if you want to make this compromise, then an e-scooter is cheaper, more reliable and more comfortable).
@@svr5423 I definitely agree when it comes to a well built high end single speed bike.
However the majority of the single speed e bikes that I’ve tested personally and tend to see on the road do not fall in the well built category unfortunately.
Do E-Bikes Need Gears? No, unless you live in Switzerland on the Alps or you are buying E-MTB. Otherwise Belt driven single speed is more than capable going from 0-45km/h
@@DuBstep115 The gears are nice to increase resistance, and gain more speed on flat ground, or going up or down hills.
@@stkyfngez or turn off the assistance if you want to workout. That's what I do on electric mtb, pedal without assistance
@@DuBstep115 Even with the pedal assistance off, I still don’t receive enough resistance on single speed bikes, and even my Aventon Soltera 2 (which has gears) gets to that point.
@@stkyfngez Bruh, I have steel bike with 46-16 gearing. My quads are on fire and I and squat 200kg