Anybody here own an e-bike?

[Chupacabra]

compared to a human powered bike. Gotta charge the thing - waste of electricity

Certainly. I used to take my human-powered road bike to work, but fortunately we had a locker room. It was mostly in response to namechecking the Prius.

[Irish George]

Bwahahahaha

Seriously you'll be a laughingstock on an e"bike"

What do you mean "will" be?

[The Ref]

i biked beacon hill every day for 3 years...

Also, if you're biking 10 miles and planning on not showering, do your co-workers a favor and get a gym membership...

I'm not now, or ever, planning on traditional biking for 10 miles to work. That's why the eBike.

[The Ref]

compared to a human powered bike. Gotta charge the thing - waste of electricity

6 cents per day of electricity if you use it daily. With solar power, it's carbon neutral.

[The Ref]

I may look into one. I'd like to bike to work but the routes I'd have to take are less than ideal. One is a fairly heavily traveled road (2 lanes in each direction - decent shoulder) with some hills. The other is less traveled but with very serious hills. Even if I wanted to bike that route I'd have to bring clothes and shower by the time I got to work and it would take forever. An ebike might make it worth it with the bigger hills.

Mine is pretty much an LA version of your story. A traditional bike is out of the question for my situation. Too far. Too hilly. = Too sweaty.

[Riccardo]

EBJ would not approve

[Irish George]

I will say this about commuting to work on a bike

Actually thinking of it as an occasional commuter bike. It's 10 city miles with hills. Don't want to get to work all sweaty and don't want to peddle for 10 miles. I will peddle occasionally. And the design on many of them is not ugly. Or I could just keep driving my Prius. But gridlock can be really irritating on the drive home. Thought a bike would be a little more pleasant maybe.

It's great.

Been doing it almost every day I've been working a temporary gig here in OC. Including some really nasty weather. Love it.

[JuTMSY4]

It's great.

Been doing it almost every day I've been working a temporary gig here in OC. Including some really nasty weather. Love it.

it is. My problem is, if you get an electric bike, what's the point? It's like a car, but it screams "I'm a douchebag."

[Two Gap Penetrator]

This is what I use

[Riccardo]

nice

I would commute by bike occasionally (it's about a 15 mile ride each way) but I'm a-skeered of River of Death Road in Piscataway. Still might try it a few times this summer during 1/2 day fridays - would only have to survive the morning rush hour traffic. I could probably make it by bike not much longer commute time than driving

[TerpEagle]

I just dropped some coin on a Mavic Kysrium wheelset for my road bike - cut 500 grams from stock crappy wheels and def makes a difference climbing steep hills

I need to look into a true road or cyclocross bike for riding but it still wouldnt be worth riding to work. I'd want to ride something decked out with paniers for my stuff.

I'll likely just stick to driving to work and riding for fun afterwards.

[The Ref]

It's like a car, but it screams "I'm a douchebag."

It's not at all like a car. And I don't understand why it screams anything. eBikes do not require licensing or insurance like a motorcycle or scooter and a person can go 10 miles or so without getting sweaty before work. It's simply a transportation mode that might even offer some exercise options on the way home.

My only issue is a city like mine can be a dangerous place for cyclists, but it's getting better and better. If I were only a few miles from work, I wouldn't even think of anything but a regular bike.

Electric transportation is the wave of the future. It's only a matter of time before combustion engines are part of history.

At some point, (sooner than people think) autonomous driving cars will be the norm on our roads. The technology is already robust enough today. Now it's a matter of political will to allow them, if not require them.

Maybe then, gridlock like we experience in some of our cities will alleviate, and the need for a bike at all will be diminished.

[Loki]

This is what KG uses.