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Need advice from actual ebike users (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/micromobility@lemmy.world
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TL;DR: help me, Micromobility, you're my only hope

Long story short, I am fed up with the state of public transit in my city and feeling envious of the e-riders whooshing past. However, while trying to pick an actual model, I've ran into being unable to find a model that fits my needs:

  • being able to drive 30+ km, with ~100 meter elevation difference between start and finish
  • being able to handle 100+ kg of load (I am, unfortunately, fat)
  • being able to handle rain and possibly light snow
  • being foldable or otherwise transportable, because I'll have to keep it in the apartment

The Ebike store I've been to suggested picrelated, Yokamura Apache, which seems to fit the requirements, but is expensive enough to give me pause. Are there better options? Am I dreaming the impossible? Please help!

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[–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

check Upway

Don't deliver to my area, sadly. Regarding foldability (is that a word?) - it's more so the bike could fit into the elevator. I really don't want to be hauling the darn thing several stories up, you know? Tried that with my old acoustic bike and it was a chore. And idk if I want to park the bike in or outside the building (I'll have to park it outside at work, but there are cameras and such)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    And idk if I want to park the bike in or outside the building

    Oh, definitely in if you can make that work! There's a lot of bike theft going around, thanks to those damn battery-powered angle grinders.

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