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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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[–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

One thing to keep in mind with range is that it can vary a lot. Sometimes my trip home uses like 10-20% of the batter, other times it uses 50-60%. Some of that is an issue of how much I'm pedaling vs how much assistance, but I've gotten only 20% used on a trip home I made standing up and not pedalling at all because my back had gotten hurt (granted, I rolled through all the stop signs I could due to said back pain; how much you slow down and accelerate makes a big difference).

If throttles are allowed, they're nice for when you have an injury or solid fever and still need to get home. In the US, I think class 3 (28mph/45kph cap on assistance) aren't allowed throttles but class 2 (20mph/32kph cap on assistance) are allowed them.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago*

    If throttles are allowed, they’re nice for when you have an injury or solid fever and still need to get home.

    This may be in the tmi category, but they can also be a life saver when you really need to take a dump. Like you can hold it in just a bit longer if you don't have to pedal!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    In the US throttles are class 2 only and restricted to 20mph but you can also get something that isn't actually an e-bike, but an emoped, emoped, or escooter but you'll have to register it, get insurance, etc. Those can go significantly faster, though the folding aspect kinda goes out the window and the weight increases.

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