It’s a funny situation where normally you’d have to be quite fit and capable on a bike before reaching those speeds but now you can just start there instead of working up to it.
In my area at least, the ones most riding e-bikes are people who haven’t biked in awhile and have lost fitness from when they last rode too. Now they’re riding a heavier bike with a heavier body at speeds beyond even their previous skill level, and the brakes on these bikes aren’t as beefy as they should be with this in mind either.
We have a wide range of people on them here in my area of FL. Youth who want to get around, retirees who want to go fast and those who lost their license to a DUI (lots of people used to circumvent this issue with scooters under a specific HP).
I didn’t even think of the weight issues, but I imagine they need a lot of stopping power!
It’s a funny situation where normally you’d have to be quite fit and capable on a bike before reaching those speeds but now you can just start there instead of working up to it.
In my area at least, the ones most riding e-bikes are people who haven’t biked in awhile and have lost fitness from when they last rode too. Now they’re riding a heavier bike with a heavier body at speeds beyond even their previous skill level, and the brakes on these bikes aren’t as beefy as they should be with this in mind either.
We have a wide range of people on them here in my area of FL. Youth who want to get around, retirees who want to go fast and those who lost their license to a DUI (lots of people used to circumvent this issue with scooters under a specific HP).
I didn’t even think of the weight issues, but I imagine they need a lot of stopping power!