cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/34367979
More barriers to cycling means more cars which means more dead cyclists. Help us defeat this terrible anti-safety bill.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/34367979
More barriers to cycling means more cars which means more dead cyclists. Help us defeat this terrible anti-safety bill.
Should we come up with stealth ebikes and make regular bikes look a bit like ebikes, they can’t tell the difference.
Do you mean an ebike that is as slow as a pedal bike, and you have to move your feet round and round whilst it goes?
It feels like there might be a way to do this and save some expensive parts, and a whole letter of the alphabet.
Don’t be silly. We’ll engineer en expensive solution to hide it all in the downtube.
There are plenty of bikes like that already.
Not this expensive there aren’t
Not sure about that but Ride1up makes an affordable one. There are definitely multiple expensive ones out there too though I don’t remember their names.
UK requires bikes to be pedal assist anyway, pedal at 1w and the motor does the effort. Yes I am training for the tour de France sprints, that is why I am going so fast.
They do have bike motors you can install on a standard bike. It’s not going to be as powerful as a moped or anything, and you risk having it stolen off your bike, but they exist.
Some can be pretty powerful. Not sure what you could get stealthily though. Backpack with the battery pack and run a cable down your leg to the motor?
Now I wonder how much thrust efficiency you get from a high powered electric turbine fan…
Battery in a frame bag or under pannier bags on the rack.