E bikes help to make riding standard bikes easier

[Electric daz]

Does anyone else find that alternating from their E bike to a normal bike make riding the normal one easier than it used to? I am find this is the case mainly due to the lightness difference from the 22kg of the e bike to the 11kg of my normal bike. I'm loving this as when I'm in an energetic mood I can ride standard and when feeling sluggish/tired (where I'd take the car) I've got my new E bike (soooo happy)

 

[Gubbins]

Does anyone else find that alternating from their E bike to a normal bike make riding the normal one easier than it used to? I am find this is the case mainly due to the lightness difference from the 22kg of the e bike to the 11kg of my normal bike. I'm loving this as when I'm in an energetic mood I can ride standard and when feeling sluggish/tired (where I'd take the car) I've got my new E bike (soooo happy)

Only when it's not windy....

 

[anotherkiwi]

Only when it is not windy and hilly...

 

[Electric daz]

Agree with wind but I am finding hills a tad easier on my standard bike than I did before the addition of the E bike ( might also be and increase in leg power from the ability to pedal faster and longer with the assist )

 

[anotherkiwi]

Are they 3.8 km long?

 

[Alan Quay]

Does anyone else find that alternating from their E bike to a normal bike make riding the normal one easier than it used to? I am find this is the case mainly due to the lightness difference from the 22kg of the e bike to the 11kg of my normal bike. I'm loving this as when I'm in an energetic mood I can ride standard and when feeling sluggish/tired (where I'd take the car) I've got my new E bike (soooo happy)

Yes, exactly that. I have always put it down to being more 'cycle fit'.

Thing is, when you have a pedelec you will likely use it more often for the ordinary chores (shopping, bank, errands) so you spend a lot more time in the saddle than you otherwise would.

There a thread on here somewhere about those of us that (cough) 'swing both ways'.




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[EddiePJ]

Only when it's not windy....

Only when it is not windy and hilly...

Only when it is not windy, hilly and wet...


But yes I do, and enjoy switching between both methods.

 

[anotherkiwi]

I do wet, I'm a sailor!

 

[EddiePJ]

I do wet, I'm a sailor!

Wrong forum!

 

[Gubbins]

I do wet, I'm a sailor!

Everyone loves a sailor

 

[anotherkiwi]

A bike with friggin' solar panel sails... in space! Beats sharks with friggin' lasers

 

[Gubbins]

A bike with friggin' solar panel sails... in space! Beats sharks with friggin' lasers

Is that a nautical term F riggin

 

[anotherkiwi]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Evil

amerikan translation; frickin, I'm from New Zealand...

 

[bebbe]

Yes, I get stronger. But I loose my cadence. The ebike works well up to aprox 85rpm. But if you want to achive long distace on a std bike around 90-95rpm is ideal. Lower will make you use more muscle but the cost is bigger straint on the knees!

So I have become faster because I get stronger. But I have to work harder to reach the right cadence to stay out of knee problems.

 

[Gubbins]

Yes, I get stronger. But I loose my cadence. The ebike works well up to aprox 85rpm. But if you want to achive long distace on a std bike around 90-95rpm is ideal. Lower will make you use more muscle but the cost is bigger straint on the knees!

So I have become faster because I get stronger. But I have to work harder to reach the right cadence to stay out of knee problems.

To rotate my legs at 95rpms for any length of time requires more energy than what is available.

 

[bebbe]

To rotate my legs at 95rpms for any length of time requires more energy than what is available.

Then your lungs should get better. But you have to be in really god shape to benefit for 90-95rpm.

But the goal when you go biking (no ebike) is to have 90rpm in cadence.

 

[Gubbins]

Then your lungs should get better. But you have to be in really god shape to benefit for 90-95rpm.

But the goal when you go biking (no ebike) is to have 90rpm in cadence.

An amateur/recreational cyclist can use as much as 60% of their energy just turning their legs..
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/why-amateurs-shouldnt-try-to-pedal-like-chris-froome-191779

 

[bebbe]

It is not a question of wich is most effective but a must if the knees is going to last.

If you want to reach serious goals with biking and you want to sitt in the sadle for more than 2 hours frekvently. The candence must go over 85 rpm and 90-95rpm are a perfect goal. If going under 85 the legs will work harder and the knees will be suffering.

I myself frekvently take rides around 100-200km with my roadbike and if I have low cadence it is my muscles that doing the work. With higher cadence it is more upp to my lungs and heart. And my knees hold up much better.

This is if you use the bike as a workout tool. When crusing around it does not matter if you have low or high cadence.


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[Gubbins]

It is not a question of wich is most effective but a must if the knees is going to last.

If you want to reach serious goals with biking and you want to sitt in the sadle for more than 2 hours frekvently. The candence must go over 85 rpm and 90-95rpm are a perfect goal. If going under 85 the legs will work harder and the knees will be suffering.

I myself frekvently take rides around 100-200km with my roadbike and if I have low cadence it is my muscles that doing the work. With higher cadence it is more upp to my lungs and heart. And my knees hold up much better.

This is if you use the bike as a workout tool. When crusing around it does not matter if you have low or high cadence.


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And there is another word that's not in my vocabulary.. 200km my longest ride last year was 40 miles

 

[OxygenJames]

Does anyone else find that alternating from their E bike to a normal bike make riding the normal one easier than it used to? I am find this is the case mainly due to the lightness difference from the 22kg of the e bike to the 11kg of my normal bike. I'm loving this as when I'm in an energetic mood I can ride standard and when feeling sluggish/tired (where I'd take the car) I've got my new E bike (soooo happy)

'normal' bike is 11kg? Hmmmm. OK. If you say so.

I was in Richmond park the other day and there was a guy there with a bike that looked utterly and completely and unbelievably fancy. Like the whole thing was made out of nano-molecules or something. I asked him if I could touch it he said sure go ahead so I picked it up and be-jesus it weighed like NOTHING. He said it actually weighed 6.7kg. Wow. He also said he paid £12,000 for it. Another 'wow'.

But.

I wouldn't swap it for mine.

Mine has an engine.