Folding Ebike for commuting in UK

[tbu987]

Got a job which would involve travelling to the train station, riding a train then travelling to the workplace. I can get to the station by car drop off and then travel to the workplace by bus however, im considering using a bike for these two distances which can take upto 20mins on bike and probably less with an ebike. This has led me to consider using a foldable ebike to help with the commute.
Through research in this sub im seeing the Fiido D4S is a pretty popular pick for both price and function and im considering the purchase myself. Id like to know from other people who are in a similar situation and are using the foldable ebike how is their experience? Whats it like carrying in the train, riding to work, keeping it safe, climbing hills and making sure its charged. Any input would be appreciated.

 

[tbu987]

Have you seen how bad Sterling is doing at the moment?

That's 13% drop in the last 6 months against the US Dollar.

whichever bike you decide on, you should buy it soon.
Prices can only go up with rampant inflation.
I have no choice than increasing my prices too.
The Rambletta will go up by £70 from 01-October.

Damn that's looking rough. Yeah I've pretty much made my decision and want to buy the Rambletta suspension version. Looks like I've gotta wait till Monday now to call up and make the order.

 

[guerney]

One Q I haven't seen asked or mentioned ?

Wow, haven't seen that before - looks like it could hold rather a looong rear rack. Load limit of said rack would probably need to be quite low though, to prevent those rear wheels collapsing.

 

[guerney]

I do keep several resolutions of the same photo on the server. The hires version gives good level of details when zoomed in. This one is medium res (1000 x 700 pixels).

An old version of Adobe Imageready could squeeze that down without losing much visual quality, or the hi-res version for that matter. Or Fireworks has even more tricks, Lightroom, I think a good free Windows utility is Fastone Image Browser, also GIMP.

I don't know what happened there. The connection to the server is not metered

Too many weird stalls is why I quit using unmetered - it's very rare they assign sufficient CPU or RAM (CMSs thrash RAM and CPU, especially when dealing with images. Many under resourced hosts intermittently fail functions without customers noticing), it's only usually just enough to remind you that you should have bought their better product, which they offer to upgrade you to. I test for weeks before I buy substantially from new hosting providers, because the fsckups are not worth the grief. I wouldn't even start testing UK2.NET

 

[cyclebuddy]

I took the Fiido D11's details on the current advertisement on ebay. Follow the link and you can see that it does not have any of the accessories you have on your bike.
I suppose Fiido may make diffrerent versions of the same bike.

Your picture from ebay is an early mock-up pre-production shot... that bike doesn't even have any wiring so it won't be going anywhere! They do only offer the one version, and do include all the items I mentioned as standard. listed on Fiido's own web-page.

Costs certainly have shot up: The D11 has risen from £715 pre-Brexit to £951.70 today. Given the amazing strength of the US$ and everything is priced in US$, I'm amazed you'll only be adding a meagre £70 to the Rambletta cost.

 

[Woosh]

I use their system for more than 15 years, I am too old to change now. I have space on ionos.co.uk, AWS and azure too but they cost more if I scale up.

 

[guerney]

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[Woosh]

Then when I tried to migrate... they removed the backup feature in cPanel.

first thing I ask of any shared server is SSH access.

 

[guerney]

first thing I ask of any shared server is SSH access.

Another feature which was progressively removed, after takeover by EIG. Takeovers happen, we've got to make changes when services are degraded. They rely on us not wanting to migrate services, and let's face it, switching to new suppliers is not a trivial matter.

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[Chris M]

I owned a Brompton manual for many many years . I sold it recently and bought a Rambletta. I have to say I am most impressed with the Rambletta. The Brompton folds much smaller and is much better to walk with but that’s about where the advantages finish. The Rambletta is far more comfortable to ride and I find it unexpectedly stable at speed. The larger fatter tyres make a difference as does the suspension seat post. I recently had the Rambletta up to 38 mph down a decent hill and it felt quite safe. I find the Rambletta is a good hill climber. I also have a mid drive ebike with a Bosch active line plus motor. The Rambletta seems to climb steep hills just as well as my mid drive. So I am very happy with my Rambletta. As it is a step through folder it isn’t going to be as tough as a traditional shape ebike. I find it great on most trails I use as they are quite smooth. I wouldn’t use it on the local canal tow paths though as they are quite rough in places (tree roots mostly) but then it clearly wasn’t designed for rough stuff. I am happy with that as the Rambletta fits into my car without dropping the rear seats and I am unexpectedly really liking the step through design. You can’t have everything.