Hello and good evening all,
Introductions are in order i believe, I'm Chris just turned 50, reasonably fit (We all say this don't we..) and cycle to work most days. It's a 24-25 mile round trip involving 60% tow path 40% busy urban roads and is much better and safer than my old quicker route on the main roads. I work shifts , earlies, lates nights etc and at the end of a set I'm nudging 150 miles for he week and am absolutely knackered.
I use a Ribble gravel bike with Mavic tubeless tyres and a 1x 11 sram with mudguards as a dry arse is a thing of beauty and much prefer cycling to taking the car, but I'm feeling the miles now and have been seriously thinking about an e-bike to help take the strain.
As to which bike or whether to convert my Ribble or if I'd actually benefit from one I'm not really sure, so I'm here to throw myself upon your collective knowledge!
My ideal would be a gavel bike like the one I've got and helpfully Ribble do an e-bike version and I'm very drawn to the Boardman ADV 8.9E; I love the look the look of integrated batteries.
Or convert my Ribble with a lightweight hub motor and incorporate my existing UST rims( punctures are a killer on the towpath), if such a thing even possible?
I'm 6 ft and about 14 stone and average 13 mph for the journey on the mixed towpath road route and 17 mph on the main road route, would having a 15.5mph cut off become irritating?
I'm taking the Baordman out for a demo next week which should help my frame of reference in regards to the above, but in the meantime have you any ideas suggestions?
Many thanks for taking the time to read this.
Chris
Introductions are in order i believe, I'm Chris just turned 50, reasonably fit (We all say this don't we..) and cycle to work most days. It's a 24-25 mile round trip involving 60% tow path 40% busy urban roads and is much better and safer than my old quicker route on the main roads. I work shifts , earlies, lates nights etc and at the end of a set I'm nudging 150 miles for he week and am absolutely knackered.
I use a Ribble gravel bike with Mavic tubeless tyres and a 1x 11 sram with mudguards as a dry arse is a thing of beauty and much prefer cycling to taking the car, but I'm feeling the miles now and have been seriously thinking about an e-bike to help take the strain.
As to which bike or whether to convert my Ribble or if I'd actually benefit from one I'm not really sure, so I'm here to throw myself upon your collective knowledge!
My ideal would be a gavel bike like the one I've got and helpfully Ribble do an e-bike version and I'm very drawn to the Boardman ADV 8.9E; I love the look the look of integrated batteries.
Or convert my Ribble with a lightweight hub motor and incorporate my existing UST rims( punctures are a killer on the towpath), if such a thing even possible?
I'm 6 ft and about 14 stone and average 13 mph for the journey on the mixed towpath road route and 17 mph on the main road route, would having a 15.5mph cut off become irritating?
I'm taking the Baordman out for a demo next week which should help my frame of reference in regards to the above, but in the meantime have you any ideas suggestions?
Many thanks for taking the time to read this.
Chris
