Inflated tyres are for lazy people...

[JuicyBike]

"Using air in tyres is simply cheating!"

Sometimes I get a desired reaction from the e-bike cynics using this statement and we can get past the "e-bikes are for lazy people" misconception.

Anybody got any other ideas?

On a cold wet day in June it might be a good time to plan some new sales pitches...

 

[jazper53]

"Using air in tyres is simply cheating!"

Sometimes I get a desired reaction from the e-bike cynics using this statement and we can get past the "e-bikes are for lazy people" misconception.

Anybody got any other ideas?

On a cold wet day in June it might be a good time to plan some new sales pitches...

I will have a go, more of a slogan really. "buy one before they are banned"

 

[flecc]

Perhaps for our definition we approach e-bikes from the wrong direction. Instead of calling them bikes with electric assistance, perhaps we should call them low powered motorcycles with pedal assistance.

That would make them intended for energetic, physically fit motorcyclists.

 

[amigafan2003]

"Motor cycles for people that don't want to pay insurance, tax, take a test or wear a helmet"


On second thoughts..................................

 

[JuicyBike]

Perhaps for our definition we approach e-bikes from the wrong direction. Instead of calling them bikes with electric assistance, perhaps we should call them low powered motorcycles with pedal assistance.

That would make them intended for energetic, physically fit motorcyclists.

Yes indeed!
Often, when a potential customer feels the weight of an e-bike, lifting it, at that point I remind them:
"It's heavy for a bike, but bl**dy light for a motorbike!"

 

[JuicyBike]

"Motor cycles for people that don't want to pay insurance, tax, take a test or wear a helmet"


On second thoughts..................................

Excellent!

 

[Cyclic]

A couple of weeks ago I e-cycled to the top of a local hill Holme Moss. There is a car park at the top and I was approached by a chap interested in my bike but then accused me of cheating when he realised that it was electric. He had driven there in his car!

Anyway he went on to tell me that he had recently bought a bike but due to the state of his health/age he was limited to cycling on the flat in the valleys.
Could I convince him that an electric bike would solve this problem - no way.

Most people I talk to seem to think that electric equates to no peddling.

 

[eddieo]

Yes indeed!
Often, when a potential customer feels the weight of an e-bike, lifting it, at that point I remind them:

That there are better, lighter E bikes around?

 

[Cyclic]

What we need is a Government Health Warning on all ebikes. Then everybody will want one.

 

[jazper53]

What we need is a Government Health Warning on all ebikes. Then everybody will want one.

Smoking e-bikes can be harmful to your wallet.

 

[neptune]

Inflated tyres are for lazy people? No I think under inflated tyres are for people who are too lazy to use a bike pump. Next time you go out, notice how many bikes are ridden with nearly flat tyres. And its usually full suspension mountain bikes. These people must like wasting energy , what with their flat knobbly tires, and unnecessarily heavy bikes. No wonder they cycle as little as possible.

 

[Scimitar]

Pah. You're all decadent weaklings with air in your tyres. Real men stuff pigs' intestines with straw and form a perfectly good tyre.

 

[GaRRy]

Pah. You're all decadent weaklings with air in your tyres. Real men stuff pigs' intestines with straw and form a perfectly good tyre.

Tyres now that really is for whimps nowt wrong with a wooden wheel

 

[smudger1956]

Pah. You're all decadent weaklings with air in your tyres. Real men stuff pigs' intestines with straw and form a perfectly good tyre.

Nope...A giant O-Ring attached with Evo-Stik.....................

 

[neptune]

Being seious, has anyone noticed that less effort is required to pedal on a really good smooth road surface as opposed to a mediocre one. I know a couple of roads locally where I can actually pull a higher gear on these stretches, and it is not about gradient, as the same effect applies in both directions.

 

[Scimitar]

Yes, it's all about frictional losses as tyre rubber digs into the rough surface and grips a bit, it also loses you energy as it leaves the rough bit. Multiply that by thousands of times a second... it adds up. A smooth surface being met with hard-inflated tyres doesn't dig in and takes less energy from you to keep bowling along. The other extreme is rough old knobblies on rough tracks - it's no surprise to be knacked after that, as you're expecting it, but the same knobblies on tarmac waste a lot of cycling effort, both for the wasted grip and the (usually) under-inflation, which brings in factors such as unnecessary sidewall flex and too much rubber in contact with the road.