Lightweight ebikes that can still do steep hills and ride like a regular bike on the flat

[Peter.Bridge]

Small lightweight motors may not be good for the heavier rider on steeper ascents but with the lower rpm winding of sub 201 I can vouch they are very capable for towing heavy loads on even terrain with modest gradients.
The Bafang G370 though a front motor has proven to be a superb runner for me

The motor simulator shows a Bafang g370 @ 36v/15A managing 15km/h up a 10% hill for 7 minutes with a rider adding 100w and bike + rider = 100kg which is pretty impressive !

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[AndyBike]

There's basically 3 types of Ebike now. Offroad, city and cargo.
Offroad are built for that really rough terrain, city should handle most flat tarmac and some hills, or gravel paths like you see by the side of canals, and cargo, for mainly city use(and canal type sections.

With offroad its mainly going down, so the motor can take the up bit as the whole system is far more robust, with more power
City need to be lighter because 80% of the time its on flat road, and light enough to carry up stairs, or store at or inside work spaces or living spaces and cargo need to be very robustly constructed with a powerful motor capable of shifting large loads, but on smoother surfaces for the most part(shopping)

 

[AndyBike]

When I ride offrroad it isn't silly man made park trails that most go to , it is real world cycling , off the beaten tracks/farm tracks byways/ bridle paths and esp on the South and North Downs the well off beaten routes where one barely sees another soul.

You'd likely enjoy this then

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There was something in the news a couple of years back about charging points on the great glen way, but also something about them being limited to Bosch systems. Like everything Scottish, theres a lot of talk, but nothing happens for years, so might not be set up yet

 

[matthewslack]

You'd likely enjoy this then

or

There was something in the news a couple of years back about charging points on the great glen way, but also something about them being limited to Bosch systems. Like everything Scottish, theres a lot of talk, but nothing happens for years, so might not be set up yet

My neck of the woods, not seen anything of that. As a lone traveller I have charged at several cafes and pubs on that route outside of the solar season, a group might have more trouble in the busy season.

 

[guerney]

Yes will be interesting to see once I get back to cycle fitness, the silver lining as you put it d8veh is yes could prove to be a good one .

It is now ten days since I was discharged from hospital and I have been eating six or seven small amounts daily to give my digestive system time to adjust again, total weight gain is small at 200gms and now I weigh 74.7kg which is a liitle up from the 74.5kg I was in hospital, it is down from my pre op 82 kg and the 85kg I was some months earlier.

For nine days of my hospital visit I was so poorly I wasn't allowed food because of a violent vomiting issue that occurred due to my digestive system shutting down and it kept producing huge amounts of bile, following the first vomiting episode( the digestive system if it can't process food in to waste then produces bile form body fluids) I had a nasal tube inserted and down in to my stomach to drain the bile to prevent me vomiting , anti sickness drugs inserted via my arm cannulas of which I had four for iv drip, paracetamol iv drip for pain relief , antibiotics for my severe lung infection and to ward off sepsis, anti sickness drugs

At it's peak my digestive sytem produced 2.5l of bile over one night and the bile production left me in a serious dehydrated unstable condition , it took the intervention of the staff from the HDU unit to assess me and put me on to 48hr agrressive iv drip monitoring to eventually stabalise my fluid loss and to reverse the AKI damage that was occurring to my kidneys.

I have to eat more often now to try and get the same energy as before.
The food is in and out of me in 12hrs or less at the mo and have a fairly strict low fibre diet to allow my digestive system to adjust.

Our NHS is very much alaigned by the same moaners who visit there GP's daily weekly , the same old moaners.
It isn't until one is hopsitalised and see the absolute wonderful caring work that all the staff do and have to carry out that one will realise we in the UK are very very lucky to have such a national treasure/institution at our disposal if we are unlucky to need it.

Fitness disappears surprisingly fast, unless it's endurance (common in cyclists and long distance runners) rather than bulkier fast twitch muscle (sprinters and body builders - fast to grow, fast to disappear).

Such a severe surgical insult to the body will of course result in much inflammation. "Mother of all IBS" springs to mind, but I sincerely hope that isn't what you are suffering. Low FODMAP diet could be helpful?

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