pedelecs are cheating

[eddieo]

Are non powered bicycles not guilty of cheating also, just like cars, buses, trains etc., etc?

Shouldn't we all be walking everywhere...............without shoes or other footwear as that could be construed as cheating.

While pushing our bikes around Assisi Italy (Birth place of St Francis) this summer we came upon the real thing, an elderly monk with tonsure haircut and sackcloth robes, walking with bare feet...yep the real thing, was like a time warp, he did have a stick though...is that cheating?

 

[Scimitar]

We use electricity when riding to assist us. Those who ride sophisticated ultra light unpowered bikes had the electricity used earlier to make the exotic materials incorporated in their steeds. Since that makes their riding easier as our e-bikes do for us, the outcome is the same. Both are either cheating or not cheating.

Very true. The only non-cheaters are the ones who venture into the woods, chop a tree and fashion with hand tools, a frame and wheels of the finest oak, ash and birch. There is a wooden bicycle on the web somewhere. I don't think it will be winning the TdF any time soon, though.

 

[GaRRy]

Very true. The only non-cheaters are the ones who venture into the woods, chop a tree and fashion with hand tools, a frame and wheels of the finest oak, ash and birch. There is a wooden bicycle on the web somewhere. I don't think it will be winning the TdF any time soon, though.

Nope they have cheated as well as they used tools to chop down tree and fashion the parts

 

[RobF]

the c2c.... is a route i have been thinking of attempting next year, probably on my converted moulton with a 14ah battery connected. rides like a normal bike even if battery were to run out.........will need to sort out some recharge spots at convenient intervals on the route...........

Some of the C2C is on rough tracks which are not suitable for a small-wheeled bike - and the recent weather won't have helped.

By small wheels, I mean a Brompton which is twitchy on cinder and borders on dangerous on anything rougher.

I don't know if a Moulton is more stable.

 

[dmcgoldrick]

Some of the C2C is on rough tracks which are not suitable for a small-wheeled bike - and the recent weather won't have helped.

By small wheels, I mean a Brompton which is twitchy on cinder and borders on dangerous on anything rougher.

I don't know if a Moulton is more stable.

thanks for the info....i understand that lots of people do the route on road bikes (even in one day ) with very skinny tyres so will need to check routes carefully depending on which bike i choose. cant imagine they would use rough tracks on that type of bike so must be 'tarmac road' workaround options.....will be a spring project so hopefully it will have stopped raining as heavy as recently by then .....!!!!!!
moulton has 20 inch wheels and could fit fat tyres for offroad as frame is spaceframe full suspension, but the road speed would be then seriously impeded and as i intend to try and do the route both ways in a week, will work around the rough offroad bits .......

would a wisper 706 be suitable on the offroad sections ?????

regards

 

[RobF]

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would a wisper 706 be suitable on the offroad sections ?????

regards

Should do the job nicely.

I did the last few miles to Sunderland recently and parts of that were very muddy, impassable on the Brompton, but probably doable on your Wisper.

Dry conditions will help a lot, but the recent rain will have caused more run-off damage to the route which, from the bits I saw, is not that well maintained.