Hi everyone
Me and my wife are looking to buy an e-bike to drop of our 3 year old son at nursery that he starts in September.
Since our daughter (who is 18 months) cannot really look after herself alone, she'd need to come along for the ride.
We are looking to buy a trailer and a bike in the same time. Not necessarily the same place.
Neither me or my wife are fit I am 97kg she is 101kg.
New to biking we had not been on a bike for about 6 years.
It would be mostly her doing the drop off.
Our children are 13kg and 17kg so the bike would have to be quite strong.
Budget: looking to spend about £1200-1600 without the trailer
Distance: 2.5miles so 5 mile-ish roundtrip.
Mostly flat with 1 hill near our house.
All tarmac but there may be a bridleway part the way that we need to investigate.
We are in South Cumbria
My search so far led me to the following bikes:
Woosh big bear ls: I really like what I read and seen about the company but I couldn't try as I cannot find a retailer near me.
Wisper 705 se (or torque if you think it would be needed): I feel similar about this company and there are retailers near us.
Cube touring hybrid one 400 A bit on the expensive side I am not sure the Bosch motor and batteries worth it. And the styling doesn't really appeal her.
We really want to send our children to that school/nursery so it has to be reliable. Style and looks are secondary. Also we want to do something about the fitness issue too so I probably would get a second bike for me.
From the bikes above I favour the wisper one as we could try before buy and there is a local-ish dealer.
It would had been the woosh but I didn't realize until now that Britain has gone mad for e-bikes recently and it would be good to have a month or two to get used to it and the route.
I also looked at cargo bikes but it would be nice to be able to use just as a bike too plus those seem really expensive.
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you
Greg
Me and my wife are looking to buy an e-bike to drop of our 3 year old son at nursery that he starts in September.
Since our daughter (who is 18 months) cannot really look after herself alone, she'd need to come along for the ride.
We are looking to buy a trailer and a bike in the same time. Not necessarily the same place.
Neither me or my wife are fit I am 97kg she is 101kg.
New to biking we had not been on a bike for about 6 years.
It would be mostly her doing the drop off.
Our children are 13kg and 17kg so the bike would have to be quite strong.
Budget: looking to spend about £1200-1600 without the trailer
Distance: 2.5miles so 5 mile-ish roundtrip.
Mostly flat with 1 hill near our house.
All tarmac but there may be a bridleway part the way that we need to investigate.
We are in South Cumbria
My search so far led me to the following bikes:
Woosh big bear ls: I really like what I read and seen about the company but I couldn't try as I cannot find a retailer near me.
Wisper 705 se (or torque if you think it would be needed): I feel similar about this company and there are retailers near us.
Cube touring hybrid one 400 A bit on the expensive side I am not sure the Bosch motor and batteries worth it. And the styling doesn't really appeal her.
We really want to send our children to that school/nursery so it has to be reliable. Style and looks are secondary. Also we want to do something about the fitness issue too so I probably would get a second bike for me.
From the bikes above I favour the wisper one as we could try before buy and there is a local-ish dealer.
It would had been the woosh but I didn't realize until now that Britain has gone mad for e-bikes recently and it would be good to have a month or two to get used to it and the route.
I also looked at cargo bikes but it would be nice to be able to use just as a bike too plus those seem really expensive.
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you
Greg
