hello good people
I currently have a17mile each way commute in my car. Its mostly along a busy dual carrige way. Definately not a road I would want to cycle along. It is possible to get to my work from my village using back roads but this would bring the distance travelled to nearly 24 miles and the terrain is up, down with NO flat sections. Strava estimates it is around 3hrs of conventional push biking. I'm pretty sure I couldnt do it in that time. I'd like a maximum journey time of 1 and a half hours -ideally less. So thats an average speed of around 15mph. Presumably i could exceed that on the downhill sections but how close to my desired 15mph am i likely to be on the uphill stretches.
I work very long shifts (anywhere between 10 to 14 hours) and I dont know for certain that I'd be allowed to charge a bike at work, so ideally id like the bike to be able to make the journey, sit there for up to 14 hours and then make the journey back before needing to be charged again. Maybe thats just too much for an ebike? I've attached the proposed route and its profile
I'm currently considering the Kalkhoff Voyager. Anyone got any experience with them?
I currently have a17mile each way commute in my car. Its mostly along a busy dual carrige way. Definately not a road I would want to cycle along. It is possible to get to my work from my village using back roads but this would bring the distance travelled to nearly 24 miles and the terrain is up, down with NO flat sections. Strava estimates it is around 3hrs of conventional push biking. I'm pretty sure I couldnt do it in that time. I'd like a maximum journey time of 1 and a half hours -ideally less. So thats an average speed of around 15mph. Presumably i could exceed that on the downhill sections but how close to my desired 15mph am i likely to be on the uphill stretches.
I work very long shifts (anywhere between 10 to 14 hours) and I dont know for certain that I'd be allowed to charge a bike at work, so ideally id like the bike to be able to make the journey, sit there for up to 14 hours and then make the journey back before needing to be charged again. Maybe thats just too much for an ebike? I've attached the proposed route and its profile
I'm currently considering the Kalkhoff Voyager. Anyone got any experience with them?
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