top | item 38499677

(no title)

mirthturtle | 2 years ago

Unpopular, at least compared to cars: e-bikes.

- costs next to nothing to charge

- fast and fun to get around

- never pay for parking

- cheap maintenance

- hauls groceries easily

- good exercise

discuss

order

dharmab|2 years ago

I do all my <3 mile trips on a ebike these days unless it's raining/snowing or I need to carry something large. It's great. The lifetime cost of ownership is a little more than my annual running costs for my car.

ornornor|2 years ago

To add, you can convert acoustic bikes to e-bikes with torque sensing using the tsdz2 which is pretty decent once flashed with the open source firmware by casainho.

Shadowed_|2 years ago

All of this applies to regular bikes even more :) Specially the last one.

jjgreen|2 years ago

[deleted]

Der_Einzige|2 years ago

Sorry, but many localities make it illegal for bicycle on the sidewalk (where they should be doing it). That's why many folks do it.

Laws making that illegal are extra stupid since it's relatively hard to kill a pedestrian with a bicycle but downright easy to kill a cyclist with a car.

czottmann|2 years ago

You mean roads?