Now this is what I'm talking about, this is where I feel the push should be for electric motors on bikes, reduce the amount of vehicular road traffic and all the emissions etc. Although I still think the prices for these seem quite high and trying to negate that by comparing to a motor vehicle is not a fair/disingenuous.
I've been commuting exclusively on my '08 Monkey since I retired it from all around duty in 2018, before that it was commuter and trail bike with the swap of wheels. I've had the thought of buying a hub motor and building a motored rear wheel for it _(but honestly have no clue what's a good from bad one)_, for when I want to do long trips to get dog food etc - _long as in 28-35 miles round trip, 2 x 40lb+ dog chow bags._ What I'd really like is to find that bolt on below the BB motor I saw in a video once, that can be easily and quickly removed when not needed/wanted.
Also have had, for the longest time, the idea of building myself a sit/lie down and covered trike with the 2 wheels in the rear to maybe get a bit more of a motor vehicle size/feel and maybe bit more respect on the road and not close passed so regularly.
Will be interesting to read the overall yearly cost to run one of these - don't forget to include the cost of electricity to charge them and all the other small incidentals.
My big problem with E anything still though is the batteries and how absolutely toxic and bad for the environment and people who mine the minerals needed to make them. Also the long term or lack thereof of support for these and right now seeing ones that are a couple years old become e-waste because there's no longer support for them and/or how quickly the batteries "die" and are not recycled.
Jan. 7, 2025, 2:08 p.m. - Lynx .
Now this is what I'm talking about, this is where I feel the push should be for electric motors on bikes, reduce the amount of vehicular road traffic and all the emissions etc. Although I still think the prices for these seem quite high and trying to negate that by comparing to a motor vehicle is not a fair/disingenuous. I've been commuting exclusively on my '08 Monkey since I retired it from all around duty in 2018, before that it was commuter and trail bike with the swap of wheels. I've had the thought of buying a hub motor and building a motored rear wheel for it _(but honestly have no clue what's a good from bad one)_, for when I want to do long trips to get dog food etc - _long as in 28-35 miles round trip, 2 x 40lb+ dog chow bags._ What I'd really like is to find that bolt on below the BB motor I saw in a video once, that can be easily and quickly removed when not needed/wanted. Also have had, for the longest time, the idea of building myself a sit/lie down and covered trike with the 2 wheels in the rear to maybe get a bit more of a motor vehicle size/feel and maybe bit more respect on the road and not close passed so regularly. Will be interesting to read the overall yearly cost to run one of these - don't forget to include the cost of electricity to charge them and all the other small incidentals. My big problem with E anything still though is the batteries and how absolutely toxic and bad for the environment and people who mine the minerals needed to make them. Also the long term or lack thereof of support for these and right now seeing ones that are a couple years old become e-waste because there's no longer support for them and/or how quickly the batteries "die" and are not recycled.