I have 3 bikes right now. An upright ebike for around town and short trips, a recumbent ebike for 50+ mile trips, and a mtb/commuter (mostly to handle the winters). I ride everywhere around town, and I do lots of bike camping around my area.
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Nice! I keep wanting to try bike camping but haven’t ever gotten organized enough to figure it out.
If you're around Madison, WI I'm running group campouts now! Have one coming up this weekend and will do more over the summer.
I am over in the PNW but that sounds awesome!
A normal bike or I walk, my own two legs are good enough.
I commute to work with my racing bike. I was an amateur racer before but, now that I live in a city where going to work by bike is supported, i am going for it more often.
I am riding a Tern GSD S00 and have put about 100miles/mo on the bike in the last 18mo for errands and commutes to my 2 kids school.
I love the bike but the maintenance is quite a pain. In particular replacing brake pads is annoying due to all of the accessories. Also, the lock failed and a caliper exploded requiring a warranty replacement.
Cargo ebikes are awesome but it seems the hardware needs to be heavier duty to make maintenance less fussy.
I’m riding a RadCity Stepthru 3, from Rad Power Bikes. It’s more affordable than a lot of the Bosch model bikes, but unfortunately the direct to consumer model does cut out local bike shops, which I’m not super in love with. I’m hoping that as more states roll out ebike rebates, more expensive bikes (like Tern, or even Urban Arrow) can become a more realistic option for people who are on the fence on the idea of switching from a car to a utility or cargo bike. I have put over 1000 miles on it in the last year (would have been a lot more if I didn’t work from home😁), and it’s made me a believer that bikes > cars for sure.
Nice work putting on 1,000 miles without a commute! Do you mostly use it for shopping then?
shopping/groceries, picking up food or going out to eat, usps/fedex trips, dropping off/picking up company equipment. Basically, anything I would have used a small city car for, but also for bike rides to just get out of the house for a bit. Bikes really take the worst part of a day and turn it into the best part.
100%! I need to figure out excuses for using the bike this summer now that there isn’t a school commute 🙃
I have a regular cheap no-name bike. I usually ride it to do groceries or to spend some time in the forest. I drive it to work too if it takes no more than 30 minutes. I added a wire basket to fit more stuff. It's in need of mainteance, I got a flat tire 2 days ago, oops.
I ride an Easy Motion Evo Eco bought secondhand from a bike swap. i call her Thora, that's her if this picture loads correctly. i mostly use it for my tiny commute of 3 miles round trip in rural western Colorado.