eBike Week: Existing eBikers and E-Curious Surveys

This week will be a lot more electric than usual. Our first ever eBike Week will have reviews, buying advice, maintenance tips, riding hints and – kicking things off – your thoughts and experience.

Why now?

We’ve decided to do eBike Week for a couple of reasons. First of all, it’s timely. We’re mountain bikers just like you. And like you, we’re hearing a lot more of our extended family of riding buddies talking about ‘going electric’.

It’s partly an age thing, but it’s also partly a seasonal thing. Mountain biking gets significantly more arduous when the clocks change! The amount of reward-output versus effort-input slides drastically the wrong way. There’s no wonder our thoughts begin to stray towards getting some assistance. Pedal assistance.

The second reasons for eBike Week is that we’ve had a lot e-bike content pencilled into the online pipeline and we need to get it out there. From e-bike reviews through to e-bike advice and reader surveys, it’s all been in the To Do list for too long already. So we’re splurging it all out this week. (It helps that’s there’s a few really interesting e-bikes being announced this week too…)

And as anyone who’s talked to a bike shop owner – or bike brand distributor – this year, the interest in e-bikes compared to regular bikes is something like three times as much. For every four people coming into a bike shop to buy a ‘mountain bike’, three of them will be thinking of a pedal assist mountain bike (AKA an eMTB).

If you already have an eBike:

Help us understand how things are going. If you already have an eBike then please help us out with this survey.

Survey now closed. Thanks for your responses!

If you don’t have an eBike but are eBike curious:

Help us understand what’s going on by answering these questions.

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Stuff to look out for this eBike Week

Giant Reign E+ review

The fullest of full-fat e-mountain bikes from one of the earliest adopters of electric bikes. We have a relatively affordable big gun on report.

Orbea Rise LT review

When is Mid-power not MId-power? The Orbea Rise arguably kicked off the whole mid-power scene. How does the Rise fit in now that it can be turned up in torque?

Scott Voltage eRIDE review

With a silent-running mid-power power and range-extender option, we debate whether the Voltage eRIDE is ‘exceptionally close’ to a regular MTB in a good or bad way.

In the meantime you can browse all our ebike reviews here.

Buyer’s Guide to eBikes

What type of ebike you should go for. The strengths and weaknesses of the different motors available. What to avoid. What you get for your money. Budgeting for hidden extras.

Is it all about the battery?

Although the motor and the fancy displays get all the attention – leaving people to simple think that bigger is better with batteries – more and more experienced e-bikers are realising that it’s actually the battery that needs much more careful consideration than anything else.

Living with en e-bike: The Final Verdict

In it for the long haul – Aa journey into e-bike ownership. Here’s David ‘Sanny’ Gould’s final instalment of a multi-part series of features detailing his year living with an electric mountain bike.

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