Just curious if my experience is common. Hired an ebike as my full suss was in bits at the time, bought a full days hire and had a blast but....The battery was a 20% by about 2pm. I'd picked it up at 10 that morning so really only got 4 hours use. I didnt ask if a recharge or battery swap was an option. Is this pretty much standard? You hire the bike essentially until the battery runs out, not for a certain amount of hours?
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I think that's how it works at CYB as well. You get the bike for x hours or until you come back with a flat battery.
Yes that's normal.
At Longleat Center Parcs, when I've hired an ebike for our mon-fri stays, I usually pop back to the cycle centre midweek and they swap the battery.
We hired one recently, it was a three day hire so we had the charger but they said they would come out if we had any major mechanicals or a flat battery. We didn’t test this service…
Ah, so pretty standard then. Fair enough.
Hired a Vala from the (awesome) guys at Tweed Valley Bikes. Smashed around Golfie for a morning and dropped back into Inners for lunch and they shoved it back on charge for an hour whilst we grabbed food. Did as much riding as possible in the afternoon before sticking it in turbo all the way back from Walkerburn to get it back for 4. Still had enough charge left probably for another full up/down...
Halfway up the north side of the Col du Parpaillion there is a wee solar powered ebike charger sitting in a meadow, just about where you come out of the forest. Bosch connectors. The tunnel at the summit was blocked with massive concrete Lego blocks, but with a bike you could probably* get over the top of the ridge.
A good option for recharging, but not convenient for most rides.
* Probably...