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 – kic …

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eBike Week: Existing eBikers and E-Curious Surveys

I don’t know if it’s just me, but I can’t see the survey questions in dark mode.

Sc-xc it’s deliberate to amp up the excitement and get you used to pressing a button to a blank screen.

https://off.road.cc/content/feature/welcome-to-electric-week-a-celebration-of-the-e-mtb-15917

Who copied who’s homework here?

Or is it the brands pushing it?

Who copied who’s homework here?

Or is it the brands pushing it?

Similarly, there was a multi page piece about ebikes and ownership thereof in the Cycling UK mag this month.

Who’s paying you to do their market research ?

A question in the eBike curious section asking why you’ve not yet taken the plunge might be insightful. Mainly so people can rant about poor reliability…

Very unstructured info gathering, so not sure what it will give, esp quickly.

Are you going to do a section on which motors are rebuilable, which motor companies supply spare parts, which motor companies supply technical documentation and any special tool required to do the rebuild. Also which motor companies assist the growing number of 3 party rebuilders with tech docs, expertise, training etc etc.

Ps could you do a worldwide motor warranty per country chart. I believe in Norway Shimano warranty is 5 years.

Who’s paying you to do their market research ?

Whoever it is, I don’t mind a minute of my time to help next month’s paycheck for them.

Very unstructured info gathering, so not sure what it will give, esp quickly.

either not expecting many responses or will need to spend an awful lot of time on free text analysis to classify it

One question I’m interested in, as a recent convert to lightweight e-bikes, is how often e-bike riders ride their normal mountain bikes. I am assuming that most mountain bikers (who have e-bikes) have both e and non-e bikes (but I don’t know that for sure either).

i ride much more often now that I have an e-bike. And much further each time. But I hardly ever ride my normal bikes. But I’m still in the honeymoon phase, so I’d like to know what longer term e-bikers do. Especially those who have chosen lightweight e-bikes.

I find some of the E-curious questions a bit of a problem as I don’t know that much about e-bikes at the moment (hence ‘curious’) so how am I supposed to know what battery, motor, etc I want? I’m hoping to find out from information that may be available this week.

As a convert nearly 2 years ago, ( after nearly 30 years ) because I was really starting to struggle on the rocky Peak District climbs and was so fecked at the top, descending was getting to be a concern.

My findings are, It’s cracking fun trying to get up super silly techy climbs on the ebike, fire road type climbs are just a sociable event to recover for the next descent ,I’m more likely to still get out play even if I’m not 100% feeling on that day. It’s a bit of a tank, there is definitely a case of point it downwards and just hang on, plowing through and over whatever happens to get in the way. Great fun but rider input is not really there.

My BFeMAX is still far far more fun to ride once the scenery is either level or downwards, I’m just a lot more involved in the moment, plus if you are out exploring or riding a new route off Komoot etc and there is a few occasions of lifting over gates, walls etc the  combination of 25kg ebike, short legs and 65 years is proper hard work.

I really do wish that I could still ride like I did even 10 years ago, but I can’t and the ebike makes that bitter pill easier to swallow. I had a choice before buying the ebike, to either go back to the Dirtbikes ( before mtb’s existed) or go the ebike option. The ebike was definitely the better choice, more places to ride, easier to chuck about and 25kg hurts a lot less than 125kg when it lands on you after a moment separation. There are quite a few X dirtbike riders out there that have come down from dirtbikes as we have gone up to ebikes.

Personally I think they are awesome. But kind of wish I didn’t need it to get out on a good 40km 1500+m day, but that’s getting old for you.

One question I’m interested in, as a recent convert to lightweight e-bikes, is how often e-bike riders ride their normal mountain bikes

About 50% on my KSL, 50% on my 916.

70% of the KSL riding is with no assist.