It's new bike day!

Only had a spin up the road and back so far but seems good! Need to fit some guards / rack, SPDs and slam the stem before it’s ready for commuting. Looking forward to it 🙂

Is it electric?

It is indeed 🙂

Interesting! Can I ask what made you go for that over any other ebikes available?

At what point do you decide to buy an ebike rather than a moped or motor bike?

Don’t think I’d buy one unless health issues dictated I couldn’t ride without a bit of assistance but I have to admit, I’d bloody love to have a little go on one.

Edit: Having said that, as you seem to be very local to me going off that pic – if you ever glide past me whistling while I’m blowing out of my arse on a morning ride I shall instantly get on here and slag strava cheats on e-bikes off. 🙂

Can I ask what made you go for that over any other ebikes available?

I work at a shop that sells Spesh so I got it for a good (but still loads!) price 🙂
It’s also not just a normal bike that has had a motor and battery bolted on and I think it looks a bit better for it.

At what point do you decide to buy an ebike rather than a moped or motor bike?

I don’t like motorbikes and you still get to pedal this.

Curious as to why buy an e bike for a fit regular cyclist?

I am new biked up too. CAADX

But do you make motor bike noises in your head / out loud?
Bwarrrrrrrrrrrpppp!! Or is it more of a stealthy silent whoosh as you cruise past the roadies with your feet up on the bars?

Love it. Put some drop bars on it? What’s it called?

I hope this doesn’t become yet another ebike slagging off thread.

Lovely bike, having ridden a gocycle and had a right laugh on it, would love to see what that’s like!

Curious as to why buy an e bike for a fit regular cyclist?

60 mile commute is too much for me to do every day on a normal bike and bored of sitting in traffic on the days I drive in.

But do you make motor bike noises in your head / out loud?

I’m going to get a clothes peg to hold a playing card against the spokes.

What’s it called?

Specialized Turbo

What’s it called?

Roger.

Get the train, that’s a disgrace!

Just kidding, not my cup of tea but looks like the tool for the job, as a bove though, get some drops on it

That’s the spirit!

It’s actually not bad looking.
What range do you get from a single charge?
What sort of average speed to work and back?

Is the assist speed still only up to 15mph? Can’t see drops being a worthwhile upgrade unless the assist speed was higher.

Is the assist speed still only up to 15mph?

Aye, it is indeed.

Can’t see drops being a worthwhile upgrade unless the assist speed was higher.

I can’t see them being a worthwhile upgrade full stop given that as well as swapping bars I’d have to swap shifters & brakes as well. Anyway, I’ve never had a hybrid before, it’ll be a novelty 🙂

4hrs a day on the sucker I’d be wanting different hand positions

Lovely bike, having ridden a gocycle and had a right laugh on it, would love to see what that’s like!

The nice people at Gocycle lent me one for a summer, when I had a job that required me to get around several locations in That London. It was chipped. It was fast. It was ACE!

This, however, along with some of the great stuff from Haibike (Was playing with them last summer as well) are real game changers, IMO. Look like a normal bike, ride like a normal bike, but just with a little “help”. Perfect for slightly longer commutes, people using them to help get fit again, or to stay fit when they get older, etc.

They’re not mopeds, they’re still very much bikes. And yes, on normal ones the pedal assist cuts out at fifteen, but they’ll do that in to a headwind or uphill, which is ace! Then, down the hill, they’re back to being a normal bike again.

Out of interest is it possible to change the limited speed if you wanted to? Ignoring the legality for a moment the US version is a little faster isn’t it?

Out of interest is it possible to change the limited speed if you wanted to?

If I stole the bit of kit from Specialized UK that allows you to de-restrict it then it would do 45kph.

My mate had a US-spec one, derestricted, for a couple of days, reckoned it was quite an eye-opener.

There’s a good chance that this is the future for commuting & utility bikes.

That looks like a lot of fun, congratulations! Report back in a while and give us a review?

Report back in a while and give us a review?

I will in a few weeks 🙂

Sounds like a brilliant way to avoid traffic/ trains if you’ve got a long commute

Yeah its cheating but anything better that sitting in a car

I like that. I like the way it looks so discrete and I like your intent to use it to make a daft bike commute possible as an every day thing.

It’ll be interesting to see how you get on. We have a kalkhoff hybrid in the house (inherited and repurposed for my wife)- fugly as in comparison to that. The power assist profit on that one means you get remarkably little help if you are bowling along at 14mph on the flat in any power mode. It only really helps lots when you hit hills and accelerating back up to speed after a stop at the lights or a junction.

I have to say I’m quite interested in a mtb one. I now have an officially bolloxed hip that niggles like hell for days if I go out of a comfortable power range, even for just a few seconds. A bit of leccy assist to help on those short big effort steep climbs you get off road might give me my mountain biking joy back.

Op must have hit the big 50 mark or something, oh and who on earth doesn’t like motorbikes..?

bizarre

Blimey though – you weren’t messing about the cost,

I have to say I’m quite interested in a mtb one. I now have an officially bolloxed hip that niggles like hell for days if I go out of a comfortable power range, even for just a few seconds. A bit of leccy assist to help on those short big effort steep climbs you get off road might give me my mountain biking joy back

Convert, as mentioned above, I had a play on a few of the Haibike range last year and they were excellent. Yes, a little heavy, but handled well as so much of the weight was low down.

Thanks – that article in the mag last month made a pretty good case for them I thought. A good excuse to find a test model.

A good excuse to find a test model.

My LBS has (at last visit!) some demo Haibikes. Where are you?

Is it possible to do e- manuals and e-wheelies on these?

Not that far from you I think – Petersfield.

Is it possible to do e- manuals and e-wheelies on these?

It’s not possible to do manuals or wheelies on a normal bike unless you practice some kind of witchcraft 🙂

Convert, give ’em a call. Not a million miles away!
http://www.stonehengecycles.com/product/12307/2015_Haibike_Xduro_Hardnine_RC

Thanks. Will do.

If I had the money I’d love an e-bike. Demoed one at Leisure Lakes demo weekend and it was awesome. People crying saying it is ‘cheating’ etc need to get a grip. How is it cheating? At what, riding whatever you want to ride because we are all humans with the right to do so? God forbid! And not to mention the people who seem to insist they ‘destroy’ trails. Given at least 99% of them would never be chipped, they won’t destroy anything. Other than your pride as they pass you.

Rant over.

Awesome bike by the way.

You could always remove the battery and have supersize lunchbox/swat door!!