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The E-bike Experience
Do you remember being 15 and having no driver’s license? Do you remember what type of shape you were in? If you were like me, you rode your bike everywhere. I did, and I also ran cross country and played varsity sports in High School. I was in great shape and could ride all day and not get tired.
Forty years later you can still ride like you were 15. It will set you back a few dollars, but with an e-bike you can go back to being 15 years old. Even if you are 50, 60 or 70. As long as you remember how to ride a bike you can be a teenager again. What is that age old expression, “its like riding a bicycle, you don’t forget how” no matter how long it has been.
I built my first E-bike 7 years ago. It was fun, it was fast, it was huge and heavy. I used it like a work truck. It lasted a year and a half, then I broke the back axel. It was a special axel and took three months to get a new one from China. I could not be without my work truck that long so I purchased a new one from a Bike Shop.
I was in heaven. It looked and felt exactly like my first mountain bike I had when I was 15 years old. Except for one big difference, it now went almost 30 mph for 45 miles. It was a pedal assist, which means you have to pedal for the engine to work. It was so much fun to ride that I put 5,000 miles on it in the first year. The point being, I pedaled 5,000 miles that year. It…
