Getting an Electric bike is the best investment you can make. There is no fuel cost, and you can use it anywhere. The maintenance cost is also very low compared to personal cars. It also helps you to save money on your driving license and parking fees.
Moreover, these bikes do not harm the planet. Yes, that's right. E-bikes can improve the planet by not adding carbon footprints to the environment. In addition to that, riding a bicycle has a lot of health benefits. So, you can avoid the cost of hospital visits as well. Also, if you are thinking that cycling may waste your time, that's not true. It helps you to avoid heavy traffic and get to your destination quickly.
There is a long list of benefits of Electric bikes.
No Need for a driving license
Are you tired of renewing your driving license after every few years? Now, you can get rid of this problem. We have an excellent option for you that you can use without a driving license. E-Bikes are like standard bicycles; you can use them without a license. Yes, that's right. This means you no longer need to pay money for a driving license.
It can save the license fee and insurance charges you must pay in case of a personal car. Thus, get yourself an Electric bike, and save the money you used to pay for your driving license.
Stop using public transport
Those who cannot afford personal cars have to use public transport. Although first-world countries have the best public transport facilities, they have specific timings. Besides, going to the station, buying tickets, and waiting for buses take a lot of time. And if you are stuck in a traffic jam, it would waste more time of yours.
Additionally, due to sky-rocketing fuel charges, the cost of traveling on public transport has also become higher. So, the best option is to go for an electric bike. It is less costly than cars, and maintenance charges are pretty low. On average, it will cost you lower than public buses. Thus, you can save your time and money by getting these bicycles.
Saves You Parking Money
According to INRIX, searching for a parking spot costs Americans $73 billion annually. This is quite a lot of money. The parking fees for cars are also pretty high at most places.
In busy cities, people have to search for parking spaces. This search wastes the fuel of the vehicle. If you have a bicycle, you can park it anywhere easily. This saves the cost of fuel you spend on searching for parking. Moreover, the parking charges for bicycles are way lower than for cars.
The best thing is that you can park them at the side of the road, lock them, and that's it. Therefore, it will not be wrong to say that you can get rid of paying hefty parking charges using E-bike.
Save gas charges
The biggest issue with commutation these days is the escalated gas prices. With the rising inflation and global crisis, fuel costs will be even higher in the future. This also affects the rate of public transportation charges.
If you want to avoid this issue, you need to get an E-bike. It does not run on gas or fuel. So, you do not need to pay for them. As these bikes are electric, you only have to spend on recharging these bikes, which costs very little.
Here is a video for a realistic comparison of how much money you can save by substituting your cars with Electric bikes. You can watch this and get an idea of how beneficial these E-bikes are.
indianajo said:
I'm one of the max cargo shoppers here, and I limit my loads to about 80 lb on 2.1"x26" tires. I have a bike I paid $2000 in 2017 with 2 bags, dual leg stand, & front basket, for before I put electricity on it for $840. Shown in picture. No wheel or cable problems. I broke a fender once with my foot. I don't believe in trailers, on streets, they are invisible. My bike has been hit twice by cars even with bright green paint on the ends.
Having burnt up harness on my best motor in the rain, I have downgraded to geared hubmotors I'm buying used for $36. I bought some 21 lb 36 v batteries from same shop for $75+60 freight but don't know yet if they are a bargain or scrap. BAE systems surplus. I finished the charger to 42.8 v last week. If I were starting out again I would buy another geared hub motor kit from ebikeling.com of Chicagoland. His batteries don't cause complaints either.
The cheapest stretch cargo bike I know of is the mongoose envoy. It is not powered. It would not be fun to carry up the stairs. My bike is 88 lb with motor & battery but no bags, tools, or supplies. There is a thread about the mongoose conversion down on diykits thread. My wiring is external and some here look down their nose at that.
I take my battery off the bike when it begins to freeze. It is back on again at the end of April. My battery is wrapped in white foam that it was shipped in, a plastic bag, and the charge & power leads are pointed down out of the plastic bag and have a drip loop. Enclosing all that is aluminum angle from HD screwed together with SS #10 screws & elastic stop nuts from mcmaster.com . Nothing like the batteries integrated into frames with the contacts pointed up at the rain. It is a generic 48 v 17.5 AH battery. I use insulated .250" flag terminals crimped off the wires, since the XT60 charge connector fell off. Dorman flag terminals are reliable, the crimp terminals from ***** melt out at 30 amps. Reverse the + & - direction so you can't plug it in backwards.
If you don't want to convert, the Blix Packa is small, 24" wheels, and has 3 complaints on the brand forum.
I tried carrying groceries in baskets on a $150 MTB, and the weight made the steering unstable. Weight on the back lifts the front tire. I've been over the handlebars on my chin 5 times since 2008 on the MTB's and a cruiser with rear baskets. Last time I broke it, just before I bought the stretch frame bike 12/17. One time a dog attacked the front wheel and knocked the MTB over sideways spilling groceries all over Hwy 3.
I ride year round with varying amounts of clothing. I ride knobby tires year round, Kendas or Giants. These give me enough traction on snow, but nothing but spikes works on ice. I will ride at 6 deg F in Welles Lamont farmer mittens, oven mitts over, 3 pairs socks, 6 layers top and 3 layers pants. I use carhartt insulated pants under 15 F. Welder's helmet liner in my helmet, and safety glasses.
Ensure you have enough money for a stout security device to lock the bike up. Lots of threads about those on parts, also general forum. I use a 6'x1/2" SS sling and a Abus 92/80 lock around power poles gas meters & live 440 vac conduits. Not those cheapo sheet metal loops cities bolt to the sidewalk. One $2 wrench, bolt loosened, bike gone.At this price point, you be buying a lot of features, but wheels that won't stay round or straight, cables that need adjustment all the time, possibly a headset that slips or a frame that fractures. Check brand forum known problems and solutions about any brand you intend to buy. Electric bikes under $1000 tend to use the parts that one finds on the cheapest kiddie quality bikes at discount stores. My diamondback MTB the wheels were so small the tires would fall off the rim. The shimano rear axle on that bike broke under my enormous 180 lb. My Pacific Quantum MTB, the plastic crank arm wore out at about 4000 miles. I couldn't get it off.I'm one of the max cargo shoppers here, and I limit my loads to about 80 lb on 2.1"x26" tires. I have a bike I paid $2000 in 2017 with 2 bags, dual leg stand, & front basket, for before I put electricity on it for $840. Shown in picture. No wheel or cable problems. I broke a fender once with my foot. I don't believe in trailers, on streets, they are invisible. My bike has been hit twice by cars even with bright green paint on the ends.Having burnt up harness on my best motor in the rain, I have downgraded to geared hubmotors I'm buying used for $36. I bought some 21 lb 36 v batteries from same shop for $75+60 freight but don't know yet if they are a bargain or scrap. BAE systems surplus. I finished the charger to 42.8 v last week. If I were starting out again I would buy another geared hub motor kit from ebikeling.com of Chicagoland. His batteries don't cause complaints either.The cheapest stretch cargo bike I know of is the mongoose envoy. It is not powered. It would not be fun to carry up the stairs. My bike is 88 lb with motor & battery but no bags, tools, or supplies. There is a thread about the mongoose conversion down on diykits thread. My wiring is external and some here look down their nose at that.I take my battery off the bike when it begins to freeze. It is back on again at the end of April. My battery is wrapped in white foam that it was shipped in, a plastic bag, and the charge & power leads are pointed down out of the plastic bag and have a drip loop. Enclosing all that is aluminum angle from HD screwed together with SS #10 screws & elastic stop nuts from mcmaster.com . Nothing like the batteries integrated into frames with the contacts pointed up at the rain. It is a generic 48 v 17.5 AH battery. I use insulated .250" flag terminals crimped off the wires, since the XT60 charge connector fell off. Dorman flag terminals are reliable, the crimp terminals from ***** melt out at 30 amps. Reverse the + & - direction so you can't plug it in backwards.If you don't want to convert, the Blix Packa is small, 24" wheels, and has 3 complaints on the brand forum. https://blixbike.com/pages/electric-bikes I tried carrying groceries in baskets on a $150 MTB, and the weight made the steering unstable. Weight on the back lifts the front tire. I've been over the handlebars on my chin 5 times since 2008 on the MTB's and a cruiser with rear baskets. Last time I broke it, just before I bought the stretch frame bike 12/17. One time a dog attacked the front wheel and knocked the MTB over sideways spilling groceries all over Hwy 3.I ride year round with varying amounts of clothing. I ride knobby tires year round, Kendas or Giants. These give me enough traction on snow, but nothing but spikes works on ice. I will ride at 6 deg F in Welles Lamont farmer mittens, oven mitts over, 3 pairs socks, 6 layers top and 3 layers pants. I use carhartt insulated pants under 15 F. Welder's helmet liner in my helmet, and safety glasses.Ensure you have enough money for a stout security device to lock the bike up. Lots of threads about those on parts, also general forum. I use a 6'x1/2" SS sling and a Abus 92/80 lock around power poles gas meters & live 440 vac conduits. Not those cheapo sheet metal loops cities bolt to the sidewalk. One $2 wrench, bolt loosened, bike gone.
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Lot to unpack, okay so, first thing, you did kind of remind me that I could possibly turn a regular mountain bike into an electric bike with a little bit of elbow grease and a helpful bike stop employee if they'd be chill with it. It would be better then getting an entire bike for now, since I would have a trustworthy frame and to work with. That will be something I will consult a local bike shop about first, trust me when I say I will not take that kind of thing lightly, That will be at least a month from now before I do anything like that If I even choose to do so. Gonna compare pros and cons of all my options.And yeah, I do understand that pedestrians and bikers are invisible on the road, but if parents can trust someone to not run over their child in the back of their bike trailer, I can trust they won't run over my groceries. I'll slap on one of those tall bright red flags, break lights, and a horn to blare every single time I cross an intersection (It's what we do at my job, we make ourselves highly visible and LOUD when we're crossing a "street") I also just would avoid using it on weekdays when the road is busy. My local store isn't to far, and I can easily just avoid the main road entirely.For security, I will keep the bike indoors at any given time, at work it will be in the breakroom with me or in the guard house with the security guard. At home it will stay in the garage, inside the house during winter to keep things from deteriorating during short-term storage. At the store, the "cheap metal loops cities bolt to the sidewalk" don't really exist around here..? We have these GAINT metal racks, you need a forklift to move those things. I've seen a few metal loops but people use them to parkour off of more then anyone uses them to park a bike with. I'd much rather lock my bike to the stores door or to a tree. ( shops let you do it if you're just hopping in for less then 15 minutes.) I will never stay in any store for more then 10 if I can help it tbh. I.. don't like people, and my immune system is like that of a old man, I'm very careful with this kind of stuff, I plan to slap a GPS onto the bike that would be pretty difficult to remove, if you even know it's there in the first place. One on the wheel that houses the motor, one on the bike frame itself.Though thanks for linking that cargo bike! That's definitely something I'll save for the future to look for when making my second bike purchase. I do plan to actually get a good decent bike in the range of 2 to 3 grand. I just need one now to get around and take back some of my independence, my parents are only willing to drive me to work on weekends. I am limited to working 2 days a week until I have my own ride. Otherwise it's a nearly 2 hour walk to work every morning. I don't really want to have to get up at 3am just to get to work on time.Though I will take your advice on quite a few different areas that I didn't quite think about, I've been grabbing and copying pasting things into a notepad and keeping track of as much info as I can get. And this forum as a lot of it, which I am very very glad for.