jimlews wrote: ↑29 Nov 2022, 8:14pm
"You're misinformed about the nature of e-bikes. Why opine on them when you have no direct experience of using one?"
Cugel: In uncharacteristically petulant mode
One doesn't have to hammer nails into ones own head to know that it isn't going to end well.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-61880383
Jim: open to discussion, but not argument.
Following your timely warning, I have taken our e-bike batteries and given them to the local fire brigade to guard and observe, so that when they burst into flames I can obtain their video with which I will sue Fazua, the rascally firestarters!
Mind, I went out on one of them e-bikes today and nothing even got warm, especially me. Well, I was a bit sweaty but then I always am, even at 6 degrees C. The battery wasnae, though. This evening my legs and even some other parts seem quite well pedal-tired. Do you think I might have a faulty motor, that should be offering to do all the work so my legs can rest, shrink and eventually wither?
Ha ha - don't worry. The software insists I give at least as many watts as the motor is prepared to offer. Also, I am big and tough, me, so I switch it off altogether most of the time. I may get a light-up sign that goes on the handlebars (perhaps with another on the rear mudguard) that says, "I've got the motor switched off, you know"!
Cugel, having to pedal even harder to get the weight of the motor & battery up the little hills.
“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”.
John Maynard Keynes