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Introduction/Definition/etc
Visit one store, so far, with eBikes,
electronic motorized bikes, which split
the difference between a bicycle
and a motorcycle, really a scooter,
given speed and other limitations,
but mainly cost, and the new industry
that is rather proprietary and emerging,
if that is the word...
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Original Text
(template based on stories,
where changing information
changes the intro,
and might happen here too,
as learning and only one data point,
really, so far, will see)
Modified Text
(see just above)
(duplication problems with branching/
normalization, etc copying between
pages instead of linking to one copy...)
What's Missing?
More experience and knowledge about eBikes,
standardization of bike parts, non proprietary
shakedown of the technology, batteries,
that work across manufacturers,
instead of like laptop batteries,
each manufacturer locks you into theirs,
and these are hundreds, to thousand(s)
for a battery, and they would not really
even give me prices on that...
What Can Be Found?
eBikes in various retailers,
even some regular bike shops
seem to have them, and
Annie's Ace hardware ordered and
sold at least one, a Riide,
or similar, iirc,
as needed help configuring it,
on the more bikie side,
the electronics
probably OK out of the box...
What Can Not Be Found?
The right one, for me, at least
at a cheap enough price to make it fill
the void between bicycle with demands
of high mileage, 50-70-100+ miles /day/
some trips each way, and motorcycle,
given battery and pedalling demands,
so merging the options might be
necessary, and the all important DIY,
hack your own and make it Destructabe(s),
spoof on Instructables, open hardware,
for people who like tinkering, and/or need
to because what they need doesn't yet
exist...
How To Analyze?
Various perspectives, roles,
and people, much less industries,
and countries involved in the
design, manufacture, distribution,
and sales of these little beasts
maybe eBeasts, depending,
upon the future(s)...
Lenses
Even people have different
glasses, in roles, like hats,
etc, so one day looks good,
brand spanking new,
and later, in the rain,
buyer's remorse, etc,
maybe looks different...
User/Rider
All sorts of different types
here, from young, wanting
one, parents not affording them,
much less for a big family of kids,
to mostly affluent people in the
grid systems, but like lawn mower
engines, and hacking in a garage
it's probably in the country too,
dag nabbit...
Also, given what it's probably around
(read smallest on the road, and cars,
trucks, busses, basically predators, etc),
some projectiles too, and eventually
corpses, as the civil engineering type
transit sewer system probably
makes them that way sometimes,
not sure the stats on it yet,
but could probably be found...
First time riding risks, like with others,
motorcycles and scooters
some dangerous for the amount
of new found power, and/or how it
works, with no instruction, people don't
necessarily learn to control, reign in,
and the turns, and wet leaves, washouts,
and other obstacles along the way,
(some man/woman/kid/gang? made?)
like with a learners permit,
and moto endorsement,
not a lot of training built in,
even for those regulated,
trained and tested,
for such activity...
Handicapped / Disabled
Doctor's note/ prescriptions are mentioned,
even on the store's/ shop's (check 's or s')
website, and may be moving in that direction,
ADA on trails to allow motors,
some purists think it's cheating, but
ADA applies to trails too,
all those curb cut outs and elevators
big enough for wheel chairs might fit a
bicycle, stood up, and bike racks on
buses, ADA on Rail, and mass transit,
for multimodal, even Amtrak,
but wheelchair, and inline wheelchairs,
a reasonable accommodation
for taking a bike in, used as a mobility
aid, even getting it to the station(s),
lines, stops, etc, much less when there
(no don't ride near tracks, stupid, really,
fall over on the high power third rail,
into the path of something that
can take up to mile(s) to stop,
and Kendra's Law and other hazards
of open tracks and railroad crossings
that may have historically been part of
why railroads were going down,
and personal vehicles went up,
besides the rubber conspiracy,
/ industry, but digressing...
Kind of like Military Industrial Complex,
as I may barely understand the history,
but trains, trolleys and trams, etc
were major capitalist investments/
robber barrons (sp?) of steel,
and stuff, but people, being people,
like PCs v. mainframes, and laptop
then handheld v. desktop
wanted to be unleashed,
so wireless, and going where
and when you want, say studying
under a tree, at the beach,
in a library, on the go,
in the back seat, etc,
and we wanted our freedom,
from oppression, control,
domination, exploitation, etc,
so we got it, eventually,
(many lives lost along the way,
Johnstown, PA flood, etc)
or at least until you consider
location based corporate and
individual stalking,
tracking and other problems
there...
Monkey aka Bitch
Passenger(s), usually called either
depending on where riding,
(gender && orientation unspecific, btw)
back (tandem, trailer, trail-a-bike (3rd wheel),
etc), front (handlebar kid/dog/pet,
bucket/cargo bikes) or side, like a side car,
trike, and other configurations exist
even in bicycles, and eBike options,
but would need to be small, and usually
a stoker, i.e. feed the other pedalling
person, or in the case of robot(s),
maybe electronic/ data mining, /joke2
Developer
Various types of developers too,
say a RPi3, and RPiZeroW
and making your own controllers,
like for 3D printing
and other stuff...
And the motors, and power
circuits, and drive train,
some belt, and other newer
stuff, (direct drive?)
and battery tech,
and wheel design,
and frame design,
and welding, and other
technology, then doing mass
production and distribution
systems for them,
and making welding robots,
and well, you may see,
all sorts of things to geek out on...
Manufacturer
R&D money invested and ROI
(Return On Investment) on all that,
how to not loose our shirts,
businesses, livelihood, lives, etc,
on the money side, as well as the
potentially toxic, and dangerous
mining, much less test riding,
crash test dummy type stuff,
which the user, after tested
hopefully by professionals,
not just JackAsses (see the show,
or basically anything skateboard,
or teen, thereabouts...)
Assumptions
Too many to think about right now,
maybe later, risk management,
and not stupid about it,
but much more to do...
Time Limits
Interest levels,
time and energy,
price points,
shortages of lithium have
occurred when starting out,
but competing with cars,
and laptops, and even infrastructure,
as batteries used in traffic lights,
and other stuff too...
Much less medicating bipolars,
and others, less fortunate...
Links
Hybrid Pedals
http://www.hybridpedals.com/
store burnt down
i discovered when searching
for where a newer shop opened
up in Arlington
near a Mario's (Pizza House?
w a Carvels, but not figure friendly...)
moped store at the next major intersection
in towards DC, and to the north the old
Casual Adventure (now closed),
plus Clarendon,
and other busy North Arlington
bar crawl area(s)...
Oh, and a law school, Bork that...
Hybrid Pedals
also has a store in Baltimore
Many other shops not specializing
in eBikes have them,
not sure which, but think
Conte's around there,
Revolution in more, and other stores,
like Georgetown? and checking some
websites, probably most are dabbling
in it, the wave of the future, high ticket items,
fr those that don't want to (or can't) pedal
a bike, but still want to be out in nature,
in motion...
TheBikeHouse.org
aka .coop,
full disclosure,
which I'm involved with already,
sometimes good, sometime worse,
depends who shows up,
me, too...
PhoenixBikes.org
.com or similar
YouthBikeSummit.org
this week, probably,
not sure that technology
has gotten to the coops,
community bike shops
and youth programs,
don't see them much,
as newer tech, like race
bikes, track bikes, cross
bikes, etc, probably have their
own niche(s), and haven't
made it to soup kitchen equivalents
of restaurants as one or a few used
to say, probably Bike Kitchen related
analogies...
Bike Hospital(s) were more my
comparisons, as younger is when it
is interesting, learning about, and
then you need to be 13+ to be involved
as a student youth mechanic
so the gap is loosing kids, from
a healthy, hopefully sane and safe
green lifestyle path...
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Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
None yet, usually try at least three,
before making a purchasing decision,
thought it was $1200 for a small
folding eBike, but likely trasnposed
(leaving it...) those numbers,
and out of my range,
personally, but maybe rent, and
more research, plus saving for
parts of it, and add to
PedalCarts2015
PedalCartAlternatives2016
plus drone and robot, and
all sorts of other combinations,
and permutations, etc...
Discussion
A place for feedback on the page presented
Would you be upset by an eBike passing
you in a trail? Say 10-20 mph?
while you are huffing and puffing,
to get there, manually?
What does the "No Motorized Vehicles" sign
mean?
No autos?
No motorcycles?
No scooters?
No Segways?
No eBikes?
No Blacks?
No Whites?
No Latinos?
No Asians?
No fair?
Discrimination, especially if disabled,
ADA, and limited in other ways,
which many of us are one way or another,
or is it just a money, and jealousy thing?
He/She/It has one, and I don't,
can't afford, can't lift, etc???
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Page History
20171004 JerrySpaceIdea
- add a real link for HybridPedals
- fix some typos
- maybe reBork some stuff?
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20171003 Jerry
- Jerry created this page to make
- now impending situations
- uniform across $cases...
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