Cycling Fallacies - Counters to Common Anti-Cycling Arguments - eviltoast

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  • the_third@feddit.de
    2·
    11 months ago

    (do hybrid ebikes exist?)

    When you ride an E-Bike you can always set the support to 0% and pedal yourself. Or I don’t get the question.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      11 months ago

      I mean pedaling would recharge the battery. So you could go for a longer ride (say cross country) and alternate between charging and depleting the battery, just like in a hybrid car.

      • drkt@feddit.dk
        2·
        11 months ago

        section about it getting sweaty could have mentioned EBikes as a potential solution. I understand they don’t want to piss off cycl

        I don’t think you’d get any useful amount of charge back from doing this. If you have the legs of steel required to do this, you might as well just ride normally on a normal, less heavy bike and get more mileage for your oatmeal.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          11 months ago

          Ebikes are great for climbing, and I’d be willing to recharge a bit on the flats or downhill if it was reasonably productive. I just don’t know how productive they could be.

    • nix@midwest.socialOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Not sure if any exist. Recharging by pedal would require adding resistance to the pedaling. The added resistance is fine in a car because they’re so heavy and fast that it’s barely noticeable downhill. But it’d be very noticeable to someone on a bike.