TL;DR: help me, Micromobility, you’re my only hope

Long story short, I am fed up with the state of public transit in my city and feeling envious of the e-riders whooshing past. However, while trying to pick an actual model, I’ve ran into being unable to find a model that fits my needs:

  • being able to drive 30+ km, with ~100 meter elevation difference between start and finish
  • being able to handle 100+ kg of load (I am, unfortunately, fat)
  • being able to handle rain and possibly light snow
  • being foldable or otherwise transportable, because I’ll have to keep it in the apartment

The Ebike store I’ve been to suggested picrelated, Yokamura Apache, which seems to fit the requirements, but is expensive enough to give me pause. Are there better options? Am I dreaming the impossible? Please help!

  • xylogx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 day ago

    Two things:

    1. Ebikes are heavy, like 30-40 KG. While foldable bikes are great just be aware you still need to carry a significant weight.
    2. When they list max carrying capacity, check the fine print, I have found almost every time the max carrying capacity includes the weight of the bike. If it says 100kg carrying capacity that almost always means 100kg - 35kg bike weight = actual carrying capacity of 65kg.

    Good luck. Have fun.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      e-bikes are not at all necessarily that heavy, mine’s literally a normal bike with electronics added and weighs 21kg.
      I feel like a lot of people mean american style pedal mopeds when they say “e-bike”.