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!
I’ll have to say “bad roads”, because I don’t intend to ride off-road, but the quality of paving here varies. Could be smooth and fresh asphalt, could be potholes and cracks. But no mud roads or anything, unless you count sleet in winter
The Portola or something similar could work for you but visit your local bike shops to see what they have and will service to save yourself some potential frustration even if you are a good bike mechanic/electrical engineer in your own right. They might not always let you do test rides on ebikes but you can at least make sure the bike fits you. Having a bike that fits you is really important.