| Re: Giant LAFree Lite electric bike - comments LONG
mikefarnes@yahoo.com (Mike Farnes) wrote:
> As you say, with the power off 'they are 47lb comfort bikes'. I can't
> help thinking that with the level of fitness you now have, you'd be
> able to ride 20 miles at 11mph quite comfortably on a normal bike and
> still have plenty of energy left to get home.
I have unpowered bikes in the twenty-something pound range and in the
forty-something pound range, and I don't find it noticeably easier to
do given speeds or distances on the lightweight ones. As long as the
drive system of the LA Free Lite does not impose an extra source of
significant drag on the bike, it should not handicap performance very
much vs. a lighter bike of otherwise similar design.
Chalo Colina
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