07-08-2004, 09:01 PM
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| | Re: Giant LAFree Lite electric bike - comments LONG
I've coasted on level ground beside people with pretty serious road bikes
and stayed with them.
Actually though, that's another effect with these bikes. With the assist,
going uphill isn't a problem, however, because of their extra weight (not to
mention my own), the energy you built up going uphill really shines going
down - you fly. I've hit over 33 mph coasting downhill. It's also amazing to
me that 30 mph on a bike is as much fun as 90 on a motorcycle (not like 140
though).
"Chalo" <chumpychump@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> mikefarnes@yahoo.com (Mike Farnes) wrote:
> 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.
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