Confession: Despite loving both bikes and gadgets, e-bikes never excited me. Compared to my bicycle, e-bikes seemed unfair. Compared to my motorcycle, they seemed slow. Compared to my car, they seemed impractical.
Related Videos Forget the spandex Changing in and out of “bike clothes” every time you want to go somewhere is a hell of a deterrent to riding one. My bike commute used to entail an entire second wardrobe: bike shorts, clipless shoes, clean clothes to change into at the office, a second pair of shoes to plod around in the office with. And in the dog days of summer, I even needed to shower at work.
The Aventon Level.2 comes out of the box capped at 20 miles per hour, which doesn’t sound that fast, but since you can effortlessly average this speed for the entire ride, it cumulatively shaved more time off my commute than I expected. And if you install the app, you can crank the max all the way to 28 mph — if that’s legal in your area.
Heavy hauling I have strapped some stupid stuff to a bike rack. Coolers, six-foot breaker bars, you name it. But it’s a nightmare to carry this much weight, and most of the time, I admit I just end up driving whenever cargo is involved. E-bikes let you ignore the terrain and go where you need to go without thinking too much about it. Is it “cheating?” Sure, if you look at biking as exercise. But if you’re just trying to get somewhere, the hill-crushing power of an electric motor is a game-changer that makes every road a viable commuter corridor.
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