machchicken

What a beautiful story about human perseverance. Cried and laughed and laugh cried.

At a local trail.... I ride all kinds of bikes and yesterday I was on my E. I had just finished my second lap. My friends had independently finished a lap. I asked if they were going to hang out and Id burn another lap and come chat. They said they would be leaving right away. If you take your pads off slowly ill be back in minutes. Takes about 16 minutes to do a shuttle drop lap. I was back in 12 minutes. They had just got their pads off. Granted I burried my head and pedaled as hard as I could, out of the seat 180 bpm, heart rate collapse kinda effort. Here's the difference.... on my regular bike that would blow me up and id be done.... maybe for 2 days. On the ebike i flip up the power spin out the lactic on a cool down lap and ride again the next day. On average I ride 140 days a year. Most of those were 1 or two lap affairs on whatever network....(not counting downhill days of course)maybe about 2 hours of riding. On my ebike I ride for 5 hours. Cover 100km of single track and descending, send the 40ft jumps, rip berms because of low CG. It is more work, my arms get tired, I have to be careful to not ride tooooo much. But because it is psychologically less damaging I grab it in the rain in the snow in the mud, when I am being a baby it says to me "click another level of support ya baby!" alternatively it says "you are being a baby pedal harder and drop a level". The point is I have a spotter that looks out for me, motivates me, tells me to ride to the top for another romp. My 80 year old dad bought an etrance (he has been a hardcore moab rider so has earned it) i have my Norco vlt range and I pull my daughter on a tether. We would in no way be able to ride together. Dads had his bike since last august and has pedaled over 5000 km of single track as an 80 yr old. Pedal bikes are amazing!!!!! So are Ebikes!!!!! so are dirt jumpers.....bikes are good and riding is fun. But yeah.......15000 for a bicycle makes the$13000 500 KTM moto im looking at seem like a steal of a deal. It has more material.......scratches head in confusion.

I am so happy to hear this! Congratulations Paul!

This goes a little way to explaining why EVIL does not support the bikes they make.....My dogbones and dead Undead frame must have been part of the missing fund fiasco.