OT – Bike recommendations

[Jim Jones]

[quote=pertinazzio]If I can ever get a job (I moved her in June thinking my wife and I might be employable), I’d like to get something like one of the bikes featured on this page:

http://sdelectricbike.com/

Then I would hook it up with a two-wheel light weight trailer designed for a longboard or with a surfboard bike rack.

[/quote]

I have been looking at these electric bikes as an option if gas goes back up to $4 + a gallon.

I already bike the 15 mile trip to work about one a week. With that setup I could probably do it 4 times a week.

I actually saw one chained up near the NASCO shipbuilding terminal last week as I was driving down Harbor.

[drunkle]

ignore the steel vs alu vs carbon nonsense. steel rusts, is hard to find quality steel frames and will be more expensive at this point (for new, used quality steel can still be found if you know what you’re doing. i’m assuming you dont.). aluminum fatigues but for your first bike ridden on easy terrain will last longer than you’ll keep it. alu is the standard these days so is cheap, built strong to compensate for fatigue and is still light. hell, you want longevity, get a quality titanium frame. no rust, bomb proof, tastes great, less filling.

[drunkle]

ignore the steel vs alu vs carbon nonsense. steel rusts, is hard to find quality steel frames and will be more expensive at this point (for new, used quality steel can still be found if you know what you’re doing. i’m assuming you dont.). aluminum fatigues but for your first bike ridden on easy terrain will last longer than you’ll keep it. alu is the standard these days so is cheap, built strong to compensate for fatigue and is still light. hell, you want longevity, get a quality titanium frame. no rust, bomb proof, tastes great, less filling.

[drunkle]

ignore the steel vs alu vs carbon nonsense. steel rusts, is hard to find quality steel frames and will be more expensive at this point (for new, used quality steel can still be found if you know what you’re doing. i’m assuming you dont.). aluminum fatigues but for your first bike ridden on easy terrain will last longer than you’ll keep it. alu is the standard these days so is cheap, built strong to compensate for fatigue and is still light. hell, you want longevity, get a quality titanium frame. no rust, bomb proof, tastes great, less filling.

[drunkle]

ignore the steel vs alu vs carbon nonsense. steel rusts, is hard to find quality steel frames and will be more expensive at this point (for new, used quality steel can still be found if you know what you’re doing. i’m assuming you dont.). aluminum fatigues but for your first bike ridden on easy terrain will last longer than you’ll keep it. alu is the standard these days so is cheap, built strong to compensate for fatigue and is still light. hell, you want longevity, get a quality titanium frame. no rust, bomb proof, tastes great, less filling.

[drunkle]

ignore the steel vs alu vs carbon nonsense. steel rusts, is hard to find quality steel frames and will be more expensive at this point (for new, used quality steel can still be found if you know what you’re doing. i’m assuming you dont.). aluminum fatigues but for your first bike ridden on easy terrain will last longer than you’ll keep it. alu is the standard these days so is cheap, built strong to compensate for fatigue and is still light. hell, you want longevity, get a quality titanium frame. no rust, bomb proof, tastes great, less filling.

[drunkle]

i have a bike built with an electric kit bought online for $250. $80 for the bike (used 90’s vintage trek true temper steel), 250 for the kit… too bad it came incorrectly wired and subsequently fried the moment i connected the battery. i got my money back with a cc charge dispute. i still haven’t gotten around to testing the battery and motor controller for functionality… gas prices came down and the total weight is a lot. a bit inconvenient for climbing texas hill. or stairs.

[drunkle]

i have a bike built with an electric kit bought online for $250. $80 for the bike (used 90’s vintage trek true temper steel), 250 for the kit… too bad it came incorrectly wired and subsequently fried the moment i connected the battery. i got my money back with a cc charge dispute. i still haven’t gotten around to testing the battery and motor controller for functionality… gas prices came down and the total weight is a lot. a bit inconvenient for climbing texas hill. or stairs.

[drunkle]

i have a bike built with an electric kit bought online for $250. $80 for the bike (used 90’s vintage trek true temper steel), 250 for the kit… too bad it came incorrectly wired and subsequently fried the moment i connected the battery. i got my money back with a cc charge dispute. i still haven’t gotten around to testing the battery and motor controller for functionality… gas prices came down and the total weight is a lot. a bit inconvenient for climbing texas hill. or stairs.

[drunkle]

i have a bike built with an electric kit bought online for $250. $80 for the bike (used 90’s vintage trek true temper steel), 250 for the kit… too bad it came incorrectly wired and subsequently fried the moment i connected the battery. i got my money back with a cc charge dispute. i still haven’t gotten around to testing the battery and motor controller for functionality… gas prices came down and the total weight is a lot. a bit inconvenient for climbing texas hill. or stairs.

[drunkle]

i have a bike built with an electric kit bought online for $250. $80 for the bike (used 90’s vintage trek true temper steel), 250 for the kit… too bad it came incorrectly wired and subsequently fried the moment i connected the battery. i got my money back with a cc charge dispute. i still haven’t gotten around to testing the battery and motor controller for functionality… gas prices came down and the total weight is a lot. a bit inconvenient for climbing texas hill. or stairs.

[Eugene]

[quote]put lance armstrong on a rusty chained garage sale special and he will beat everyone except maybe the worlds most elite riders regardless of how expensive a bike you put the remander of the athletic world, even the really strong dudes you may see on the hills of san diego — for the title of armstrong’s book is, after all, ‘ITS NOT ABOUT THE BIKE”. but he’s a freak, he’s not like you and me, and it’s not about hard work, some peoplea re just physiologically different…[/quote]

it’s not JUST about the bike.

However, if you put Lance on a garage-sale 40 lb hybrid with a rusty chain and MTB tires and make him compete against a random serious San Diego cyclist on a well-tuned 18 lb $600 road bike, I’d bet against Lance.

If you throw in some serious hills and put Lance on a single-speed bike, or even a bike with a messed-up derailleur, he’ll be beat up so bad it won’t even be funny.

[Eugene]

[quote]put lance armstrong on a rusty chained garage sale special and he will beat everyone except maybe the worlds most elite riders regardless of how expensive a bike you put the remander of the athletic world, even the really strong dudes you may see on the hills of san diego — for the title of armstrong’s book is, after all, ‘ITS NOT ABOUT THE BIKE”. but he’s a freak, he’s not like you and me, and it’s not about hard work, some peoplea re just physiologically different…[/quote]

it’s not JUST about the bike.

However, if you put Lance on a garage-sale 40 lb hybrid with a rusty chain and MTB tires and make him compete against a random serious San Diego cyclist on a well-tuned 18 lb $600 road bike, I’d bet against Lance.

If you throw in some serious hills and put Lance on a single-speed bike, or even a bike with a messed-up derailleur, he’ll be beat up so bad it won’t even be funny.

[Eugene]

[quote]put lance armstrong on a rusty chained garage sale special and he will beat everyone except maybe the worlds most elite riders regardless of how expensive a bike you put the remander of the athletic world, even the really strong dudes you may see on the hills of san diego — for the title of armstrong’s book is, after all, ‘ITS NOT ABOUT THE BIKE”. but he’s a freak, he’s not like you and me, and it’s not about hard work, some peoplea re just physiologically different…[/quote]

it’s not JUST about the bike.

However, if you put Lance on a garage-sale 40 lb hybrid with a rusty chain and MTB tires and make him compete against a random serious San Diego cyclist on a well-tuned 18 lb $600 road bike, I’d bet against Lance.

If you throw in some serious hills and put Lance on a single-speed bike, or even a bike with a messed-up derailleur, he’ll be beat up so bad it won’t even be funny.

[Eugene]

[quote]put lance armstrong on a rusty chained garage sale special and he will beat everyone except maybe the worlds most elite riders regardless of how expensive a bike you put the remander of the athletic world, even the really strong dudes you may see on the hills of san diego — for the title of armstrong’s book is, after all, ‘ITS NOT ABOUT THE BIKE”. but he’s a freak, he’s not like you and me, and it’s not about hard work, some peoplea re just physiologically different…[/quote]

it’s not JUST about the bike.

However, if you put Lance on a garage-sale 40 lb hybrid with a rusty chain and MTB tires and make him compete against a random serious San Diego cyclist on a well-tuned 18 lb $600 road bike, I’d bet against Lance.

If you throw in some serious hills and put Lance on a single-speed bike, or even a bike with a messed-up derailleur, he’ll be beat up so bad it won’t even be funny.

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