BIKEPGH MESSAGE BOARD ARCHIVE

I would like to try this beast on my old commute from McCandless to FedEx in Moon -- 16 miles of rolling hills, with a 200-foot climb at the very end. Will it have enough gumption to carry itself and me up that hill, or do I have to push all of its mass up even part of a 10% grade?

The return trip is equally challenging: Sitting all day without access to a charge, can it use that big downhill to recharge? Then three long climbs headed east: Clever up to Silver, Clever up to Fairhaven, and east out of Bellevue.

Any machine that cannot do that will have no market here.

As cool as it is (and I think it is very cool). I think that as motor assisted bikes become that powerful and fast, they should be classes as small motorcycles--pedals or not.

That thing looks dangerous as hell, and I generally like that kind of thing. It's cool but it is in no way a bicycle, it's an electric motorcycle that uses pedals for speed control instead of a hand throttle, that's all. I'm with Nick.

I'd be more impressed if it incorporated regenerative braking to store energy lost on downhills. It would be dead easy to do on a 2 wheeler.

If this guy wants to contact me I will gladly do product testing for the Pittsburgh area.

"As cool as it is (and I think it is very cool). I think that as motor assisted bikes become that powerful and fast, they should be classes as small motorcycles--pedals or not."

I couldn't agree more. My assisted bike is not nearly that powerful, not even close! I can see there's a fine line between assistance and motorcycles with pedals, how much power is too much? my assist motor let's me do things I otherwise wouldn't be able to do, like carry a full load of groceries from the store and up my (small) hill to my house. It let's me have my sister on the back without having an asthma attack. It seems to me that this is what the assist motor was meant for. The erocket thing doesn't look like it would do that. I wanna ride my bike, just with a person or groceries on it, I don't wanna fly past car traffic. If I did, I'd buy a motorcycle.

here's a much older assisted vehicle