# More eBike Questions

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebike-questions/1017410>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 23, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebike-questions/1017410 "2025-04-23T17:28:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebike-questions/1017410/121 "2025-07-14T19:41:22Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> “excuse” for biking is that her car got wrecked

Yeah, lets avoid that one.

The problem is too many other options:

Weather terrible, work from home.  
Weather too hot, cold, or wet, drive the electric car (costs about $0.50).  
Weather nice, take the motorcycle (costs about $1.50).  
Weather bad, but EV already claimed, drive truck (costs about $7, or more likely, work from home)

> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> then I did a dry run on a Sunday

This is my big hangup. I want to do a dry run, particular to sort out a few places where I need to transition from bike paths to surface streets, and back to bike paths. Problem is, finding the time. After work I have other responsibilities, and on the weekends I’d rather ~~spend time with the family~~  ~~take care of household chores~~ veg on the couch.

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**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebike-questions/1017410/122 "2025-07-15T19:41:37Z")

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> [@echoreply](#):
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> It can get super confusing, because the classes are not exclusive. A class 3 bike is _also_ a class 2 bike.

Not necessarily. In California, for example, a Class 3 bike cannot have a throttle. I believe that’s the standard that the industry organization (cite needed) has adopted as well.

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-ebike-questions/1017410/123 "2025-07-15T20:19:25Z")

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> [@echoreply](#):
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> After work I have other responsibilities

Do it on a weekend or day off. Don’t do it after you have worked a full day, or you may overestimate how tiring it is.

Also, if you have never biked more than, say, 5 miles on the particular bike, work up to it.

I had to get used to how an ebike handled before I could ride 1-handed even long enough to signal a turn. I put the first 15 miles on the bike just riding around my apartment complex, until I could signal, or get a drink from my water bottle, without swerving.

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