Langford Evo e-Scooters/eBikes
Thursday I drove the Benz to Langford BC from our home in Victoria.
Evo Bike Share (created by BCAA) held an official launch of their rental programs near Langford City Hall.
I like to support any business trying to improve local transportation. To this end I subscribed to the now-defunct U-bike program in the city of Victoria back in the day and have been a subscriber to Evo Car Share for a couple of years.
Although I own two ebikes (a mid-drive and a hub-drive) I will use the Langford Evo units as an alternative to my cycling in that area. It will save me a 12km ride (24km roundtrip) from home to be able to pick up a ride right in Langford.
I've ridden that distance so many times I'm done with it!
The Evo ebikes bikes are quite revolutionary in that they have no gears to change; one simply starts pedaling and the built-in computer figures the rest out for the rider.
After riding on level surfaces for about ten minutes, I've concluded the bike would not fare well on hills.
These bikes are reportedly hub-drive but don't act like hub-drives. They are dead-stick — no power at all — until the pedal is pushed down with great effort to energize it.
This is reminiscent of my mid-drive Del Sol ebike. You don't pedal you don't go.
I have not ridden my mid-drive ebike since buying my hub-drive bike over two years ago. The hub-drive has a throttle button and just a touch of it launches one forward with ease and then lets the pedaling begin. Much nicer at 88yrs of age.
"This is where I went and this is what I saw."
Langford Evo e-Scooters/eBikes
Thursday I drove the Benz to Langford BC from our home in Victoria.
Evo Bike Share (created by BCAA) held an official launch of their rental programs near Langford City Hall.
I like to support any business trying to improve local transportation. To this end I subscribed to the now-defunct U-bike program in the city of Victoria back in the day and have been a subscriber to Evo Car Share for a couple of years.
Although I own two ebikes (a mid-drive and a hub-drive) I will use the Langford Evo units as an alternative to my cycling in that area. It will save me a 12km ride (24km roundtrip) from home to be able to pick up a ride right in Langford.
I've ridden that distance so many times I'm done with it!
The Evo ebikes bikes are quite revolutionary in that they have no gears to change; one simply starts pedaling and the built-in computer figures the rest out for the rider.
After riding on level surfaces for about ten minutes, I've concluded the bike would not fare well on hills.
These bikes are reportedly hub-drive but don't act like hub-drives. They are dead-stick — no power at all — until the pedal is pushed down with great effort to energize it.
This is reminiscent of my mid-drive Del Sol ebike. You don't pedal you don't go.
I have not ridden my mid-drive ebike since buying my hub-drive bike over two years ago. The hub-drive has a throttle button and just a touch of it launches one forward with ease and then lets the pedaling begin. Much nicer at 88yrs of age.
"This is where I went and this is what I saw."