I had one a few years ago but it was stolen. It was really useful when I was in grad school, since it was in a rural area and I don't drive. If I could one I could actually get to work in the same time (or faster) than the subway, and with an electric one not really worry about being sweaty before work. (Plus some minor exercise, probably equivalent to walking that amount of time, I'd imagine.)
My problems are storage, though. (Don't want it to be stolen again, and carrying it up to my apartment, while quite feasible, will probably make me less likely to want to ride it.) Oh, and they're illegal in NY (well, in a stupid gray zone), but that's not much of an issue.
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What makes it an e-bike? It is obviously not what I assumed it was, because you wouldn't be able to ride one of those.
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Don't you have something you could lock it to? A railing or something?
Someone stole the rails.
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It's an electric bike, basically while you pedal it gives a little boost, mostly for making uphill easier.
And I did that, Alex, it was even behind my building. They just cut the lock. So storing it outside it not something I want to do again.
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Hm. This is probably a silly suggestion, but since the motor is presumably what makes it steal-worthy, would it be worth it to detach the motor and bring it up while leaving the (probably lighter, but bulkier) frame on the rack?
You can't be the only person who's dissuaded by the thievery, I mean, so the manufacturers must be accounting for that somehow.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir
The motor isn't really detachable. The battery is, but I had that detached and up in my apt when my first one was stolen. And I think just being a bike is what makes it steal-worthy. I've had bikes stolen out of the backyard of my parent's house before.
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I guess it's less "steal-worthy" and more "steal-prominent" but I see what you're saying.
When I was up at U of T, they had a program where they left out bikes at high bike theft areas and lojacked them, then they offered stickers to students that said "Hey you never know this bike might totally be lojacked because we have this program." I wasn't there long enough to find out whether that was effective.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir
Hmm. It occurs to me that I think I have renter's insurance, and that might cover a stolen bike. I need to look into it. (I didn't have it last time. In fact, my father bought it for me after the last one was stolen. Because I had been claiming I didn't need it.)
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It probably covers a bike. And, consider whether taking the front wheel off would discourage theft.
There are many thieves who take all-but-the-front-wheel from a bike that is locked up improperly, so I imagine not much? Or, at least, front wheels are much easier to come by than bikes.
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