What are the major factors that persuaded you to get an electric bike?

[monster]

getting banned from driving for 6 months that was three years ago and i'm still ebiking and car free.

[jasono]

Major factors:

A form of excercise that I can practically build into my day/working week
A conscious decision to use the car less
Would encourage me to cycle on days when I didn't really want too!

[glenn]

after taking a new job i found that driving was too expensive the city had formed a monopoly with the buses
and car parks. 14.00 to park a day and if you wanted the
bus it was 25.00 a month but you still had to pay on sundays as the buses didnt run. also the buses were often
a few short so waiting was always a factor. I looked into this forum after local bike shops couldnt offer help. I now love my ebike and it takes me half the time to get to work and home and a very small fraction of the cost. I do 14 miles a day with hills.

[daniel.weck]

My reasons to invest in e-cycling: I love pedal-work, but human power is sometimes not enough (i.e. steep hills, lack of low gearing, etc.) Furthermore, climbing hills makes you sweaty and puffy, so sometimes cycling is unsuitable for business meetings, public events, etc. Thanks to electrical assistance, I now cycle more than ever, I enjoy routes that would normally be too much of a challenge for my legs, and because I can carry more weight, I use the car less. Happy cycling !

[Straylight]

I don't drive, and so have always cycled and used public transport. Due to the physical nature of my job, I found that, after leaving London, the 25mile round trip to work was too much of an energy drain, to the point where it was impeding my performance at work and getting in the way of my homelife. The e-bike therefore came as an absolute godsend, making my journeys a pleasure again rather than a chore.

[Jim Taverner]

Now aged 70, I was a keen cyclist in my teens and again 1970's as my children started riding. Took several foriegn cycling holidays with the family. Heart attack and mobility problems stemming from infant polio brought about a serious decline in fitness and muscle strength. I have researched electric bikes for about 2 years and have ordered a Wisper 806fe folder to hopefully regain some fitness following an operation to my pelvic in January. I can't remember ever being so excited about an aquisition (how sad).
Cheers,
Jim

[Stumpi]

I lost my leg below the knee in 1995 but carried on cycling in order to keep fit. I always struggled on the hills and E bikes back then where very heavy and not really designed to be pedalled IMO. As time moved on I became interested in Cytronex and a bike that I could pedal and get a decent amount of exercise from but have a little help on the hills. I feel the battery makes up for the power I have lost by not having the full compliment of limbs

[Memran]

Slightly different reasons for me.

I'm an avid mountain biker, and have a good level of fitness already, however for me a lot of the fun is the downhill sections of the trail.

Generally, a typical ride will be 50% up, 50% down in distance, but 95% up, 5% down in time. I wanted to change this so that I could go faster on the ups, allowing me to do much longer routes with more downhill fun!

My Crystalyte kit arrived yesterday, and I've booked tomorrow off work to get it all running for the weekend!

I would also like to cycle to work, which I used to do but my workplace has relocated an additional 10 miles away (now 15). I can do it, but don't want to get all sweaty before I sit at my desk!

If the e-mountainbike is a success, I'll get another kit for my road bike (minus battery - both bikes will share one).

[lessped]

Reason for e-bike pure and simple with me medical reasons plus a love of the open air