A Big Hola from Fuerteventura 
For us our ebikes are our only form of transport, we use them every day for everything from shopping to off-road tours, averaging about 45km each, daily.
We have two Bosch powered hybrid ebikes and two spare powerpacks, and a Nyon for navigation. We changed our tyres from town tyres to all terrain then filled them with slime as out here the plants are spikey.
The terrain and temperatures of Fuerteventura are extreme, with salt, wind and dust, so the bikes get put right to the edge of their capabilities (and beyond, so we always take a tool kit and water). Living on the side of a volcano and having just two local shops (at the bottom) the ebikes have given us much needed independance and life-support system, as well as acres of fun cycling over mountains and volcanoes where most cars dare not go.
Our trips are more then 90% off-road bumpy dirt tracks or back-roads were there are few cars (in about 65km we may see 3 or 4 brave people in hire cars)
We decorate the bikes ourselves with a sheepskin 'wrap' and skeletons, skulls and horns from goats and dogs we find on the desert and badlands - they cause quiet a stir when we go the the nearest town with many people taking photos etc. especially when we mount a large hidden bluetooth speaker and sit at a cafe playing animal noises as people approach :-D, however the sheepskins protect the frame from stone chips, dust, salt and sand and they can be removed for washing.
The Nyon gives us a much needed map which shows these cycle routes (there are 450km of cycle routes here!), although we find it a little "inflexible" it does come in handy when your being chased by farm guard dogs in turbo down a rocky mountain path (please never again).
Having no car we have a bike trailor instead, just a simple steel two-wheel one which attaches to the dropouts - we use it for everything including hauling a recliner chair or 150 liters of compost up the mountain, and using it as a wheelbarrow in the garden.
Our next project is going to be a dog basket on the pannier, made from a recycled supermarket veg basket.
All-in-all the ebike has been the best purchase I ever made in my life, bringing us so much more fun and practicality then any car could ever do.
For us our ebikes are our only form of transport, we use them every day for everything from shopping to off-road tours, averaging about 45km each, daily.
We have two Bosch powered hybrid ebikes and two spare powerpacks, and a Nyon for navigation. We changed our tyres from town tyres to all terrain then filled them with slime as out here the plants are spikey.
The terrain and temperatures of Fuerteventura are extreme, with salt, wind and dust, so the bikes get put right to the edge of their capabilities (and beyond, so we always take a tool kit and water). Living on the side of a volcano and having just two local shops (at the bottom) the ebikes have given us much needed independance and life-support system, as well as acres of fun cycling over mountains and volcanoes where most cars dare not go.
Our trips are more then 90% off-road bumpy dirt tracks or back-roads were there are few cars (in about 65km we may see 3 or 4 brave people in hire cars)
We decorate the bikes ourselves with a sheepskin 'wrap' and skeletons, skulls and horns from goats and dogs we find on the desert and badlands - they cause quiet a stir when we go the the nearest town with many people taking photos etc. especially when we mount a large hidden bluetooth speaker and sit at a cafe playing animal noises as people approach :-D, however the sheepskins protect the frame from stone chips, dust, salt and sand and they can be removed for washing.
The Nyon gives us a much needed map which shows these cycle routes (there are 450km of cycle routes here!), although we find it a little "inflexible" it does come in handy when your being chased by farm guard dogs in turbo down a rocky mountain path (please never again).
Having no car we have a bike trailor instead, just a simple steel two-wheel one which attaches to the dropouts - we use it for everything including hauling a recliner chair or 150 liters of compost up the mountain, and using it as a wheelbarrow in the garden.
Our next project is going to be a dog basket on the pannier, made from a recycled supermarket veg basket.
All-in-all the ebike has been the best purchase I ever made in my life, bringing us so much more fun and practicality then any car could ever do.
