Disabled cyclist; with one bad choice behind her, needs help with a new bike

[Katymac]

I know what I don't want (I already have that)

I need a low step through, with shedloads of power to take me not very fast, everywhere, even up hills

I needs to be light, with big wheels, suspension, very sit up and beg

In fact a complete cross between the 2 bikes I have

The crusa is too heavy and all the weight is at the back so it's unstable when I walk with it or load it on the train

The fazua is too big for me I can't get my leg over the bar and my legs aren't strong enough to register on the torque/motor

 

[guerney]

A trike would be heavy as * so it won't increase my mobility & now I can't even open the sodding car door, so driving will only work if there is someone there to let me out ffs

This is worrying - are you sure you're still strong enough to control a bike? If you're no longer safe cycling, perhaps it's time to start a thread asking which mobility scooters are easiest to hotrod? Increasingly popular with able-bodied people. At times I'm tempted to hotrod one myself, usually when swiftly overtaken walking on the pavement by one whizzing past at who knows what speed, and annoyingly they never ring a bell or beep. Looks fun.

 

[saneagle]

"Lightweight bikes are available but these tend to be sportu road type bikes with minimal battery size and small hubs for the fitter rider who usually only wants light assisstance now and then"

this is a missed market, the disabled rider, the older rider, the smaller rider even the pregnant rider need light weight bike - it's about wasting energy for the rider with a chronic illness

My daughter riders everywhere, but when she was pregnant, when she is travelling home from a performance/dance show she just wants to whizz home (not speed just ease/lack of effort)

The two requirements of high power and lightweight are conflicting characteristics. It's not that somebody's missing a market, it's that physics prevents it.

 

[matthewslack]

A bit like building a house. You can have a good house, a cheap house and a quick house. But only two of those three.

 

[Woosh]

What's the vote thing at the top for?

I plead not guilty.