News: My e-bike and me

HelenJ

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Pedelecs member and longtime cyclist, Zakventis, contacted us to share his story of the “life-changing” effect of taking delivery of a Trek electric bike:

I have cycled all my life, beginning with a Raleigh 3-speed bike given to me at age 12 (in 1959) with the comment: “It fell off the back of a lorry!”

It gave me freedom from an unhappy and sometimes violent family life and, on getting a newspaper round, income as well – until at the age of 16 I joined the RAF.

For the next 37 years I continued to use bikes, both for recreation and as a means of getting from a to b.

In 2000 I became single again and retired to rural Wales where I started to cycle more – it became both a pleasure as well as a means of going shopping 5 ‘lumpy’ miles away. And thus it continued for the next ten years.

Gradually however, both knees were becoming increasingly uncomfortable thanks to osteoarthritis and torn cartilages and so the mileage dwindled until, by 2015, my road bike remained in the garage, unused.

Full story:
http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/news/ebike/



Thanks again Zakventis :)