Lakester

Thanks guys, looks like there was some sort of user input error. I had just ended up with rider cover despite entering my bike make, model, serial number, address date of birth etc!

[mention=27560]AlexAlex0[/mention] - puzzled over why you’re not sure if an Ebike or it’s rider needs Insurance. Are you immune from bad luck?! I just got ebike insurance through Chain Reaction Cycles site. Bike, Personal cover and Third Party insurance £2.99 per month. Mega-expensive (to me) bike needs some sort of replacement cover, I can’t really afford just to buy again all over if it gets stolen or wrecked. It’s a £3500 machine! Now I’m moving a lot faster (and without all the gasping and heavy breathing) on trails and tracks I wanted the Personal protection in case I did accidentally hit another person or their property. Cover seems pretty decent, obviously the premium will vary with the risk, my age and postcode most probably go in my favour. https://insurance-uk.chainreactioncycles.com/compare/ There’s Bikemo Protect, from British Cycling, which is a very comprehensive policy too by the looks of it.https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/bikeinsurance Thomas Hanson was controversially cleared at trial of the charge of causing death by careless driving. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-51647068

How do you think it would be for off-road? Nothing too serious, trails and rough paths rather than mountains and downhill courses

If you go just a couple of miles north from Redruth towards Four Lanes and find the Great Flat Lode trail car park you can do a nice out-and-back to Bissoe via Carn Marth and ”Mars” (or Wheal Maid) near St Day.

Out for a ride on the coast at sunset last night.

I’ll look forward to getting my motor upgraded and exploring the eMTB modes, I cant say that I’ve clicked with riding my Powerfly at low speed over very rough ground yet.

Add me in please. TR13 Breage

I just came from a hardtail 29er MTB, a 10 year old Gary Fisher Xcaliber. This Weekend has been my first full FS eMTB experience and I can tell you: I’ve been missing out Like I had no idea! Like you it was the cost that was stopping me, I finally reached the point where I was going to go FS and the extra to get one with a motor was in reach. A LaPierre FS MTB next to the Powerfly 4 I bought on Friday was only £850 less. I just know I’m going to go further, try trails and hill tracks I couldn’t before, probably commute on it too, so to me the extra was finally worth it. My first couple of rides have been amazing!

I’m going to do exactly that very soon!

Just about to jump on it again as the sun’s shining, the air is clear and there’s a lovely local hill or two to be climbed on Father’s Day! Luckily my LBS had a tube in stock yesterday, so I’ve at least got one if things go pear-shaped this afternoon.

Resurrecting your ages-old thread having just moved across into the eMTB world. Did you find any meets, as I live in the area.

I’m just up the road from you, then: Breage. Just bought my eMTB for enjoying some more of the lovely tracks we have around here. I cycle round Godolphin, Carleen and take in some trails around Culdrose and down to Trelowarren and Tremayne Quay. Love walking from Helford around to St Anthony and Manaccan too. You probably see and hear me buzzing around overhead a lot during the week too One of my more memorable rides down on the Lizard was a long meandering ride across Goonhilly Down, one I’m more likely to try again with an ebike! I bought my Trek Powerfly on Friday from Bike Chain in Redruth, they’re very short of stock and I bought an ex-display. Cyclelogic (Giant) in Helston is well worth a visit if you haven’t already been in, they have a healthy stock supply as far as I gather from chatting to the owner the yesterday. They sell more brands than just Giant & Specialized too. Had a very enjoyable ride yesterday from home out to Porthleven and around Loe Pool, bit busy at the Flora end, but lovely in the Degibna woods.

Out to a local spot yesterday. needed a couple of stops to pump up the front tyre, leak’s not catastrophic out and about but does go completely flat over about 4 hours. Quite a lot of grins!

Boo - Flat tyre on the first evening! Bought a Trek Powerfly 4 LT this afternoon. Really looking forward to getting to know the bike better. Happy with the feel of how it rides so far, but obviously not happy with a puncture on Ride #1; a fairly tame local one, at that. Probably a pinch or a thorn, but on a 5 mile ride could be anything I suppose. Have been riding MTBs for 25 years, sticking to roads is NOT my cup of tea! Tend to keep bikes for a long time so my 2008 Gary Fisher xCal 29er has served me well. Have drooled over full suspension bikes for a while, eMTBs for not quite as long but have studied a fair few. I was definitely ready to take the plunge and visited Bike Chain in Reduth today to “browse”! The Powerfly 4 LT got my attention from the start and I left the shop with it about 2 hours, and one test ride, later. From this (1999) : To this (2008) : Now this: