February 3, 20179 yr Hello all! Great to see some of the photos on this thread. I'm a newbie here to eMTB'ing but I thought I'd post my picture from the roof of Lancashire! This was taken on a jaunt with my Haibike full fatsix at the top of Pendle hill near Clitheroe in Lancashire earlier in January. This was also the final shot of the fatty before the new colour scheme was adopted. I hope to upload some more photos as my adventures continue. #2Fat2Furious Edited February 3, 20179 yr by Lawsinho
February 3, 20179 yr Hello all! Great to see some of the photos on this thread. I'm a newbie here to eMTB'ing but I thought I'd post my picture from the roof of Lancashire!What a killer bike you got!! Even though there is some strange hydraulic looking thing between saddle and motor
February 3, 20179 yr What a killer bike you got!! Even though there is some strange hydraulic looking thing between saddle and motor Thanks! Yup, I get the 'strange hydraulic thing' all the time. Not only a full suspension fatty but an electric one too. Always draws some funny looks. Then again, that could be something to do with the 17 stone fella throwing a pink bike down trails... Edited February 3, 20179 yr by Lawsinho
February 3, 20179 yr I CAN'T SEE THE PICS . Could be my MAC grrrr I can't see them now either on my Android phone tapatalk Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk
February 4, 20179 yr Pics from todays jaunt from Burnley, through Sabden and to Clitheroe. Two from either side of the nick of Pendle and two from Gawthorpe Hall in Padiham on my way home.
February 4, 20179 yr Author No mud round your way today? The bike's way too clean! Certainly been very wet around my neck of the woods. Sadly localised flooding prevented me from taking some of the route that I wanted to take. I still had a good ride though, and when things are as wet as they were today, the mud just disappears from the bike and cleaning just takes seconds to do. For some reason the battery didn't seem to hold up so well today either. The ride was just 21 miles with a mere 2,197ft of elevation gain, yet used four out five bars of battery level. I used tour mode throughout, but admittedly it was very heavy going in places, and even the DZO tyres were calling it a day and spinning up. Edited February 4, 20179 yr by EddiePJ
February 4, 20179 yr Eddie, our bikes are cake'd in the stuff after todays outing. Very muddy and slippery in South Shropshire.
February 4, 20179 yr Author It was really good here. It hasn't stopped raining, and there are several flooded areas, but the rain has thankfully washed the heavy mud away, and the bike, whilst drenched, wasn't overly muddy. More than could be said about me though, as I was covered in mud, and soaking wet through to the pants. Not that it ever bothers me. This was about as muddy as the bike got. You probably can't see from the photo below, but I did spot what could potentially be an amazing ride section through this woodland. Each time that I venture there, I spot something new, and I shall be off exploring it tomorrow.
February 4, 20179 yr Barely any mud this way, all washed away by the rain. Seemed to be riding over nothing but leaves and nice skippy roots.
February 4, 20179 yr Pics from todays jaunt from Burnley, through Sabden and to Clitheroe. Two from either side of the nick of Pendle and two from Gawthorpe Hall in Padiham on my way home.[ATTACH=full]17600[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]17601[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]17602[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]17603[/ATTACH] A bit risky leaving your bike outside of your front door like that, nice bike and photos.
February 4, 20179 yr South Shropshire, Mortimers Forest. Cold at the top of the Vinnals with the ground covered in frost. Everywhere else a mudfest! 1st pic (a screen grab) shows the wife in the mud. 2nd pic, me at the top of the Vinnals. 3rd pic..wife on one of the fireroads enjoying the sun.
February 5, 20179 yr Adventure race towing. I read up on towing a bike and used the retractable dog lead method. Attached to a loop of bungee . My boy is 9.5 and quite slight. I felt bad that he's struggling off-road in wet grass and mud. To be fair in the 4 weeks I've been using this ebike in parks and woods ( not real mountain biking). I haven't seen anyone else. Maybe a couple of kids using a hard path to get from A to B. So it worked great. We were out about 3hours and covered nearly 12 miles. All grass and mud. with a,few small inclines . On flat I dropped the PAS level a bit . On incline I shouted keep peddling. After a while he got a feeling for when I was peddling quicker and started to match me. And when the going was flat an firm and I used the throttle he was laughing and cheering. I think he really loved a help with getting going too. Edited February 5, 20179 yr by Tugwell Gibson
February 5, 20179 yr These photos are from Dunn Mountain ride, on out skirts of Nelson (NZ). The climb to summit is 14km up old railway line starting in Nelson suburb and ending at 900m in middle of mountains. The railway was built in 1890 to haul copper ore down from mountain top mine, horses towed wagons up and brave brakemen rode full wagons down. The track goes over a pass and back down a MTB track to town water supply dam. WARNING. Go well prepared this is a back country ride, not loop around local bike park even though it is on edge of town. I did climb in eco and only use 30-40% of 500whr battery. Pass Summit Track up, gets rougher than this later. Nelson in background.
February 5, 20179 yr Takaka hill. When you get to top of Takaka hill (between Nelson and Takaka) there is gravel road turn off heading north. After 10kms gravel road ends in regional park from there it is onto MTB track that takes you to outskirts of Takaka. First half of ride has lots of tree roots and rocks, your shocks will get work out. Last 3rd is though smooth flowing track in pine trees. Best way to do this ride is get dropped off at start of gravel road and meet your driver in Takaka. First few kms of road climbs followed by great downhill section. Allow 3 hours and go prepared, its long walk down mountain if your bike dies or in my case pump.
February 5, 20179 yr My sister lived in Wellington for 5 years in the eighties. Wish i'd gone out then, never mind one day as looks beautiful.
February 5, 20179 yr My sister lived in Wellington for 5 years in the eighties. Wish i'd gone out then, never mind one day as looks beautiful. It does look beautiful. In fact so many photos on this thread look beautiful. My camera phone efforts at local south London parks and woods are the exception. If it ever dries up a bit I may take the camera . Then you will be treated to a nice Bokeh of adidas stripes and Staffordshire bull terriers.
February 6, 20179 yr Pics from todays jaunt from Burnley, through Sabden and to Clitheroe.great photos. I see now u have a dropper post (or "lift pin" as we use to say), must be great. I feel like getting one also, did you consider internal routing?
February 6, 20179 yr Author No photos, but that was one miserable rainy muddy ride for the group ride out tonight. Bad enough that only two of us turned up! I was really off form on the downhill sections, making loads of mistakes and just not getting into it. Even on the tight level wooded technical sections, nothing seemed to work in my favour. Thankfully the tyres performed brilliantly through the very rooted sections, but I did loose the back end of the bike on an off camber muddy section. I stayed upright, but the bike didn't. I also hate following anyone, preferring to lead the way, but tonight it wasn't to be. I'll strike tonight's ride off the one to remember list. .
February 7, 20179 yr My sister lived in Wellington for 5 years in the eighties. Wish i'd gone out then, never mind one day as looks beautiful. You can't beat Wellington on good day, unfortunately they are few and far apart especially this summer. Luckily MTBing is not that weather dependent. NB photos above are from top south island, not Wellington. .
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