10 reasons now to hop on an e-bike!

Here are the 10 reasons from Hungarian Cycling Tourism Association (maketusz.hu).

First of all some words about things that are not enough clear for those who haven't tried a modern e-bike: the engine on pedelec bikes doesn't working instead of us, just help us. That is, we don't increase the engine by pressing a button, but also we choose a program mode that analizing the situation, and the engine gives us only the necessary help to our work.

So the experience of sport remains, but it won't be a problem to get up on a steep ascent.  That's the reason why the e-bike part is the most dynamically developing sector of cycling, despite these bikes are more expensive then the traditional ones, due to much more serious technical content. Classic bicycles are slowly pushed into the background by the e-bikes in the mountains in West Europe both in terms of hiking and transportation.

Surely there are a lot of people, who rarely used their bikes before COVID crisis, and now cycling is a very good kind of recreation or transportation. It must have been noticed by many of us that the legs no longer move as they used to, some steep ascents are too challenging, don't want to sweatily reach our destination, it's impossible to keep the pace of the children on a family tour, we're getting tired too fast when the rout is hilly.  Fortunately, these problems occur only with traditional bicycles, but electric bikes are the solutions for everything and gives you much more...

Why sit up? Why try out? Here are 10 reasons:

1. Changing. Everyone agrees that COVID crisis is the changing in our life, how we can adapt for a new situation.  The electric bicycles – big words are these – can change yur life.

2. Opportunity for change. Due to epidemiological measures there is less car traffic and crowd everywhere. If you're not sure in bike handling, now it's a good situation without any stress to learn cycling transportation.

3. Experience. Find somebody who tried out at least one time and ask him about his experiences... You have a good speed to get positive impressions from your environment during transportation or tour, but you don't have to do more effort then on a traditional bike, and you have the opportunity to look around and you decide how intensive work do you want to do at the same time. 

4. Gradualism. The e-bike bridges physical deficienciesv if you don't have a great condition. It can even happen, that your performance is the most important during cycling, so the e-bike will be the missing step to sport bycicles.

5. Good vibe. In a family there may be great physical differences between each other, so it can influence the vibe of a tour if mother can't hold the speed with the others for example.  Everyone can choose a perfect mode on an e-bike to hold the speed with the others and the family time will be a perfect pastime in the nature. 

6. New places to reach. On a pedelec bike - thanks for the electric help - now you can reach higher hills then you never tried before.  You can discover new, remoted destinations that you've never reached before neither on foot, with traditional bike or car. 

7. Mobility. We have so many possibilities for choosing a route, parking, and security like with a traditional bycicle and it's so much more chance then any other kind of vehicle or even a scooter.  

8. Long term solution. The modern pedelec bike's battery has a range of 100-150 km depending on the program mode, and in the worst case we can use them like traditional bikes.

9. Safe. We can use them lonely in the open air we don't have to use park houses or elevators' buttons even in the COVID crisis too. There are smaller surface areas to clean on our bike.

10. Reduce ecological footprint. Finally not the last aspect, that the filling of a battery needs minimal energy, and it can work more then 1000 filling without any quality deteriorate. This means 10-20 years even with frquent use, for about 100.000 traveled kilometers...

Source: maketusz.hu, photo: Szabó Miklós