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So my old decrepit body is finally breaking down to the point where I’m considering an E bike.
I’ve not really been a fan of ebikes over the years, as I think lots of people use them because they can’t be arsed to ride up the hill as opposed to any other reason.
A big part of mountain biking for me has always been fitness and the fact that because I know I’ll suffer riding up a hill it moderates my drinking and my eating habits.
But the arthritis in my knees and my bad back means i’m at a point where I need some help to take the pressure off.
So is an electric mountain bike the answer?
Should I go from MTB to eMTB?
I decided to rent an E bike for a couple of hours to see what they were really like.
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Of 53 somehow without ever having ridden a ebike um I think it’s because I have um well Pride I’m only kidding um but I have increasingly annoyingly arthritic uh knees a bad back and I keep falling off so I’m at this wonderful um wonderful campsite cycling City uh in in
Spain look at the description um so for the first time ever I’ve I’ve I’ve decided while there’s no one about and no one to judge me I’ve rented an ebike for the afternoon this is the ebike such as my sophistication I don’t know what brand it is I don’t know what
Power it’s got I’m not even sure any of the settings but I’m just going to have a ride and see if an hour or two on the ebike uh helps my knees now what you’re thinking is for the rest of this video is if you’ve got
An E Bike oh my God you’re going to love it so much if you don’t have a e bike you’re going to think I hope he hates it let’s find out shall we things first these are really skinny Wheels I’m used to a fat bike these are skinny wheels and it’s a
29er and I’m going to turn it on and I’ve got red orange blue green white purple let’s put it on Blue oh god of course people like these of course they like them L this is blue I tell you what I’m super grateful of my new friend Victor reminding me
That the brakes are the other way around in Europe um okay I I don’t know what blue is versus red Etc but I mean this is super easy um okay this is yeah there’s no effort here let’s get it down onto a trail and see how it behaves you have to come to
This place you absolutely have to come to this place in Spain sudad delissimo cycling City um it has this fantastic campsite it has a bike its own bike pot which is free they’re putting in a swimming pool um it’s camping it’s it’s just there a restaurant and Cafe it’s just just the
Best place and it’s about 10 a night which is just insanely good value okay I suppose one of the weird things about this is remembering to change gear because actually you would change the setting what am I in I’m still in blue and I don’t know whether blue is a
Good setting to be in but we can we can go from there my friend Hector Hector is the owner this is Victor everybody Victor hey rented me this bike cuz he says I’m an old man and I should have a motor he was very rude yeah I’m recording
Higher up uh I see you recording down down there no no no it’ll be yeah trust me I’m a Victor I’m a professional look how professional I look hey hey what um there are lots of there are five different colors should I leave it on Blue yeah that’s the the
Intense or or the oh yeah level so green power green blue or red what do you think you try it I’ll try it I have a play discover the green will will be like a little help okay the blue a little bit harder and the and red if I
Want to keep up with you be the top one the full power fantastic I’m going to go really slowly because the wheel is too skinny yeah I see take it easy and the brakes are the wrong side okay so not much difference there apart from I’m not used to a skinny
Wheel I’m very cleverly the brakes are the wrong way around in Europe I’m very cleverly always doing both brakes at the same time um yeah so far uh where am I going okay that first little punch am I working hard I am working hard and I’m kind of
Been oh I hate myself for saying this I am kind of pushing myself to go a bit faster because I can I suppose the temptation you know I am still working I put it on to Red I’m still working to get up this hill let’s leave it on
Blue there’s not as much help as I thought there would be let’s go down this way I mean yeah this is on the blue yeah it’s trying to convince me to go faster and harder I think I went wrong this motor takes a little bit of
Time to actually cut in but probably not a bad thing look at this view people probably what they call a mid fat um okay yeah CL timing is super duper easy but I’m quite enjoying it oh no I’m quite enjoying it oh damn it I’ve been up and down here three or
Four times and you know you can just power around deliberately going over rocks tell you what these 29 sort of skinny pseudo skinny Wheels breaks all right tobo up the hill yeah it takes a while for the moot to cut in um what’s interesting is that’s forcing
Me to remember to use the gear so this is sort of fourth or fifth time round these brakes are amazing quite like this it’s quite nice being on an E Bike wonder if there’s somewhere around here I can buy a nice summer frock okay early days let’s keep going
But actually this is a relative low powerered ebike so I’m after a lightweight whatever just to help with my knees I’m going to do a lot more climbing so let’s go and do have some fun but I want to see how it responds on my knees um that’s the important thing for me
So oh damn it’s quite nice so Far Genuinely the reason I should buy an ebike is for none of the reasons anyone thinks I’m on the wrong this isn’t the I’m actually on a trail between true incredibly well marked trails and I’ve gone wrong I should buy an ebug cuz I’m an idiot the other reason I’m quite liking it is
Because my sense of direction is so terrible I should have come down there and I’d be cursing myself on my fat bike for Unnecessary hill climbing so I’ve been out for about an hour or so um it’s quite weird I’ve changed a lot of things going from The Fat Tires 4 in
Tires to 2 3 2.2 and 29 wheel is actually more I think more diff made it more difficult cuz going to Corners um uh am I still out of breath yes I am mostly cuz I keep getting lost and having to ride extra Hills um this isn’t a full
Fat fat bike this is quite quite light quite Nimble um I don’t know the specs but it hasn’t got a huge huge motal battery but um uh it’s it’s is it fun it is um is it more fun than me riding my fat bike round I’m not convinced
Not on this little area I think on a longer run might be is it cheating oh God yes I know I’m out of breath and I’m sweating that’s cuz it’s 18° in Spain and I you know burn under a 20 W light bulb but um yeah of course it’s cheating
But who cares I think that’s the The Angst between mountain bikers and e- mountain bikers is cuz e- mountain bikers don’t embrace the yes it’s cheating so what they get all angry about it and all ansty about it so that’s the only problem but it’s a lot of fun
Um I think I’ll add one um the extra climbing in a few pops I’ve done teeny tiny teeny tiny jumps um my back hurts because my back hurts anyway but actually my um my knee’s not hurting and that I think will be the crucial deciding factor for me I think
That will be that will be the thing that makes me want to get one when the arthritis when the knee’s playing up I could still go on a bike ride where probably would have rested for two or three days um if I just had the mountain
Bike so um this is you know do you know what it’s a great bit of kit it’s a great bit of Kit you still have to work of course you do um but actually I’m more tired trying to juggle when to apply power and overthinking it as opposed to just
Riding final thing I probably would have done the same ride on the fat bike on the on the mountain bike uh with no power and there’s a bit of me that says it would have taken me half an hour longer well who cares what else you
Going to do with that half an hour um you know and I think that’s that’s finding the balance having a ride you want to do but sometimes you know it isn’t just about getting to the destination as quickly as you can sometimes you got to stop and
Have a look around and I think that’s where the the big differences but ebikes as an enabler um to go out on a longer ride or go out on a ride where other people have ebikes I totally get it I totally get it they’re a fantastic bit of
Kit oh it’s going to cost me a bloody Fortune I’m going to buy another bike now thanks for watching if you’d like to leave um just the word hypocrite in the uh uh in the comments below I’ll try and apologize to each and every one of you thanks for watching see you next Time