My Wife Just Got An E-Bike

[Imlach]

So the battery should not be stored in the garage? I'll have to find a metal box of some sort - perhaps an old tool box we have in the garage - then store it in the detached shed in the backyard.

Yeah so that's what I recommend. You can decide if you think I'm overthinking it, but I'd not store the battery in a building connected with the house, I prefer to have it in a place where, worst case, you lose a shed.

 

[Imlach]

But I mean some folks literally sleep with their ebikes, beyond me, but it's really what you're willing to risk should worst come to worst. As Novo said, ebikes, especially reputable ones are probably designed with relatively good protective circuitry, so its just my own need to feel at rest mentally.

 

[New York Albertan]

But I mean some folks literally sleep with their ebikes, beyond me, but it's really what you're willing to risk should worst come to worst. As Novo said, ebikes, especially reputable ones are probably designed with relatively good protective circuitry, so its just my own need to feel at rest mentally.

I've heard the E-Bike batteries exploding and catching fire back home in New York. That's what triggered me to question the safety of these batteries...

Thanks for the advice. Much appreciated.

 

[Imlach]

I've heard the E-Bike batteries exploding and catching fire back home in New York. That's what triggered me to question the safety of these batteries...

Thanks for the advice. Much appreciated.

No need to thank, I'm just sharing what I'd do. And I don't think we can ever be too safe. It's easy to get to comfortable, consumer electronics are promised to give us all we've ever wanted, and so people aren't often giving it a second thought.

I think your plan of storing it away from the house is a solid one, and charging outside the walls of the home is also a solid idea.

But regardless I was just sharing what I'd do, I like you, have a fair few reservations, but for now ebikes are here to stay. Stay safe and keep riding, and at the end of the day at least wife is still willing to get out there and ride.

 

[racecarjohnny]

The title of this thread make me laugh. It’s like the start of a joke “My wife just got an e-bike and ……..

 

[New York Albertan]

The title of this thread make me laugh. It’s like the start of a joke “My wife just got an e-bike and ……..

 

[The History Man]

I feel a poem coming on?

 

[The History Man]

My wife just got an E bike
To pootle round the town
It's helpful going up the hills
and scary going down.

They charge you, lots you charge it lots
The battery never fails
But if it does a retrobike will make them look like snails.

So wifey got an E bike
and some asbestos trousers
to keep her safe, to stop the chafe and avoid Doogie Howser's

new specialist electrical burns ward.



My coat is flameproof. I'll just fetch it.

 

[89RingleAddict]

Very Nice^^^^^

Funny
I’m 24yrs in with same insurance company in US.
Texas is a ‘pilot state’ for selling E-bike policies
I was recommended by zone managers to handle the estimatics on these things…..ugh. Can’t say no kinda thing.

As far as the batteries…….
If the unit is deemed a total loss, there are strict guidelines on handling the disposal of the batteries. I’m sure EPA will charge more than the cost of the bike to “properly dispose” of said batteries.
America, you got to love this crap

BTW I plan on totaling out every E-bike claim I get.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Tomorrow, I will take my 1989 Norco Cherokee out for a two hour run on the trails by the Bow River, here in Calgary. It's an old ATB, but I will force it to do what it was built to do in 1989. And it will comply. Or it won't. But my backpack will have one film camera, and an old digicam, to film the experiance.

Norco Cherokee plus the Bow trails plus a camera equals you owing us some pictures. Have you found the photography thread? The Alberta mountains would go over well with these lads. Just keep the e bike out of frame

https://www.retrobike.co.uk/posts/3429737/