Monday, May 12, 2025

New Wheels for My Wife



To celebrate my wife’s second total knee replacement, both of which went well and with good recovery, I bought her a new e-bike with a very low step through.  

So far, I’ve only ridden it down the driveway (24 miles per hour, no peddling, due to gravity alone), and back up again (an incline steep enough that it foiled a Kubota front end loader back when we had ice).  Up hill was no problem and I hit 14 mph without trying.

I ordered this from my phone, and it was delivered to my door within 36 hours which I thought was quite remarkable.  I bought a two year warranty with it too.  

Prices on every kind of bicycle are about to go through the roof due to Trump tariffs, and there will be shortages too as fewer ships will be crossing the oceans.  Almost every bike sold in the US is now made in Taiwan or China.

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