Originally Posted by
veganbikes
If you are touring on an E-Bike go out to your local Harley, Honda or other motorsickle dealership and get yourself one of them touring motorsickles. One of the managers at another store in my company has one from BMW and he rides all the dang time and camps and does all that fun stuff.
I find electric bikes to be a bad bicycle and a bad motorcycle all rolled into one heavy package for a bicycle. Putting touring loads on it sound even worse. You might as well make the rear wheel solid with no spokes because of all that weight on it. I have seen a very nicely built e-bike that keeps breaking spokes without a touring load.
On a Blue Ridge Parkway fall bicycle tour I saw zero other bicyclists despite that it's famous for scenic & safe touring. Saw quite a few day-trippers/tourers on Harleys though. The Parkway/Skyline Drive all hills which would drastically cut E-bike range. But my friend's new Galvani model seems pretty sturdily built; I don't know specifics of spoke count/rims/braze-ons for luggage but it looks like it would be strong enough for light motel touring. Whole thing weighs about 23 kg vs about 15 for a Surly Disc Trucker. E-bikes a newer trend so I suppose there's a wide variation in quality. Some apparently are made for retired senior citizens doing short jaunts, others seem like they're intended for more serious use.