Originally Posted by
TinyBear
As of now I can manage a couple trips around the block on my bicycle. Before fatigue and pain make it detrimental to push further (aka I can go further but then not likely to be able to ride the next day). My thought with the e bike was not to have a twist and go ease but to allow my to continue/resume the riding I enjoyed prior to getting hurt while slowly building the muscle and cardio back up.
I'm recovering from abdominal surgery and a chronic illness that took me off the bike in 2016. I was well enough to get back on my road bike six months after surgery in 2017, but I had lost so much strength and cardio that I kept pushing myself too hard and setting myself back even further. Last year I bought a pedal-assist e-bike which has allowed me to get back to riding to work every day, and I've made incremental gains in my overall fitness that I would not have been able to achieve without the pedal assist.