Originally Posted by Bill Tarling

Things were so much easier in Ontario back in '74 [*sighing as my age starts to show*]

When mopeds first came out, you only had to be 14 years old to ride them. To tell the truth, if I could ever find the same Peugeot moped I had back then, I would buy it in a heartbeat: 200mpg (I put on over 3000 miles [5000 km] a month on it), rode it throughout the winter snowstorms, and it usually ran about 45mph [unmodified] -- I hit 60mph with a good tailwind one day. It handled like a charm, and was great in traffic...

Oh well, times change.

I did, however, buy a Veloteq (I live in BC now), and it's doing a great job getting me back and forth to work. Not as fast as my old moped -- my ebike does just the speed limit allowed [32kmh] -- but the biggest relief was that it seems to handle the BC hills here pretty well. Most hills it climbs on its own at a pretty steady 25kmh, though it slows to 15kmh on the really steep climbs -- a real test would be to see if it can make it up the hills in New Westminster BC (those things took forever just to walk up when I leved there).

I added a full size motorcycle case to the back [tons of room], plus the under seat storage holds my charger, toolkit, extension cord, stereo, accessories, and large thermos: I need my morning coffee when I get to work.

I also added rear lighting strips along the back end (wired into my running lights), and some flashing led brake lights for better road visibility by drivers. I find drivers now give me way more road space than before I put the extra lights on.

I'm only putting on 600-700km a month travel on the bike so far, but the single charge seems to be holding out pretty strong at about 70-80km runs that I've done [with running lights on].

Price wise, the gas we've saved in just the first month means the bike will pay for itself pretty quickly.