The phrase ‘gotta get my steps in’ has become part of everyday life. But what if there were a simpler, faster way to meet your daily activity needs?
The phrase ‘gotta get my steps in’ has become part of everyday life. But what if there were a simpler, faster way to meet your daily activity needs?
Most of car’s costs are milage related. Wear and tear mostly happen from using it. Some insurance costs scale based on milage. Oil changes, tire changes, gas, other repairs, etc mostly scale with milage. So even if you can’t replace the car, if you offset 3000 miles over the lifetime of the bike, it mostly pays for itself (although after 3000 miles on a weighty ebike, you might also need $400 in repairs/maintenance and maybe like $50 in charging costs?
But offsetting is a big if. Im certainly lucky where I live (granted I have based where I live partly off having bikeable infrastructure)
Yeah, that’s fair. I’ve put 2500 miles on my cargo bike since I got it just over a year ago. Bike was $1700, plus various accessories, probably $2500 in total.
Replaced the tires for $100, a few tubes, maybe $20, and the freewheel for $20. I do my own maintenance so no labor.
I doubt charging was that much, it’s pretty damn cheap to charge it.
I think $50 may be accurate if you ride uphill both ways and charge it in hawaii. Definitely nowhere near that for normal use.