Any other full timers here? Introducing Texx Smith

[texxs]

Hi!
My name is Texx Smith and I'm a lifelong full-time cyclist. By full-time cyclist, I mean that my primary means of transportation is and has been a bicycle. Yes even in the rain and even in the winter. Sure there have been some periods in my life when I've owned a car, but they never last long. I love cycling and the freedom it gives me.
Now that I'm 311 years old (okay 50 something) and live in the Appalachian foothills (rural North GA, Dawsonville area), I got an electric bike and can finally return to the roads after a long recuperation for an injury. Ironically that injury, a broken neck) was caused when I was rear-ended in a car. Sadly it has to be an electric bike for me because of other health problems, heart and lungs, prevent me from even getting out of my neighborhood on a nonpowered bike.
Thank God for electric bikes!

I'm new to electric bikes so I hope to learn a lot here!

I'm very poor right now because I haven't been able to work for long. But now I'm mobile finally and coming on up!

I have an old school Cannondale (no suspension at all), with a 500W motor conversion kit attached but I'm saving for my forever bike.

I ride on asphalt mostly for commuting, but I find it incredibly difficult to pass up a trail. I also like to do some tricks when I'm riding street but there isn't much of an environment for me to do that here in the country and I can't lift the heavy motor on my rear wheel on my current bike anyway so...
Right now the primary concern to my family and I, is for me to be able to get back and forth to work, shopping etc.

[max_volt]

Welcome and glad you are back in the saddle. Why did that bird think he had the right to photobomb you?

[texxs]

That was one fearsome scrub jay. I had no choice but to do exactly as he said while he demanded my fiance' (now my wife) take a photo.

[HIGHVOLTAGE]

Ah, very nice build. Very clean wiring setup. Welcome to the forum

[texxs]

Thanks, got the new bike already! That was fast whuh? It's a Luna Cycle too..

[commuter ebikes]

I'm a full timer. I hate cars!

[texxs]

I'm a full timer. I hate cars!

Thank goodness, I thought it was just me.

[commuter ebikes]

Thank goodness, I thought it was just me.

Riding my bike is always the best part of my day; often it is the only good part of my day. Having no car, I am sure to get in a ride every day.

I even look forward to going to work since it is a 15 minute bike ride. I ride home about 3 AM so I practically have the streets to myself.

[texxs]

Kinda sounds like you work in a bar? I used to. Had trouble finding a place to keep my bike. Always wondering If I'd have the bike when I got off work. After it got stolen another time when I was injured I hit my boss(the owner) up for a ride home after work for a few days in a row. And lo and behold he took me bike shopping, loaned me the money to buy a new one and made a spot for me to keep it inside while I worked.

[commuter ebikes]

I work at UPS. Sometimes I work a split shift. I ride to work at 4:30 AM. I ride my bike home at 11 AM, ride the bike back to work to start my second shift at 3 PM, and I end my day riding home at 9:30 PM, so lots of bike riding just like I like it. We have very nice bicycle parking inside the building.

[texxs]

That's awesome. Awesome for UPS and awesome for you!

[Hard Tail]

Welcome aboard texxs. I really enjoy hearing of others journeys and circumstances getting into ebikes. That's just fantastic that this technology facilitates you getting back in the saddle and back on the tracks. That's not a bad set of wheels there, similar to what my son commutes on to uni on for last 3 years. Hope it serves you well and if/ when you decide to move up, you,re in the right place for ideas and assistance.