>>1354862>If you can't charge it one day, you still have a fully functioning bicycle. The added weight of the battery and the motor makes little difference if your bike is loaded anyway.They generally weigh 20+ kg. It's quite a liability especially with a loaded bike. Probably means you can't lift it over a fence without removing the bags. And riding or pushing a loaded bike up steep hills is already very hard.
If you're sticking to a definite route and plan your stops closer together it would be great. Give you more energy for sightseeing and stuff and let less fit people do it.
But if you wanted to explore backcountry routes and have flexibility to change your plans, it could be a serious liability.
Plus if you buy it, it's going to add around $1000 to your cost and in reality most people will just get a significantly worse bike instead of paying more.
Not a huge issue for comfy slow riding along a flattish euro bike path route or something but if you're doing harder routes and especially if the battery dies, having a cheap low spec hardtail not a nice touring bike would really suck.
I think most people who do 'e-bike tours' rent the bikes and do them on common routes through tour operators. Which sounds like a lot of fun for a boomer or anyone really. But it's less adventurous than most regular bike tours or what people do on motorcross bikes.
Are you actually thinking about doing something like this op?
