E-bike is not a strange word for many people around us, but it could have different meanings to different people. To most people, when they think of e-bike, they would think of a few thousand Ringgit electric bicycle from China that doesn’t require pedaling. To them, it is like an electric scooter that commutes aunty from home to pasar.

However, to a cyclist, an e-bike is a battery-powered bicycle with the pedal assist that would easily cost them a fortune. And we are going to talk about e-bike for cyclists today, instead of e-bike to most common people.

9 Benefits of Having an E-bike

1. E-bike can help you to go further

The pedal assisted e-bike can prolong your ride, according to your preference. As long as you have the desire, cycling 50-100km is achievable using an e-bike. Besides traveling further, an e-bike can help you reach the destination faster too.

An e-bike allows you to travel at the speed of 40km/h either a road bike or even a mountain bike without sweating yourself too much. Your journey would be a lot different if you are using an e-bike.

2. E-bike is fun

Imagine when it takes minimum effort to accelerate your bike from 0km/h – 40km/h. Imagine you can change your riding mode, according to your mood, to your preference or the riding condition. The technology in an e-bike is fun to play with, just like when you are driving a turbocharged car, that allows you to switch between eco mode, normal mode and sport mode.

3. E-bike will increase your cycling frequency

What would you usually do if had found a new joy in life? The answer is, you will do it more. Having a fun e-bike is a very good excuse for you to skip sleeping and exercise more. How nice it is if you can have fun while exercising.

4. Allows you to challenge what you had failed so far

E-bike allows everyone to become a pro (depend on what model of e-bike). By lifting your standard, you can do whatever you had been wanting to do but had failed so far.

Unable to go up a steep hill with your mountain bike? No problem. Unable to complete the whole trip with your road bike? No problem. The battery powered e-bike will help you to fulfill your dream.

An e-bike is a great option for mountain bikers, who always spend a long time going uphill. The journey will be more fun if most of your time is spent downhill, rather than going steep uphill.

5. Fast but safe

E-bike is safer than a normal bike. The pedal assist allows more agility to the bike and more acceleration to the bike whenever the rider needed to. The rider will also not have to beat the traffic light by being afraid of losing momentum to stop at a red light, as the pick up will not be a big hurdle for cyclists anymore.

6. E-bike can become your transportation and save you money

Malaysia is hot. It is not a good idea to use an e-bike to cycling to work. However, it could still be one of our transportation at night, when it is no longer hot.

It is not a big problem if you want to ride your e-bike anywhere, as you can always lock your e-bike preventing theft. Besides, it won’t make you sweat too if you don’t want to, by cycling slowly. Hence, you will save a little bit of petrol money while doing some light exercises.

7. Help you to keep you fit, and maintain your fitness

E-bike is still a bike, that requires you to pedal. By prolonging your ride, you are maintaining your health equally than riding a regular bike, if you choose the minimum assist from the motor. Find out the health benefits of cycling here.

8. Explore the world

Having an e-bike will allow you to travel to more places than you had ever been. The battery, the electric motor will help you travel further to where ever you had not been. Besides, it gives you the confidence to join those cyclist groups who are better than you. And now, you have more options of which cycling group to join.

9. E-bike is the future of bicycle

Technology is catching up in our life, and it is catching up fast. The day of e-bike becoming mainstream bicycle not far from now.

Sooner or later, you will have to accept e-bike, no matter you like it or not. So, why not explore e-bike yourself?

Visit our dealers’ showroom to test ride an e-bike. It would be fun and the experience will not be forgettable, I can guarantee you.