Electric bikes can be a great form of exercise and fun for RVers. Many of them fold up small, so they can fit in your RV’s storage or undercarriage, and those with tired knees and joints won’t have to pedal as much, or as hard.
Carrying a bike with you on your travels allows you to see the campground, or area, in a whole new light. Cover twice the amount of territory, explore new trails, and even meet new friends.
Our own Nanci Dixon loves her Lectric eBike and highly recommends it for RVers.
Want to learn even more about e-bikes for RVers? Watch this video.
The older one gets the less one wants to break the old bones. Plus the weight is a lot to move in or on the RV.
Wear a helmet. The ground is tougher than your skull.
we have 2 e bikes. 50 mile range with pedal assist. We like them and take them with us depending where we travel too….. The downside is (1) they are heavy. Additionally (2) we had to get a heavy duty bike rack ($$) to mount in our motorhome’s receiver hitch. (3) With the bike rack we can not utilize the tow dolly to tow a car. So we kinda have to decide the car or bikes on our trips. But we do like having them!
Have you considered a 2″ receiver on the toad and install the bike rack on it?
We have a receiver mount that has it’s own 2″ receiver to slide the bike rack into and also has a ball mount below that to tow our trailer or car at the same time. I think I purchased it at HF.
We’re on our second set of ebikes. The first ones I built from kits. Front wheel drive, added rear cargo racks to hold the batteries, installed the kits and wired them up. They were great for about 5 years. Then last year we decided to get fat tire ebikes for sandy FL trails and beaches. WOW! They’re spectacular. We bought them both on sale. The downside is they have half the range of the ebikes I built. A positive is they’re PAS, pedal assist, bikes which means you must pedal to get the assist. We’re both seniors and no longer have the muscle mass to do the things we did in our youth. These help.
Possibly would have been a more accurate response for us. We toss the idea around. We even test rode a couple. We like them but are still on the fence.
Before buying an ebike, see how easy it is to remove and install the battery. Much lighter to load and unload without the battery mounted.
Zero interest in an electric bike, scooter, moped, any 4-wheeled vehicle. The reasoning behind electric cars is one of the largest, if not the largest, scams of all time. Hybrid vehicles make much more sense.
My Pedal assist bike is a hybrid…electric if I need it and human power if I want to.
We already have light weight pedal assist electric bikes. We are too old to want to huff and puff and sweat when going up inclines. We use them in campgrounds for sightseeing and going to a store if not too far away. If we run out of battery power we can still pedal back to the rv. They weigh 49 lbs, so are pretty easy to load also.
Thank you, RV Travel! 🙂 Interesting to see how near full saturation these results imply the market for ebikes may be. Quite interesting results, at least currently (@ 952 votes). Thanks again, have a great week, safe travels, and safe stays! 🙂
I did, but I may have done poorly. So we could carry it inside the coach, I bought a pair of 14″ folding bikes. While the plan may have had merit, the bikes are very difficult to handle and not very comfortable to ride.
I had a pedal assist when I worked. Now retired and no longer need it.
I answered already own one but mine is actually a trike. For my situation it is worth its weight in gold. We use our MH to travel to draft horse hitch shows. It allows me to run back and forth from camping area to barn aś often as needed. That is often a pretty good distance. Plus the rear basket is great for transporting things. Mine folds or breaks apart for easy loading.
Answered “Already own one” but technically we have electric sit-down scooters; lighter, carry up to 350#, 20 mph, 30 mile range, and can carry items back from the camp store. As an added bonus, they can fit in the toad as the handlebars fold down.
One to replace the one that just got stolen at the campground (military) I am at. AAAAGGGH.
I am 68 and still ride my road bike.