3 Tips for Taking Long E Bike Rides: What You Need to Know Before

Want to take long Ebike trips? I have three tips for you. Stick around.

Hey everyone, I'm Dustin. I've nearly 20 years of experience in the bike and Ebike industry. Today I'm going to give you three tips for taking long E bike rides. But before I get into it, hit that subscribe button below. Stay in touch with us here at sixthreezero. Be the first to know about all the new content we're doing, giveaways we do, and of course, new product releases.

I've got the simple step through E-bike right here. If you like the looks of this, it's linked in the description below, also linked in the corner of the video.

All right, we are in beautiful Dana Point, California right now. This is a specific area called Capo Beach. We've got a good section of path down here that you can ride by the ocean if you want to do a few miles. I've done it several times. I feel like it's about seven to 10 miles if you take it as far as you can.

Now, if you're thinking about doing a long E-bike ride, I would say anything over 10 miles is a good, pretty good length E-bike ride, especially if you're going to go five miles away from your house. At any point you're going to be five miles away at the furthest point, that's pretty far. Even a couple of miles is pretty far, but really, 10 miles and over round trip is a pretty far distance. But I would also say if you do 10 miles but never go, let's say a mile from your house, that's a lot less to consider than when you're doing that. But if you're going to ride five miles out, five miles back, or even 10 miles out, 10 miles back, or even 15 miles out, 15 miles back, you're going to be far away from home at any given point, so I've got three really important tips to taking long Ebike rides to make sure not only are you safe, but you can get home properly.

All right, let's get into it. I'm going to give you my most obvious tip right away, which is number one, bring water. Now seems obvious, but some people might be like, "Oh, I'm going to be back in a half hour. I don't need water." Well, and even on an E-bike, you may exert some effort because if you tackle some big hills and you use the pedal assist, you're still going to build up some thirst and be thirsty. If for whatever reason you get trapped somewhere, you end up being out longer than you expected, bring water. You can have a bag back here. You can put a water bottle holder on right here. There are lots of ways to carry water with you when you go on your E-bike rides.

Now, let me get into two of the more important tips. Well, not to say bringing water is not important. Number one, put some form of flat deterrent inside your tubes. There's something called slime that you can put inside your tubes. There's also another product out there, which I believe is called FlatOut, something of that nature. You can find it on Amazon. If you put it into your tires and tubes before you ride, it's going to not prevent you from getting a puncture, but it should prevent the tire from going flat. In the case of slime, you line your tubes in it and if it punctures, the slime disperses so you don't lose air in the tube. A lot of times it can prolong the life of the tube just as long as it would've gone if it hadn't been punctured in any way, shape, or form.

Now in conjunction with tip number two, as I was going to suggest, either bring a pump with you because even if you have a slow leak, you can pump the tire to get you where you need to go, maybe call somebody to pick you up or to give you just enough air in your tire to get home. The other thing you could try to do is bring a patch kit. That's going to be very difficult though for a lot of people to patch it. The other thing I'd recommend is bringing an extra tube and a toolkit to possibly replace your tire if you can do that. Now, my number two tip encapsulates all sorts of things. It's really about being precautious and bringing the necessary things to allow you to get home if you get a flat tire. Now, a lot of professional road cyclists bring the necessary tools or pumps to be able to replace a tire... Sorry, a tube on your bike.

Now if you don't know and you're inexperienced, inside the tire of E-bikes is a tube. If it gets punctured and it goes flat, it's not the tire that's going flat, it's the tube inside the tire. When you talk about patching, you're going to be patching the tube, not the actual tire. Now on an E-bike, changing out, if you have a rear hub motor, it could be a little more complicated to change the tube inside of that tire versus a front tire. You could carry one extra tube with you and if you get a front flat tire, that could be a little bit easier to change the tube. If you get a rear flat tire, hopefully, you put some slime or the FlatOut in your tire before riding. That's my number one recommendation.

Also, carry a small tube with you. Worst case you can pump the tire a little bit every little bit of distance you go, which can at least help you get home. The goal is at least to get you home, or get you to a local bike shop if they can help fix the flat for you as well.

Number two tip, before you ride, slime inside your tires or flatOut inside the tires, carry a pump with you, and carry an extra tube with you on all rides.

My number three tip is an extra battery. Now this may not be conducive to everybody. This is only for long E-bike rides. Again, if you're going to be... I would say in this case, if you're going to be 10 miles away from home, so 10 miles out, 10 miles back, 20-mile rides, if you don't want to have to go without electricity and you're planning to go north of 20 miles or 20 miles or more, I would carry an extra battery. Now, in most cases, like our E-bikes, I advertise they can go up to 50 miles.

This is true under certain conditions, but if you have lots of hills or you decide to use pedal assist level five, or the throttle more than you anticipated, you're going to drain that battery more. Or if you have heavy winds going in one direction and you start using the pedal assist more to combat them, you're going to drain that battery quicker.

If you don't have any fear about the battery dying at any point and you can pedal back on your power, don't worry about it. But if you want to make sure you always have the electric, bring an extra battery with you. It's going to give you peace of mind to go out there and take on much longer rides and not be afraid to use your pedal assist or your throttle. Now again, I'm talking about rides where you're 10 miles away from your starting point or your home.

Again, if you do 20-mile rides but you're no farther than two miles away, I don't necessarily believe you need to bring an extra battery with you. I've had this happen to me before though where I was 11 miles away from where I wanted to get to and I had a flat tire. At that point, I didn't have many choices and the person I called for my ride didn't pick up. I went to a gas station, got some air, and I had to ride home on a flat tire. After that, I learned my lesson, which is I need to get the slime in my tires, I need to carry an extra tube and just be precautionary so that in case this happens to me again, I can ride home under my power.

E-bikes are taking people farther distances than people go in cars. A lot of cars have spare tires, or they have the capability to give you an extra 50, or 60 miles of driving so you can at least get somewhere to be safe and get your situation taken care of.

E-bikes are not necessarily equipped with the same technology in the tires, so we just need to make sure that we take the precautions necessary, like I said, by putting the slime in your tires, carrying extra batteries if you're going on those long E-bike rides.

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