Sean is joined again by Mike Stead from www.road.cc to discuss the growth of touring by eBikes and the rise of infrastructure that supports this. Mike has particular insight into this as he has facilitated four new Bosch charging stations on the www.Perthshiregravel.com route he has been instrumental in creating.Other charging stations can be found here https://www.bosch-ebike.com/en/service/powerstations/Of course it wouldn’t be a new genre of cycling without new bikes, right? The German manufacturers in particular have been heads down for a few years working on just this, the ‘Trekking eMTB’. With models as radical as the Nikolai G1 Eboxx e14 https://en.nicolai-bicycles.com/bike/g1-eboxx-e14/ through to the similar but more sedate Reise und Muller Delite https://www.r-m.de/en-gb/bikes/delite/ this genre looks to appeal to hardcore shredders and a completely new market too.Of course, we always come across a few funny gems along the way. Here’s the electric trailer we mentioned. https://ridekick.com/Here’s the cargo eBike trip with a dog Mike mentions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX_uhdP3SM0&ab_channel=THESEARCH A nice film by Marcus Stitz about the Perthshire Gravel routeshttps://youtu.be/r29PQeOjtZ8Ed Oxley’s European odyssey on a freight eBike https://ebiketips.road.cc/content/news/video-900-miles-across-europe-on-an-e-cargo-bike-1389

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