Is an electric bike the way forward? | BBC Radio Solent’s Lou Hannan

For instance, I by no means owned a pair of curler skates, didn’t go right into a nightclub till I used to be 35 (and that was throughout the daytime for a piece mission) and have by no means been bowling.

I feel the latter level is one thing to do with my lack of ability to get my head round sharing a pair of sneakers…however I digress.

One in all my different childhood failures was attending to grips with driving a motorbike.

I learnt sufficient to go my biking proficiency take a look at (bear in mind these?!) and even loved it however being the nervous little one I used to be, I by no means fairly plucked up the braveness to stick with it and due to this fact received a bit rusty.

It was final 12 months after I received again on a motorbike for the primary time since I used to be 12.

A superb, ahem, 20-or-so years later, and it seems the adage ‘it’s like driving a motorbike’ is totally unfaithful.

Nonetheless, decided to not be overwhelmed, I persevered with the assistance of a stunning girl from a neighborhood biking group, and managed an entire lap of the park.

I quickly realised my downside wasn’t steadiness or confidence, it was stopping.

For some purpose, my mind and physique can’t coordinate the way to cease pedalling, braking and coming to a standstill all on the similar time and as an alternative I seem like some kind of sub-standard circus act as I try and dismount whereas touring at pace.

Given electrical bikes have been within the information quite a bit recently after Simon Cowell fell off his and broke his again in Miami, I questioned if perhaps the E-bike was the best way ahead and talked about it on the radio the opposite day.

I couldn’t imagine the quantity of people that known as in, extolling the virtues of the electrical bike and even in a single case, the electrical trike.

The sale of E-bikes within the UK has risen to round 50,000 a 12 months with lockdown anticipated to see much more of a surge.

From aiding well being circumstances and enhancing health to easing commutes and saving cash, there appears to be infinite the explanation why folks select them nevertheless, I’m nonetheless but to present it a go.

I simply hope I’ll have the ability to cease this time!