After Auspost stopped buying them, Honda re-released the postie as a CT125 with ABS brakes and EFI and LED lights, and a premium cost. Which to me defeats the purpose of the thing, but what would I know about marketing

[kels_316@aus.social]

@liamvhogan @vwdasher @nacho_borracho thats the e-bike niche now

[liamvhogan@aus.social]

@Kels_316 @vwdasher @nacho_borracho yep. Also e-bikes fill the ‘flogged to shit workhorse that will last as long as rego compliance is economical and no longer’ of delivery riders and that’s the association I have with posties

[trif@aus.social]

@liamvhogan

[liamvhogan@aus.social]

The difference between a postie bike and the average e-bike is that on the CT110 you have a back-upright, elbows-out, knees aside riding stance, like the Buddha tear-arsing at 40km/h, and that’s a form of transcendent serenity no e-bike has yet managed

[morebento@aus.social]

@liamvhogan they are heavy as anything too

[thermitebegiants@aus.social]

@liamvhogan the delivery e-bikes that I see have riders using that stance though

[thedropbear@aus.social]

@liamvhogan what have I missed out!?

[leahmac@aus.social]

@Kels_316 @vwdasher @nacho_borracho @liamvhogan considered joining one of postie bike challenges back in the day but preferred my YZF600. Had a few friends do the trek to Alice Springs on postie bikes in early 2000s. Here’s a collection of postie bike challenges that show some of the fun and games https://traveloutbackaustralia.com/5-awesome-outback-postie-bike-adventures.html/

[vwdasher@weird.autos]

@leahmac @Kels_316 @nacho_borracho @liamvhogan Hobart to the Alice on a postie bike? Holy shit

[kels_316@aus.social]

@vwdasher @leahmac @nacho_borracho @liamvhogan this would almost drag me back onto a bike.

[liamvhogan@aus.social]

@Kels_316 @vwdasher @leahmac @nacho_borracho you'd get to like Albury driving at 90km/h on the motorway and start saying FUCK THIS

[kels_316@aus.social]

@liamvhogan @vwdasher @leahmac @nacho_borracho only an insane person would take one on the freeway, but you could scoot down the great ocean road, up through the backblocks of SA and avoid pretty much all fuckery.

[liamvhogan@aus.social]

@Kels_316 @vwdasher @leahmac @nacho_borracho yeah we're all thinking about it now

[kels_316@aus.social]

@liamvhogan @vwdasher @leahmac @nacho_borracho thinking more about this, you could get pretty much to the NT border without going on a major road. Dunno how you'd go with fuel range.

[liamvhogan@aus.social]

@Kels_316 @vwdasher @leahmac @nacho_borracho my motorbike has this kind of fuel tank limit and I've investigated this (during lockdown when long distances were against the law) and yeah it's only really once you get past Alice Springs that roadhouses are >150km separated. You could do the Nullarbor, no problem

[liamvhogan@aus.social]

@Kels_316 @vwdasher @leahmac @nacho_borracho if you had a setup to carry a 10L can or soft bladder, you'd be sweet.

[kels_316@aus.social]

@liamvhogan @vwdasher @leahmac @nacho_borracho thats probably right on the main roads, not sure about the back roads but it can't be too bad. Plus you can get those little fuel bladders....

[kels_316@aus.social]

@liamvhogan @vwdasher @leahmac @nacho_borracho snap

[liamvhogan@aus.social]

@Kels_316 @vwdasher @leahmac @nacho_borracho or a support car obviously

[ben_hr@old.mermaid.town]

@liamvhogan @Kels_316 @vwdasher @leahmac @nacho_borracho I'm thinking how shattered my coccyx would be after a couple of hundred kms