- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
If only they did 60 miles reliably on one charge ...........................Electric mountain bikes are the way forward for stock checking,take the vat off and tax relief,no brainer.
Farm bike - do you have one?
- Thread starter HolzKopf
- Start date
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
They are seriously good - must admit I was really sceptical but that all evaporated in about 150 metres. Gobfuls of torque and low COG, it feels like a mountain bike with a cinderblock where the pedals would be.
Two wheel drive is better than expected, a bit "funny" when standing up at low speed as they almost seem jerky until you get them lined up and then you're off.
My next farm bike will be one of these
betweenthelines
Member
- Location
- southwest
Girl who does the milking 4 afternoons a week, "knows" the tractor driver and a couple of lads down the village, but I wouldn't say she's a bike
- Location
- Scottish Borders
I know the Atv services lot well, I’ll enquire if I can blag a test drive of one . I did watch a video last week of the NZ army driving a mob of them .
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Be interested to hear what you think - a mate has a fleet of 6 of them. I may be one of the first people to land a backflip on an UBCO electric bike
Cowabunga
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- Location
- Ceredigion,Wales
Years and years, no, decades ago I did. I worked on a farm that even had ramps for bikes to glide over hedges and fences between fields. Used to check and move irrigation pipes using a bike. Riding down potato rows on a bike requires a bit of concentration!Steady, steady, no googling otherwise you'll come up with something completely unintended
Anyway, I tend to walk around the place a lot. With dog, without dog. If it's a job and a tractor isn't needed then it's the old Hilux. But what about a bike? Not the pedal type, one with a motor.
Years ago I rode a Yamaha XT125 about the place. Road legal but it needn't have been. 6v electrics, lights went out on tickover when the battery was feeling the cold.
Forget quads and utv's - anyone checking the fences, gates and stock on a motorsickle? If so, what?
HK
A fairly near neighbour at home also used a bike for years, but he retired early. I got old early I'm afraid and haven't ridden a motorbike in nearly 45 years now. I'm still alive to tell the tale.
Basically I took the view that with a herd of dairy cows messing on my lane daily, when it gets damp in mid-summer like now, it gets very slippery indeed and while I can do slides and skid-turns on the quad, I would probably kill myself on a motorcycle.
Same here wombat. Dead handy when other end of village drilling , Soon back to yard for loader. Or from house. Down yard.I have a farm push bike does that count? gets hung on the back of trailers and all over as we move about
I looked into the UBCO about 2 years ago however the importers were just a bike shop and I wasn’t impressed with them but think the bike is great.
The other thing was the price they were wanting,think it was something like £5.5 k.
I think you’ll find they will do that and if you had to pedal a couple of miles without battery it’s not the end of the world.
Saw a local guy out on his yesterday which is an electrically assisted road touring bike and he explained it as allowing you to pedal as if you are on the flat.
Also he has the function to preset the route so the bike calculates the spread of battery energy so it lasts until you get back.
Theres a lot of clever tech in these new electric bikes,different assistance levels etc.
@JP1 ,get a demo and give us a review.
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
I weaned some calves last night and for various reasons tried to drive the cows away from the catching pen one further field away. After much running in the heat (30 degrees at 7pm), eventually I got the cows and bull away bar two cows. So I penned them next to the catching pen and miraculously they loaded in my trailer so I carted them across the field before getting the calves away. Fudge running out of battery and pedalling. I'm lucky most of my away groups get lookered in the week but if I have to do it it's 60 mile round trip. After 500 charges I still want that ebike / electric scooter to have an 85 mile range before I embark etc
Ratbadger2
Member
- Location
- Jedburgh. Scottish Borders
i use mine fairly regularly sold the Suzuki to buy the ktm only a 200 but lovely and light and plenty fast enough it’s much better for farm riding than the full bore crosser
yep but he doesn't like to do extrasRemote control Electric gates? Of maybe a fencing contractor who has a digger to move the gates and drive to a handier location.
I know a chap I would recommend I will pass you his number on
- Location
- Scottish Borders
They should be fine now, I would expect Atv services would be one of the biggest sellers of Atv’s in Scotland. I’ll give him a ring and report back !
Dman2
Member
- Location
- Durham, UK
Used to have a Yamaha DT250
Then one really wet year decided to turn it into a trike to get some slug pellets on
worked so well someone bugger nicked it
Then one really wet year decided to turn it into a trike to get some slug pellets on
worked so well someone bugger nicked it
8100
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- Location
- South Cheshire
I had a old Honda TL 125 trials bike for the landfill as you were working some distance from the canteen the time you got there your break time was over if you walked it .
Their worth a few quid now but i near give it away.
Their worth a few quid now but i near give it away.
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Not sure if we'll ever get the Honda CT125 Hunter Cub in the UK either - mpg impressive
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With the ability to do a claimed 190 miles per gallon
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