Demographics?

[beef_wellington]

Happy Birthday ekline!

[JinbaIttai]

32, former Navy, submarine nuke.
I ride to save $$ on gas. Emissions are meaningless.

I think the idea of going green is the silliest bull$hit ever. Carbon tax is about as big of a scam as is participating in our farcical modern day Diebold spnsored elections. I am all about saving a couple of bucks in this world, which never evolved--it was created--here we go...

[philf]

Jinba Ittai... "Rider and horse as one", or somewhat close... A romantic handle for one who just rides an e-bike for the sake of fiscal frugality.

[nomad85]

Emissions are meaningless.

Disagree. Pollution is real, no doubt less is better

Carbon tax is about as big of a scam

Agree

as is participating in our farcical modern day Diebold spnsored elections.

Lots of people say this... what is it based on? I understand that there is corruption, but it seems rather apathetic.

[rguy56]

Hey! Lots of 52 year olds.

Me too!!

Married divorced shacked up married again. Hah.

Two university educated kids still at home because I don't want them to go, two dogs, seven guitars, I honestly have lost count of the bicycles (really). Packrat, eh? err...Canadian.

Happy to be a firefighter, and love the notoriety of biking to work through winter.

Bob

[nutsandvolts]

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[nutsandvolts]

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[jetguy]

just turned 36. Italian American. male, married, no kids, used to be an aircraft mechanic for 10 years at a major airline. now i'm a jet airline pilot for the past 3 years. love to make my own toys! this e-bike is one of my top 3 creations ! it puts a huge smile on my face when i ride it (people probably think i'm high when they see me ridding around w/ my big smile on my face).
here is a pic of one of my other fav all time home made toys

[will_newton]

wow jetguy, my dog looks just like yours, but he's 13 years old. nice little setup there, you have acheived very high nerdcool status in my book.

Now let's use Tyler's handy Mad-Libs form he posted.

I'm a [36] [white dude] regularly involved in [running a jewelry store, woodworking business, and composite molding business] with [my wife], [co-owner], and [focus on original designs and repair]. I live in [a small redneck town] with [my wife, daughter, and two dogs]. I was attracted to this [e-biking] and [endless-sphere] when [I realized I could combine a love for bikes with electro-mechancal crap]. I regularly listen to [what most folks would term obnoxious music] and read [things about making stuff, lots of imaginative fiction]. I enjoy [flying RC gliders, reading] and avoid [being a dickhead, when possible, but not when necessary]. Explore more about my [jewelry business] at [www.julianewtonjewelry.com].

Hmm, Tyler I don't know if that made it easier or harder, but I think you got the gist of 99% of it.

[stevo]

37, wife, 1 kid. Got into ebiking to:
1) commute to work 11km and not have to shower (and also get there a bit faster than on a non-motorized bike)
2) get exercise on the way home from work
3) save $ on gas/parking/maintenance for car

work for the government as a Senior Operations Analyst (mostly data analysis)

I ride pretty much everyday to work unless it snows and they haven't plowed

[philf]

phil, I stumbled across this

My "GF" has Multiple Sclerosis, and it was this that brought me to e-biking. By motorizing her ride, I was able to do what I enjoyed and not have to leave her behind... The problem, though, was that she was leaving ME behind... So I got hooked, too.

I have a friend who was diagnosed with MS some 20 years ago. I hadn't seen her for a long time then recently crossed paths, she told me that for all intents and purposes she is cured! Well not totally cured, but she is no longer in a wheelchair. They had a wheelchair lift but got rid of it, because she's walking! She rides on a tandem bicycle too. She is still on medications and isn't 100% recovered but she is doing very well. So one thing is for sure: there is always hope. Best wishes to you and your GF.

Hey! Just caught this. Thanks! Actually, the latest meds have really been producing positive results (Rebif). It's taken a while to feel out whether there was any conclusive evidence to suggest that these (expensive) meds actually *DO* anything, but judging from the community of people she's a part of that compare notes regularly, I think there's something good going on.

Alison isn't currently anywhere close to the level of debilitation that many with MS suffer, though there have been a few particular episodes that were pretty scary. Right now, she's pretty close to "normal" (whatever that means), even if she is de-conditioned a bit.

There are some people that we've found online, though, that have MUCH more going on with respect to MS (very progressive), and yet who are really inspiring. And there's a connection to the whole EV thing...

I give you Marc, the Wheelchair Kamikaze...

http://www.wheelchairkamikaze.com/

Check out his videos. Marc's a sharp guy whose career was buggered up unfairly, and yet he remains remarkably up-beat, and offers himself up for any kind of scientific experiment which might help himself or others. The flavour of MS that he has is of the more progressive kind. When I look at his Wheelchair Kamikaze videos, though, I just get this hankering to go to New York and pimp his ride, if you know what I mean .

Apologies - didn't mean to hijack the sharing of demographics - if we want to get going on the subject of wheelchair hyper-drive, I should start a new thread.

(No actual edits - IE8 sucks).

[nutsandvolts]

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[spinningmagnets]

49 in 2009, born and raised in SoCal, last 6 years in SW Utah, Just moved to NE Kansas (near Ft Riley).

4 years as a submarine mechanic in A-div, USS Guitarro. Got married, had three boys, got divorced after 6 years, took two years off from women, been married for 16 years to wonderful second wife. Must have told too many military stories, 2 sons in Army, one in Navy.

Have two dogs. I read a lot. I'm drawn to self-sufficiency info and history of primitive tech, Mad Max/MacGuyver stuff. Recently been operating a dump truck.

2010-Now running a water plant (soften the water with lime and add chlorine, filter and send to the city water lines).

[mclovin]

Just turned 43 (but still act 32), mechanical engineer who designed industrial machinery then started an organic donut company then got into design software sales and professional services. No kids, never married but that's about to change. I'm moving to Beijing, China next month and will marry a nice Chinese women. I got into ebikes when I started riding my bike to work but didn't like getting there all sweaty so ebikes seemed like the logical answer. Now I'm in to them for different reasons.

I figure that transportation as we know it is about to change drastically and will become very EV centric. So, I feel that it is a smart move to know more about the E side of EVs. ALso, it ties in well with inustrial machinery design as they are all driven by electric motors and such. And besides ebikes are SO much fun!

[Sputnik]

21, male, unmarried, no kids, no job. Studying E&E engineering. Have an insane passion for electric vehicles, but no e-vehicle of my own, nor the money for one

Other interests include (but not limited to) computers, programming, distributed computing, home automation, and renewable energy.

Sputnik

[full-throttle]

Thanks for sharing, everyone!

Melbourne, Australia. Turning 33, getting married to a wonderful girl. Been into bikes and electronics since around 14. Ridden and raced XC, DH, enduro, SS, road and did some touring. Work with a few other e-bikers on the forum in medical instrument business as a electronics design eng. Commuting on EB is great, thanks Mark_AW for getting me into this!

[AussieJester]

Think most of the regulars know my background for those that don't 40 years old married once one
child (hes now 21) I been in a wheelchair since a motorcycle accident in 1992 Live in Perth Western Australia
into ebikes (at the moment) fishing, pc modding and gaming...

KiM

[GCinDC]

Youth in MD suburbs, High School in MA. Built mini-bikes, go carts, dune buggies. Biked everywhere. Wanted to be an architect but majored in English in college. Spent junior year in Kenya. After college, traveled around the world for 2 years, including freight ship from Athens to Tokyo. Joined web startup in 1993. Gov't contractor for 11 years now, paying bills.

In 01, apartment burned down, fell in love, bought a tear-down, built a new house in 03, married & moved in '04, started having kids. Hilly neighborhood and wife like to ride bikes but hills were too much... First thought of motorized bike for her commute....

Now look at me... Pretty soon I'll be back building go-carts...

[yopappamon]

49, married forever, 2 small dogs, 2 large children. Electrical engineer speciallizing in industrial controls and automation.

[nikos7]

39, married 3 1/2 years ago, first child on the way, graduated CalPoly SLO in industrial/manufacturing engineering, built custom bicycle frames since '84, raced mountain bikes and dirt bikes, work as a QA/manufacturing engineer at a large company that makes high-end fitness equipment, found the best online forum here at ES, hope to make a contribution to the world of electric powered bikes.

[dozentrio]

I'm a 26 year old guy, soon (eventually?) to be married to my awesome girlfriend, finally graduating from school this May with my bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering. I work in a research lab for one of my professors on omni-directional mobile robots, industrial robot arm control, flying robots and the like. I have a great contempt for things which are not as good as they could/should be, and a strong urge to try to make them better. I like to drive my Audi too fast, and I hate trying to fix it when it breaks. I have two cats, Osiris and Isis... they did not and never will have a kitten named Horus. I got into ebikes when I saw a gas-conversion kit droning by my apartment one day. And thought I could do it better. Oh, the avatar is because my girlfriend has this thing about bushy eyebrows. She hates them, and I tease her with it.

[Airstream4Two]

That's OK, you look just fine in your bushy eye brows, but you might want to look into a face lift or something. You sure you are 26???? LOL Just kiddin!

I am not sure if I am the first female to post yet. I don't remember seeing one on any of the first pages this post has.

So, female 51 and counting, happily married for 23 years, two wonderful kids, boy in 2nd year of University, girl off to University in September to play on their Varsity Women's hockey team. Very proud of both. Now after 12 years of almost living in arenas and rinks coming to a close, we are looking to do more travelling. We have an RV and two years ago bought two folding Bicycles. However the campground in Myrtle Beach we have discovered that we see ourselves becoming frequent flyers of this wonderful campground on the ocean. (and I am not talking about actually flying as I started chickening out on that in the past 5 years or so). Noticed everyone drives around in golf carts as it is a long walk around the park and to the oceanside beach,but they are $300 a week to rent!. Saw a couple on electric scooters and decided I had to get us some. However, unless in a private park or property up here in Canada, they are illegal. So hubby suggested we look at electric bicycles that fold up into our RV. We can use them here in Ontario or anywhere in Canada and I am so excited waiting for these units to arrive around May 15 - a week before the long weekend. Pleasssseeeee don't let anything happen with the shipment to delay me getting them.
The extent of your ebike experience was the quick test ride we did at the company where we recently put a downpayment for two of these wonderful ebikes. Hubby is pretty handy with cars and is the go to person for his whole family if something needs fixing. So one day, hopefully, I'd like to get him to come online here and after reading pertinent threads, help me to convert my mountain bike with an ebike kit. But this is my dream and may not be his, we'll see.
We both work for EMS , like to go on cruises, travel in our RV, go to restaurants and movies with friends. Hubby and I and two other family members renovate homes on the side when not working at our real jobs.

[electraflyit]

Male 56, married 32, children 3, dogs 2, cat 1, no grandchildren....
Been into bikes since I got a 500cc BSA at 12. (Still in the family)
Ebiker 2 (will be forever now)
Eddie

[geekybiker]

34, DINK, Teach motion capture at media college and run several sound stages.

[Rifle]

24, male, graduated with a degree in meteorology but currently work with developmentally disabled adults. Been active my whole life but 5 years ago my legs started going to crap, so I eventually came up with this as a way to still be somewhat active and out in the world.

So age wise ES seems pretty diverse, but so few women. You'd think this was a chess forum.