I Wanted a Rowing Machine. I Built an eBike Instead.

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I bought the bike in early 2019, and not for any considered reason. A coworker rode it into the office one day and I liked the look of it. When he moved away not long after, he asked if I wanted it, and I said yes.

Then I barely rode it. Commuting on it never even occurred to me at the time. At some point we moved house and the bike stayed behind at my parents’, where I mostly forgot it existed. I brought it back in mid-2023, gave it a clean, and then promptly forgot about it again.

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I Wanted a Rowing Machine. I Built an eBike Instead.