I Replaced my Car with an Electric Bike for One Week... Here's What I Learned

Most people say that living in Los Angeles requires owning a car to survive. Today, I challenge that assumption. With the rise of

electric

motor and battery technology, using alternative

electric

transportation, such as e-

bike

s, is more viable than ever. before But have we reached the point w

here

we can get rid of our cars completely? Let's find out. Over the next

week

, I will eliminate all...motor transportation from my life and replace it with only an electric

bike

. Gangster style. I only live about eight miles from the studio, which means using an e-bike for that is totally possible.

Plus, I have to offset some of the gas consumption this truck consumes. Good to see you. Hi Steven. Nick Nice to meet you, man. The most common thing is that people think about how much you are saving on gasoline, right? but you have wear and tear on the vehicles. You're not doing as many oil changes... tire changes, all that. The miles are so low now that your insurance has almost been cut in half, because it has less than seventy-five or one hundred miles per year, so it is considered a luxury vehicle. Of course you exercise, he said the most important thing he got from traveling was his zen time.

Changing Sam and Niko's name is a big deal. Sam and I have called it the Sam and Niko channel since it was just him and me. We're changing the name from "Sam and Niko" to "Corridor Crew," but we can't do it halfway. We need to do it right. It's not just a name change. It's a complete rebrand. If someone hasn't come to the channel in a while and sees that it says Corridor Crew, they need to know that it's the same channel and they're the same people that we need. to improve it for artistic purposes. Both Sam and I have been pretty strict, saying that we have to have everything ready to go at the same time, the little introduction to the video, the channel name, the icon change and, most importantly, the banner.

The banner must be good. They must be photos of the team. It has to talk about the team we are. Then Sam told me that he will dedicate his passion and artistry to getting a really solid banner photo for us. It sounds like it would be a great vision for us. and I'm looking forward to it. So... I'll wait for him to call me to take a photo. Oh God, why is this photo day so stressful? I'm taking pictures... but I don't really have a direction. So I'm going to improvise. See that pink line? Yes Feet on that, yes Usually toes on Looks like a cool guy Take a small step back Small step forward again.

What am I going to photograph next? That is a great photo. That's... that's a worthy profile picture. Hi Gabe. Quite natural. Just take a small step towards me. Yes, t

here

we go. Let's go straight. Go straight again Uh, relax your arms a little...

what

to write about next Lighting setup... I chose the first light that was plugged in. It is an LED blanket. We played with them last year. You get this nice, smooth diffusion. Here, you will notice that they are gangster style Yes... The bike I will be using is the Blix Comfort Prima from the electric bike company Blix.

It comes equipped with the Shimano Steps electric motor, medium drive, which is power assisted. system that allows you to ride a bike while pedaling There is no throttle and no special knowledge required All you have to do is get on the bike and the stepper motor helps you The aluminum alloy frame is built specifically for this motor and when Combines with the 700 centimeters, double wall alloy wheels and padded leather saddle and leather grips. It offers a comfortable and smooth ride. It's a commuter bike...and commuting is exactly

what

I'll be doing. It's 13 miles. 13 miles? Okay, 13 miles.

So you will get here. It will take you like, yeah, 35, 40 minutes. I mean, it's a lot of minutes. I mean, I would be interested in seeing them as much as possible, because in my experience. Los Angeles is like there aren't even sidewalks. And everyone here drives like crazy. So it's like literally the entire world is fighting against you. Yes, I am now officially on my first electric bike trip. I'm going to take mainly two rivers. Which means I'm going to walk an extra mile in a direction I don't want to go. However, there is a shortcut if...

I take a set of abandoned train tracks. I'll save about a mile on my trip. Don't take the train tracks. These Train tracks are active, okay? and I'm currently stuck, somewhere on Highway 710. Okay. This is the river path. What I really like about this power assisted system is that you can still exercise. Given the time it takes to work out at home, drive to the studio, and the time it takes to drive back at night. In fact, I think I saved half an hour a day. Los Angeles is one of the largest cities in the entire United States.

Honestly, I love riding a bike. I've loved riding a bike my whole life and it's great. And then once I moved to Los Angeles, I stopped doing it. The city was just fighting with me. It's a little scary riding a bike because cars are like... Could this go horribly wrong? Yes, and if so, then we all know that Los Angeles is the least pedestrian-friendly city in the history of the planet. Which it probably is. It's a fucking sketch over here. Clearly it is an area that is not enabled for bicycle transportation, at all. Definitely 45 minutes Hey, look, there's Wren.

Oh hey. Dude, you did it! Nice! I made it buddy Day three of the trip home And there are two things I've noticed so far Number one: Zen You get a lot of time to... think and reflect when you're here effectively alone after a day of work, you get a lot of time to think in it and when you enter you have a lot of time to think about your entrance and what you are going to do that day. So that's actually very nice. I really like number two though: know your equipment, know what you might need, um, along the way and the only way to really know your equipment is to use the equipment that you have.

I already had to cancel an appointment. I've been trying to go to the eye doctor for about a month and today I finally had the opportunity to go, but there is no possible way to take my bike to the eye doctor and go to downtown Los Angeles for another meeting. that we have in time. If I had a car, I probably would have been able to do both. but it's too far away and there's not enough time. This is not a fun day because I carry a lot of weight in this backpack, right here I carry airsoft rifles.

They are heavy. They have batteries. They have magazines with bb. I have to take them to work, I don't have a car. There's only one way to do it. Try hard Between filming and today's traffic, it will take me more than an hour. Watch this. So every time I have to cross the street I have to wait a long time for traffic because you have to roll with traffic through intersections. This is... Doing this every day and replacing it with your car is not It's not nice Uh... I know we've been planning to rebrand and I know the name of the new Corridor Crew.

But honestly, Sam has been hiding in the cave throughout this entire process. So I have no idea what the new assets will be like. It's official? Is it reversed? We are changing the name of the channel right now. How do you do it? Jake, I'm doing it right now. Question, will we have Crew jerseys now? Hell yes. Once we get the fancy new shop... Once Jake gets the merch shop back, just send them the new skins, man. Black on black. Guys, just wait, believe me. The wait at the merch store will be worth it. I promise you, buddy... yeah...

How professional! It's time to announce our million subscribers, street barbecue. Maybe we won't call it street barbecue, street meat barbecue friend. It's a meeting. Barbecue, in a park, in Los Angeles when we reached 1 million subscribers. So hit that sub button. That's what Jake forgot to finish a sentence with. We will announce it. We'll probably announce it...not here Hit the subscribe button if you want to take us to this meeting in the park. Doesn't that mean our viewers are part of the team? Yes Yes So hit the subscribe button if you want to be part of the Corridor Crew.

Thank you. Thanks Wren. Riding over 200 miles on this electric bike, I have come to the conclusion that you really can live in this city without owning a car. But that being said, you won't be able to get away with not using cars, you'll still need to rent cars, do things like rideshare from time to time just to get around this city. Because? It is 500 square miles and has been built virtually from scratch for automobiles. But... if you can find the efficiency in your life to get by with an electric bike, you really can do it and you'll save a ton of money too.

However, for me, I am not willing to give up. cars still Big thanks to bike company Blix for hooking us up with the electric bike if you're interested in trying this out for yourself. Go to blixbike.com and use the offer code to get $100 off your first bike. welcome