My name is Hugues, we are in the Haut-Languedoc Park, in the Hérault region. We work on 300 hectares. We have 180 sheep, about sixty goats, and we raise free-range pigs. Ten years ago, I faced health problems, I had arthritis, I could hardly walk.

When I went to see the rheumatologist, he told me that I would have to change jobs, it was not possible!

I found an electric bike solution on the internet. Because we had tried a quad, but the quad smokes, it makes noise, even when waiting for the animals, it pollutes, it’s noisy, it’s unpleasant. It overheats when going uphill.

I found the idea interesting, and then I contacted them, I went to see them, and from there I tried one and bought an LMX. It really met all my needs because at the time, I could hardly walk.

So I would take the animals out with the bike, sometimes I would act as a shepherd with the bike when maneuvers were delicate with the animals.

From there, it’s easier to keep track of your plots, to find animals when they get lost. It’s quite easy to go back over the route we’ve taken during the day, to see if we haven’t lost any animals along the way.

If they are not able to return on their own, we bring them back in a 4×4, but we had already spotted them on the LMX. So we save time, we save energy because we don’t strain ourselves.

And it’s very suitable because on slopes we go very slowly, we wait for the herd, our feet touch the ground well which means we have a good grip, we don’t get tired, and at the same time if we want we can go very fast with the bike.