one piece crank
1pc Cranky
Maybe a sub-30lb Fat Bike?
E-bikes are a thing
- Thread starter jdog
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When I was waiting for Spencer at stephens Sunday there must of been some ebike meet up. Had to be at least 10 dudes all on ebikes. I expect this to become the norm. We did 14 miles and did not come across another rider until we came back to a full lot. But they are here to stay unless the state cracks down on them.
rick81721
Lothar
Look how light this one is
Wow - so is Shimano the new standard for ebike motors?
Captain Brainstorm
Well-Known Member
Numb? I still refuse to pay over $6k, and for that money I expect top of the line (unrealistic, I know). For my new bike, I negotiated like it was a corporate merger, and came in nicely below that number (to please my "boss") with middle of the road parts. Bike prices are stupid, given where they're made and local labor and material costs. As for e-bikes, I don't lump them in the same category as regular bikes anyway, so I've never really cared what they cost since they're not even on my radar screen. By the time I'm old or decrepit (I'm already broken) enough to consider one, prices will likely come down. Yea, when that time comes I'll go to my LBS in flying car, or have them beam one over to my place.
No. Specialized has some of the best reviewed E-bikes out there and they use Brose.
This.
rick81721
Lothar
rick81721
Lothar
Too bad it doesn't have a V10
https://luxurylaunches.com/transpor...hanged-our-perception-of-bicycles-forever.php
https://luxurylaunches.com/transpor...hanged-our-perception-of-bicycles-forever.php
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
Last paragraph says it's a fantastic buy at $18,000.
Fantastic scam is more like it being it's a $500 Amazon bike with a Lamborghini Badge.
But you can up up to 60 whole miles on a single charge....
johnbryanpeters
Well-Known Member
My legs typically require recharging after 60 miles.
The Kalmyk
Well-Known Member
Ebikes are for people that have hung it up on themselves.
rick81721
Lothar
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
How else will we contribute to the Litium Mine Slave Trade? Do your part bro.
THATmanMANNY
Well-Known Member
rider at 3:30 mark does flat tricks and rides jumps with e bike. Wow
Isn’t it common place in Europe that the bike park peeps ride e bikes?
Also, doesn't an ebike make some of this easier?
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Monkey Soup
Angry Wanker
People have been doing crazy stunts on motos for the last 40yrs, there’s been trials riding with motos, there are some cool videos on YouTube of guys doing crazy shit on Vespas. Now we have a video of someone doing tricks on an ebike, that have already been done in every other motorized and non-motorized format. Does not make them any less lame for the able bodied.
The Kalmyk
Well-Known Member
Im in NYC at least 10 days a month. Its disgusting how they have taken over.
Monkey Soup
Angry Wanker
But I don't have time, so an ebike lets me ride more in less time. Or, its a great training tool. Or its saves me from shuttling. Lots of good (marketing) reasons for the able-bodied to justify this. Kind of defeats the purpose why many of us started riding though, especially in the woods. There used to be parts of the trail that were legendary, if you could clean them you were the man (or woman). Kind of what kept us coming back, training harder. If you can clean an impossible climb on an ebike, so fuckin what? I don't like Greg LeMond, but I like this quote of his:
"I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying."
"I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying."