Originally Posted by
TinyBear
I just can’t find a reason these e bikes or any bicycles are so expensive.
A E mountain bike hard tail starts around the $3500cdn. I can buy a very competent. Duel sport 250cc motorcycle new for $5000. That’s a bike that’s street legal has decent suspension and can be ridden anywhere. A fully suspended high end bike is in the $7-9 thousand dollars. Again can buy very high end dirt bikes for less than that.
It just don’t make sense to me. I want an e bike I really do. I think for my needs and with one. Leg weakened it help me a lot enjoy cycling again like I did before I got hurt. But the cost of entry is just too prohibitive. And I don’t know why.
I see dime store bikes under 100 dollars like they were 20 + years ago. I don't have a problem paying 10,000 for a street motorcycle. I don't have a problem paying 9 grand for a 1 banger diesel auxiliary when I order a new sailboat A new sail costs over 4,000.
Same as automotive, a 55,000 dollar fancy pickup truck has 15,000 profit. The profit on a economy car is 1,000.
Most of the e-bikes under 1,500 -2,000 American look like home assembled kit bikes.
Asia has a lot of products we don't import in the lower quality e-bike space.