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Old 12-31-19, 06:55 AM
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Originally Posted by fishtaco
I agree totally with this! The ebike demand is so great in my opinion because of all those who have never had or may never ride a motorcycle or motor scooter plus all those too young to ride a motorcycle on the road.

I have always had motorcycles but I bought an ebike a few months ago and its opened up a whole new world riding around on my cities bicycle /pedestrian paths with views I have never seen before. Its worse for me because in Australia we have got the same as EU rules with 250w restriction but saying that my ebike has plenty of get up and go and who really wants to go over 30kph on footpaths and trails? so many people spending too much money on expensive modifications and home builds just to squeeze an extra couple of MPH out of their ebike when they could have just gone out and bought a cheap Chinese or Korean motorbike/motor scooter at a cheaper price!

I would suggest buying a purpose made ebike with strong torque and long range, I live in Perth Australia one of the windiest Cities in the world and my rear hub 250w ebike makes mincemeat out of it in PAS and throttle.

Rad Rover for me if I was in the States just because of their customer service and endless purpose designed accessories but in the end 99.9% of ebikes and ebike parts come from China anyway so you are just paying a re sellers knock up price for customer service.

I looking into a couple of the Volt Bike offerings myself. They have a Yukon 750 model very similarly spec to the Rad rover but with better brakes and a slightly lower price. It also ships mostly assembled. Price for there bikes seem fair compared to the rest. I looked heavily at converting one of my current bikes but cost wise it will be damn near the cost of one of volt bikes or rad rover. So I honestly likely just keep my current bikes and add a e bike.

My main complaint was just the comparative costs of a top end mountain bicycle e bike or other wise being near or more than a top level duel sport motorcycle (that arguably incorporates more tech). But alas everything’s worth what people are willing to pay I suppose.
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