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Sondors might raise 2 million dollars, at the pace he is on. His plan is for a lot of little stores. That would require managers, but it's down the road. Right now there is a "Team" tab in the stock offering material, but it only lists one person. He has a brand, some products, and some...

It could get big, of course. Sondors is trying to raise 50 million dollars, selling shares in his ebike company. At that point you have to assess the company and the managers, as well as the bikes. I guess Court has an impossible job, trying to sort through the companies and the personalities...

I think Dapu is a Japanese company that manufactures in China. Obviously, Haibike is part of Accell, which is a huge company, and it's hard to say why they have all these little companies under the main company. Pon was trying to buy Accell. Pon bought Faraday and Santa Cruz, some others. The...

Haibike mentioned back in July that the XD and SD designations would no longer be related to Yamaha and Bosch. Bosch said they would have a lower cost set of motors. Is Yamaha still going to supply to Haibike? Yamaha is a huge global presence. Being #2 supplier to a little niche company must...

Court had a brief interview with Sondors at the beach Demo Day. It was kind of clear that Sondors was clueless about the parts on a bike. And then all Hell broke loose and the project seemed to implode. But Sondors went to China, where he had made toys, and he made the bike he promised people...

Sondors has actually managed to make his car. It looks interesting, on the Sondors car Facebook page. Supposed to show the prototype in California. I'm not sure how he manages a car and a big ebike company, but he's pretty adept at making stuff.

The only drive in the US that people really understand is the BBS02. A lot of that has to do with Karl Gesslein and his BBS02 blog. It’s not like this Bafang mid drive is hard to understand. It is remarkable for the simplicity. Take a bike. Remove the bottom bracket (find a shop, if this is at...

Mike (Mikey) at Blue Monkey is going to interview Yamaha, post something on their YT channel. Court reviewed the Voltbike Enduro with the Bafang Max. That bike has a torque sensor and is a nice basic mid-drive. They are at $1800. Voltbike is an impressive company, coming out of nowhere. Bafang...

The California law is pretty easy to understand. At the very least, an ebike should be labelled for the speeds and the power, whether it has a throttle. No lawyer would sign off on a separate setting. The industry got 'everyone' on board for California. I think it passed the legislature...

The results don't make sense. Nobody ever compares the refined factory bikes with DIY, and the DIY is not winning this round. Still, watts are watts. If you put the bikes on a dynomometer to measure real output power, you might have a clue about what is going on. The numbers don't add up. Hicks...

Interesting and in-depth comments. Apparently that 750w Bafang geared hub is a pretty good motor. The best test, if you are worried, is to touch the motor and see if it is hot. Anything 'too hot to touch' is getting up there. Those fat folders really look like fun.

Agree with Ravi on the tires. I camp on BLM land in Arizona, deserts, and the 2.25-2.4 inch knobby handles most surfaces. You can fit a 2.25 tire to a fair number of bikes, but that's the way I would go. You could look at folding fat tire bikes like the Rad Mini. It's a pretty good concept and...

That's a great experimental build. I know of three solderless systems, Vruzend, BatteryBlok, and NESE. I think you can use thermal type cameras, infrared, to see where the weak points are. If it gets hot, there is resistance. Test at different amp draws. If you can build on a microcontroller...

The Alibaba version with 11AH specifies Samsung 22P cells. This is an old and cheap cell, but one that has stood the test of time (from about 2010). If you take 50 cells that cost around $2, put them in a case that has to be reverse engineered, and assemble it with a robotic spot welder, what...

There seems to be a rollback of bike infrastructure. I know people who bought ebikes and decided it was just too dangerous, riding on the streets. It's not a friendly political climate. Ebikes have a lot of potential, but no one has found a catalyst. I'd go with low cost just to get people on...

Ravi, Not exactly. David Rasmussen started with a store in St. George. Then he opened a store in the Salt Lake City area (South Jordan). The St. George ebike store could not make it in the small market, but the Salt Lake City store, apparently, can. A lot of miles to SLC. My point was simple. A...

I bought a Prodeco X3 from a dealer in St. George Utah, about an hour away. I didn’t want to buy an ebike without some kind of test ride on something. I was really impressed and bought it for around $1700. Then I built a bike I had lying around into an ebike, which cost $800 in new parts. II...

Does the Ebike Industry Even Know About This? Storm Sondors has sold about 20 million dollars worth of ebikes. Given the price structure, that is a lot of units. Sondors was greeted with outrage, or extreme skepticism, but he went to China and showed he knew how to play that game. The selling...

Sondors knows China and has cute designs. He has a car company and wants to raise 30 million for that. Raising money to get rich and get big is the Dell game. Rad is not controversial. They are easy for Wall Street to understand. They could raise money, among the companies under discussion. Wall...

You cover a lot of ground. I hope people appreciate how honest you are being about the bikes and the motor. Most of the discussion centers around 1000 watt bikes. Since you mention a 45 amp controller, with a roughly 50 volt battery there is a potential here for around 2,000 watts. I don’t know...