Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
The left isn't uniformly against mining. It's against child slavery and child labor to get it, as well as devastation to local ecosystems.
Wow I didn't realise they still had child slavery and child labour in the USA.
ANytime Fear is used as a Motivator . It's either a Lie or it's way to late
So why not use Nuclear Energy ?? Answer because that would be honest and nobody could make billions like they do with Green Crap . Just switching the lame lies every 10 years . We were supposed to have an ICEAGE by 2000 Now we are going to Burn up ???
You also don't know where the cobalt mines are.
The new Explore has the Pro motor now, instead of the Sport. But regardless, everything has gone up quite a bit.
That's odd, I can get any 18650 battery I want.
Because we have no plan to handle 10,000 year half-life of waste
I'm afraid this will not end well for the OEMs or local bike shops in the long run... once the overheated Covid Market effect subsides, they may have priced themselves out to the market.
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One bike company I worked for had a line of Kids Bikes. Inside the joke was Made By Children for Children.
I'm afraid this will not end well for the OEMs or local bike shops in the long run... once the overheated Covid Market effect subsides, they may have priced themselves out to the market.
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Yeah well that's what THEY think. America is so spread out and heterogeneous that there really cannot be a SHTF event that sweeps the land. Not that some cities could not suffer horrible events. Maybe lots of cities. Bringing it down to ebikes or just bikes ... every local bike shop should be thinking ahead. They should be diversifying every which way and dropping off the forays into this or that ... that do not pan out. Seems to me that lots of people with disposable income and some that just went into stupid debt have bought a lot of insanely priced ebikes. That cannot go on. That CANNOT go on. The truth is you can create one heck of an ebike for under $3k and more and more people will figure that out. No you cannot maintain a Trek or Specialized milieu at that level but those guy's days are short lived. The local bike guy that wants to survive should be learning to convert decent framed bikes with kits. The way things are going in the West an awful lot of people are soon going to figure out thy cannot afford to raise kids and also afford a car and the required insurance to drive it along with shelter costs and food. This will be a great shock to Americans but it is nothing new to Europeans. Americans just turn up the heat in winter. Europeans put on a sweater. Americans drive big trucks. Europeans drive sensible small cars.
We may be saying the same thing, Reed. I think the last year has been a 'SHTF' moment for a lot of Americans. Health care, higher education, retail stores, the church, and the major financial institutions are all in trouble. That's pretty widespread damage, if not quite the Hollywood version of 'SHTF'.
Agreed... I like what this LBS is doing with EBike conversions of used bikes.
What ? Nuclear waste is called Uranium : Where did you get confused ? URANIUM is 90% Plus of Nuclear waste and is 100% Re-usuable . Forever . Just Google it and you'll see . It seems when you respond to me you do so from bias
This is one of their conversions. Look for weight distribution and handling. That is a 750W BBS02 hanging up in the air out front. This bike also has a rear suspension to bounce the motor in front of the steering from the other end with a heavy battery. Will drivers see it? How about the brakes? Are those clip-in pedals? Thrilling!Agreed... I like what this LBS is doing with EBike conversions of used bikes.
"The best electric bike in the world is sitting in your garage and all it needs is a motor, battery, and assembly by the most experienced team of mechanics and technicians in the Greater Bay Area. We are the only electric bike manufacturer that specializes in converting standard bikes to electric bikes. We have converted well over 1000 bikes to electric and to date we have only encountered two that we could not convert. We have converted tandems, recumbents, road bikes, mountain bikes, gravel bikes, cargo bikes, city bikes, cruisers, folding bikes, carbon fiber bikes, adult trikes, adaptive bikes, chopper bikes, titanium bikes, and even vintage bikes. When we convert a bike to electric each one will always be a custom build. We machine all of our own parts and adapters so matter what size or type of bottom bracket your bike may have, we have the adaptor to make it work."
Alvin Carpenter, PhD
CEO, Island City Bikes
