EddieJ
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A bike that I would like try out is the Rotwild. http://ebike-mtb.com/en/highlight-rotwild-r-q1-and-r-e1-including-integrated-battery/
Cost-Benefit Comparison: Felt Mountain or eBike?
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Mike leroy
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Eddie,
The bike immediately appealed to me within 10 seconds! I will read the article, of course. I just wanted to tell you that it does not take more than a minute to eliminate a bike. I first look at the frame, suspension, battery and chainring. My interest pretty much ends for most bikes, at that point.
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EddieJ
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Going back to this, do you have any written info/links about this change?
I'd be very interested to find out about it., and you can always PM me any details.
Mike leroy
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I wanted to give the link, but I forgot where I found it. When I free up, I will google for it. Probably later in the week.
I am fluent in German. I often read eBike web pages from Germany, because i understand them. Do not exclude german language in your Google search. In fact, you will find much better info from Germany than the USA . Use google translate for English .
It seems like the USA is five years behind Germany and bordering countries: Germany/Switzerland / Netherlands / Denmark .
You might need to do an inverted search. If you search for SDuro (Yamaha, not XDuro) you might find the article.
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Mike leroy
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Eddie you may be interested in the bike I am vetting
My reasons for rejecting Euro-EBikes is due to US-Euro bike cultural gap. I spent a year in a swiss high school. We rode bikes 12 miles each way to school, six days per week. We rode in all conditions. Snow storms were most fun!
We never feared cars, because the swiss culture supports bikes as an equal form of transportation. I almost got run over on Saturday at 7AM while walking down the sidewalk on my street. The driver was in such a god-damn hurry that he did a rolling stop through the stop sign. His attention was only focused on the oncoming traffic. He did not bother to check the sidewalk. Instead, he gassed it.
What has american car culture have to do with eBikes ? I feel like I have to compete with cars, but not motorcycles. I am going with the Calif. Legal limit of 1kW, so I have enough power to better compete with cars. Since a Euro-bike is ill-equipped for USA car culture, I feel less secure. I hope US-based Falco will work out.
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