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That’s exactly what we got, an I6. Love it.

We bought a Hyundai EV. Would have seriously considered a Tesla, but.

Good. Stop using our groundwater to grow cattle food for other countries, assholes.

https://fiido.com/products/fiido-titan-robust-cargo-electric-bike-with-ul-certified

That’s the triple battery I was talking about. They claim 250 miles. Puh-lease.

Of course it can, with enough battery. There’s at least one bike out there that holds three removable batteries.

The bigger issue by far is the pure lies they tell with the listed range. Don’t tell me it can do 80 miles and not mention that’s on the lowest assist, with a 100 lb rider and overinflated tires on flat asphalt. What’s the range with a 200 lb rider on the highest mode, climbing 500 feet per mile? List both, at least.

I was using AI to explore this idea a bit just messing around and it brought up similarities to the Milgram experiment - “the experiment requires that you continue” electric shock experiment.

This is the AIs words to be clear, not mine: “people often obey, even absurd or cruel commands, out of fear, conditioning, or unwillingness to challenge authority—even when they have the power to say no.”

Around here is suburban Phoenix, AZ. Nice area, pretty conservative.

I will say, when I’m out biking outside the neighborhood, I see a higher percentage of surron type riders wearing helmets than most other groups. Roadies, MTBers almost always do too. The guy biking to work, or the old people on the canal path on their dtc e-bikes, and the kids at the local schools, never.

Spent some time in flow state. Pretty much every good day I have at work has some time in flow. Spending all day in meetings, interruptions, etc. is where bad days come from.

The people who are on them where I live are a bunch of young teenagers, look like they are around the 12 to 14 year-old range. There’s a bunch of these kids who buzz through our neighborhood on them. I have yet to see one of them wearing a helmet.

Perhaps a month ago, I ended up following one, I was driving in this case, not biking. No helmet, T-shirt and shorts, flip-flops, in the 25 to 30 mph range. When we got to the exit from our subdivision, he cut left onto the main road (45mph) into the bike lane facing traffic, fortunately, nobody was turning right into the subdivision at the time… but at some point, somebody will be.

I don’t really blame the kids, they are just doing what young boys do, being stupid. I would’ve done the exact same thing if I’d had the opportunity. I do, however, blame their parents – at some point one of these kids is gonna eat the front of somebody’s SUV and then their parents are going to lose their shit over their poor little Johnny and isn’t it so horrible and we should have laws against these things! and if/when they crack down that WILL affect me and that pisses me off.

Edit to add: I should also mention that almost nobody around here wears a helmet, regardless of age, riding on the street. I’ve got kids in high school and when I’ve been over at the school, none of those kids do either. I do, 100% of the time, but I also started mountain biking before I started riding on the street, and that environment is completely different at least here. it’s a completely different group of people, and everybody wears a helmet mountain biking.

I saw this synopsis a little bit ago and I thought it was a pretty good short description

A belt drive with integrated gearbox (no derailleur) is imho the future of e-bikes, especially as they get more powerful. This is anecdotal but based on my own experience.

I have a middrive bike, fat tire 9 speeds. It has a fairly powerful cargo bike motor that puts out 130Nm. The cassette is a Shimano HG-400, most durable option I’ve been able to find. I’ve had issues with it eating the 9th gear cog, just rounding off the teeth VERY quickly. I have to ride it like driving a big truck - have to get into the lower gears and never accelerate when I’m in 9th. That plus ordering a bunch of spare 9th gear cogs from AliExpress is workable but for somebody with less biking experience, this would be a very frustrating set up, especially if what they want to do is mostly ride around on the throttle.

In comparison, I also have an eMTB, 85Nm. I can push hard on the top gear without this problem - I could break the chain overdoing it (did that once) but it can take a ton more abuse. The cassette is an SRAM XG-1275 which is without question a higher tier of component, but the point still stands, I can abuse it without it rounding the teeth.

It comes down to the amount of power the motor + me can produce, when put through components that were designed for human output on a moderate weight bike not for human + motor on a much heavier e-bike. A belt can just take more power.

That is cool, the sram post is ridiculously expensive.

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Tire dependent. I run specialized grid trail tires on my mtb, at 18psi front, 24 rear. Never had a pinch in thousands of miles.

However - for one cycle, I switched to a set of bontrager tires - I think they were SE5s - at the recommendation of the shop when they were out of what I normally buy. I was running a bit higher, more like 22/28, and I pinched a tire within 50 miles. They replaced it for free without me even asking which makes me suspect it wasn’t uncommon. I ran them at 30/35 after that, but that much pressure on my local trails, loose desert gravel, and they weren’t great for traction at all.

Replaced them way before they were worn out, back to the specialized, and I have an extra 2-4 tires in my parts pile for the next time. The casing is just a lot tougher. I know bontrager has heavier casings in other tires, but I’m sticking with what has worked.

And now that I’ve said all that, I’m gonna get a pinch the next time I go out and it’s gonna be your fault ;)

I run tubeless on my eMTB and road bike, because they have proper tubeless rims. Tubes on my fat tire and cargo bikes with a rim liner and slime, because they don’t have tubeless rims.

I live in an area with goatheads and I’ve picked up 30-40 per tire before in a bad area. Sealant works well for me.

If you haven’t already read it, check out Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari.

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Same exact argument for pot vs booze. Both legal or both not. And I 100% agree with you. On the roads, under 16 is a no-no. Speeding is a no-no. Enforce that and leave the rest of us alone.

Not that in a million years do I see “leave us alone” as an actual possibility.

https://electricdirtbikes.net/what-is-a-sur-ron/

Take a look at this. The bike doesn’t have pedals. But the phrase “mountain bike” is on that page nine times.

Also this. “Some riders are increasing the speed of their Sur Rons to over 80MPH.”

Not an ebike. An emotorcycle.