gillyske
Likes Dirt
Nah they'll just switch from riding dirt bikes on mtb trails to electric dirt bikes on mtb trails. Why pedal when you can turn a handle.
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Yep electric trials bikes I feel will become more and more common.
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
I concern is more so if they chew up the trails. A lower power eBike with less torque has to be kinder to the trails, but then with a software tweak or removal of a governor then you could expect a lot of more power.
EBikes have their place from some people bit if they end up very mainstream then MTB'ing as we know it now will be much different.
I remember meeting an amputee lady on a Levo and kudos that it let her get out and about much easier.
Big push to get those throttle controlled scooters legalised up to 25km/h. If that happens then why wouldn’t ebikes become throttle controlled, save the pedalling for over 25km/h..
hifiandmtb
Sphincter beanie
Paint that bit black - black is flattering:
Whens it due to give birth to an annimator down there?Paint that bit black - black is flattering:
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
After going to lower geo for better handling plus 1x to help stop the big 3x ring from being even lower and getting stuck on logs and rock gardens, etc............ Then, I know, let's bolt on this BB motor thingy and undo the stuff we set out to do in the first place.
Needs a more time to firm up these designs. Motor + gearbox needs to live in the lower downtube only IMHO.
Atleast this will give it an awesome low and heavy centre of gravity which has to be an upside :|
fatboyonabike
Captain oblivious
see post #78...same bike but different paint job, it's amazing what a bit of cosmetics can do!Paint that bit black - black is flattering:
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Agreed. I like at that new carbon jack, or an old mountain cycle shockwave/orange 322 it'd be perfect.
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
A monocoque chassis would be great place to hide it.
The Shockwave v1.0 though and not the hideous v2.0 remake that looked like arse personified and should never have lived.
fatboyonabike
Captain oblivious
to the trained eye, you can tell when exactly MC moved their manufacturing from San Luis Obispo to some street gutter in Taiwan
Yep, just the 05/06 9.5 version, not gen 1 and not that kinesis POS. It was well kinesis took ownership of the name. No one actually seems know who has the rights anymore.. Kinesis/old designer or chumba racing. (seems to of involvement at one stage.) id pay stupid amounts of money for a modern one, even if it's that plastic carbon BS.
hifiandmtb
Sphincter beanie
And angles and shadows & general "hide the hideous".
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
It was designed by a guy that thought he was a designer and someone must have believed him. The swansong was projectile vomit of the MC family unfortunately.
Even the Taiwanese cringed when those design plans came over and thought 'Nahhh, couldn't be......'
hifiandmtb
Sphincter beanie
And now the mighty SC succumbs to the EV force...
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Santa Cruz ebike
Danny on an unidentified Santa Cruz with upper shock mount, little motor and a smaller battery/downtube?? I guess it was only a matter of time.
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FigBo0T
Puts verniers on his headtube
I'm with the majority in the linked thread. That doesn't look like an ebike.And now the mighty SC succumbs to the EV force...
Santa Cruz ebike
Danny on an unidentified Santa Cruz with upper shock mount, little motor and a smaller battery/downtube?? I guess it was only a matter of time.
Kranked in Vancouver have been building SC ebikes for at least 6 years. They aren't endorsed.
hifiandmtb
Sphincter beanie
Is it running a gearbox?