Have EVs Reached A Short-Term Peak?

[92tide]

I have a pair of Santa Cruz mountain bikes. Very well built and good customer support!

my mtb is a santa cruz tallboy and i absolutely love it. it's a hoot to ride on technical singletrack

 

[92tide]

 

[crimsonaudio]

They vary wildly. They are all built to spec in China. The biggest, I guess it still is, is "Lectric," brand. That's what I have. I got it before I had my left hip replaced for ease of mount/dismount. I'd either buy theirs or one of the big names who've taken on e-bikes as a sideline. There are a lot of fly by nights in the business. They locate a supplier in China, cobble together a design and import a bunch to sell. When the warranty claims start coming in, they disappear. On the e-bike forums, there are constant pleas by owners of off brands, asking if a certain battery, etc., will fit their bikes...

For clarity, I was talking about people using them for downhill offroad runs - that’s really hard on any bike, much less a heavy one with electronics on board.

 

[Bazza]

I think I posted this upstream. My friend's daughter teaches surfing lessons. Uses her e-bike to pull a small trailer loaded with surfboards on the beach to meet her students. She lives less than a block from the beach so a very practical approach for her and I'm sure the kids she teaches love it!

 

[arthurdawg]

my mtb is a santa cruz tallboy and i absolutely love it. it's a hoot to ride on technical singletrack

Nice! I have V2 and a V3 Hightowers and my first real bike which is a Stumpie. I pretty much choose which one to ride by which one is functional at the time! I'll have to look for a picture...

 

[arthurdawg]

The latest one... Strava code name "Tide the Ride!"

 

[TIDE-HSV]

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The latest one... Strava code name "Tide the Ride!"

I have a shop full of bikes I need to donate, mostly of early 90's vintage. I have a candy apple red Cinelli, full Campy, I'll cry to give away. When they replaced my right hip, they left my legs too short to fork it. The surgery ran way long and they came out and apologized to my wife and said they had a hard time getting my legs the right length. My surgeon here, who did the other one, commented, while looking at the film commented "And they still didn't get it right." I was shocked. He'd never criticized anyone else and is a mild-mannered guy. The first one was done in Birmingham at Andrews by the GA Tech team doc. Maybe that was the problem...

 

[92tide]

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The latest one... Strava code name "Tide the Ride!"

santa cruz makes beautiful bikes

 

[crimsonaudio]

santa cruz makes beautiful bikes

They're proud of them, too.

 

[92tide]

They're proud of them, too.

i tell my wife my bikes are a much cheaper mid-life crisis than golf, strippers, and coke.

when i lived in the wdc area in the mid 90s, one of my buddies had one of the first gen santa cruz dual suspensions that he had built up really nice and i was very envious.

 

[arthurdawg]

They ride very well. I find them nice and stable.

I still ride my stumpie a bunch too, it was the first real bike I bought.