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I was looking to buying an electric conversion kit for my bike and the kit alone was coming out around the £650 mark. A whole bike for how much! :LOL:
 
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The name of the website would make me wary. Wonder if he still has only 40 mates? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
Alibaba is a well known site that sources all sorts of cr*p stuff. Mainly from china and from mass producers. Works well if you want thousands of plastic gnomes and the like. Remember all those hover boards bursting into flames at Xmas a few years ago hmm wonder where they came from.......
 
You’ve got VAT and duty on top of that price and no warranty. I remember when fake carbon rims and frames were all the rage on that platform and people where needing face surgery after their headstock snapped.

a few Chinese brands have emerged as being ok, but then the copies get copied.

that bike looks like junk anyway.

To make a 1kw pack out of quality 18650 cells will cost £300 min wholesale. You’ve also got roughly 11 series by 8 parallel to charge and manage so it will need quality thermistors and balancing circuits which it won’t have. So the chances are it will not be holding a charge well after 6 months and may end up with a cell designed to charge at 4.2v getting more than double. Too much power to take a risk with

Costco have a few bargain ebikes.
 
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No. But they are cheap. And you get a warranty.

it depends what you want/need?

if you want to go trail riding on basically an electric motorbike then you need to budget 3k+

if you just want a comfy bike with some assistance then £1k.
 
No. But they are cheap. And you get a warranty.

it depends what you want/need?

if you want to go trail riding on basically an electric motorbike then you need to budget 3k+

if you just want a comfy bike with some assistance then £1k.


I see that. I asked myself can I justify 3 grand on a bike.... Could buy an half decent Japanese car for that.

Then there's insurance


But I don't see spending a grand on something that's crap
 
The guy in the video needs to put his seat up to the correct height and then maybe he won’t need a motor.

it’s not about being good or bad it’s about being good enough for your planned use.

Have you ridden a normal fat bike?

what do you want to do with it?

my non-ebike mtb retailed over 5K. There are a lot of posh materials and components in a decent bike.
 
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my non-ebike mtb retailed over 5K.
My e- mtb cost much more.....hell of a lot more than any car i ever bought but it is top quality.I test drove a few and was impressed even by the £1k back wheel motor, Halfords version...Great if just the odd day trip or pottering around the doors.I bought expensive one off to hope do a few laps of Europe and last long time.
 
Have you ridden a normal fat bike?
No

what do you want to do with it?

Last summer I was doing 26-30 round trip miles across land then back by road on my mountain bike.
Didn't enjoy roads so much as it was so slow. Want a bit of speed.
Want the best of both worlds. I dont think that sort of bike exists hence why I'm thinking of electric.

Fat bikes just look good not necessarily what I want or need.
 
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