HAHAHAHA, hopefully, I don't come across that hyperbolical!
First off, check out [**Stridsland**](https://www.stridsland.com/product-category/products/) \- Ride Slow, Die Whenever. Where there's demand, there's a way - five-bolt rings, replacement forks for your 1-1/8" straight-steerer-specific hardtail to replace the toasted suspension fork.
It will be interesting to see what happens to drivetrain development once gearbox & motor integration becomes a thing. I guess it will depend on what % of riders end up riding motor-assisted mountain machines. As long as there are Deore drivetrains and friction thumbies I'm happy - so no worries on my end.
I know more than one person with the means to high-end ~e that has fully switched over from meat-powered mountain bicycles. This is to say, the means to ride a plug-in without having to take any hit to components spec and no concern about losses flipping bikes as technology and integration races forward. None of them sees any reason they'd own a regular mountain bike again. Most of them admit that riding uphills on their regular bike became really (physically and emotionally) hard after they started riding the assisted rig regularly.
Within a generation will non-e~bikes be solely the realm of the poor, eccentrics, back-in-my-nostalgics, and curmodegeons? If that's the case there are probably enough of us to keep the Kick-Ass-Cogs and steel frame/fork sets flowing.
Dec. 28, 2021, 6:49 p.m. - Andrew Major
HAHAHAHA, hopefully, I don't come across that hyperbolical! First off, check out [**Stridsland**](https://www.stridsland.com/product-category/products/) \- Ride Slow, Die Whenever. Where there's demand, there's a way - five-bolt rings, replacement forks for your 1-1/8" straight-steerer-specific hardtail to replace the toasted suspension fork. It will be interesting to see what happens to drivetrain development once gearbox & motor integration becomes a thing. I guess it will depend on what % of riders end up riding motor-assisted mountain machines. As long as there are Deore drivetrains and friction thumbies I'm happy - so no worries on my end. I know more than one person with the means to high-end ~e that has fully switched over from meat-powered mountain bicycles. This is to say, the means to ride a plug-in without having to take any hit to components spec and no concern about losses flipping bikes as technology and integration races forward. None of them sees any reason they'd own a regular mountain bike again. Most of them admit that riding uphills on their regular bike became really (physically and emotionally) hard after they started riding the assisted rig regularly. Within a generation will non-e~bikes be solely the realm of the poor, eccentrics, back-in-my-nostalgics, and curmodegeons? If that's the case there are probably enough of us to keep the Kick-Ass-Cogs and steel frame/fork sets flowing.