Cool sounding bike, and certainly I think this is the way eMTBs will, and should, go in the future with low visual and auditory signatures, and lower weight. Price is…..well it’s more than I would want to spend, but I think there are lots of bits on this bike that I’d be happy to compromise on, like a mechanical drivetrain, and skipping all the whiz parts, that should result in some savings. I do think they have gone completely overboard with the number of batteries on this thing. I feel like a bike that has one giant battery it’s designed around, should make every attempt to run all other electronic parts off that one battery so that you only have to worry about charging one battery at a time, but maybe that’s just me. Also, it should be able to function without any battery power at all. That’s a massive oversight IMO, and a chance for a companies engineering team to distinguish itself from the competition.
Bit of a tangent, I really like carbon for how you can shape it into any complex shape you want, and its weight, but the fact that it breaks when making hard contact with pointy rocks is certainly its Achilles heel in a sport where falling is a common occurrence, and you’re usually surrounded by sharp, pointy objects. At least with aluminum the resulting dents are usually cosmetic rather than structural. I broke a seatstay on my first carbon MTB within the first 6 months of owning it in that manner. At that time had to replace the entire rear triangle which sucked from a cost and time perspective. It’s cool that carbon repair is becoming more common now. How much did your repair run you out of curiosity? I’d love to see an article about different manufacturers carbons resistance to these types of impacts (do GG’s impact resistance claims live up to the hype, and what does that look like in real terms?), as well as a review of different frame protection methods (e.g. AMS with their honeycomb tech, and I think RideWrap recently released a new wrap thats supposed to have more impact resistance baked in) and how well they actually work. I’m also surprised that manufacturers don’t armor the weak points of frames more with a plastic overlay the way they universally do on the down tube.
June 15, 2023, 9:36 a.m. - Moritz Haager
Cool sounding bike, and certainly I think this is the way eMTBs will, and should, go in the future with low visual and auditory signatures, and lower weight. Price is…..well it’s more than I would want to spend, but I think there are lots of bits on this bike that I’d be happy to compromise on, like a mechanical drivetrain, and skipping all the whiz parts, that should result in some savings. I do think they have gone completely overboard with the number of batteries on this thing. I feel like a bike that has one giant battery it’s designed around, should make every attempt to run all other electronic parts off that one battery so that you only have to worry about charging one battery at a time, but maybe that’s just me. Also, it should be able to function without any battery power at all. That’s a massive oversight IMO, and a chance for a companies engineering team to distinguish itself from the competition. Bit of a tangent, I really like carbon for how you can shape it into any complex shape you want, and its weight, but the fact that it breaks when making hard contact with pointy rocks is certainly its Achilles heel in a sport where falling is a common occurrence, and you’re usually surrounded by sharp, pointy objects. At least with aluminum the resulting dents are usually cosmetic rather than structural. I broke a seatstay on my first carbon MTB within the first 6 months of owning it in that manner. At that time had to replace the entire rear triangle which sucked from a cost and time perspective. It’s cool that carbon repair is becoming more common now. How much did your repair run you out of curiosity? I’d love to see an article about different manufacturers carbons resistance to these types of impacts (do GG’s impact resistance claims live up to the hype, and what does that look like in real terms?), as well as a review of different frame protection methods (e.g. AMS with their honeycomb tech, and I think RideWrap recently released a new wrap thats supposed to have more impact resistance baked in) and how well they actually work. I’m also surprised that manufacturers don’t armor the weak points of frames more with a plastic overlay the way they universally do on the down tube.