• Chapelgentry@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Not gonna lie - it looks great. Just wondering what the price point for this will be. I feel like it might be in a weird spot - you can get ebikes from Honda for under $1k and if you flirt with anything higher than $5k you start to compete with gas bikes. Hopefully it’s priced in a good range there to be competitive.

  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
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    10 months ago

    Not bad. I’d ride either of those. I wonder about speed, range and charge times, but all in all am looking forward to quiet bikes. Are any of the e-bikes using generative brakes? How’s the acceleration? There’s a lot of potential, but it’s not going to be an easy sell to motorcyclists that are very performance minded and ate up the ’ loud pipes save lives ’ horseshit that boomers on Harleys spewed as absolute truth for so long that the squids adopted it.

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        10 months ago

        “Squid” refers to people who blast down the highway on sportbikes while wearing their favorite protective gear: shorts, sandals, sunglasses. Maybe a t shirt if they are feeling fancy.

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      10 months ago

      I used to hang out with some guys who rode dual sports, and every one of them had some kind of loud exhaust on them. I remember also them finding out I had a harely, and them being confused when it was neither loud, or covered in chrome.