Posted on 01/19/2022 10:59:31 AM PST by Red Badger
Nope.
I wouldn’t.
$4,899
WHAT?!?!
I have a Marin East Peak Mountain bike....Old school, but works for me.
looks heavy.
242 lb/ft of torque? If true, that’s a lot more than some “pocket rocket” automobiles. Hope the motor doesn’t burn out when the throttle is opened up.
I predict that that company will go back to two wheels.
For $5,000.00 (I used to be able to) a very credible full-sized used pickup truck.
Not so much today under the Biden-Pelosi-Harris dictatorship, but it is still in the range of 4-wheeler utility off-roader. Or an on-street golf cart. /Peachtree City, GA
5,000++ for a butt ugly electric bike?
This must be a joke.
I see all these new bike designs and they all have the same problems. They seem to be art designs rather than functional bikes, no fenders and one too many digits in the price tag.
Looks like it would high side in very turn.
“I have a Marin East Peak Mountain bike....Old school, but works for me.”
I have one of the earliest Trek mountain bikes ever made. It was a preproduction display only model that was sold to me mistakingly by a bike store near OSU Columbus in late 1982.
Lots of handmade pre production parts on it. Display only stamped on the bottom tube
Have lots of people trying to buy it.
You have a valuable bike.
Around my mountain it would pick up a rock between those two front wheels.
Oh, that’s about average for electric bikes.
Them’s ain’t cheap.
Now, certainly, the Dualie will have a hard time tackling technical single-track trails with tight corners and steep climbs and descents. It’s clear, though, that it wasn’t built for that. Instead, it seems that the Dualie is better suited for leisure riding on gravel roads and rural areas.
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The bike world is inventive. Many of the inventions don’t “stick”, but sometimes they do, like dropper posts or full-suspension MTBs.
I don’t think this dual front wheel is going to “stick”. With two forks, an extra front wheel and tire, plus the linkage to keep the forks aligned thru the steering, it likely adds at least 15 pounds to the bike.
The site says the Rungu bikes weigh between 85 and 120 lbs! That is insanely heavy even for an e-bike. A Santa Cruz Hecker, admittedly a high-end MTB, clocks in at 45 lbs.
Now if you just going to the corner greedy-mart for a slurpy, I guess it would be fine.
“WHAT?!?!”
(Note: I am a sucker for technical things and I do like bicycles*)
Bicycles can be very expensive these days.
Very technical.
Six years ago I was driving in my smallish town and stopped at a stoplight behind a $20,000 Ford Focus with three interesting bicycles (all alike except for colors) on a hitch mounted bike rack...I wrote down the name on the frame (not that I can recall it now...).
After a quick web search the three bicycles were $15,000 each without a ‘gruppo’ - meaning gears, crank, brakes etc. That $20,000 car had $60,000 of bicycles on it’s hitch.
The son of my neighbor (he takes care of his mother after his father/her husband died of ALS) has an electric bicycle - I’m sure it was $3,000. It get’s around well.
*I’ve done ALOT of cycling (I pretty much HATE bicyclists these days due to their arrogance) and have five 100+ miles days. My bicycle, though 30 years old is quite valuable for it’s 1st gen. Delta brakes and other very rare bits...
5 grand is nothing when it comes to bicycles — especially electric bicycles...
Best to you in ‘22 FRiend.
And mine will also carry a passenger if need be.
“I have one of the earliest Trek mountain bikes ever made. It was a preproduction display only model that was sold to me mistakingly by a bike store near OSU Columbus in late 1982.
Lots of handmade pre production parts on it. Display only stamped on the bottom tube
Have lots of people trying to buy it.”
NICE!
Keep it!
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