Are manufacturers’ efforts to create lightweight eMTBs only making them worse?
2 points
I don’t like the title. Super light ebikes are great.
The article makes some good points about super light e-mountain-bikes but the title appears to address ebikes as a whole. I ride a non-MTB SL ebike but when I bought an MTB it was a muscle bike.
The extra weight of making something an ebike definitely isn’t negligible. My skinny tire SL ebike still weighs more than my MTB and the weight distribution is different.
2 points
A downhill bike with compromised safety equipment is such a recipe for disaster. A KG saved isn’t going to mean much when you wrap your neck around a tree trunk because your brakes were undersized and you couldn’t slow down in time.
