Thinking of buying an ebike – advice please – Page 2 – Bike Forum

tjagain · 2023-01-03T09:58:35Z

I am contemplating a ebike MTB. The main mountainbiking near me is the pentlands and I used to ride there a lot but in recent years I cannot be bothered with the ride out to the hills or if I do I can't be bothered doing more than one climb once I get there. depending where I access the hills its 7 - 10 miles ish each way. I don't have a car and don't like driving to ride Ive had different BB diy kitted bikes and ridden a bunch of different hire bikes As ever repairability / reliability / local production is important to me and given reliability / warranty issue folk have a local retailer not mail order So I'm thinking hardtail with a bosch motor Evans has Cubes that fit the bill at around £2400. anything else seems to be at least a thousand more. Are those basic cube bikes OK? They have the latest bosch motor and a 625 battery. I'm assuming a very basic fork but that can always be changed. thoughts?

tjagain

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I think the pro 625 - gen 4 motor, thru axles - cheap air fork

Posted : 24/08/2023 10:42 am

dyna-ti

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It will have a model name TJ. Reaction Pro maybe ? Is it a hardtail or suss ?

Posted : 24/08/2023 6:35 pm

tjagain

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hardtail. I have forgotton the actual name - second to top of the range hardtail MTB IIRC - maybe top of the range

Posted : 24/08/2023 6:58 pm

kelvin

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Had missed you'd bought one.

Posted : 24/08/2023 7:03 pm

matt_outandabout

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New bike day for TJ?
I would be worried if I were a traffic cone near his house...
😉

Posted : 24/08/2023 7:55 pm

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monkeycmonkeydo

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Hardtail at your time of life tj!Not sure your body will appreciate it.

Posted : 25/08/2023 12:17 am

tjagain

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I'm a real man! Only softies have full sus 😉

Posted : 25/08/2023 12:49 am

Thinking of buying an ebike - advice please