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Living with an e-bike - Part One

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Whoa - you’re not seriously suggesting anyone deserves to have their car stolen? If so I’ll look forward to your being mugged for the 11 grand ebike you’re pedalling around. But seriously- I’m not sure I care much about the **** Pivot any longer.


 
Posted : 06/02/2024 11:06 pm
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@nxgater

Apologies but my tongue was firmly in my cheek there. Clearly that did not come across. I will use a smiley next time to make that clear.

The comment about Range Rovers and Jaguars having woeful reliability reflects the dreadful experience several of my friends have had - blown engines, gearboxes tearing themselves apart, exhaust gas devices going phut, electrics failing, car dying on a dual carriageway leaving them stranded in the inside lane, blown turbo......all in new cars. A couple of them even joked they wished their cars had been stolen and were only half kidding. One mate had his car stolen, got it back only to have it stolen again a month later.

Cheers!😉

 


 
Posted : 07/02/2024 9:14 am
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Whoa –

Indeed…


 
Posted : 07/02/2024 10:09 am
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reality is that e-mtbs have very little to do – or not to do – with whether people also drive cars.

This I think only really the case of you've a cargo bike.


 
Posted : 07/02/2024 11:52 am
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Given that nothing says entitled ****t quite like a Range Rover

And an £11,250 bicycle doesn't?


 
Posted : 07/02/2024 12:48 pm
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And an £11,250 bicycle doesn’t?

At £11,250 it’s more like a bridleway-legal dirt bike.

At least there’s utility in an e-bike and there’s a fitness for purpose in an expensive e-mountain bike. A Range Rover has no utility that a Dacia doesn’t, except as a status symbol and wealth signifier.


 
Posted : 07/02/2024 1:29 pm
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Good lord, I have a £1400 TCR and I wouldn't even dream of riding it to the shops and I still wince if I'm out riding it in the rain.


 
Posted : 07/02/2024 1:38 pm
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Its like buying a holiday house. Costs loads, Only really does one thing,  limits you to doing the same thing regularly to justify it.


 
Posted : 16/04/2024 4:58 am
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A Range Rover has no utility that a Dacia doesn’t, except as a status symbol and wealth signifier.

in your jealous opinion.  People buy nice cars because they can afford them and because they are better than a Dacia.

When Danny Hart bought his LR I bet he didn’t do it to show all the othe mountain bikers that he was richer than them


 
Posted : 16/04/2024 7:37 am
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