Greg LeMond’s New 26 LB. Carbon Fiber Ebike
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Re: Greg LeMond’s New 26 LB. Carbon Fiber Ebike
#2A lot of people coming in and poo pooing a very nice, very well designed bike. Very pretty and conventional looking. At this price range it’s more comparable to a Stromer, which is at once a much more vehicle-replacement oriented bike but also a bike that looks like a “Das Bike.”
It would be nice if this bike had insurance and tracking like the Vanmoofs do. As an owner of two and knowing other owners, this is a dealbreaker. One guy has even gotten his X3 chopped by kleptos, and is now enjoying his new free replacement bike.
This definitely competes for looks though.
Re: Greg LeMond’s New 26 LB. Carbon Fiber Ebike
#3Seems pretty OK, I personally do prefer hub motor ebikes over mid-drive, but without any lugs for racks I don't know if this is truly the pinnacle of versatility. Also the handlebar is not the right place to mount the front light. I don't know why manufacturers keep making this mistake. I guess it's because Americans just don't understand the bicycle as a utility vehicle. The light belongs on the fork crown.
Re: Greg LeMond’s New 26 LB. Carbon Fiber Ebike
#4I'm always confused by people of working age who ride bikes like this. What's the attraction of a more expensive and heavier bike that's no faster than pedaling yourself?
Re: Greg LeMond’s New 26 LB. Carbon Fiber Ebike
#5Coming from conventional bikes, I don't understand who this is for.
Carbon fibre frames are prohibitively expensive and the market for them serves very involved, often professional or semi-pro cyclists whose performance bottlenecks are imposed by the bike instead of themselves. Ditto for some of the other details on the bike, like the medium-dish carbon rims — all for the sake of weight savings and aerodynamics (since carbon bikes will usually integrate things like formed handlebars and seat tubes, etc).
Suffice it to say, you'd rarely see a commuter using a carbon bike.
This bike, though, feels like a bit of an oxymoron. Expensive carbon frame with none of the aero features you'd usually see on one, including conventional handlebars.
A lightweight carbon frame weighed down by a battery.
High-performance rims and tyres but only one chain ring.
Low-profile seat stays with mud guards on both wheels.
A utilitarian, commuter feature set with a price tag that makes no sense at all.
Re: Greg LeMond’s New 26 LB. Carbon Fiber Ebike
#6A remark from a web developer on the implementation of this site:
On my laptop, scrolling by touch, when I reach the image immediately above the colours section, I can’t easily go any further, because the carousel thingy that takes up most of the screen has schnaffled touch actions, and is only translating them into horizontal scrolling of that component, even if my finger is moving perfectly vertically. This is a bad implementation, because it’s reimplementing something the browser already offers, badly. This is a form of scrolljacking, which is always bad on content sites (I have encountered no exceptions; in apps, there are a very small list of justifiable cases, e.g. maps to turn it into zooming, though it still won’t work perfectly no matter what you do, because the web just doesn’t expose the right primitives). What it should do instead is to make the carousel thing just a normal scrollable container (though still visually hiding the scrollbar), and leave the whole scrolling thing to the browser, with the assistance of CSS snap points if available, or some gentle touchend and similar watching to simulate its effect if it’s not.
(Also, clicking on the names of the colours below the carousel is badly broken, doing nothing half the time, and taking you to the wrong slide half of the rest of the time, to say nothing of them having an overly small hit target—the whole row of “Blanc / matte finish; black decals” should be the hit target.)
Re: Greg LeMond’s New 26 LB. Carbon Fiber Ebike
#7I’m sure if I have to ask I can’t afford it but what is the sticker price on the base model? I browsed the prolog spec sheet but maybe I missed it?
Re: Greg LeMond’s New 26 LB. Carbon Fiber Ebike
#8`xx points by gjlemond`
Did... did Greg LeMond post this?
Re: Greg LeMond’s New 26 LB. Carbon Fiber Ebike
#9I’m sure if I have to ask I can’t afford it but what is the sticker price on the base model? I browsed the prolog spec sheet but maybe I missed it?
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Re: Greg LeMond’s New 26 LB. Carbon Fiber Ebike
#10I'm always confused by people of working age who ride bikes like this. What's the attraction of a more expensive and heavier bike that's no faster than pedaling yourself?
You don't have to pedal yourself.