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Cruncher123 said:efMX Trials Electric Freeride said:Cruncher123 said:Ivanovitch_k said:This bike is nice, but if I had to choose between the excess and the frey, I would still go for the frey.
The selling points of the Excess vs the AM1000 are the carbon frame and the dt swiss e-bike wheels. But, IMO, a carbon frame is not suited for an extreme torque platform like the bafang ultra :/ ...
Besides that, it's got shit-tier Hailong battery case, and an okey-ish sram GX (slightly more resistant than the shimanos XT, but nowhere near the EX-1).
Would they have gone EX1 (or better IGH like Kindernay / Rohloff) + Reention or even custom design frame battery + AL frame with a better & lighter build quality than frey (not hard, sorry Frey :lol: ), this would be a killer setup !
The sheer gorgeousness of it's appearance has me drooling - yes, some compromises were made, but as an overall package, I haven't seen anything that's even close at that price point (or any price point) with a 1000w motor.
The choices to date have been to accept a nicely-designed Euro emtb with 250/350w/36v battery or a rather inelegant/chunky Chinese frame with 1000w/48v. I reluctantly chose power, but I wanted both - and the Exess was as close as I could find.
I was hoping Luna would finally start selling the Apollo, but it's been months and no further word about it that I'm aware of.
on Luna's facebook group Eric said that they would be releasing Apollo within the next couple weeks (by end of may, early june??) and hosting a release party .. so should be soon, but I wonder how much they will cost.. looks kinda pricey ..
reference :
https://facebook.com/groups/1185457111501917?view=permalink&id=1667505676630389
Link leads me to a non-existent page I'd love to see more details of the Apollo
link works for me.. its a "closed group" so one needs to be in the group to view the content.. if interested search facebook for "Fast Electric Bike" group and join if desired .. so just a heads up that Apollo release now seems imminent, within weeks not months.. once released, Apollo should be listed on the luna site as well so maybe check back there in a couple weeks..