E-S Stealth Electric Bike Owners

As I continue to salivate and wait for my bike I'm entertaining myself with this thread.
Something I noticed skimming through the decade and a bit is,

The early bikes seem to be much lighter than now while the speed and range quite similar (ishy)
The Bomber has gained around 30kg...
Where's the majority of the 30kg do you think 🤔
 
MaxBicycleMax said:
As I continue to salivate and wait for my bike I'm entertaining myself with this thread.
Something I noticed skimming through the decade and a bit is,

The early bikes seem to be much lighter than now while the speed and range quite similar (ishy)
The Bomber has gained around 30kg...
Where's the majority of the 30kg do you think 🤔
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Stealth reminds me a lot of Harley. Harley had 2 great ideas, Sportsters, and Big Twins. Every other bike they've tried to sell that wasn't a Sportster or Big Twin ended in failure. Stealth has 2 great models too. Bombers, and Fighters. Harley tried unsuccessfully to establish a line of small bikes, but they failed. Stealth now has a line of small bikes designed by an Italian dumb ass that doesn't know jack about todays eBike market based on what I see. Whatever models are being offered, no one has ever heard of, and no one knows anyone that ever bought one. So when sales are down what to do? I know make the bikes heavier, and charge more for them.
 
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Probably not the first and hopefully one of the last but this happened over weekend in Huntington Beach, expect some legal blowback. Its unbelievable that these bikes are used daily illegally on the streets here in the OC. YES THE RIDER IS NO LONGER WITH US HE DIED ON WAY TO ER!! Bike versus car biker usually does die at these speeds. Just look at the dent he left in the car. Speed does kill!!! SLOW DOWN or get in a CAR.
 

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Probably not the first and hopefully one of the last but this happened over weekend in Huntington Beach, expect some legal blowback. Its unbelievable that these bikes are used daily illegally on the streets here in the OC. YES THE RIDER IS NO LONGER WITH US HE DIED ON WAY TO ER!! Bike versus car biker usually does die at these speeds. Just look at the dent he left in the car. Speed does kill!!! SLOW DOWN or get in a CAR.
 

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Theodore Voltaire said:
Stealth reminds me a lot of Harley. Harley had 2 great ideas, Sportsters, and Big Twins. Every other bike they've tried to sell that wasn't a Sportster or Big Twin ended in failure. Stealth has 2 great models too. Bombers, and Fighters. Harley tried unsuccessfully to establish a line of small bikes, but they failed. Stealth now has a line of small bikes designed by an Italian dumb ass that doesn't know jack about todays eBike market based on what I see. Whatever models are being offered, no one has ever heard of, and no one knows anyone that ever bought one. So when sales are down what to do? I know make the bikes heavier, and charge more for them.
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Interesting take on things. I've seen you refer to your Road King but am unsure what edition you have or the modifications 🙂 I have a few bikes one being a Harley.
So I'm getting up to speed with the Endless Sphere/ebike/Stealth vibe.
I can't quite get the Stealth vibe yet. Seems the OG riders and bikes are the most interesting 🙂
10ish years ago another Australian company "Evolve" were similar to Stealth in the eskateboard field.
Like others I started with an off the shelf board. Moved to diy modified, then to complete diy.

It's an interesting new circle I'm trying to enter. A newbie with an off the shelf fighter.

I "think" I saw somewhere the current Bomber is 78kg. And early on in this thread there is reference to the OG bomber being 48kg.
Top speed around the same the current bikes have more range and I assume are more refined in electronics and the current brakes and suspension are pretty hard core straight up.

But still. Gained 30kg?
Seems the early Stealth bikes you had options with build. I'm wondering if the 48kg bike was a stripped down small battery version or something 🤔
 
hbrider said:
Probably not the first and hopefully one of the last but this happened over weekend in Huntington Beach, expect some legal blowback. Its unbelievable that these bikes are used daily illegally on the streets here in the OC. YES THE RIDER IS NO LONGER WITH US HE DIED ON WAY TO ER!! Bike versus car biker usually does die at these speeds. Just look at the dent he left in the car. Speed does kill!!! SLOW DOWN or get in a CAR.
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Thoughts go out to family and friends.
 
hbrider said:
Probably not the first and hopefully one of the last but this happened over weekend in Huntington Beach, expect some legal blowback. Its unbelievable that these bikes are used daily illegally on the streets here in the OC. YES THE RIDER IS NO LONGER WITH US HE DIED ON WAY TO ER!! Bike versus car biker usually does die at these speeds. Just look at the dent he left in the car. Speed does kill!!! SLOW DOWN or get in a CAR.
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Anything on 2 wheels is dangerous, doesn't matter how fast it is. Where I live you'll get mowed down from behind on your "legal" bike just as quick by some dumb ass that followed your advise, and got a car instead of a bike.
 
MaxBicycleMax said:
Does anyone know the current model F-37 's motor brand/model/specs/turns?
And controller?

I guessing they're thier own proprietary stuff made by known brands.
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The Fighter is currently running the Crystalyte 18FET with the Crystalyte UFO 55XX. Based on the speed being a little over 40MPH on a 14s system, I would bet its the UFO 55100. Don't hold me to that though.
 
hbrider said:
Probably not the first and hopefully one of the last but this happened over weekend in Huntington Beach, expect some legal blowback. Its unbelievable that these bikes are used daily illegally on the streets here in the OC. YES THE RIDER IS NO LONGER WITH US HE DIED ON WAY TO ER!! Bike versus car biker usually does die at these speeds. Just look at the dent he left in the car. Speed does kill!!! SLOW DOWN or get in a CAR.
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Sad day there, the bike doesn't look like its salvageable.
 
Well I had (I suppose somewhat unrealistic) extremely high hopes so now comes the reality.
There's been some niggly stuff not right and some QC disappointments which isn't great.
It's easy this early stage to gloss over all the things it does well and it does do many things well.
It's already taken me places my other bikes couldn't so that's a big win.

However, I would gladly give up half the speed to gain twice the low RPM torque.
More turns of winding or more poles or whatever, I'm not sure what's available (if anything)

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Be nice if it kept turning the tyre going up this.
It didn't lol.
 
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MaxBicycleMax said:
Well I had (I suppose somewhat unrealistic) extremely high hopes so now comes the reality.
There's been some niggly stuff not right and some QC disappointments which isn't great.
It's easy this early stage to gloss over all the things it does well and it does do many things well.
It's already taken me places my other bikes couldn't so that's a big win.

However, I would gladly give up half the speed to gain twice the low RPM torque.
More turns of winding or more poles or whatever, I'm not sure what's available (if anything)

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Be nice if it kept turning the tyre going up this.
It didn't lol.
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Maybe a qs205 5t?
 
For any other short legged Joe's out there trying to figure out a dropper post setup.
90mm dropper with (supposedly) the shortest stack height of any other dropper. Remote actuator on the bars.IMG20241009121834.jpg
 
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