Pedego "Next Generation of Electric Bikes"

[Green Machine]

Oh yeah leaf man?

Try bombing through a golf course at night at 50mph on your nissan leaf and not get arrested....

My point is there is a certain freedom we enjoy with electric bikes...that cannot be compared to driving cars or even driving motorcycles.

The only thing that comes close to me is flying an airplane...and a good electric bike beats the thrill of flying to me...so in that case maybe a 40k bike would be the answer for a lot of thrill seekers like me....you just got to get out of the psyche that the only place for an ebike is the road or a bike trail....

40k is a small price to pay for someone who wants the thrill of an electric motocross ride anytime they want it and they live in metropolis.

I am not saying i would spend 40k on an electric bike...but i am saying i would spend it in a second before buying an electric car, or a ducatti motorcyle...or whatever.

6-10k home build can get the same thill as that 40k...i agree with that. But its worth whatever price it costs to have a machine like that in terms of what it can do to your life if you dont have one now. Everyone happening to be reading this...upgrade your bikes...make them amazing and fast and slick looking...because who knows how much longer this freedom we enjoy now is going to last....its heavenly to ride a high end ebike....soul nectar...take out a loan...pawn off your kids....sale your car...whatever it takes....spend 10k on your build and make your own m55...its worth it.

Leafman go out and buy that 40k m55 if they stock one...and write us a review....you will be an es hero and a es "moron" all at the same time...thats what happened when i bought and tested a 12k optibike before selling it 2 weeks later cuz it wasnt fast as my home builds.

 

[Lock]

From the M55 site:

We belive that there are people all over the world, who would really appreciate our product, but in order to reach them we need serious partners who share our vision. We are looking for exclusive affiliate partnerships in major cities where luxury hybrid bikes fit. London, Münich, Zürich, Milan, Dubai, Moscow, Tokyo, Beijing, Sydney, New York, Los Angeles – we are open to you.

and

The production-ready prototype of our first hybrid bike is the achievement of 25-30 seasoned professionals who are all well-known specialist in their respective fields of research.

We had the aim of recruiting the best development engineers. We employed electronic and mechanical engineers, industrial design specialists as well as finite element analysts. Naturally we listened to the opinions of avid cyclists, who commented our work, and outlined their expectations toward the finished e-bike design. We believe that in the targeted premium technical category no professional compromise can be accepted. We are all maximalists who wanted to see this style of approach in our finished product.
Ohh, did I mention we love bikes?

I'll guess the orders ain't exactly rolling in... Optibike (at Optibike prices) has only sold about 600 bikes since 2005. If M55 can swallow their pride, a partnership w/Pedego could take the bike down market and boost volume a lot.

 

[FMB42]

Some consumers are more concerned about what they spent (for a given consumer product) than they are for what they actually get for their money. In other words, "prestige" has always had it's price.

The question here is whether or not this manufacturer can remain independently viable while catering to less than 1% of the extremely limited e-bike consumer market...

 

[Green Machine]

Well put it this way....

Cessna and Cirrus and robinson helicopter..make one 300k aircraft a day to sale....and people out there have 300k to spend on an item that is for most just pure recreational....and cost of buying is just one factor...cost of ownership of even an old cessna 172 is over 20k a year...on a cirrus or robinson we are talking closer to 40-50k a year...pure ownership costs.

So imagine all the private plane owners spending 20k a year for plane ownership....really one of those bikes is only 2 years of flying....

And the private flying demographic is huge....just huge....imagine all the local airports full of aircraft like i mentioned above with people spending that kind of money to own one.

And they own for sake of enjoyment...not for prestige.

It just comes down to quality small production stuff costs big bucks...and i believe there are plenty of people out there ready to spend.

And to me ebike riding a ultra fine nice ebike...is a bigger rush than flying and i do both. But riding some jankey chinese bike is not the same rush for me at all. I would rather drive my minivan...and i could give a rats ass bout prestige.

 

[Xrain]

How about one of these for $10,000

 

[REdiculous]

Yeah I'd take 3 of those Zero motorcycles over a single "Next Generation Electric Bike" any day...the street version looks pretty sweet.

 

[AussieJester]

The Zeros are one of the nicest looking electric bikes on the market to date imo, both the street and the MX versions appear identical with exception to the lighting and extra wiring on the road version. Frame and suspension on both don't appear to differ? I would really like to so a supermotard version of one actually, be pretty sweet for caning around the street at night on haha...

KiM

 

[Green Machine]

I dont know guys...

Too me the zero look just like an electric motorcycle....it would fail my could you ride it around a golf course at night and not get arrested test.

Also it would fail my would a dui count as a dui ruin your life...or a dui on a bicycle $100 fine test...

I dont think in most cities you could ride the zero with even a moped license...you would have to license it as a motorcycle.

If you slapped some pedals on the zero i might like it better...you could atleast argue its electric bike.

 

[Scottyf]

The future of ebike's. Are you sure its not just a german concept to draw up similar models at a lower price. Products like this are there to push the bounderies. Once the design is completed cheaper more commercially viable products are created.

It looks a great bit of kit that looks well designed and implemented. I'd imagine alot of the cost came from research and design. But from that other products will be spawned at a reasonable price.

The same as they do with production cars.

 

[AussieJester]

I dont know guys...

Too me the zero look just like an electric motorcycle.....

Thats because it is buddy Zero motorcycles produce both moto-X and 'license-able'
road going models thus, a motorcycle license is required the road going model.
not a bad lecky either IMHO.

KiM