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"Not a motorcycle. This is an electric bicycle. Forgetting the weight of the bike, that front brake isn't enough to properly handle the mass of a rider panic-br
by swimfar 10y ago
"Not a motorcycle. This is an electric bicycle. Forgetting the weight of the bike, that front brake isn't enough to properly handle the mass of a rider panic-braking at 100kph."
I don't how someone could objectively say this is not a motorcycle. Is acceleration or braking performance how we classify whether something is a motorcycle or not? I'm sure there have been 100's of thousands of "real" motorcycles produced with worse braking than the disk brakes on this one. Old motorcycles (and cars) are notorious for having poor braking performance. I doubt a 5" single-leading-shoe front brake with 60's technology pads would do better than this. Some people put even smaller front brakes on choppers in the 60's. And certain kinds of motorcycle racing doesn't even allow brakes.
Yeah, it uses many bicycle components. But I think people underestimate the amount of abuse a downhill bicycle is designed to take. It has a double triple clamp front fork with 35mm stanchions (fork tubes). Bad landings from a big jump would put way more energy into the fork than any normal street riding. If this were supposed to be an off-road motorcycle, I could understand the concerns. But for a street bike I wouldn't be at all afraid of riding it at 100 kph.
Are there any modern motorcycles that it can outperform? Maybe not, but with it's low mass I wouldn't be too sure. And I don't think that's relevant anyways. It's a motorized two-wheeled vehicle with no pedals. There aren't too many more classification requirements one could add. And without pedals, it's certainly not a bicycle.