The e-bike industry is a scam! The bike is a 200 year old invention, these people really are fooling consumers into thinking they have re-invented the wheel.

The e-bike industry is a scam! The bike is a 200 year old invention, these people really are fooling consumers into thinking they have re-invented the wheel. Some e-bikes go for 20,000$, that's the same price of a new Ducati Panigale which has 400 lbs of material in it, including a 220hp motor which rotates at 17000rpm. It's either a scam or poor engineering, some people claim that the pricy e-bikes have 'a lot of carbon fiber on them' , but centuries of work showed that if you are struggling to propel yourself forward the low hanging fruit is a more powerful motor which is way more helpful than lowering the weight by half an ounce at the price of hundreds of dollars of carbon fiber.