![]() ![]() ![]() More recently, he turned his attention to disrupting the e-Moto scene by revealing the dramatic Metacycle, with a futuristic cast-aluminum chassis and an industry-beating low price tag. SONDORS is now one of the largest e-Bike manufacturers in the USA, and is distributed in 42 countries. His vision was to build affordable e-Bikes, and got his start via the second-most successful Indiegogo fundraiser in history, which exceeded its goal by 7000%. Storm Sondors, while born in Latvia, has made his fortune in the USA, first in toy manufacturing, and now in electric vehicles with his company SONDORS. Our 11 designers are brave pioneers, embracing what could be the future of mobility, digging in on what design features make EVs unique, and challenging our ideas of ‘what is a car or motorcycle?’ ![]() Each of these designers is tackling a different set of issues, illustrating the wide-open nature of EV design at this early stage of the industry. The YouTube link CrossUp posted is how to find our stuff.Now on view at the Petersen Automotive Museum in LA is our latest moto-centric exhibit: Electric Revolutionaries. Curated and concepted by Paul d’Orléans, the exhibit focusses on 11 designers making an impact on the electric mobility scene, each in very different ways from top speed to accessible mobility, from aesthetic perfection to hand-cobbled and crude, from luxury to mass market to one-off. Mine is black I like the yellow, and I like the grey the most now. Thanks for the info and enjoy, welcome to the RS squad. since Christmas break and the time change I’m getting fat again! Can’t ride after work. As far as campgrounds, commutes and a few trails this is easily plenty of bike and should hold up without any issue. I beat my bike on my local trails so I have a different experience with breaking stuff and all. ![]() I make YouTube videos but just for entertainment, soon I’ll have 1000 miles on my bike and I plan on a 1000 mile review extravaganza. I’d consider upgrading the rear shock (if you need/want) it’s fairly inexpensive and worth every penny. I think most of us watch Simple Pleasures MTB on YouTube for technical knowledge so check him out. The front and rear lights are new information to me, so that is appreciated. The previous owner did the right modifications. That’s a great review and your bike is up to speed with most of ours. So end of day yes, it is way more bike than I needed, but so far I am quite pleased with it. I do however have a Brooks Cambium on order to try, so I may report back about it. I’ve been experimenting with seats for my old-man butt, though the factory one fits my sit bones pretty well. I added fenders, mirror, top-bar bag, rechargeable lights, kickstand and H2O cage. I swapped to an adjustable stem so I could get to a bit more comfortable basic ride-position for me. Also fortunate for me, he weighed the same as me and so the fork and shock were already set up quite nicely. Fortunately the previous owner had not gotten around to cutting the longer Rockshock tube down for his shorter height, so I gained about an inch over the factory fork-a good thing for me. He ended up liking the gray color better than the yellow one-so did I, but he wouldn’t sell me that one LOL-and so the yellow one became mine. After all of that they apparently went for a few longer rides and realized the bike was just too big for his wife. Out of the gate he replaced the front forks with Rockshock units, replaced the SRAM running gear with Shimano kits, went to a Michelin rear tire, slimed the tubs and had added comfort palm-swell grips. The guy selling it bought two of the earlier ones with the Tektro brakes and dropper seat post a yellow one for him and a gray one for his wife. I demoed it, it fit me pretty well, and the rest is history.Ī little more about this particular bike. So I started perusing my local Craig’s List offerings and this “like new” Rockstar showed up. So I was about to pull the trigger on an overseas, larger-framed full-suspension hub-drive fat tire bike on Amazon, but before I did that, I wanted to at least sit on one. At my size, most of the step-throughs I demoed were way too small. Long story short, I wanted an e-bike to ride around town and up at our cabin in the Sierras, mostly on paved or fire roads. ![]()
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