Five MY17 e-MTBs (probably just the start)

[mark sutton]

Hi All,

Just a quick round up of new e-MTBs that have emerged recently. Giant, Cannondale, Corratec, KTM and Ghost.

Rode the Cannondale rig down Kirchberg's Fleckalm trail and it handles brilliantly, would recommend.

https://cyclingindustry.news/e-mtbs-appear-in-droves-as-my17-bikes-emerge/

 

[EddiePJ]

Shame that they can't spell Macina.

 

[anotherkiwi]

Shame they call off-road bikes e-MTBs...

I ride up mountains on my trekking bike... and Tour de France riders ride up mountains on road bikes. I have even crossed a lady on a mountain on a folder!!! Does that make them e-MTBs too?

 

[EddiePJ]

That is one of my pet hates about the Oxygen and Kudos range of bikes as well.

Show either some proper off road riding conditions, and they wouldn't last any time at all.

Having said that, I don't exactly see many owners of perceived e-MTB's using them for anything remotely taxing either.

Despite using it my self, I also hate the expression e-MTB

 

[Croxden]

I have had a dislike of a fluid flywheel clutch being called a torq converter, a gearbox converts the torq from the engine to the driven wheels.

Same with shock absorbers, the spring absorbs the shock, those other things damp the oscillations.

How many more are there?