Re: Press Release

AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> writes:
 

On 2/2/2025 6:38 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> wrote:

On 1 Feb 2025 08:00:54 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
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Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:26:26 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
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https://nplusbikes.com/collections/electric-bikes/products/city-edition

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If they're giving them away, you can have mine.
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C'est bon
Soloman
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I’m bit confused as to their market to be honest, but I’m possibly out of
touch but while I see E MTB in that sort of price range, and Cargo bikes
both of which make sense, carbon E bikes for commuting?  I’m less convinced
by and certainly don’t see examples on London’s streets.
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To be fair the speed limiter would come into play, the folks who cycling in
to the city from South West London would be averaging that sort of speed
some above. As the roads cycle lanes allow for moving fast, so one can
cycle the 15/20 miles in a hour ish.
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Roger Merriman

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Can't comment for England but here I can buy a brand new motor bike
for as low as 10,000 Thai Baht and a more expensive Supercub for
60,000 T.B.
That is U.S. Dollars $299 and $1498.
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Worst case is about 1 Supercub and 2,500 gallons of gasoline :-)

While bikes certainly are expensive, for various reasons mainly
bikes are
much more separated with both models add in different equipment specs and
sizes.
Even road bikes, have Race bikes, Aero, endurance, Gravel which is
split
often into race and explore, and so on.
This said a moped from a known brand is around 3k which is about the
same
as decent full suspension MTB, quite a bit more than a hybrid to get around
town be that electric which would be around 1k or half that for analogue.
Getting an off road motorcycle with the ability to cope with,
similar
terrain as for example my Trance your into the 6K mark.
Flipping back to the utility side, cargo bikes can carry safely
carry
kids/stuff start around the 2k mark and climb rapidly to around 10k but
they are more car replacements, generally doing the school run, which with
the best will in the world isn’t done by moped or motorcycles.
So yes bikes can be expensive but the answer isn’t particularly
simple.
Roger Merriman

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"answer isn’t particularly simple"
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Right you are! With perhaps some apples and oranges comparisons.
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Crappy small 2 cycle two wheelers from china are so cheap in India
(with local final assembly) that they are crushing the bicycle selling
business. There are not Ducatis!
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And for 'bicycle', some may look to the sort of thing we might
ride. The average bicycle in USA is $409 and of course half are below
average!

 Half are below median.  If "average" means "mean", then almost certainly
more than half are below.