Mastodawn

I'm just going to park this here... Link to a video about an e-bike. It seems like an apt metaphor for something, or maybe many things... You gotta see it to believe it. What do you think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB7pBrudFbg
"This Is The Worst Bicycle I've Ever Reviewed (The Reevo Hubless E-Bike)"
#YMMV #ebike #wheel #bicycle #scams

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SmashedRatOnPress 2h ago

(And just for completeness, here's a follow-up dissection video, showing some guts of the propulsion mechanism.)
#ebike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgPUpccQ_mw

What's Inside The World’s Worst eBike? Reevo Teardown

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I get the impression that if you get a ripped tyre, you have to send the bike (or whatever it’s supposed to be) back to the manufacturer. You can’t even buy a spare tyre from the local bike shop, and there’s absolutely nothing standard about that bike. The beauty of a bike used to be that it was universal and affordable. Not some postmodern brainwave from a yuppie with too much money and too little leg power...

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SmashedRatOnPress 2h ago

@bitchboss Ah, yes. Check out the 2nd video, the disassembly. It shows the tires are solid rubber! But, yes, you would have to take the entire wheel assembly apart to get to the tire, and put on a new one, even if a replacement could be found. But company no longer in business, so all of the 150 that shipped are orphaned. Total dead-end.

Oh my goodness... What’s next... A nuclear-powered ice cream maker?