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title:	"Electric bikes are getting off the ground, slightly behind electric cars."
date:	2018-06-11
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  Electric bikes are getting off the ground, slightly behind electric cars. The coolest is the Zero S, I reckon.

And that’s the thing… They are pretty damn cool.

No chain (or shaft or whatever), no oil, no gears. Just smooth linear power, and lots of it. Arguably not as fun as the powerbands of different cylinder configurations but there is one thing…

The torque. The damn torque.

A pure performance electric bike will accelerate *obscenely* fast. And that might win me over.

But I’ll always miss the roar of the engine. There’s something about an electric bike that seems… Less *bike. *Even if it is cleaner, more efficient and whatever. I won’t fight the transition but I know many bikers will. I do hope for an exemption purely because there are so so many bikes I want to try! :P

Making an electric bike look dirty and slung together? Probably way more difficult even if just because there’s less *stuff* to beat up and tape back together.

Though that could also provide an awesome blank canvas. On that front we definitely don’t know yet. It might be an excellent market opportunity, it might be a dead end. But more importantly, it might just get my imagination running full throttle. To use a term gradually going obsolete ;)