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Are manufacturers' efforts to create lightweight eMTBs only making them worse?

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[-] njordomir@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I don't like the title. Super light ebikes are great.

The article makes some good points about super light e-mountain-bikes but the title appears to address ebikes as a whole. I ride a non-MTB SL ebike but when I bought an MTB it was a muscle bike.

The extra weight of making something an ebike definitely isn't negligible. My skinny tire SL ebike still weighs more than my MTB and the weight distribution is different.

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