McClaren's 'world's most powerful trail-legal e-bike' has a problem
McClaren's 'world's most powerful trail-legal e-bike' has a problem
McLaren, better known for its high-performance sports cars, has just announced a series of new electric bikes, including what the...
Spoiler: it's only as powerful as the rest of the European government mandated limited bikes at the top of the range.
I’m still baffled that the author couldn’t read the brand name on the actual image of the bike in their own article and realize that it’s “McLaren.”
I didn't even notice that 😂
I mean, a performance car brand that fields an F1 and Formula E team is fairly recognizable… or at least it should be to an author of an electric vehicle website. 🤦
Is the EU also limited by torque? My bike would be banned in the EU by motor wattage, but these have significantly higher nm of torque compared to mine. Mine is 85nm.
The EU variant appears to be 121nm.
Where is it that something has to be legal for a trail??
As per the article
The issue is that for European e-bikes, 250W is the legal limit for both on-road and trail usage. So if you’ve got a 250W e-bike, you’ve basically tied every single other e-bike on the market for highest power. Of course, none of the 250W e-bikes rolling around today actually put out only 250W of power. They all sneak by with higher peak power ratings, but the continuous power ratings are all identical. Thus, claiming to have the world’s most powerful trail-legal electric mountain bike is a bit like claiming to sell the world’s tallest 6-foot ladder.
...and yet, no limits on how fast motorcycles, cars, and trucks can go 🤔
You're somehow not familiar with speed limits? I'm not in Europe but I encounter people on what amount to electric motorcycles whipping uncomfortably close to me all the time. They should be limited in speed. These mother fuckers are topping 30mph on a trail with pedestrians and it's clearly unsafe