You can get a helmet or eyeglass mounted mirror a lot more cheaply and easily fix or replace it if it breaks. And you’re not limited by a fixed camera position
A bike (probably) filled with proprietary parts and with a giant illuminated VW logo on the front and rear?
Absolutely not.
The light up logos are so insanely corny.
I should go debadge my car. They never paid me to advertise!
I bought aftermarket mask without the badge for my own car but it looked weird without the logo. Somehow it’s apparently part of the design. I ended up just plastidipping the original mask then instead so now it still has the logo but it’s matte black and not chrome. From the tailgate I removed it entirely.
Seem a fair few ebikes that look incredibly proprietary and I wouldn’t want to touch it because of that. Much prefer a standardised battery I can plug into a hub motor if I was to get an ebike. Currently just using a regular bike.
Woukd be nice of they at least standardised the damn charging!
Why? Bikes don’t have the same limited vision issues as cars do, and hence don’t really need rear-view cameras. You can just turn your head and look backwards.
A radar alerting you of an incoming vehicle is more than sufficient here if you really want to add a technical solution
Seeing behind can be tricky on a bike, it’s not safe to turn your head when moving fast and often you need to watch in front as well as see behind, eg to pass an obstacle. Some kind of rear view can be handy, although mirrors are also possible to use
Seeing behind can be tricky on a bike, it’s not safe to turn your head when moving fast
It’s fine to turn your head if you make sure you’re not going to hit something in front, and keep the backwards check short in time. I do it all the time at high speeds. Some practice is needed to make sure you don’t accidentally swerve when doing it.
often you need to watch in front as well as see behind,
Rapidly switching from looking forward to looking backward and back to looking forward adequately solves this problem
If you can avoid “Rapidly switching”, that’s one less thing to worry about. A rear view is long overdue. Subtle eyeball movement is much more efficient than twisting your entire head.
Puts the rear-view camera display between the handlebars.
At first, I thought it meant they put the camera itself there, which would be super-dumb because it would only ever show you a picture of your own crotch, and there are simpler and easier ways to take dick pics.
Still a lot of proprietary bullshit on there that will break and be impossible to find replacement parts for in 10 years, but at least they’re not that dumb.
Thank you, sounded either super dumb or super sexually illegal.
Botched title?
I don’t see why anyone would buy this, there are brands far more reputable for making ebikes or are more promising. Personally im waiting on reviews for Lynq, I think they could become the most polished ebike brand.
Realistically it’s a add-on for price negotiations at the dealership when buying a car
Yeah that price is about 5 grand higher than it should be
How about we knock off a grand and throw in this sick ebike?
Deal!
(Dealership just sold a $1500 ebike for $4k)
I’d be interested in your perspective because from a European standpoint, there seems to be nothing special about these bikes but I could be wrong.
All reputable brands in Europe, from the low-end Chinese-made Decathlon or Nakamura to the higher-end and/or Made in Europe like Gazelle, Kalkhoff or Riese&Müller have models they fit the same form factors and niches.
Almost certainly but I wouldn’t know since most ebike review channels are American. I specified Lynq because they are special due to their own controller and the level of quality they produce in their Apollo scooters (which I don’t know will transfer over to their yet to be reviewed ebike brand).
At this moment Apollo (and thus Lynq) doesn’t ship to the EU or UK, they’re primarily a Canadian company that also ships to the US and Australia.
I’d be wary of proprietary tech in this context. For reference, most Euro brands use standard components (Bosch batteries, controllers and motors, Shimano shifters or hub gears etc…) which make them both easier to compare for value and maintainable and repairable in almost any shop. The last thing we need in the bike space is a dealer maintenance exclusivity.
The only thing properitary about them is the controller and the frame, also they have a repair network so its not a big deal.
