In the last year there has been only one woman caught red-handed during a race with a ‘doped’ racing bike. Her name was Femke Van den Driessche and she had her doped ebike confiscated by the UCI. What they found was a motor and battery hidden in the seat tube of her frame that was very…
Whenever I surf the web to find out what is happening in the ebike industry I get pretty depressed. The US ebike market is a wasteland of cheap underpowered hub-powered ugly ebikes and overpriced underpowered torque sensing mid-drives. *facepalm* It’s no wonder that no one is buying this crap. The biggest problem I see facing…
This article discusses 3 different aspects of ethics in the ebike business. The ethics involved in crowdfunding ebikes The differences between the different ebike vendor and pricing models How to attempt to run an ethical ebike blog or review site Over the last year I have watched most of the ebike crowd funding campaigns very…
The Sondors Ebike. Here we go. I rode the Sondors Ebike with the throttle pegged down and my first reaction was “Wow! This bike doesn’t totally suck”. The logos and the styling make it look like the latest incarnation of the Batmobile, and it rides like a tank over most everything in its path. Tooling around everyone…
After countless insults, hate-mail, getting run off the Storm Usergroup Facebook page and working really hard at NOT getting post-banned I’ve finally decided to stop writing about the Sondors Ebike controversy. Congratulations, you win! I got a refund, I no longer care what happens from this point forward. Unless I get legal notification in the…
I published an article several days ago about whether there should be more federal regulation or private insurance in the crowd-funding world found here. That same day the Sondors Ebike campaign announced that they would be offering perk insurance for people’s ebike perks. This is quite possibly the most questionable services I have ever seen offered…
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There were three very interesting things that came out of the interviews with Storm/Ivars at the Demo Days Event last Sunday 1) He has said that he might have one container of 300 bikes shipped to Southern California for people to pick up their ebikes. This video at 22:57. 2) He said the Sondors electric bike would…
Federal regulations are put in place to protect the consumer from advertisers who falsely advertise their products and make misleading claims. They can also protect consumers from flat-out fraud where they purchase something, but never receive the product they ordered or receive something very different from they thought they were going to get. Before you…
Click on this link and jump to 13:00 to see when Storm/Ivars Sondors arrives. I’ll be doing an article on the Demo Day tomorrow, but my take on it is that people really liked the bike and Storm Sondors is not an ebike geek. That being said he seems like an intense guy who is excited about creating…
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