ha ha alex, £1000 overpriced....what rubbish , of course sellers need to make profit etc so we can legitimately say that everything is 'overpriced' but normally products sell at what the market will take or they dont sell at all. Storck are a well established high quality bike manufacturer so even with marketing hype,they should know the market value of their products...... enjoy your Kalkhoff Agattu C11 Premium Impulse 11-G Alfine at rrp £2695 is obviously a 'steal'.......and worth every penny (especially at discount in the xmas sale).....
dont get stranded too far from home on it......24kg crank bike will take some pedalling (or pushing) home if you run out of battery......
regards
I'm not saying the C11 isn't overpriced too - but I think by about £600 at RRP. The mark-up is down to the hub gears, expensive front hub dynamo lighting and trip computer technology (which you either value or you don't - I personally far prefer hub gears to any others but would like a Rohloff even more).
My comments are objective not competitive so don't take them personally .. the Storck is definitely priced well over what it objectively should be for what it actually is. The same is true for most high-end bikes. Very bad value for money but a noticeable cut above the flodded middle space market so people pay pure profit premium merely for that. The differentiating factors with the Storck in the hub drive space seem to be the high-torque motor (but compare Neo and price point), regen (for what it's really worth) and continuous throttle (this system should have been industry standard on hub bikes by now .. imho).
Storck are presumably cashing in on their torque sensor patent at the moment as it's the only thing which I can see as a USP, but when alternative technology is developed by others to deliver similar results its value will collapse. I don't think it will be long somehow.
As I said before, I think it's a nice bike and would no doubt be nice to ride (definitely one of the more desirable ones), but I don't think it's worth the price and there are too many areas which are too much of a compromise over the features I personally like best (which don't necessarily cost that much more for the manufacturer). Change them and I'd be far more attracted to it. As someone who uses a single bike rather than any other sort of transport for pretty much everything from heavy shopping (25-30kg of it sometimes), getting to clients some distance away and some longer leisure rides too I prefer what I have. If I wanted a bike purely for leisure and the odd errand the Storck would likely have been more attractive, but I still wouldn't pay more than £1800-£2k for it. The extra grand is a rip. Just like Mercedes cars are simply not worth their price tag these days.
Btw .. I ride my bike with the power off as well as on ... but fortunately there is far less chance of my becoming stranded far from home with a 36V 540Wh 15Ah battery than with most retail bikes on the market (including the Storck). On Eco mode in average terrains it could happily do 70-100 miles, so that should be enough to get me to the nearest charging point
I'd be a little more nervous with a 25V 10Ah one, to be fair !!!