Expensive e-bike with weird geometry

[daniel.weck]

Yuk ! ...and it's called Grace !!

€5877 ($8742)

Grace Electric Bike Is Part Motorcycle, Part Race Car and Part Fighter Jet - Grace - Gizmodo

 

[Mussels]

Why is the front wheel dished and off centre to the bike?

fitted with eurofighter and Formula One parts

What parts then, a bolt from the same factory.
To be fair it looks like a lot of care has gone into the design but the USD suspension forks tell me that it's over engineered and poor value.

 

[Patrick]

They describe it as being an "e-motorbike", which seems to be a motorbike disguised as a bicycle. This is what their faq says:

FAQ 2: Why do we think that Grace is the worlds first e-motorbike?
First of all what is an e-motorbike? We think an e-motorbike looks like a bicycle but has the performance characteristics of a small motorcycle. E-motorbikes can go as fast as e-scooters or smaller e-motorcycles, but in contrast to these two categories they are much smaller and lighter and can be taken into trains, cars or even aircraft without a bigger effort. Thus e-motorbikes could create a new form of transportation.

So are the pedals there for any reason other than decorations and maybe getting you hame when the batteries run out? I wonder what it's like to ride unassisted.

Patrick

 

[flecc]

That frame promotes inevitable wheelies, probably why they done it that way since it appears to be all about excitement.
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