Karma38 Carbon Mountain Bike

[shemozzle999]

Latest offering available on Alibaba, reasonable specs, light-weight an legal - sub £1000 full duty paid - no try before you buy though.

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Electric-Bicycle-Karma38-Carbon-Mountain-Bike-Pedal-Assist-Motorized-Ebike-18-L/1472646028.html

 

[shemozzle999]

Sorry - Warning could be a scam at that price shown - manufacturers price:

Electric Bicycle: Karma38 | St-bicycle

I have contacted the manufacturer for confirmation one way or the other.

 

[Deleted member 4366]

The price is probably right. If my memory serves me right, hat American bike has been around for a while and started as an exact replica of the Kudos King Carbon that sold for about £1000. I can see that they've developed it a bit. Hopefully, they've reinforced the bottle mounting studs by now. I reckon that it's a badged generic Chines bike sold at a ridiculous price. There's no advantage of using carbon fibre on a bike like that other than it won't go rusty. If they wanted to save weight, they could fit a Q100C motor, which is 1kg lighter. The weight is 20kg, which isn't bad, but you can getter a better bike of the same weigh by buying a decent used MTB for about £500 and adding a £420 8Fun kit. This one should do nicely:
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