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I just kept thinking to make this street legal, it needs plates, signal lights, brake lights, head lights... etc. But with those wheels on both front and back, where do you put everything else?

And that's beside the point of having fenders. which a bike legally needs, but imagine hitting water on the street or rain, the spray off that thing would be crazy.

60 lbs is not terrible for an e-bike. The extra pounds don't matter so much with electric assist.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ebikes/comments/6mz5vg/upgrading_parts_on_ebike_worth_it/
Also, the wider tires don't add resistance.
https://www.schwalbetires.com/wider_faster_page

I like the 70s style (and the copper finish on the edition limited of two bikes .... wonder what that cost?) but this thing is overpriced for the level of tech. If these guys put as much effort into e-bikes as they do hyping stuff on YouTube they might make a nice bike one day. As it stands this is simply overpriced. The narrator thinks he can just call it the "best electric bike" when it's obvious that he knows F-All about the technology. There are much better e-bikes for the money in this niche (within a niche) category alone.

Their 2018 Super 73 is $3200 vs $2750 for the Luna Super Banana

https://lunacycle.com/luna-cycle-super-banana-ebike-racing-edition/

• 1000 watt vs. 3000 watt
• 48V 15.4 Ah (740 watt hours) vs. 72v 11.5 ah (830 watt hours)
• 25-27 mph vs. 40 mph

... for $2,300 the Luna Banana BBSHD has similar specs (more likely to be street legal) and still smokes the Super 73 in performance.

https://lunacycle.com/luna-banana-bbshd-ebike/

Or get the donor bike for $1,150 and add an electric kit for a few hundred more. (which is exactly what Lithium Cycles did!)

https://coastcycles.com/product-category/buzzraw/

https://lunacycle.com/mid-drive-kits/

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700kg, I can't imagine this would do well in an accident, street legal or not.

The '89 was an Impala chassis and was damned near un-driveable on the set. This guy built a driveable '89 but I doubt this is it.

>> ^Payback:

You see the driver of the '89? He TOTALLY let the 60s win. Designated Asshole.

Is that even street legal?

>> ^DrewNumberTwo:

He walked down the street legally with an item that he was legally allowed to walk down the street with. We don't know why Jeremy was walking around with his gun, and it doesn't matter. If you would like to walk around with a jar of cat piss, why would I give a fuck?


i couldnt tell you why you should "give a fuck" if i walk around with a jar of cat piss because there isnt any real reason you should "give a fuck". im not arguing that at all. what i am rebutting is this idea that any ridicule of this mans behavior, while it may be well within his rights, is objectionable on the sole premise that "because he fucking can".

imagine you see me walking down the street legally with a legal jar of cat piss. you dont know why i am walking around with a jar of cat piss and it doesnt matter. if i would like to walk around with a jar of cat piss, why should you give a fuck? but if you think im weird for it, youre a paranoid idiot.....now does that make any more sense than chiding me, or anyone else, for very reasonably thinking "jeremy" a douche pickle sandwich, given the context of the situation.

i dont really give a fuck that he was lawfully open carrying. but given the situation that unfolded and how he unnecessarily reacted to it, i am inclined to think he is a douche captain who had no real motive to open carry other than to instigate an awkward scene with the police with the hopes that he may capture video evidence of police brutality that he instigated in the first place to prove a retarded point

for all i care he can continue to act in this way as is his right. doesnt mean im not gonna stop calling him a douche for it though

He walked down the street legally with an item that he was legally allowed to walk down the street with. We don't know why Jeremy was walking around with his gun, and it doesn't matter. If you would like to walk around with a jar of cat piss, why would I give a fuck?

>> ^demon_ix:
I didn't think those cars were street-legal. Cool concept, anyway


Nope, not street legal. Hence the police.

I didn't think those cars were street-legal. Cool concept, anyway

Actually, it kinda does.
>> ^entr0py:
I find it amusing that they stuck a license plate on the back of it. As if that would make it street legal.

I find it amusing that they stuck a license plate on the back of it. As if that would make it street legal.

Something tells me that isn't street legal. But it sure as hell is street awesome!

From the BBC article: "Stefan Gulas has developed a system that amplifies the effort you put in by a factor of 50, meaning you can accelerate quickly and maintain high speeds with very little effort"

I get the sense the "effort amplification" bit is intentionally worded to be utterly misleading. He's more likely saying "2% of the energy used by the bike is coming from you, 98% is coming from the battery." So the pedaling charges the battery slightly, but it's almost negligible.

In fact, this sort of thing already exists and there's a name for it, it's an electric moped. (only not a street legal moped since it's speed is similar to middle range electric motorcycles) You can pick up an electric moped now for under $1000, if that's the sort of thing you think you might be into.

http://www.metaefficient.com/electric-bikes/the-best-electric-scooters-of-2008-a-review.html