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@Timo82: Absolutely agreed. I really wanted to like mine, I even bought a different dropper post because mine wasn't compatible. But the nose drop is just too much at 12 degrees, it's too uncomfortable for normal climbing.. Maybe it works climbing a vertical wall but I don't do that very often...

You know that very soon you will see this cruising your local green trails on metallic painted e-bikes, slammed to the ground with chrome-plated spinner rims, blasting hip hop music while the front end is bouncing in the air...

For the longest time, I was E-bike neutral. Hell, if I could have justified the price, I wouldn't have minded one myself. Then the other day, I was peddling up a local long, steep, slightly technical single track. It's super popular and it's something of a right of passage to be able to climb it without dabbing or dying. As I'm just getting into a groove I hear someone coming up behind me fast so I pull over. Not one, but 33, spaced-out full power E-bikes pass me going uphill at the speed people generally come down that trail. I was a full couple of minutes waiting for them all to pass, and a cursory look suggested that 80% of them couldn't have pedaled that climb on an A-bike. I don't want to be a gatekeeper but I am a lot less neutral about E-bikes these days, I mean how can anyone be... Oh, and did I mention, E-bikes aren't allowed on that trail....

For the longest time, I was E-bike neutral. Hell, if I could have justified the price, I wouldn't have minded one myself. Then the other day, I was peddling up a local long, steep, slightly technical single track. It's super popular and it's something of a right of passage to be able to climb it without dabbing or dying. As I'm just getting into a groove I hear someone coming up behind me fast so I pull over. Not one, but 33, spaced out full power E-bikes pass me going uphill at the speed people generally come down that trail. I was a full three or four minutes waiting for them all to pass, and a cursory look suggested that 80% of them couldn't have pedaled that climb on an A-bike. I don't want to be a gatekeeper but ai am a lot less neutral about E-bikes these days, I mean how can anyone be... Oh, and did I mention, E-bikes aren't allowed on that trail....

I was just in Switzerland and it was by far the most shockingly expensive country I have ever been (though our dollar doesn't help). I hope you are all enjoying FA on my tourist dollars...

@slayersxc17: If a mtb'er falls in the forest and no one sees him, did he even ride...

A top tube LCD display that live streams the funniest PinkBike eMTB comments...

Well you didn't think you'd get nothing for all that money you are paying, did you?

Good back and forth..