yonibois

Cool content. Keep it up.

Just a comment, but I expected more on the building and less on the riding. Put a couple of good riders on any bike and they'll make it look good, so it's not much of an endorsement really; but show me the love going into a build and I'm sold.

Seriously dude. You think Tracy is from Camloops?

"Ebikes combust and start fires on a regular basis." The best published estimate I can find is from NYC. There were about 273,000 ebikes in New York City in 2024. NYC recorded 277 lithium-ion battery fires in 2024, with ebikes accounting for a substantial portion. However, nowhere does it mention the percentage of homemade batteries in those statistics, so there's no way of knowing how many main brand bike batteries are to blame. 277 out of 273,000 is 0.1%. So what's your idea of "on a regular basis"? I mean, OK, we're talking about approx 277 fires per year, but cars killed 263 people in NYC in the same period. Do you go around hating on cars and saying that that they kill people "on a regular basis"? The other thing those RTA stats never mention are the vastly greater number of people whose lives are temporarily or permanently fucked up by traffic accidents. I get it, you hate ebikes; it seems most of the people in these discussions do, but please engage your brain before you start making sweeping statements.

eBike hate seems to be a very USA thing. If your only metric is physical strength and commitment then I'd be f*cked, because at the grand old age of the wrong end of fifty and with chemo behind me and two kids I spent a lot of time with while they were growing up... the best I could do without some help would be the gym (boring). I bought an SL eBike because all my non-eBike riding mates egged me on to do it. Five years on and all of them have one too now and we're exploring places we'd never have got to on non-assist bikes, even when we were young and fit. I raced DH when I was younger, I did a Megavalanche on a f*cking hardtail in the 90s, I spent years in the gym, I think I've 'earned' my fun (you may disagree), and on the downs I can still hang with people half my age. This sport keeps me happy, healthy and mentally in the right place. I couldn't be happier I don't live in the same part of the world as you. America, the land of the free.... apparently only if you've 'earned' it and didn't go bankrupt when life threw you a curve ball.

@nicoenduro: That's what everyone told when I spent my money to go from the MonoTi6 to the Evo lever, to the Tech V4. "Fool me once..." and all that.

Good luck guys!!!

I had the originals, which looked cool as f@ck but weren't very powerful at all. Then I got the V2s which were underwhelming and then the V4 with Tech3 levers, which were a huge let down (they worked, but on long, steep runs they just underbraked everything else available (and yes, they were well bled and had clean pads). Hope brakes are pretty, and that's about it. No. I'll give them this: Customer service was second to none!

More of this!!!

For that price I'd defo buy them, but.... I can't find a Magura option on their web page. 😔