I am would like to report that trying to get @Mark911 to join a new forum with only two other members has eventually paid off! His list of mind-blowing Alta mods and projects was at that time falling on deaf ears at other forums.
And I finally stopped worrying about possibly receiving a cease...
That's a great idea. Buy a bike here. Just bring your rear shock and the right fork leg (if you have an MXR) with you on the plane. Install in 30 minutes and you have a race bike! Then ship it home or sell it.
This is how most pros do it, if they have to fly to a remote part of the world to...
This is so awesome! Jeff Walker is the coolest YouTuber out there, racing on a professional level and posting his videos. I met him at RedBud last year.
He is actually twice as cool because he has a big red ProMaster motovan!
He was hauling ass!
Sign me up! If it recharges in 1 minute, then it is no different from a gas bike, which refuels in 1 minute. Except there is no maintenance. I am fully in.
It's only the traditional bike manufacturers who do not have the profit margins. They spend maybe $1,000 to build a gas bike and the rest is spent on the manufacturing equipment, facilities, labor, marketing, dealers, and service. With electric bikes you can and must cut most of these costs.
With Alta gone, all you see on the internet now, outside of this forum, are the haters who were never going to buy an electic dirt bike in the first place. The idea has died. Temporarily.
But have you noticed how the prices for e-bicycles have gone down? And how they now have more and more...