Spoiler: it’s only as powerful as the rest of the European government mandated limited bikes at the top of the range.
I’m still baffled that the author couldn’t read the brand name on the actual image of the bike in their own article and realize that it’s “McLaren.”
And it’s not like once or twice. It’s every single occurrence of the name in the article.
Micah is … well he’s definitely not trained as a journalist. Seems like a nice guy, though, and he is enthusiastic about EVs of all sorts, so I cut him some slack.
I mean… sure… but I honestly think it’s weird that an “enthusiast” evidently doesn’t care enough to trivially verify that they’re spelling the name correctly, when the images they’re using for the article have the branding spelled correctly in prominent locations in basically every shot.
That’s frankly extremely lazy. But minutiae like that frustrates me somewhat more than the average bear, so my perspective is probably skewed a bit.
I didn’t even notice that 😂
I mean, a performance car brand that fields an F1 and Formula E team is fairly recognizable… or at least it should be to an author of an electric vehicle website. 🤦
…and yet, no limits on how fast motorcycles, cars, and trucks can go 🤔
You’re somehow not familiar with speed limits? I’m not in Europe but I encounter people on what amount to electric motorcycles whipping uncomfortably close to me all the time. They should be limited in speed. These mother fuckers are topping 30mph on a trail with pedestrians and it’s clearly unsafe
You’re somehow not familiar with speed limits?
Speed limits are not enforced on the vehicle. They’re enforced on the driver.
Yeah. If there wasn’t so much precedent here they probably would mandate governors on car engines, but good luck convincing the car obsessed public that it’s a good idea! Probably could save a lot of lives
Agreed
Is the EU also limited by torque? My bike would be banned in the EU by motor wattage, but these have significantly higher nm of torque compared to mine. Mine is 85nm.
The EU variant appears to be 121nm.
Where is it that something has to be legal for a trail??
As per the article
The issue is that for European e-bikes, 250W is the legal limit for both on-road and trail usage. So if you’ve got a 250W e-bike, you’ve basically tied every single other e-bike on the market for highest power. Of course, none of the 250W e-bikes rolling around today actually put out only 250W of power. They all sneak by with higher peak power ratings, but the continuous power ratings are all identical. Thus, claiming to have the world’s most powerful trail-legal electric mountain bike is a bit like claiming to sell the world’s tallest 6-foot ladder.
