Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

So he’s made an ebike that is illegal (as a bicycle) so is outlining the hoops he has to jump through to make it legal, as a motorbike?

As a moped, with a limit of 4kw/50cc and can't use the power over 30mph I think?

So yeah, a lot of building to make a moped.
I mainly watch the videos for the tech side of the builds.

The vast majority of ebikes I see are also illegal

FTFY. Probably 90% of food delivery riders I see are on illegal bikes, plus 100% of owner operated e-scooters. The police clearly don't give a fuck.

The police clearly don't give a fuck.

Twice last week in Lewisham passed police van + panda + 6-8 white coppers with a black teenager and confiscated scooter in the back. It's a great excuse for them. Meanwhile 5 people a day are killed by speeding / drunk / phone scrolling cunts in cars

I don't know a lot of the legal stuff around it so "a youtuber said it" might not check out

Garages may/will not services a converted moped, ditto to bike shop servicing a converted ebikes.

Yeah, I imagine of you've got it working then you'd better keep it maintained yourself.
Can only imagine people's face if you walked something like that into a bicycle shop 😂

“Sorry, not only your warranty now void on your Trek you brought from us last week but we can’t touch it on account of you bafanging it”

Probably quite functional, but even so bloody hell

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For a TT bike that's not too bad IMO

The grips look pretty specialist.

Pretty sure I have seen this thing in this thread multiple times, today I spotted it irl , looks like it actually gets used too:

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Rob English , aspiring to new levels of anti on a bike by bike basis

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Until they make AA batteries powerful enough, his certainly isn’t the worst of the ebike bunch.

I think this looks great. The steel Powertube "cage" beats the pants off the huge hydroformed DTs you see on production Powertube bikes.

Agreed in the context of E bikes this is not the worst, however , its still a Minger

in the context of English bikes this is not the worst

True

^_^

I like it.

This is rad

It looks like the headset doesn't fit right either...

More here: https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/all-city-big-block-2014-neu-unikat/1843627250-217-7526

Not that anybody needs to see more of this monstrosity...

All Giant MCrs are absolutely hideous, that one especially so, particularly with the Horrids branding. They were bloody fast, though.....

All Giant MCrs are absolutely hideous

The colour scheme and branding do this particular bike no favours, but without excessive UCI rule constraints monocoque upright designs would probably be widespread, especially with the potential of 3D printing for custom design. I would like to see more explorations of the single fork and chainstay used in the original Lotus bike.

This road.cc retrospective article is quite sympathetic to the MCR, discussing it in the context of contemporary designs outside of UCI scope in Triathlon and Ironman competitions:
https://road.cc/content/tech-news/258409-retro-bike-1997-giant-mcr-carbon-aero-bike