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by foepys 1069 days ago
Have the prices come down lately? When COVID hit, it was nearly impossible to find cheap new bikes.
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I bought a new bike for €300 something in 2021, in NL. But it does seem like some stores hardly carry anything that costs below €1000.
e-bike with alarm and all other features like apple find my? This is about the VanMoof price, so you have to compare with bikes that bring in the same set of features.
If the features are nearly useless, like for instance an electric motor, then we can simply assign a very low weight to them when comparing.
I would say a motor is remarkably useful feature on a transportation device.
Are you saying that the specific electric motor used by VanMoof is useless? If so, under what circumstances? Always, or just on steep slopes or at high speed?
Market changed. Bike vendors have a harder time unloading their inventory these days.