Super73 shows off 85 mph Cyberpunk electric scrambler and slick retro café racer built on new C1X platform
Super73 shows off 85 mph Cyberpunk electric scrambler and slick retro café racer built on new C1X platform
Super73 took the C1X concept ebike and transformed it into a scrambler and café racer concept for EICMA 2023. The El Jefe Scrambler and Super Le Pew café racer use the same motor, battery, and basic proportions of the original, but see a significant overhaul in the visual department.
Not gonna lie - it looks great. Just wondering what the price point for this will be. I feel like it might be in a weird spot - you can get ebikes from Honda for under $1k and if you flirt with anything higher than $5k you start to compete with gas bikes. Hopefully it's priced in a good range there to be competitive.
IIRC Honda has an air cooled IC bike for about $3500, but what sub 1k ebike do they sell?
It's a super compact ebike - basically a suitcase with wheels but it's just at $1,000. Personally I'd love to get one and know full well this suitcase bike isn't anything like the Super73 but it's really to showcase the floor for these types of bikes:
Nothing about the article to add, but the gulf colors on an electric vehicle always makes me laugh
Not bad. I'd ride either of those. I wonder about speed, range and charge times, but all in all am looking forward to quiet bikes. Are any of the e-bikes using generative brakes? How's the acceleration? There's a lot of potential, but it's not going to be an easy sell to motorcyclists that are very performance minded and ate up the ' loud pipes save lives ' horseshit that boomers on Harleys spewed as absolute truth for so long that the squids adopted it.
Squids?
"Squid" refers to people who blast down the highway on sportbikes while wearing their favorite protective gear: shorts, sandals, sunglasses. Maybe a t shirt if they are feeling fancy.
I used to hang out with some guys who rode dual sports, and every one of them had some kind of loud exhaust on them. I remember also them finding out I had a harely, and them being confused when it was neither loud, or covered in chrome.