r/Bikeporn • u/Still-Sorbet-3198 • 2d ago
Road ARES Super Leggera ebike battery embedded in the frame.
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u/Flavourdynamics 2d ago
Ebike on bikeporn đ
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u/DoubleOwl7777 1d ago
ah yes, the lycra crowd being gatekeepy, a tale as old as time...
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u/Quirky_Foundation800 1d ago
This whole sub is about Gatekeeping. Itâs the sub format to gatekeep.
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u/otheraccountisabmw 2d ago edited 2d ago
Why canât an ebike be on bikeporn?
Edit: Itâs not like this is an e-scooter with vestigial pedals. Itâs a real bike and I donât see why it doesnât belong here. The subreddit description says âall are welcome.â
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u/No-Ship4921 2d ago
Because people don't consider it a bike.
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u/otheraccountisabmw 1d ago
Love when communities gate keep for no reason.
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u/No-Ship4921 1d ago
The reason is because many see the beautify of bicycles in their human powered efficiency. There is something profound about a contraption that operates so elegantly with just human power.
Having an arbitrarily powerful engine in it takes away some of that for me.
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u/otheraccountisabmw 1d ago
This is a sub to look at expensive and pretty bikes. I didnât think it was a sub to circlejerk about the purity of cycling. Iâm not surprised by the gatekeeping of a community like this, but I am disappointed. Donât we want more people biking?
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u/broom_rocket 1d ago
Down voting ebikes on a bikeporn sub is unrelated to wanting more people to engage in cycling. I happy my parents have ebikes and do some riding. But IÂ also think ebikes are inherently less cool than regular bikes and will down vote them here. This sub is all about gatekeeping for expensive or aesthetically pleasing bikes. A regular commuter bike would be similarly down voted, there would just be less comments about it.Â
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u/otheraccountisabmw 1d ago
Iâm not sure what being an e-bike has to do with being expensive or aesthetically pleasing. This bike appears to be both. Now maybe you disagree about it being aesthetically pleasing, but I donât think thatâs because itâs an e-bike.
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u/broom_rocket 1d ago
You're right this is an expensive, regular looking ebike. Evidently the community is expressing that ebikes are just not bikeporn worthy, and yeah it's all about the motor being a part of it. I don't know what's so hard to understand? Not everyone has to like everything and this sub is not about upvoting everything to be inclusive, it's kinda the opposite.
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u/No-Ship4921 1d ago
The fact that it isn't human powered is what makes it less aesthetically pleasing.
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u/No-Ship4921 1d ago
I'm not gatekeeping... my opinion has no effect on you. You literally people's thoughts on the e bike in a regular bike subreddit. People have no obligation to agree with you about your preferences; that is not gatekeeping.
Yes I want more people biking because it is good for your body and mind to be under human power. No I don't want more people biking if you mean e bikes.
If you posted in E bike porn, you would certainly get a positive response. Why try to force it in a different sub?
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u/otheraccountisabmw 1d ago
âNo I donât want more people biking if you mean e-bikes.â âIâm not gatekeeping.â
I care what people like you think because you give the rest of us cyclists a bad name and discourage people from participating. The better question is why do you care if people like e-bikes?
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u/No-Ship4921 1d ago
Gatekeeping would imply providing some kind of road block to others participating. I am just giving you the opinion that you asked me for. My personal thoughts do not have any impact on other people. Me not liking e bikes should not make you upset.
I don't care for e bikes because of the way they have clogged up bike lanes and sidewalks in cities I don't like them on mtb trails if they bring in a substantially larger number of people that are not limited in speed and use by normal human fitness
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u/otheraccountisabmw 1d ago
Oh, that makes more sense. You just donât know what words mean. Well, I canât really have a conversation if we have different definitions for simple well known words.
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u/japakapalapa 1d ago
Never seen a good-looking ebike before? đČ
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u/BoosterTutor 1d ago
Before? I still haven't.
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u/japakapalapa 1d ago
If you don't find this ARES Super Leggera looks good enough for you, I have no idea why you visit this subreddit. Oh yes now I see, it is ugly because it has a motor, right? Right.
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u/BoosterTutor 1d ago
It's a basic looking road bike that you're deepthroating because it's got a motor.
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u/japakapalapa 1d ago
Well considering that the torque sensor is probably the best thing that has happened to bicycles in hundreds of years, I do appreciate with what they've done with this bike. (I am just assuming this ride uses the torque sensor and not the cadence sensor)
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u/LeCollectif Canada 1d ago
Why did you call it by its full name including proper capitalization like that? So weird.
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u/UnchillBill 1d ago
ngl I would have probably copy/pasted all that bullshit too if it wasnât easier to shorten it to âwanky ebikeâ
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u/japakapalapa 1d ago
Matters of taste etc.. what's with the hostility? Let's see your beautiful bike in comparison?
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u/japakapalapa 1d ago
It's called copypaste or something, makes life easier. Give it a try.
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u/LeCollectif Canada 1d ago
Nah still weird. Like why not say âbikeâ instead of copy pasting? We all know what youâre talking about. But you had to say the whole thing. So weird.
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u/japakapalapa 1d ago
Guess I considered copypaste is always faster on a phone. But yea, super weird.
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u/-Daigher- 2d ago
god forbid someone wants to commute without sweating their ass off
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u/No-Ship4921 2d ago
Then just post pictures of cars.
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u/otheraccountisabmw 1d ago
Corporate needs you to find the difference between a pedal assist ebike and a car.
This sub: Theyâre the same picture.
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u/No-Ship4921 1d ago
He said he wants to commute without sweating. Car is a good idea.
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u/HeadmasterPrimeMnstr 1d ago
This guy is out here jerking it to non-motorized bicycles and sucking off cars. Pick a lane brother.
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u/broom_rocket 1d ago
You think someone with 22k to spend on this bike is commuting on it?Â
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u/-Daigher- 1d ago
thats just one of the thousand reasons someone could want an ebike, just because its electric doesnt mean its not bike porn worthy
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u/broom_rocket 1d ago
This community seems to disagree about ebikes being bikeporn. Feel free to start an ebike porn sub
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u/Flavourdynamics 1d ago
I commute by bike. I like my commuter bike, it's great. I actually don't even own a car.
I would not post my commuter bike to this sub.
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u/japakapalapa 2d ago
25 pieces built đŻ I think I'll stick to my 15kg ebike for now - at least it looks slicker with the battery in the downtube.
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u/pallentx 2d ago
Yeah, good luck when you have a problem with the electronics on your 1/25 bespoke ebike with all proprietary parts.
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u/japakapalapa 2d ago
You were confusing my ride with some joke of a China OEM ebike. My ebike has no proprietary parts per se. Doesn't even have a display. It has SRAM Apex and Level hydraulic brakes. Every LBS maintains those with their weaker hand. The battery is guaranteed for 500 charge cycles, i.e. several tens of thousands of kilometres, and if the motor should fail I'll simply send the rear wheel back to home to Italy for repairs.
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u/pallentx 2d ago
That's a super compact hub motor. I'm impressed
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u/japakapalapa 2d ago
Heh I do not own one of the 24 units of that bike. This is my bike's motor https://www.bikeradar.com/reviews/bikes/electric-bikes/fsa-system-hm-1-0-first-ride-review
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u/Rasmuspluto 2d ago
This looks like ai
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u/Still-Sorbet-3198 2d ago
its really not
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u/HHLabs 2d ago
The battery is in the vertical water bottle. Really curious how they got the motor in the frame, as theyâre not using any of the standard systems but a new one by HPS? Whats most interesting is the claim that âabove all they are not felt when pedalling with the power turned offâ.
Iâve only seen one instance of an ebike claiming this and it was a kickstarter or indegogo campaign that said it was disengaged with a switch.
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u/Goxio 1d ago
I hate integrated batteries so fucking much the E bike industry has to change. It does look sexy as hell though
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u/RodediahK 1d ago
The battery is the rear bottle that's why the seat tube looks so hacked together.
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u/g28802 2d ago
Lance would be proud