The headline is wonky – as usual. The TLDR is a collab to produce “street and urban-focused aesthetic”, rather than riding gear which is somehow specific to electric motorbikes.
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Why do editors insist on such faulty headlines? Street-inspired gear is already a gaping hole in the market which would already draw clicks and eyeballs for an existing motorbike-oriented audience. I can understand that perhaps electric motorbike riders are more likely to be in/around cities, but it’s a disservice to urban non-electric riders who might be looking for a look that’s not entirely utilitarian. Don’t gild the lily!
I love the effort of making the electric motorcycles, but $10k is a ridiculous price on this Grom-like bike. You can get a Yamaha MT-09, a ridiculously fast and fun ICE bike, for that price. This scooter should be about half that.
Hot take, but I feel when electric is at parity with fossil fuels companies shouldn’t make gas powered vehicles any more. They are not worth the environmental damage. So if they want to be relevant in the future they should continue with electric
To be honest, I do not see a motorcycle that’s limited to 45mph doing well in the US. For people living in cities where the speed might be slower, an ebike may make more sense.
But once you start getting away from city centers traffic gets faster. Standard thoroughfares are 45mph here and people regularly speed.
When it comes to performance, the RM1 serves as the brand’s entry-level offering with a hub motor dishing out an approachable 3 kW (about 4 horsepower) of nominal output. The motor peaks out at 4.4 kW, or about 5.8 horsepower, and delivers a top speed of 45 miles per hour. Depending on how you spec it, the RM1 promises anywhere from 40 to 80 miles on a single charge. Quite a lot of range of an urban runabout. At $6,495 USD, it’s quite the expensive runabout, but it makes up for it with its classy styling.
As for the RM1S, it’s packing more than double the power at 7 kW (9.4 ponies) nominal and 10.5 kW (14 horsepower) max, so not only is it quicker, with a top speed of 70 miles per hour, it’s also surely much more fun to ride for folks craving the performance of a small-displacement ICE motorcycle. 80 miles of range on a single charge is also pretty decent, considering its fairly light 293-pound weight figure. For double the performance of the RM1, you’ll have to fork up quite a hefty $8,995 USD for the RM1S.
Maeving’s plans of entering the US have been circulating for nearly a year now, with the brand’s first announcement in March 2023. It was initially eyeing a late-2023 launch, but it seems its entry stateside was delayed by a couple of months.
That’s a dealbreaker. I saved thousands and learned a lot by doing my own maintenance and repair - everything from tire replacement to rebuilding a clutch (way easier than I expected). It’s an important aspect to motorcycles to me.
Did you read the article? I was thinking it sounded like pointless electrification at first myself, but it’s for use with an electric motorcycle. Electric motorcycles don’t have manual clutches which leave you without much manual control. You can’t slip or feather a clutch when there isn’t one. This honestly sounds pretty cool for anyone that wants an electric motorcycle that handles like a motorcycle instead of a scooter.
There’s no clutch, and it just regulates the power. Sounded like a throttle to me. Like, hey, you could use the clutch to control the engine, or the throttle.
This isn’t a real clutch. Its just a lever that adjusts throttle. It unnecessary and better accomplished by adjusting throttle mapping. I’m all for a real clutch (and 2 or 3 speed transmission) on ebikes once the tech is dialed and decently affordable. This is a half-assed solution to a problem that doesn’t truly exist. Its cheap for them to implement and let’s them pad the margins.
I agree, and since the torque curves are so different between high revving bikes and low revving EV motors, using real clutches will result in tons more maintenance on EVs.
Better mapping and “single pedal” style controls are gonna feel different, but ultimately can give riders more control and probably an advantage in those trials and gymkhana runs too.
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