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Yes, that McLaren. Of Formula 1 fame, purchased by footballers. The makers of supercars have turned their attention to ebikes. There is a long history ...
By ben_haworth
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https://singletrackmag.com/charged/2024/05/mclaren-launches-debut-electric-mountain-bike-range/
Is there some sort of tax break to be had for car brands when they make these bikes? Generally they're pretty shit and your left wondering why did they bother
I rate their prams.
Why do they do this?
Why do they do this?
Because there is a lot of money to be made in bikes I would imagine
Do they count for their EV quota?
Based on the logic that we know a bit about bikes so know this is garbage how bad are the cars?
Because there is a lot of money to be made in bikes I would imagine
Is there? Really? Now? When any number of manufacturers are probably skipping unsold stock rather than depress the market [even further] I doubt there's more than a couple of cars worth of profit in it.
Why do they do this?
Marketing apparently.
Is there? Really? Now?
Just because avg salary people think e-bikes are overpriced and can’t afford them , doesn’t mean that people who can afford a McLaren are in the same situation.
Random fact - McLaren are by far the fastest depreciating super car brand
Nice way to add an extra £10k onto a sale when someone buys one of their cars or a freebie to throw in to close a deal. Any mention of who makes the motor?
how do the designers of the McLaren F1 come up with that?
He doesn’t work for Mclaren anymore.
That is one ugly bike… how do the designers of the McLaren F1 come up with that?
There's a comment on Pinkbike that it's actually a 3yr old Chinese catalogue frame. I sincerely hope so otherwise I suspect Gordon Murray will be equally horrified...
Comeooooonnnnnnn Singletrack this isn't a bike and any goon who buys one will likely never pedal it.
My friend works at McLaren. I have told him to hunt down the person who gave this the green light and kick them right in the goolies!!
The only person I know with a McLaren is far too tight/not into bikes to buy an E-bike.
IIRC he said The car is largely paid for by renting it out to experience day companies. No idea if that’s true.
I hate to be one to jump on a bandwagon, but f me that's ugly.
ThePinksterFull Member
I hate to be one to jump on a bandwagon, but f me that’s ugly.
It is but a 600W e-bike does sound quite fun, assuming the geo is not utter arse.
Oh my. That really hasn't gone well in the styling dept has it.
A 600W motor - assuming that means a continual power output of 600w rather than a short peak of 600W is going to munch a battery.
IME, manufacturers end up giving these away to the purchasers of the cars.
murky
brandmanagement.caa.com/mclaren/
"This is reflected in its licensing programme across a range of categories that capture and express the brand’s ethos, creating a world where consumers can experience McLaren’s inimitable vision."
I suspect most of these will be bought by owners of McLaren cars.
20mph and all those watts do not a street legal pedalec make, surely?
Also that ugly tree must have been very tall with lots of branches!
US legal - not UK or EU.
murkybrandmanagement.caa.com/mclaren/
“This is reflected in its licensing programme across a range of categories that capture and express the brand’s ethos, creating a world where consumers can experience McLaren’s inimitable vision.”
So Chinese catalogue bike, a press release and a photographer who has a brief to not show 'whole bike shots' too much?
SandwichFull Member
20mph and all those watts do not a street legal pedalec make, surely?
Is that the US limit?
1000 hours! that's 25 man (person) weeks. And, according to the way it's written, that was just to do the styling. FFS
I get the desire to bring some McLaren design and innovation to the eBike world and there's definitely something to be said for a fresh pair of eyes on the subject but this is ****ing hideous! Did no-one think to open the door to the bike world and see what the state of the art is? How bikes are used? How we users customise things to fit us? I don't know what's worse, the gopping frame design or the proprietary handlebar/stem/light/display combo.
I get that this is going to be a rich person's add on to a much bigger purchase - "can i also interest sir/madam in this, our latest eBike? It's the perfect compliment to your supercar of choice and would look great in your garage (might be collectable one day)" but to punt it out to MTB magazines as if it's a proper bike is ridiculous.
Hope it rides better than it looks.
Most full fat ebike motors from Bosch Shimano etc are around 600w with no time limit on that figure.
Is that the US limit?
us limits vary I think but that will fit most of them IIRC
Porsche also do a line of ebikes for those which have more money than sense.
Not a patch on the ones they made in the 90s though https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/porsche-bike-fs-evolution
90s Porsche bikes were from Votec which were quite mad but apparently quite good for full suspension bikes back then. The Votec brand is now reborn after bankruptcy and much duller.
Almost same story with Mercedes bikes which were rebranded AMP bikes with that cool parallelogram fork.
Reminds me of the Bianchi emtbs I saw in a shop near Perugia a few weeks back.
Really disappointing given Bianchi's usual output.
https://www.bianchi.com/bikes/e-bike/e-mtb-e-bike/e-suv-2/
Der Typ hat schon recht.