Old 01-29-17, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by 350htrr
Seeing/reading about one of those got me into looking at E-Assist like the BionX...
Me too! 2 months ago I thought all e-bikes had concealed motors in the seat tube. Kinda like Charles Siple's tongue in cheek "Checkered Flag Special" powered by compressed air pictured in the April Fools 1965 issue of Bicycling Magazine...

Vintage Bicycling Illustration Shows Mechanical Doping in Pro Cycling as April Fool | Bicycling

Little did I know that there was an entire industry out there!

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