Jeep Ebike anyone?

[The White Rabbit]

https://quietkat.com/pages/jeep-rubicon

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[A 2]

I’m an avid MTB rider. Looks like a toy. May be good for some but not me.

 

[Red Hot Sloth]

That fork would wobble all over the place, I can just see those fork stantions twisting….nope

 

[The White Rabbit]

I’m an avid MTB rider. Looks like a toy. May be good for some but not me.

QuietKat is not new to the business, they are very reputable. And at 6k it better be

 

[The White Rabbit]

That fork would wobble all over the place, I can just see those fork stantions twisting….nope

Did you take the link to the company website? I do not represent QuiteKat has been making high end Ebikes for a while

 

[Trout Safari]

I am looking and learning about electric bikes. Some of the places we like to fish are behind locked gates. They allow walk ins and bikes. Reading the laws in the states we are interested in, the electric bikes fall under the same laws and are allowed where pedal bikes are. Originally we were considering a Segway, but this looks like a better option to get miles away in short order to some great Trout water.

 

[The White Rabbit]

I am looking and learning about electric bikes. Some of the places we like to fish are behind locked gates. They allow walk ins and bikes. Reading the laws in the states we are interested in, the electric bikes fall under the same laws and are allowed where pedal bikes are. Originally we were considering a Segway, but this looks like a better option to get miles away in short order to some great Trout water.

Bingo. It’s how QuietKat came to be. Designed for hunters

 

[Red Hot Sloth]

Im old, Ive been mt biking since the mid ‘90’s,
Ive built all my own, kids and wifes mt bikes since ‘98. I raced at Big Bear before they closed it down to mt biking and then again many years later when they opened it up again, as well as most of the grass-roots racing and clubs local to SoCal.
Even with crowns back in the day the new to the scene suspension fork legs would “walk” around, twist, had little lateral stiffness. When I was running rim brakes before disc came about, I could watch my fork legs bow, even when using brake boosters for added stiffness. Just mild corners, I could watch my fork legs “walk”. Imagine your pretending to walk with your fingers pointed down, thats what fork legs would do.
This Jeep E-Bike’s forks dont have an arch above the tire which is essential in its strength.
I remember my first few suspension forks (Manitou, Rock Shox) just being so flexible. Marzocci had a burly fork in the early 2000’s but it was a tank, but so plush. Then Fox got into the game and that was a beautiful combination of weight, stiffness, suppleness, responsiveness.
The brakes, lower end Tekno Brakes, fine for off the shelf entry level but not for anything serious although they are 4 piston I could be wrong. Sram 9 Speed driverrain: most likely overstock deraileur, cassette shifter combo as well as being a lower level if quality product, granted you dont need 12 speed when your running an e-bike.
The $6K cost is just for being an e-bike, all the components are low-end and wont stand-up to real mt biking for very long. Before you know it, your buying a new fork $900.
New Brakes $300
New rear shock $500
Possibly new drivetrain: going cheap on a decent drivetrain $500
Now you have a $8500 e-bike…wonder when the frame is going to crack.
But, I guess everyone has to start somewhere.
My first mt bike was a lesson learned.

 

[Red Hot Sloth]

Did you take the link to the company website? I do not represent QuiteKat has been making high end Ebikes for a while

I followed the link, looked at all the pics, watched the video. Im not against e-bikes, but Im totally not for an overpriced, bottom-end e-bikes. Some of my riding buddies have bought e-mt bikes recently and for sure, they cost a lot, but they are paying little more than that one cost with the benefit of very high quality components.

 

[The White Rabbit]

Im old, Ive been mt biking since the mid ‘90’s,
Ive built all my own, kids and wifes mt bikes since ‘98. I raced at Big Bear before they closed it down to mt biking and then again many years later when they opened it up again, as well as most of the grass-roots racing and clubs local to SoCal.
Even with crowns back in the day the new to the scene suspension fork legs would “walk” around, twist, had little lateral stiffness. When I was running rim brakes before disc came about, I could watch my fork legs bow, even when using brake boosters for added stiffness. Just mild corners, I could watch my fork legs “walk”. Imagine your pretending to walk with your fingers pointed down, thats what fork legs would do.
This Jeep E-Bike’s forks dont have an arch above the tire which is essential in its strength.
I remember my first few suspension forks (Manitou, Rock Shox) just being so flexible. Marzocci had a burly fork in the early 2000’s but it was a tank, but so plush. Then Fox got into the game and that was a beautiful combination of weight, stiffness, suppleness, responsiveness.
The brakes, lower end Tekno Brakes, fine for off the shelf entry level but not for anything serious although they are 4 piston I could be wrong. Sram 9 Speed driverrain: most likely overstock deraileur, cassette shifter combo as well as being a lower level if quality product, granted you dont need 12 speed when your running an e-bike.
The $6K cost is just for being an e-bike, all the components are low-end and wont stand-up to real mt biking for very long. Before you know it, your buying a new fork $900.
New Brakes $300
New rear shock $500
Possibly new drivetrain: going cheap on a decent drivetrain $500
Now you have a $8500 e-bike…wonder when the frame is going to crack.
But, I guess everyone has to start somewhere.
My first mt bike was a lesson learned.

My first was a GT Timberline in 1988. Rode the hell out of that bike, then I moved to a Bridgestone MB0(MBZIP) That bike was dramatically lighter than the GT and I constantly was wrecking so I went back to a GT Avalanche, first bike with front shocks. Hardly ever rode it being I just got married and then kids. By by to my time. Haven’t owned a bike since. Terrible I know.

 

[A 2]

Im old, Ive been mt biking since the mid ‘90’s,
Ive built all my own, kids and wifes mt bikes since ‘98. I raced at Big Bear before they closed it down to mt biking and then again many years later when they opened it up again, as well as most of the grass-roots racing and clubs local to SoCal.
Even with crowns back in the day the new to the scene suspension fork legs would “walk” around, twist, had little lateral stiffness. When I was running rim brakes before disc came about, I could watch my fork legs bow, even when using brake boosters for added stiffness. Just mild corners, I could watch my fork legs “walk”. Imagine your pretending to walk with your fingers pointed down, thats what fork legs would do.
This Jeep E-Bike’s forks dont have an arch above the tire which is essential in its strength.
I remember my first few suspension forks (Manitou, Rock Shox) just being so flexible. Marzocci had a burly fork in the early 2000’s but it was a tank, but so plush. Then Fox got into the game and that was a beautiful combination of weight, stiffness, suppleness, responsiveness.
The brakes, lower end Tekno Brakes, fine for off the shelf entry level but not for anything serious although they are 4 piston I could be wrong. Sram 9 Speed driverrain: most likely overstock deraileur, cassette shifter combo as well as being a lower level if quality product, granted you dont need 12 speed when your running an e-bike.
The $6K cost is just for being an e-bike, all the components are low-end and wont stand-up to real mt biking for very long. Before you know it, your buying a new fork $900.
New Brakes $300
New rear shock $500
Possibly new drivetrain: going cheap on a decent drivetrain $500
Now you have a $8500 e-bike…wonder when the frame is going to crack.
But, I guess everyone has to start somewhere.
My first mt bike was a lesson learned.

This.
On traditional bikes, MTB, Road or any other, it comes down to the components. I can’t tell what those components are on their website but they definitely do not look quality. I could be wrong. That said, with the advent of E-bikes. $6k is not that much.

 

[Rusty PW]

Im old, Ive been mt biking since the mid ‘90’s,
Ive built all my own, kids and wifes mt bikes since ‘98. I raced at Big Bear before they closed it down to mt biking and then again many years later when they opened it up again, as well as most of the grass-roots racing and clubs local to SoCal.
Even with crowns back in the day the new to the scene suspension fork legs would “walk” around, twist, had little lateral stiffness. When I was running rim brakes before disc came about, I could watch my fork legs bow, even when using brake boosters for added stiffness. Just mild corners, I could watch my fork legs “walk”. Imagine your pretending to walk with your fingers pointed down, thats what fork legs would do.
This Jeep E-Bike’s forks dont have an arch above the tire which is essential in its strength.
I remember my first few suspension forks (Manitou, Rock Shox) just being so flexible. Marzocci had a burly fork in the early 2000’s but it was a tank, but so plush. Then Fox got into the game and that was a beautiful combination of weight, stiffness, suppleness, responsiveness.
The brakes, lower end Tekno Brakes, fine for off the shelf entry level but not for anything serious although they are 4 piston I could be wrong. Sram 9 Speed driverrain: most likely overstock deraileur, cassette shifter combo as well as being a lower level if quality product, granted you dont need 12 speed when your running an e-bike.
The $6K cost is just for being an e-bike, all the components are low-end and wont stand-up to real mt biking for very long. Before you know it, your buying a new fork $900.
New Brakes $300
New rear shock $500
Possibly new drivetrain: going cheap on a decent drivetrain $500
Now you have a $8500 e-bike…wonder when the frame is going to crack.
But, I guess everyone has to start somewhere.
My first mt bike was a lesson learned.

Man.... you bring back memories. Ran a lot of the old NORBA races on the east coast. Still have my Trek 970. Last time I rebuilt it. I used Shimano XT running gear with 180mm crank. King headset and a Marzocci Bomber forks. It's sitting in the corner of the basement with 2 flat tires.

 

[Red Hot Sloth]

Oh man, I ran my Trek 900 through the ringer, it was my race bike, everyday bike, commuter, beach cruiser, do it all bike, anytime I flew anywhere I would pack it in a solid bike box and UPS it to and from my destination, that bike had more miles on it than all my other bikes combined. Then my older son beat the snot out of it for several years and it finally began fatiguing at the headtube/downtube.
XT has always been my favorite component group. Very slight weight disadvantage to XTR with a workhorse sturdiness that could take a beating and keep working.
Im still running an XT 175mm crank that I bought new in 2003 that I had on a Santa Cruz Superlight knockoff called the Weighless SP, it was a SuperGo brand (really miss that shop), moved it onto my Santa Cruz Heckler (frame is hanging on my garage wall), then to my Santa Cruz Nomad and now on my Banshee Spitfire.

 

[Rusty PW]

Oh man, I ran my Trek 900 through the ringer, it was my race bike, everyday bike, commuter, beach cruiser, do it all bike, anytime I flew anywhere I would pack it in a solid bike box and UPS it to and from my destination, that bike had more miles on it than all my other bikes combined. Then my older son beat the snot out of it for several years and it finally began fatiguing at the headtube/downtube.
XT has always been my favorite component group. Very slight weight disadvantage to XTR with a workhorse sturdiness that could take a beating and keep working.
Im still running an XT 175mm crank that I bought new in 2003 that I had on a Santa Cruz Superlight knockoff called the Weighless SP, it was a SuperGo brand (really miss that shop), moved it onto my Santa Cruz Heckler (frame is hanging on my garage wall), then to my Santa Cruz Nomad and now on my Banshee Spitfire.

When I was running NORBA. A local bike shop would give me discounts on bikes and parts. Got my Trek 970 first. Rode that for a while. Then switched to a aluminum framed GT. Rode that for one season and sold at the end of the season. That was a stiff ride. Went back to my 970 for the next season. After that season, got Ti framed Litespeed. Light as shit, but felt a little to flexy for my liking. Sold that and finished out my MT racing on my 970. Love that chromoly frame. The old saying, "steel is real" hold true. I quit riding MT when the first carbon fiber frames were coming out. The reason for me to quit MTing, total hip replacement at the age of 47. That was 2003.

 

[NotSo Bright White]

“Before you know it, your buying a new fork $900.
New Brakes $300
New rear shock $500
Possibly new drivetrain: going cheap on a decent drivetrain $500”…
It sounds like a Jeep:
New Tires, wheels, winch, bumpers, suspension…

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