Hmm, interesting! In that case, I’d expect it to be possible to get the price of a non-electric cargo bike down to 150€ or 200€ (in the sense that a long-tail frame doesn’t use more than 50-100% more metal than a standard diamond frame, and the rest of the components are more-or-less comparable).
How much are non-cargo electric bikes there, and how much are e-bike components? Do online Chinese suppliers like Aliexpress etc. charge your market the same prices they charge Americans?
Non-electric cargo bikes are still very expensive, last year I went to a bike expo in Valencia and the ones being shown were European-made and started at around 3000€, they were being marketed as lifestyle accessories by boutique manufacturers.
Then I go home (a more rural and poor area) and see normal working people using Chinese mountain bikes or small capacity petrol scooters to get to work and lug around their shopping, and the whole bike show thing seemed like ridiculous consumerism.
I don’t know the prices of electric bike parts, I suspect they’re a similar price to what Americans pay. The electric bikes I see here are generally mountain bikes being used by people with plenty of money to spare.
Hmm, interesting! In that case, I’d expect it to be possible to get the price of a non-electric cargo bike down to 150€ or 200€ (in the sense that a long-tail frame doesn’t use more than 50-100% more metal than a standard diamond frame, and the rest of the components are more-or-less comparable).
How much are non-cargo electric bikes there, and how much are e-bike components? Do online Chinese suppliers like Aliexpress etc. charge your market the same prices they charge Americans?
Non-electric cargo bikes are still very expensive, last year I went to a bike expo in Valencia and the ones being shown were European-made and started at around 3000€, they were being marketed as lifestyle accessories by boutique manufacturers.
Then I go home (a more rural and poor area) and see normal working people using Chinese mountain bikes or small capacity petrol scooters to get to work and lug around their shopping, and the whole bike show thing seemed like ridiculous consumerism.
I don’t know the prices of electric bike parts, I suspect they’re a similar price to what Americans pay. The electric bikes I see here are generally mountain bikes being used by people with plenty of money to spare.