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Guy at Halfords trying to put me off buying single speed ebike.
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Sure but it's the argument of British built vs British assembledNonesuch_xx said:
It's fairly well known that the bike component supply chain (regular and e-bike) is pretty consolidated with few competing suppliers.Nasqueron said:<snipped>
Just FYI Estarli are designed and assembled in the UK from their site, I would be interested to see if they actually make the frames themselves and I suspect the motors etc are imports. Rare these days outside of custom bikes to get them from anywhere but Asia, I have an Italian one made from scratch in their factory but it does cost a lot!
Everything can be bought in as a component; and it is hard to innovate in most areas.
A bike assembled here from Temu parts could be argued as British built but it'd be a stretchSam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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