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Hello friends, welcome to the most exciting dispatch from Bike & Battery ever. It's such an exciting dispatch, it has taken me almost two months to start. Why?  I've been busy. I wish I could say I've been busy riding our new ebikes, but that's only partially true. Mostly it's been other stuff. But we do have new ebikes, and that's the story we're here for.  At top, the 2024 Cyberbike Mullet R. This is bike number one. After having an eye on Cyberbike for a few years, we pre-ordered this unit last December as part of their Black Friday/Launch sale. It arrived 2 months later, in mid-February, a couple weeks after promised. We paid $1995, including shipping. It's the second or third generation of the Cyberbike Mullet. The full retail price is supposedly $3295, but they're still "on sale" for $2495 as of this writing. "Mullet" means the front tire is larger than the rear. This is a thing in mountain bikes....

At this point, I'm starting to get pretty confused. It's been three months since I took all these screen shots, and a month since the last entry. To even start writing this, I had to go back and look at the last entry.  And now we find ourselves on Amazon. Which is basically Alibaba but one step removed. Someone picks a bike off Alibaba, slaps their logo on and imports a bunch. This brand Eahora, is one of the bigger Amazon brands. Pretty sure it's garbage, but maybe not? At this point, we're only looking at full suspension, mid-drive bikes. That's not all I took screenshots about, but to keep up with my brother-in-law on the trails, that's what I need. This one, at 76 lbs, is heavy. There are actually some decent looking options on Amazon. This ticks almost none of my boxes, but it looks kinda cool, and it's cheap. At times in this odyssey, those two factors, cheap and cool looking, almost seem lik...