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Originally Posted by Northendzone
All I can say is go to another bike shop, because if your shop does not know if the brakes you were looking would not easily work with your mechanical brakes then that is a bad sign
Boggles my mind that an e-bike would not come with hydro’s A cheap complete set of hydros are less than $300 retail.
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Nah, $300 would have added 25% to the price of this bike (I got it for $1300). If not on sale, $300 would have added 15% to the price. Around $2k seems to be the sweet spot for these entry level ebikes where they can sell huge volumes. If say Rad Power Bikes decided to increase the price of each bike by $300 they probably wouldn't sell any because somebody else would just sell bikes with lesser brakes and nobody would care.
The brakes they come with are actually fairly reasonable. I'm interested in improving mine because I've added about 50% more power to the bike so I want to improve stopping power.
There are plenty of ebikes out there with all the best components, but they're triple, quadruple and more the price I paid for mine.
The bike shop I went to was more of a motorcycle store that happens to sell ebikes out of the corner of the store. I don't think the parts guys are particularly knowledgeable about ebikes or bicycles in general.