Good to see some political effort towards protecting ebikes. Companies tend to follow California laws and sell them to all the US, hopefully other states follow as well.

I think the fact that the only companies with good standalone tracking solutions are the ones who can burn billions on R&D (Meta and Apple) is telling of how difficult of a problem it is.

I think somehow people still haven't figured out the two important things the Meta Quest so popular despite its many, many inherent drawbacks.

Why is the Quest relevant here? This is obviously not competing with the Quest, and the reality is a company like Shiftall can't compete with Meta in terms of price because they don't have billions to burn like Meta. Making a Quest clone seems like a major waste of time.

“(I) thought Trump would save the day but in fact our tariffs on our parts went up from 25% to 55% and more,” he said in an email. “KILLED us as well as financing charges and other factors — but competitors are skirting tariffs through other countries — under invoicing and selling direct and often below costs without legitimate certifications, safety standards, etc.”

lol. It's unfortunate the US government doesn't take ebikes and micromobility in general seriously though. I wonder if bikes will ever break the perception of being toys in most people's minds.

Yeah, pretty much. Season 1 was generational in terms of production, and season 2 was realistically never gonna be at that level. Season 2 is also the start of a new arc whereas season 1 felt closer to an episodic series.

I await season 3 with bated breath... I don't believe season 2 was an absolute dumpster fire like other people seem to believe but the lack of promo material is a little concerning. OPM is awesome man, why it take so long for season 3 to come out 🥺

I don't understand why people act like everyone on ebikes exerts zero effort riding. You can change the level of the assist!