This headline is doing e-bikes nasty.
The problem that caused the recall is that, on some models, the software has the wrong tire size, so the bike can go faster than legally allowed.
Nothing dangerous about the bike.
The danger comes from the possible legal and financial issues, less from personal injuries.
With more than 25km/h, depending on region/country, it’s no longer a bicycle, but a motorised vehicle. Requiring a driver’s licence and insurance.
It could be driving without license. Or having one, could lead to insurance issues and thereby problems for the driver’s license due to driving an uninsured vehicle. Which again can lead to dramatic financial problems, if you have an accident and no insurance pays. So you’d be stuck with all costs out of your own pocket.
All from that tiny error in the software with having the wrong tire size programmed.
Understood about that. Just wanted to clarify the bikes are in no way dangerous, just that their increased speed is the need for a recall.
Legally and financially dangerous: Fines and charges suck!
Sure. Cars can go over the maximum limits too. Dangerous!
Yeah, this is really no joke.
Cube is a German company, and one of the largest bike manufacturers. Their bikes are ubiquitous here.
And German vehicle regulations are extremely strict. It‘s only an e-bike if it’s limited to 25 km/h, anything above is a „light motor bike“, which indeed needs a registration and a license.
Driving a vehicle without those is a misdemeanour* in Germany.
And I assume Cube did everything to reach out to all owners directly, so Police will assume you know those bikes are illegal.
Edit: * Technically. I mean, most likely they’ll just find you and impound the bike. But if they want to fuck you up about this, they totally can.
Models with this issue are gonna sell for way more now
Gotta go fast!
i get it. false advertising. no part of that bike is cube-shaped.
We have been played for absolute fools!
0o0o an amazingly stupid american quote pulled from the comments… hilarious and wrong in every aspect
For us people in the US thats perfect because most people derestrict them here! In our country bikes and cars go as fast as we want them to go and then our enforcement people put speed limits and they issue penalties based on that we don’t let communists take control of any of our possessions when we buy it we control every part of it including the internal programming of any computer system that’s in the object we buy😉💪🇺🇸 God Bless America you guys should get better leaders don’t let them rob your hard-earned money with gangs of police going after hard-working people for bullshit
Wait until he learns his big truck is electronically speed limited.
we control every part of it including the internal programming of any computer system that’s in the object we buy
Yeah tell that to John Deere. Or Apple. Or Samsung. Or Sonos. Or…
Haha, gross.
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