Looks cool, but constant connectivity is a non-starter. We’ve seen what happens when the company’s servers go down when they go bankrupt. You end up with a bricked bike.

Dumb, repairable ebikes are the way to go.

I ride a HT 29er MTB for commuting

I need to jump gutters or kerbing when painted bike lanes end, or to avoid idiots in cars trying to kill me by jumping onto the side walks and the back off. I have to ride across mud and dirt trails sometimes and then.I’ve had to bunny hop concrete or ashpalt slabs tjat are off the road ls on the “bike lane” while they do.work on the road. Nine had to to ride across a reaolynroigh area where big tree roots have raised all the asphalt on the bike lane and lots of other times.

I think I’d die commuting on one of the bikes in the article :(