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Old 09-05-2015, 11:36 PM   #4 (permalink)
Ecky
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Originally Posted by ME_Andy View Post
That sounds like a good deal to me. If you build your own, it would be ~$300 for a decent new road bike from bikesdirect.com (they're cheap) plus $350 for an eBay motor kit plus ~$400 for a lithium-ion battery. $1050 total. At least that's what I was considering.
Right, but how much of it can I reuse? I'm thinking this isn't as nice as a $350 road bike, and it would be a shame if I couldn't take it apart, and had to rebuy components.

On the other hand, I suppose I can always flip it for more than I paid.

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