come on man! he cant be enthusiastic in selling a design that they hold a patent for? Sure you can call it sales hype but you can call it marketing too, it isn't all negative (this feels like a discussion point I've made before somewhere, hahaha...)
lets look at it from a different angle. It is a felt bike that you have, right? I have an easy motion (for now anyway
) - both are pretty big respected players. What happens when our batteries no longer meet a usable level of charge? Toss, right? Buy a replacement at full cost from your local dealer (assuming they still make the style...easy motion has already moved away from their curved downtube on my 2013 model). I'm sure there are options for recycling of course, but can either of us go back to them and have them take a look at each cell, replace the ones that need replacing and provide us the pack back at a reasonable cost? The answer is no - even if they said we'll recycle your battery directly I guarantee the most you're likely to get is a token credit towards a replacement (and no company to my knowledge does anything along these lines currently, so my speculation is being much more generous than the typical large player corporations that are in the e-bike game).
The bottom line is they'll gladly help you choose a new bike from their brand new line-up! That is what they want. The fact Karmic is even attempting to make an accessible battery (not one that you can, with skilled labor, rebuild, but that is instead designed to be quickly dismantled for easy cell replacement) is new and different, at least give some credit where it is due. If I were smart enough to design and engineer something that was unique enough to patent, I'd probably be overenthusiastic about it too. Don't you get excited over anything Steve?! Why is that a strike in your book?
