Those people also work at the bike store, lol!
Every time I go to the bike store they're trying to sell me the newest complicated stuff that I'll eventually break and bring back to them for parts and service. You only really want a rear shock on a mountain bike for when climbing, I stand up going downhill and use the seat as a leg brace for sliding the rear end out in tight turns. Pedaling uphill on a mountain bike, you're gonna want to lock out a rear swingarm because of squat with every pedal pulse causing inefficiency, on a motorized bike this is less of an issue, but a seatpost serves the same purpose, to protect your bottom, at a much lower price. There are expensive ones that use elastomers in a parallelogram, and there are ones that use compressed air or springs in the seat post that are more affordable and probably less prone to breaking anyways.
My local bike stores don't like gas engined bikes, but they are more than enthusiastic about selling me a $3000 electric bike with a 10 mile range! They're all caught up in the green movement propaganda, not noticing that the power density of a typical gas bike is much greater than that of a typical electric bike, and therefore it gets better mileage, and electricity is generated by coal, which is way worse than burning gas and 2stroke oil. But I digress...
Every time I go to the bike store they're trying to sell me the newest complicated stuff that I'll eventually break and bring back to them for parts and service. You only really want a rear shock on a mountain bike for when climbing, I stand up going downhill and use the seat as a leg brace for sliding the rear end out in tight turns. Pedaling uphill on a mountain bike, you're gonna want to lock out a rear swingarm because of squat with every pedal pulse causing inefficiency, on a motorized bike this is less of an issue, but a seatpost serves the same purpose, to protect your bottom, at a much lower price. There are expensive ones that use elastomers in a parallelogram, and there are ones that use compressed air or springs in the seat post that are more affordable and probably less prone to breaking anyways.
My local bike stores don't like gas engined bikes, but they are more than enthusiastic about selling me a $3000 electric bike with a 10 mile range! They're all caught up in the green movement propaganda, not noticing that the power density of a typical gas bike is much greater than that of a typical electric bike, and therefore it gets better mileage, and electricity is generated by coal, which is way worse than burning gas and 2stroke oil. But I digress...
