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Oh: I was surprised/saddened that the article mentioned Cake's bankruptcy, so I had to check and it seems the company/assets and a lot of staff was acquired by Norwegian company Brages [1] so it kind of still exists, at least. Not sure if that means they no longer sell in the US, though.

[1]: https://ridecake.com/en-SE/the-cake-journey-continues



I had a look and

> Good enough to make me think the $9,000 / €9,000 starting price isn’t as crazy as I first thought.

I think there may be a limited market at the higher price points given you can get a pretty good ebike for a fraction of that.


A bunch of them have Öhlins suspensions, so it's obviously a special market.




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