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I love the mag and I’m really enjoying the debate on electric bikes. Curious about what the future might hold, I recently brought the Super Soco TC Max and I’ve already received ‘the talk’ from more than one of my motorcycling mates: “It’s not the same feel, sound, smell, etc. You’ll miss changing gears. They’ll never take off.”

As AMCN has already reported, the range limitations are real, especially if you’re not a lightweight and want to go up hills. So until that improves I’ll keep my BMW R 1250 RS for hinterland rides and touring. But for a couple of hours of wide-grinfun on a nice day following the bay north of Brisbane, the TC Max is awesome.

It’s small in stature but for the price, you couldn’t really ask for more in terms of looks, torque, handling, manoeuvrability and braking. And the

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