And the proverbial elephant in the room is: weight.

Investing in an OBD-II Code scanner can save you from this pitfall too. Especially ones that will give you miles travelled since last MIL clear. Always a big red flag.

because this doesn’t get mentioned enough on Jalopnik... IC cars do everything you just said, and at far higher rates. Every car produced has it’s sunk carbon footprint from materials. even if an electric car has a larger initial footprint it doesn’t continually produce c02 over its useful life.

Would all of these show up on an X-ray scan of the bike? Considering the majority of the frame is composite all of these motors / magnets would have to show. If not X-ray, an ultrasound would make quick discovery of these too