Rumours of Forbidden’s new DJI-equipped e-Dreadnought have taken a step further with this photoshopped mock-up showing what the bike could look like. And which are the other brands with a DJI-equipped e-bike on the horizon? Caution – includes wild speculation!
Forbidden’s new e-bike will get a DJI Avinox motor, if social media posts by the brand’s founder, Owen Pemberton, are any indication. That much we already know, but what will the new bike look like? Will it have a high-pivot design? Will it follow the form of the conventional Dreadnought, or will it take a different approach? While we’re still officially in the dark, that hasn’t stopped one Photoshop whizz getting creative, the results of which has been posted on Reddit and unearthed by mountainbikescanada.com.
In this rendering, the front half of an Orbea Wild has been grafted onto the back end of the current Forbidden Dreadnought, and the result is not as Frankenbike as you’d expect. In …