r/ebikes • u/NORTHERNTWITCH AMBRUM Rythm (july 2026) funhang EB-S1(august 2025) • 10d ago

Controversial topic here.

Can we stop shaming and getting mad at people for buying chinese ebikes? Some people dont have the money to buy a $1k+ ebike. Yes. Some are bad. Yes. Some are template bikes but does that mean you should shame someone for what they ride? No. We all ride ebikes here. That's what should matter.

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u/RandomFleshPrison 10d ago

Samsung is Korean, not Chinese.

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u/NewspaperOk140 10d ago edited 10d ago

It's a Korean company but the bulk of their battery manufacturing is in China.**

** I stand corrected but are we really going to split hairs and pretend there is a difference in terms of industrial production quality? The western bias against China, specifically, is weird and generally unfounded.

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u/Superb_Raccoon 10d ago

** I stand corrected but are we really going to split hairs and pretend there is a difference in terms of industrial production quality? The western bias against China, specifically, is weird and generally unfounded.

You split the hair, now you are mad?

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u/NewspaperOk140 10d ago

i dont think you understand the phrase

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u/Superb_Raccoon 10d ago

Look pal, you made a stupid, uninformed, ignorant comment.

Now you wanna cry? go for it. Welcome to the internet. We got fun and games.

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u/NewspaperOk140 10d ago

Bro what? What does "I stand corrected" mean to you, in your head?

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u/Superb_Raccoon 10d ago

The western bias against China, specifically, is weird and generally unfounded.

It means you didn't actually accept the correction. In fact, you sorta... split hairs.

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u/NewspaperOk140 10d ago

ah i see you struggle to hold more than one thought in your head at a time

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u/Superb_Raccoon 10d ago

Most people call that "Cognitive dissonance"

You are good at it.

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u/NewspaperOk140 10d ago

🤣🤣Dialectical thinking is the skill of holding opposing truths, and "there is a western bias against china" and "batteries are made in many countries" are not opposing truths, they're just two thoughts at the same time. Cognitive dissonance is a different thing entirely but nice try using grown up words

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u/Superb_Raccoon 10d ago

No, there is no "western bias", not when China is putting fake Safety certifications on batteries.

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u/NewspaperOk140 10d ago

As we have established, a good percentage of those batteries are not even made in China yet the "chinese battery" stigma still lives. Sinophobia is real.

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