I guess McLaren never heard of HPC they make a much more powerful E Bike that is fully compliant with US class 2 regulations. Which seems to be about the same and “trail legal” based on watts.

The HCP Revolution X comes with either a 6000 or 7000 watt motor which is a bit more than McLaren’s 852 watt motor.

Before anyone says the HPC must be an off road bike only. It is road legal in the US and McLaren’s bike wouldn’t be.

I actually like McLaren I just think it’s silly when top end car manufacturers do this kind of thing. Especially when they don’t bother to check if the PR hype is even true.

Emphasis on the legal part.

The Extreme 600 and Sport 600 models are hailed as the most powerful street-legal electric bikes, with up to 852W of peak power.

That’s really not that much. I’m sure it’s a very high quality bike, but for raw power, you can get several times that from Chinese ebikes. They don’t really care about the regulations, and there are bikes with several kilowatt motors. Although the line between “mountain bike” and “motocross bike” start blurring a tad at that point because the motors and batteries increase the heft of the bike a bit.

I’d still definitely take the McLaren, as I’m sure they’re engine is far superior and 500+ watts properly utilised is quite sufficient.

…are very much McLaren and not some rebadged catalogue frame. "Designed by the same teams responsible for supercars like the electrified lightweight McLaren Artura hybrid supercar…

I’m not sure whether that’s the flex they think it is. I’d rather have my bike designed by people who have a lot of experience, you know, designing and refining bikes.