Looking seriously at an E-bike

[dennishoddy]

Pretty sure some here have them.
I’ve personally looked at some folding Hey Bike rangers and some folding Lectric step throughs.
The Hey bikes are extremely well built with the fat tire design. I’m a hobby welder but have seen lots of welds by those qualified to weld in a nuke power plant. The welding on these bikes would pass. Steel except for the wheels. About 70 pounds or a tad more.
The lectrics are 10 lb or so lighter but very popular.
Not quite so heavily built but we see a lot of them on the trails.
What are y’all’s thoughts on these two models, or do you suggest some other brand?

 

[Rooster1971]

Pretty sure some here have them.
I’ve personally looked at some folding Hey Bike rangers and some folding Lectric step throughs.
The Hey bikes are extremely well built with the he fat tire design. I’m a hobby welder but have seen lots of welds by those qualified to weld in a nuke power plant. The welding on these bikes would pass. Steel except for the wheels. About 70 pounds or a tad more.
The lectrics are 10 lb or so lighter but very popular.
Not quite so heavily built but we see a lot of them on the trails.
What are y’all’s thoughts on these two models, or do you suggest some other brand?

I’ve seen the Lectric and thought about it. They were going for about $1000 a couple years ago.

 

[saddlebum]

sounds like a broken hip to me

 

[RickN]

As long as you do not keep it in your house or garage it should be fine.

 

[CHenry]

Get a gas fired moped
F JB

 

[chuter]

We've got a couple of Pedego bikes, they're more expensive but the company has been in business a long time and knows ebikes.
They also have a dealer network so you can get parts and service. We had an intermittent electrical problem on one of ours, the guy in the okc store got it fixed, it was a bad controller that would put up an error message only after fully charging the battery...sometimes.
Overall we're satisfied with ours.

 

[FlyGuyGSP]

Pretty sure some here have them.
I’ve personally looked at some folding Hey Bike rangers and some folding Lectric step throughs.
The Hey bikes are extremely well built with the he fat tire design. I’m a hobby welder but have seen lots of welds by those qualified to weld in a nuke power plant. The welding on these bikes would pass. Steel except for the wheels. About 70 pounds or a tad more.
The lectrics are 10 lb or so lighter but very popular.
Not quite so heavily built but we see a lot of them on the trails.
What are y’all’s thoughts on these two models, or do you suggest some other brand?

Hunted Copan last year and those bikes were everywhere. I’ll have to start paying more attention to the brands.

 

[tcart]

I bought two of the Lectric step thru bikes, We have put about 100 miles on each of them. I had the display go out on one of them and Lectric customer service was great. It was shipped to me in Florida the next day. We've enjoyed them.

 

[elwoodtrix]

I like the Onyx. These people are really good. When they are in stock. They mostly do the electric unicycle though.
https://alienrides.com/collections/electric-bikes

 

[mouthpiece]

Batterie life and battery fires.