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Haven't they been making bike pedals with reflectors for eons? The name branding is like Leica putting their name on everything under the sun just so people can have that red dot on it. I love the look of this bike no matter who designed it.

My Ancheer full size e-bike with an aluminum frame and a 250 geared hub motor ran me less than $600 shipped to my door, so the $900 price point can be beat by a large margin. I bought it after what seemed like years of googling reviews and watching youtube videos, and have been very happy w/ it...

These bikes look, to me, more like design just for design's sake, which is often what you get at an auto show. It's really, really hard to design something that is much different then the way bikes have looked like for over a hundred years. Besides, in my mind the idea of riding an e-bike is...

About 15 years ago we had one of those 100 year winters in Las Cruces, New Mexico. I rode my bike when the temp was 9 below zero Fahrenheit. It had snowed, and that had frozen on the ground as well as on the roads. It was a unique experience. The following year we moved to Florida. Life is too...

Buying an eBike was one of my smarter decisions. It has enabled me to get up the frequent grades where I live (no matter which direction I go, it always seems to be uphill. What's up with that?) and has added a lot of freedom. Generally I will throw my pedal bike on the front of a bus if I have...

It's probably set to count x amount of revolutions within a given time period at the hub motor. So a larger diameter tyre will cause the hub motor to register the same max x amount of revs as before, while the bigger tyre means you are getting more speed. It's like a record on a turntable...

I always have a light duty cable lock securing the seat on my bikes, and on bikes that have quick release skewers I wrap the dropouts with tape at that point and use a hose clamp around the clamp part of the skewer to deter the casual thieves.

Thank you for posting this. I was going to say that you could report them to your Better Business Bureau, but of course they're not accredited there. There are several online review sites where you should post a review (sitejabber is one). I looked at Top Gun's website and my hair was prickled...

This. Took 2 minutes and 28 seconds. There isn't a lock made that can't be broken, picked or cut (w/ a grinder or a torch). Same with a chain or U lock. If somebody wants it bad enough........ And never mind breaking the lock or chain, just cut through what the bike is locked to. erider_61...

I was wondering about this recently. Every year or two I go a little crazy in the head and think about moving back to Hawaii. How would I get the eBike bike there? So I called some of the bike shops on the different islands to ask them. One told me to just have a friend mail the battery and lie...

I wouldn't worry about being hassled by the police, what I would be worried about is the drivers of cars. They see a bike and they expect it to be traveling at a certain max speed (electric or not). On an ebike that is traveling considerably faster than they are used to, bad things could happen...

As someone who cut his teeth on motorcycles, I don't think there will be that much crossover between electric motorcycles and eBikes. They're vastly different creatures. No pedal assist on a motorcycle, huge weight differences, huge power difference, all that. The battery needs are quite...

I know this is an old thread, but I just wanted to mention that they get the electric bikes and batteries over by container ships. No problems sending a lithium battery that way.

Wouldn't you want to increase the wheel size to increase speed?

Unfortunately, solar charging an eBike battery isn't practical. You would need to carry a huge solar panel for a 36V or 48V battery, and it would probably take all day to charge even if you lived in the desert (which I do). On cloudy days, nothing. I agree, it would be a really good idea if we...

No, because I never leave my bike locked any place other than in a high walk traffic area. Also, in addition to the keyed lock on the battery ( which could be busted off in 5 seconds), I put some big stainless steel hose clamps from an automotive parts house around the battery and frame. Then I...

I like the clam shell design, but unless this was located in a secure place, one sledge hammer blow to the thing would probably either crack it open or bust it's lock. Note the rotomolded construction.....a fancy marketing word for molded plastic. Make it out of metal and they might have...

Ask around at some of your local bike shops. Some of them have a box of take off seats, and you can pick up a few different ones for a small price.

He has an e scooter like a push scooter. All he needs is a $35 Kriptonite bike lock. Doesn't do much good to disable the electrics on a small scooter that can be carried away or thrown into a car. I know, a u lock is inconvenient, but so is coming back to where your scooter USED to be. The same...

Why don't you go with a mid drive setup? Since that's going to work through all the bike's gears, you can probably get what you want with a lot less power by simply gearing the bike down on grades and pedaling along w/ it. 12% is a steep grade, but it's "just" 1320' (I used to drag race), so...