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Thanks for the suggestion! Aren't those scooters though, not bikes? (Unless my Googling needs some practice :D) Anything that's not class 1 (pedal assist) is illegal in NYC, so would have to be ridden on the street rather than the protected Greenway that runs along the west side of Manhattan...

Yeah, I think I'll take this advice and just Uber to where I need to be to start the test ride and then just do it. Otherwise it's just a bunch of speculation. I did start looking at a bunch of other bikes that are not folding in the interim and some are pretty appealing. It's hard to get past...

Wow. That's disappointing. What level of assist were you using? Was it aggressive? Did you use throttle only? And was this the new GX or one of the older bikes?

Thanks for the perspective. I'm not so much concerned that the Vektron will outperform it as I am that the GoCycle will be at all capable of getting up the hill without me having to help so much that I'm a sweaty mess at the end. Are you suggesting it may not be able to even do that? I've...

Good to know. Are the front wheel hub drives less efficient, or just different enough that it's hard to tell without just empirically evaluating performance? Incidentally, I had also considered the Vektron S10 - is that what you have? If so, do you find that you fold it regularly? It seemed a...

Thanks, this is helpful. I guess in the worst case I'll just charge the GoCycle while I'm at work -- I should be able to very safely make the 10 mile journey from work to home, even with that hill at the end, on the GoCycle, right?

Yeah, it's around 35lbs. And I'm around 165ish lbs. I'm surprised 500wh isn't enough -- for example, even if I had it fully charged at the bottom of the hill, would it fully drain by the time I got to the top because of how much output is required to climb it? Or are you saying that the 500wh...

Thanks for the details! Yeah, the road is less steep but also less direct for me as I live pretty near the exit to the Greenway. I think I understand your response as saying the gocycle should be fine since it's a 500w motor, but that I'll suck up a bunch of battery power on the ascent with...

I have a ~10ish year old Cannondale F4 mountain bike. I mostly use it to lug around my kids -- haven't actually gone MTB'ing for around 5 years since my oldest kid was born :) Here's a pic of the setup (complete with regular passenger). Let's say I wanted it to double as a daily commuter (w/out...

Thanks, yeah, I actually have a tentative hold on a GX from Greenpath. They're a good 17 miles from my apartment, though, so just getting to the hill would probably nearly kill the battery. It's an option I should consider, though, or a rental for a day or something like that.

How steep are the hills you were climbing out of curiosity? And which model of Gocycle do you use? I'm considering the GX model (the new one that just started shipping) and wondering whether it can handle a particularly steep hill that kills me every time I commute :)

Hi all, I'm a total n00b when it comes to e-bikes and am looking for some advice. Here's my situation: my ride _to_ work is a very pleasant, mostly flat and downhill ride along the West Side Greenway from way uptown Manhattan to around 14th street. It's nearly 10 miles exactly from my apartment...