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Good luck with your continued quest for what you and your wife want and need. Update from here: took my new Vida E to Destin FL. Although this will sound laughable to some, there are actually some gentle hills east of there towards Seaside- at least compared to the surrounding Gulf Coast. I...

Thanks! Appreciate the offer!

Good advice, and I’ll look into getting one. When I finally get the bike to NC and the hills, it’s always fairly cool. So such a jacket would be a good investment. Thanks!

Awesome to hear you are also a Mississippian! I grew up in NO but fell in love with the coast as a kid. Fortunately, my AR hubs loved it here, also. Yes, often say I don’t live down here bc I like it cold!!! So on days like today, high temp maybe 52 with 17mph winds, I’ll play tennis instead...

Glad you were able to get out and enjoy your new ride today! My longest ride so far has been one mile, so 11 sounds good to me! Been too cold or too wet (at least for me!) every day even here on the MS coast. Also good your knee seemed to tolerate the strain pretty well. Did you encounter...

Update: finally picked up my new bike a couple of days ago from Bicycle World in New Orleans. It's hard to imagine I considered buying online now that I know how helpful the folks at the shop have been! The 70 mile drive home with the bike on my new Kuat rack was totally worry-free, no noise...

Thanks for the link. I appreciate all the shared info and tips you gave in your videos. It’s more than I have been able to find online regarding my new bike!

Thank you for the info. Did you add anything else? I know I want a water bottle, and I’ll probably add a rear rack at some point. Don’t think I’ll want or need fenders, tho…

Good to hear you had fun! Dumb question: do these bikes come with an actual display or do you have to use your phone screen? Neither bike I tried had one attached. But I forgot to ask! On a positive note, my bike is ready and I’ll pick it up this week!

If you DO try out it’s max, 28 mph, we all wanna hear about the experience!!!

Oh wow. I so hope you aren’t discourages about all this. I saw that bike and really liked it. But the lbs also had the Vida low step. So that was a better fit for me. Personally, I love the looks of your bike better than my pretty red one. The mid step would be my preference if I wasn’t my...

Thanks!!! I’m really excited! Have you purchased a rack?

Welcome! Learning about an ebike is , for sure, a journey of its own! I learned SO much from these forums and videos. Of course, shopping at this point in time has it’s drawbacks bc of supply issues. And unless you live in or near a good sized city, options of even test-riding bikes are...

Thank you both for your quick replies. My eyes are crossing from all the research I’ve done. But I don’t think I would have EVER felt educated enough to make a decent decision on a bike w/o these forums. So I’ll listen and learn here.

I am where you were last fall in that I just purchased my first ebike and am rack hunting. I guess I don't get it why dedicated ebike racks, at $500-1000 have modest weight restraints as compared to dirt bike/motorcycle racks at half the price? How has your 1Up worked out? I can't seem to...

First, I apologize for jumping in on someone else’s thread. But our decision-making processes have been similar and parallel (and unfortunately, even witnessing an awful and disturbing event on my way to my first test ride yesterday). It’s important for all who have taken their time to respond...

Such a bummer! I am very interested in how your bike does on hills (or even your driveway!). They should upgrade you to the 500w for your trouble! Interestingly, here is another online comparison of the 375w and 500w. It indicates the 375w has a Yamaha 60nm mid-drive motor whereas the 500w...

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Thank you for the info. So… Fiant upgraded the battery and kept all else the same AND with no price increase? Again, sounds like a no-brained if both are available