I bought a new / old-stock Omina C-Type from Upway over the summer primarily for my wife. A truckload of these had shown up on Upway's website with zero miles on them, and there are two listed on there today (one has a belt!).
The C-Type is the step-through version of this frame. It's a heavy dog, weighing in at 65 pounds. It's beefy and the tires are reasonable at like 700x50c, so the bike handles well.
From my wife's perspective, she likes it. She's an experienced but very casual cyclist, not super obsessive. Simple to mount and very upright riding position. So she doesn't much care that the Nexus 5 speed hub has gigantic gaps between the speeds so that can cover the equivalent gear range of a 7 / 8 speed Nexus, and the noise it makes when shifting under load is obscene. We both have belts on a couple of other bikes and they're smooth and have presented zero problems, same situation here.
The bike is geared a tiny bit higher than my liking to tackle steeper hills, except that the Performance Line Speed motor has gobs of torque, so just shove it into overdrive (Turbo!) and it steady pulls up the hill. She hasn't complained. It's a pretty far cry from the Shimano E6100 motor on her previous bike, a Raleigh Detour, which easily bogged down and really, really benefited from the larger cassette I installed for where the pavement points skyward. It's a 28 MPH motor, but more importantly it doesn't tap out at 20.
The headlight is a solid performer and there's a tiny adjustment screw to set up the aim. The fenders are stout and don't rattle. The rear built-in tail lights are excellent if there's no saddle bag attached, otherwise they're obscured. The AVS-mount panniers are equally sick in how they click and lock in and at the same time annoying that they're relatively uncommon and a pain to order, with no cross compatibility with existing panniers. The color Kiox display presents wayyy more info than anybody rightfully needs, but hey it looks cool. Same with the fork: looks cool, not complaining, but overkill for a supposed city bike.
The Upway experience was surprisingly cool. I expected a boxed bike, but when I was at work this delivery truck showed up and a couple of guys knocked on the door and said to my wife "hey here you go" and handed her a ready to ride bike, minus some protective styrofoam wrapping the frame, and all of the accessory goodies in a sealed box.
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