solving my search & improving EBR website

carteriii

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Your website has absolutely been the most valuable of any source in trying to find an ebike for my wife. Your information is the most comprehensive and your video reviews are great.

Unfortunately I still struggle to find a bike that offers 100% of our ideal criteria. Your website is great for letting me search based on some criteria like mid-drive motors, but I find the need to be more specific. My constructive suggestion for your website and for my selfish need is to allow searching on all of the following criteria:

Step-through, mid-drive, torque sensor (not just cadence), thumb-throttle (not twist), & hydraulic brakes.

The closest that I've found is the Dost Drop and the Pedego City Commuter Mid-Drive. The Dost Drop is almost perfect but lacks the torque sensor. The Pedego has the torque sensor but has a twist throttle that we dislike, lacks the hydraulic brakes, and we're not fans of the shifter even though that's not a deal breaker.

I can't tell if we're looking for a unicorn which doesn't exist, or if we simply haven't yet found a bike that does exist. Your website clearly has all the necessary information but the search is limited so I can't be as precise as I'd like to be. Perhaps that's intentional so people like me have to click on many bikes/pages to read the details for each, but a finer grain search would be nice.

So does the bike I'd like for my wife exist?

Thank you!
 
Turning a twist throttle into thumb throttle is super easy

lots of different attachments to do that and they work fine
Here is one below

 
My wife & I just got back from the Pedego LBS and were excited to find that the latest model now has hydraulic brakes. They Pedego LBS also had a throttle attachment like @vincent mentioned above, removing our key objections. So we came home with the bike!

I guess my one constructive suggestion here for EBR is to allow us to submit updates on specs if we find them (The 2018 Pedego review here could use an update with the hydraulic brakes), in addition to allowing searches to filter on all criteria like I mentioned above.
 
Your website has absolutely been the most valuable of any source in trying to find an ebike for my wife. Your information is the most comprehensive and your video reviews are great.

Unfortunately I still struggle to find a bike that offers 100% of our ideal criteria. Your website is great for letting me search based on some criteria like mid-drive motors, but I find the need to be more specific. My constructive suggestion for your website and for my selfish need is to allow searching on all of the following criteria:

Step-through, mid-drive, torque sensor (not just cadence), thumb-throttle (not twist), & hydraulic brakes.

The closest that I've found is the Dost Drop and the Pedego City Commuter Mid-Drive. The Dost Drop is almost perfect but lacks the torque sensor. The Pedego has the torque sensor but has a twist throttle that we dislike, lacks the hydraulic brakes, and we're not fans of the shifter even though that's not a deal breaker.

I can't tell if we're looking for a unicorn which doesn't exist, or if we simply haven't yet found a bike that does exist. Your website clearly has all the necessary information but the search is limited so I can't be as precise as I'd like to be. Perhaps that's intentional so people like me have to click on many bikes/pages to read the details for each, but a finer grain search would be nice.

So does the bike I'd like for my wife exist?

Thank you!
Thanks for the feedback! You're definitely right about our search needing some improvements, we've had many similar requests and are working on some exciting updates to our platform that will meet these needs. I can't say when the new features will launch as it's a pretty large-scale overhaul, but we're working hard to get it out as soon as we can :)
 
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