Keep in mind that with Covid I'd expect less QC here and especially on the manufacturing side sine they're made in China.

I've read very mixed reviews of the different alarms available and decided against one. People say they can be very touchy so you could have a lot of false alarms.

I've also been going down the rabbit hole on bike locks and basically came to understand a universal truth. If they want your bike bad enough, they will get it so make sure you get insurance either through your homeowners or a stand-alone policy specifically for ebikes.

A U lock and a second Chain lock are the best bets but comes with a cost. Weight. The good ones are heavy and the goal is to try to make it as discouraging as possible.

Then you have to think about taking the battery with you as they are worth $500 and I just saw a video from Bolton bikes where he was able to use a simple key blank to unlock the battery on different RAD bikes because they all use the same lock.

Next is the seat and front tires. With the quick release they are also easy targets so might want to consider changing the quick release on the front tire and using a lighter weight cable lock to go through the handel on the back of the seat.

Lol, sorry that went long winded

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That was funny. One of the first thing I thought about when my wife was getting on her bike.

My experience is that once you get to PA 3 and higher the motor response jumps fairly quickly compared to PS1 and 2.

I would say PS 2 will be your sweet spot and maybe even just PS 1 although I will say that at that low of a speed you probably don't need any PS and could leave it on 0 and just throttle as needed.

The bikes are heavy and you'd think that you can't pedal much with out PS but my wife recently went on a 30 min ride with no PS

I ordered two bikes at the same time beginning of May. One white rover step-thru and one black rover step-thru .One was scheduled for June and one for July.

The white one shipped on June 6th and we got it on the 16th. The black one was to ship on July. I assume the delay between the two is due to more orders for black ones. Still waiting for the black one to ship.

I just pulled the trigger on the Hollywood bike rack that Rad recommends.

My wife made the decision for me 😁

The reason was purely weight. Our two step Thur bikes weight 71 lbs. I was looking at the Thule xt foldup but even that is rated 10lbs under. Looked at Kuat nv 2 same thing. There is another one on etralier.com swagman I think that is rated for 70lbs a bike and is the same style as the Hollywood but the YouTube review says up to 60lbs.

Buyer beware. I almost bought it at etrailer until I realized that you had to buy two fat tire trays for each bike which added $200 plus another $100 for the support bars for step-thru bikes. That's almost $700

Went to Hollywood's site and they had it the double fat tire rack for the same $449 and $80 for the two support boards.

I really wanted the Thule xt fold up because of the ramp but we were just too nervous about the weight issue. Way to much money to take a chance.

I'm thinking the fold down feature of the Hollywood should make it easier for my wife to do by herself.

I have been looking hard a different racks. I have a Nissan Titan truck and right now am just lifting it into the back of the truck.

It's crazy how much bike racks cost considering the weight limitations. The biggest thing I'm looking for is low loading and unloading. We have to rad step-thru (well we will once mine gets here) and I need a solution that will allow my wife to load and unload herself.

All of this has me looking at cargo racks. Funny that they can handle 700 lbs but most of the bike racks top out at 100 to 120 lbs. and cost 4 times as much.

The problem with a cargo rack is that I will almost certainly have to do some modifications due to the wheel base dimensions. The widest I can find is 60" which is longer that the wheel base however not long enough for the overall width.

Of course this will mainly be up to the wife and what she is comfortable with.

Thanks jimcap, Jshill, and Ryan for the information.

I'm happy to report that the wife loves her bike now. It took my sister taking her on a ride for her to realize that these things are awesome!!

Sadly, I'm still waiting on mine.

She calls it her e-hog  maybe we'll get tee shirts with Hehog and Shehog on them LOL!!

Saw the video Ryan. Nice job!

I got the blue tinted ones. It's on my wife's bike and we haven't ridden much. Waiting on mine to be delivered but she did mentions that she didn't really like the blue tint.

As a general rule they do not. The issue come if the controller gets "submerged".

If your bikes get submerged on your car then I'm guessing you have bigger issues to worry about 

The issue I ran into is that I have the Gub pro 3 phone mount and if I swap the mirror and controller than we'll have issues getting under the phone and holder to hit the buttons on the fly.

Ty

Got the mirror. I tried mounting it so it was under the handlebars but just didn't seem to be a good view. Switched it to normal and while there is a bit of your arm in the way it's not that difficult to just bring your arm in a bit.

Haven't been on a long ride yet so will have to update later. The biggest issue with things like this is that you have very limited usable handlebar space due to the sloping of the bars. I might have to swap it with the controller buttons to get it closer to the grip moving it out.

Ty

Morning Waldo, here is a self proclaimed "fat guy" not sure about height. He's riding a rad rover so while not the city bike it will give you an idea of ability of rad's equipment.

I'm 50 and my wife 5'5 and I ordered the rad rover step-thru bikes. Got hers about a week ago. It is a beast. We love it. Decided on the step-thru because I didn't want to have to deal with the birth control bar in my older years. Not quit as nimble as I use to be 

I would think the original rover would be a great fit for you and the fat tires offer a lot of stability. Not sure what your riding area is like but here we don't have any bike lanes so you have to ditch off the road to the berm if cars aren't particularly friendly so those fatter tires mean less dumps when you hit software ground or gravel.

https://youtu.be/fXoYGtzDtUo

Ty

Since it is a controller I'm guessing you can't unlock it without a cable and software able to change the code. Might want to look at doing a Bolton controller upgrade.

Installed the mirror and cellphone holder.

I tried the mirror upside down like some suggested but no go on that. While it is true that some of you forearm is in the mirror it's not that hard to just tilt your are for a little more view.

The size and shape of the handlebars make it tough to mount the cellphone holder. There just isn't enough horizontal bar so the cell is cocked to the right slightly. Not a big deal at all for me. I couldn't really find any good way to mount it so the phone is in landscape mode but didn't try real hard either.