I went out to one of the local Metroparks for a ride, and was stopped by a chap who builds e-bikes. He's build about 15 of them so far, all of them with mid drive BBSHD motors. We ended up talking and riding with his wife and another couple, and had a mini group ride! Turns out they have local group rides, and they took my number so I could be invited to upcoming events. They had heard of Rad Power bikes before, but had not ridden with them before apparently, and they were impressed with the torque. We rode for about five miles before one of them said "Wait, does that FOLD?!". Why yes... yes it does 😁
That's cool! We have a rag tag crew of ebike riders that get together on the weekend but I haven't seen any updates in a long time. Met them once and they had some interesting ebikes and conversions. Our local Pedego dealer does group rides as well but they charge $10 for non-Pedego ebikes.