What I learned a year after buying my first electric bike (RadRunner 1)
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Last year CNET’s Logan Moy bought his first e‑bike. After trying a handful of others and investing in some upgrades, he goes over what he added to it and some costly lessons he learned along the way.
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0:00 — Intro
0:31 — RadRunner 1 + upgrades
1:30 — Lessons learned
3:45 — How I ride e‑bikes
4:16 — Hitch rack
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Thanks for watching! What else should I put in my emergency repair kit? Let me know!
Guess what? All of the bike shops in my area, go rad runner What? They are behind times. I have two bikes, a rad runner and an Ariel Rider Grizzly. I educated myself on fixing and maintaining it. The grizzly has hydraulic brakes. I use slime, and carry extra with me, a set of Allen wrenches,. I commute 11 miles on it to work. The rad runner and it’s mechanical disc brakes have a different feel. I prefer the hydraulic brakes. You can get turn signals off of Amazon. Set of four. They are synced together with one controller. I found a rear view camera is handy. Very handy.
If you physically can’t ride it after 2 days of riding you need to ask yourself is it the bikes fault or yours?
That is not an e- bike. An e- bike doesn’t move unless you do the work or it’s downhills.
Americans cannot even grasp the concept of a bicycle….
If there could be a way to solar charge this beauty…it would be so cool…
I got the rad mission and its pretty much replaced my car after i make it through a winter of bike commuting ill make the decision on if i sell the car or not.
Hi… Um… 2–3 inner tubes in a couple of months?!? Where do you live? Next to a broken glass and tack factory?
After buying my first bike, i learn not to buy my second.
Great bike,better value
Hand warmers
~~How would you change a rear tube out on a normal ride?
~~One major comment that’s missing on most information is Insurance, for $7.50 a month you can get it replaced if totaled or stolen .
A thumbs throttle is much better
Buy a car.
The same people who buy electric bikes go to the gym and use the exercycle.
a rack most expensive eh… lol I just got a foldable and throw it in the minivan.
Thanks for all the tips. They all make sense
Maybe consider a can of fix-a-flat, just a thought 💭
Dude can’t even put together a bike…. Skip
Sore? What were you getting raped?
Excellent tips. Great on liners and sealant.
What’s the helmet?
Why can’t you repair the tubes???? Laziness???
Greater than I expected small, compacted, easy to use
Always great to see an intelligent bike-rider NOT stupidly carrying a back-pack on his/her shoulders and spine. Most riders and reviewers seem to think that using baskets and luggage racks etc just looks too uncool — they’re too obsessed with self-image and looking cool to use luggage-racks, baskets etc. And simply hanging a bag full of groceries over a handle-bar is of course as uncool and loser-like as it gets, right ?
Paul G
I noticed your ebike has two leg stand, does it come with bike? I want to get one for my ebike too
Great video. I was wondering about hitch racks for ebikes, and you answered that question. Thanks!
DON’T BUY FROM THEM. total scam of a company. I had the roadrunner plus for a little more than one year and the battery died. Took two months to convince customer service to send a new one (under warranty). Finally they told me they will send it but it’s not in stock and they don’t know when it will be again (!!!). Would not recommend it’s an overpriced piece of garbage.
See, this is the problem with biking in America: it’s only seen as a recreational activity instead of the tool of transportation it could be. Always blew my mind when people drive their bikes somewhere just so they could ride them!! Why not just ride the bike to the place you want to explore? It’s an e‑bike for crying out loud! Hills and range are no issue—you could’ve bought two spare batteries with the cost of your car rack alone.