A Shimano or Bosch system is easy to calibrate. The biggest difference is hard to describe. The RadWagon also tops out at a much lower speed, around 20 mph as compared to the R&M Load’s 28 mph. If you have a commute of longer than 10 miles, I would keep a charger at work. I got to around 20 miles on one charge before I started to feel nervous about getting stranded. While you can travel around 100 miles with a Shimano battery, the estimated range on the RadWagon is 25-45 miles. However, Rad Power is able to offer the RadWagon at a drastically lower price because instead of a Shimano or Bosch, it has a Shengyi e-assist system. They’re weatherproof, intelligent, integrated e-assist systems with incredibly long-lived batteries, that will only output precisely the amount of power you need to go as fast as you want. The Shimano Steps and Bosch eBike systems are by far the most prevalent, and will raise the price of any e-bike by almost a grand. If an e-bike seems mysteriously affordable to you, I would check to see which e-assist system they’re using. While Rad Power does provide you with the tools that you need to assemble the RadWagon, you are much better off if you have access to a set of ratcheting hex keys and a torque wrench to measure how hard to tighten individual screws. Eventually, I caved and begged my spouse to let me rummage around in his tool shed. However, that turned out to be mostly hubris.įor three days, I spread the contents of the enormous box on several mats on my deck, snatched bags of screws back from my toddlers, and watched videos on YouTube. I'm a card-carrying member of the Gadget Lab, and I have an outsized sense of my ability to assemble almost anything. But since the whole point was that anyone, anywhere, can order a Rad Power bike, I opted to put mine together myself.Īs I soon realized, bike building is a skill, performed in workshops by trained professionals with a set of specialized tools.
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For an additional $199, Rad Power offers full assembly through a mobile bike shop called velofix, if you live within an area that velofix serves. Rad Power asked if I wanted to assemble the bike or have it assembled for me. If Yuba's preferred retailers aren’t in your city, you might be stuck taking a train and biking 50, or 100, miles back home.
But for many others, stopping by a shop and riding your new bike home is a lot harder. Since I live in a city that is positively infested with high-end bike shops, I find picking up an electric cargo bike to be a simple, if time-consuming, task.
Yuba, Riese & Müller, and other e-cargo bike manufacturers only sell through preferred retailers. But I can picture her face, and it’s not pretty. I don’t know what my mom would say if I picked her up at the airport and strapped her into a cargo box to ride home. Going completely carless would justify the price, but it’s hard to make the commitment. I loved the versatility and power of the R&M Load, but at $7,000, it costs as much as my current car. It would be much easier, more fun, and better for the environment, if I could replace at least a few of those trips with an electric cargo bike. Many of my car journeys are within a mile of my house, hauling toddlers and groceries to and fro.
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