synthrider
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stone said:
What's the make/model of yours?
Mystery Electric Bicycle / Moped / Scooter
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What's the make/model of yours?
synthrider
100 mW
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Some more impressions after riding it a little while:
- Frame is just a little too cramped... Esp. if you're tall. I don't feel it much on short rides, but its noticeable if going more than 5mi.. if I could do it over I would upgrade one model and get the Voltage 500GT 3, which has a roomier frame.
- Kind of a funny thing I found: the pedals, while def not placed to be functional, do work... there's even a pedal assist function... what it really amounts to is a second, pedal-shaped throttle
Nice that they're there though for legal reasons...
- Still very happy with the power and performance... I loaded it up with all my laundry, probably twice my body weight or something, and hauled it to the laundromat with no probs. Very stable. Believe it or not I used to do this on my electric mountain bike, and it worked but felt kind of precarious.
- Alarm is a legit alarm. I thought it was kind of ornamental and only locked the ignition switch, but it has an actual motion/impact detector or something (found out by accident) so if someone bumps into it (or tries to put it on the back of their pickup) it goes off, just like a car alarm... really a strange but kind of nice little feature...
- Storage issue solved: I bungee-corded a nice crate to the back, and on top of that can attach my bike panier bags... I will have to upload a pic with it all set up. It's pretty rad...
So basically, this thing is really cool if just a little too cramped... If it still works good in 6mo, I might end up putting it on craigslist and getting the larger 500GT3 model.
- Frame is just a little too cramped... Esp. if you're tall. I don't feel it much on short rides, but its noticeable if going more than 5mi.. if I could do it over I would upgrade one model and get the Voltage 500GT 3, which has a roomier frame.
- Kind of a funny thing I found: the pedals, while def not placed to be functional, do work... there's even a pedal assist function... what it really amounts to is a second, pedal-shaped throttle
Nice that they're there though for legal reasons...- Still very happy with the power and performance... I loaded it up with all my laundry, probably twice my body weight or something, and hauled it to the laundromat with no probs. Very stable. Believe it or not I used to do this on my electric mountain bike, and it worked but felt kind of precarious.
- Alarm is a legit alarm. I thought it was kind of ornamental and only locked the ignition switch, but it has an actual motion/impact detector or something (found out by accident) so if someone bumps into it (or tries to put it on the back of their pickup) it goes off, just like a car alarm... really a strange but kind of nice little feature...
- Storage issue solved: I bungee-corded a nice crate to the back, and on top of that can attach my bike panier bags... I will have to upload a pic with it all set up. It's pretty rad...
So basically, this thing is really cool if just a little too cramped... If it still works good in 6mo, I might end up putting it on craigslist and getting the larger 500GT3 model.
