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Does weight matter with e-bikes? Seems like a simple enough question, right? Some things matter. Examples include: interest rates, the cost of food and the music of Led Zeppelin. Some things don’t matter. Examples of those include: debates about Kirk vs. Picard. (They were both awesome.) An e-bike’s weight is a little Column A and […]

At the risk of making e-bikes sound like Paris fashion, the e-bike market has grown and matured in so many different ways that the e-bike world has grown to resemble the market for vehicles more than it does the market for vacuum cleaners. E-bike styles and functionality—and price points—have exploded. Whether someone is looking at […]

Among the many questions we receive here at Best Electric Bikes about riding and owning e-bikes, this may be the single easiest question to answer: No. That’s the short answer, the bottom line. That’s not to say that there aren’t laws that govern e-bikes. Depending on the state, there are laws that govern who can […]

Range anxiety is a thing. It happens with e-bikes just as it happens with electric vehicles. Any time someone leaves home for a ride on their e-bike, they don’t want to be caught miles from home with a dead battery. So how do you get the maximum amount of range from your e-bike? When a […]

Are electric bike prices getting cheaper anytime soon? Yes. Whew, got that out of the way, huh? The answer isn’t so simple as that, though. Continue reading, though, because the full answer is a good deal more interesting than a single word. As e-bike technology advances, two things will happen in the market. E-bikes will […]

E-bikes allow riders to hit speeds they might only otherwise reach when going downhill. They are also heavier than regular bicycles. As a result, e-bikes need powerful brakes. Good brakes aren’t only about stopping quickly. Sure, a short, controlled stop is a must, but brakes do more than stop. Once an e-bike is moving, we […]

25 Tips to make an e-bike more easier on riders’ necks, shoulders, arms, hands and caboose We at Best Electric Bikes are bike nerds. We don’t just love e-bikes or regular bikes or kids bikes; we even love bike parts. The upshot is that when our friends come to us complaining that their neck/shoulders/derriere hurt […]

That may seem like an odd question, as if we were asking whether batteries should be safe or not. Only an anarchist (or a sociopath) would argue against safe batteries. The question is, what constitutes safe? How far does the e-bike industry need to go to ensure that e-bikes are safe to use? The issue […]

A lot. E-Bikes can save you a lot of gas money. That’s not really the way to start a piece of service journalism meant to educate people about e-bikes, but we’re cutting to the chase because the difference is so vast we want to begin with the message that the difference an e-bike makes becomes […]

In a car, 28 mph is slow. On an e-bike, 28 mph is fast. Really fast; things happen quickly. Part of the difference is that with the wind rushing over our bodies, we have a greater sense of movement. It’s also easy to look down and see just how fast the ground is moving below […]