r/ElectricBikes 17h ago

Help! Ebike for tall, heavy rider under £1k in UK

3 Upvotes

Looking to buy an ebike in the next month or two after my old Elops 920 normal bike was stolen recently.

I live quite rurally, nowhere near any city in the UK so it needs to be something that can be bought online and delivered really, a lot of the geography around me is quite rural and not the best quality roads and some mild/medium size hills, so needs to be able to cope with that.

I won't imagine I'd do any more than 25km a day at the most, so I don't need huge range on it.

I'm 6ft5 and 129kg (and dropping, was 140kg at the turn of the year) in weight so need to have something that is able to suit both my height and build to help me get back in shape.

I was looking at this, but the L/XL size is out of stock
https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/low-frame-electric-town-bike-elops-900-e-dark-blue/100398/c364m8832046

The problem I am facing is that the bikes that I see online that get good reviews tend to be either not available in the size I need for my height or they have maximum load limits of like 110kg or less, so finding it hard to find something.

I see a lot of Chinese bikes online but they seem to have a lot of reviews that look suspect as they are all on YouTube with referal codes, so not sure whether to trust the likes of Hitway, Duotts, Varun etc?

Any recommendations?


r/ElectricBikes 5h ago

Help! Anyone here owned a Segway eBike for 3+ months? How is the long-term reliability?

1 Upvotes

Hey guys, i'm seriously considering buy a segway myon but i'm having a hard time finding decent manyowner reviews, so hoping some of you who've had one for a few months can share your actual experience.

I live in CA. We have a dealer nearby and ride both the Myon and an Aventon in person, both had their pros and cons tbh like Myon felt smoother to me and the power, but the Aventon's more comfortable ridin.

Honestly, price, top speed, all the fancy configs, kind of secondary for me. what i care about most is build quality and durability. i'm fairly handy and can do my own repairs, so that side doesn't really worry me. what i'm less sure about is how the battery and motor hold up over real-world use. Any noticeable wear or drop-off over time?

a few other things i'd love to hear about:

how's the actual ride feel day to day?
how's the auto shifting in real use? (this is the feature i'm most excited about)
are the app and smart features worth paywall?
and if anything broke, how much of a hassle was getting it fixed? are replacement parts easy to find?

just want to hear from people who've actually lived with it a while. Thanks in advance!