The frame decides where you can store the bike, how easily you get on it with a load, how it rides at speed and which accessories fit. What each type is good at, and who should skip it.
What an e-bike commute needs beyond the bike itself: range with margin for winter, lights you can see by, two locks, a way to carry a laptop, and tires that won’t make you late.
Three classes, two speeds and one throttle question. What each e-bike class means, where it’s allowed, and why a bike that does 28 mph on a throttle may not legally be an e-bike at all.
Your e-bike used to do 40 miles and now it does 25. Five causes, in order of likelihood, and only one of them means the battery is finished.
Seven e-bike conversion kits compared, what your frame needs to survive one, and the hidden cost that catches most people out.
A used e-bike is either a bargain or an expensive paperweight, and the battery decides which. The checks to make before money changes hands.
Watt-hours, not amp-hours or motor watts, decide how far an e-bike goes. How to read a battery spec, estimate your real range, judge the cells inside, and decide when a tired pack is worth replacing.