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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