Got me outside again.
So I wanted to start going around with my family on their bike rides around town down to the farmer's market and whatnot, but I'm a bigger dude, and a lot of bikes would crumple under my mass. Right before they'd give me heart palpitations from cardio I haven't experienced since I was 17.
Did a lot of shopping around, I didn't want a moped with a pair of vestigial pedals. I wanted something I could still get some cardio on, but switch to moped mode when I get lazy, and if I didn't want to get something off aliexpress with 0 customer support, options were limited for my weight without getting into $2000+ bikes.
The Trekker has been amazing. Hauls my big **** around like it isn't even there. Battery life has been insane. I rarely take it higher than pa1-2, and... "rarely" use the throttle.. so it feels like the battery just doesn't drain. Think I put 40 miles on it before the first charge. Even then it was only showing about half charge, but I wasn't sure if it would have sudden drop off with a lower voltage.
I was a little worried about if the battery did end up dying on me, but even with 0 pedal assist, I'm able to beat my kid on his little 20 inch wal mart bike in races. Muahahahah. I still wouldn't want to get stuck far away like that, but it's ABSOLUTELY REASONABLE to pedal this thing like a regular ol bicycle.
We get lots of compliments every time we go out on our bikes. (wife's one the discover 2). Every time we go past a family I'll hear the kids asking their parents "ooh can we get ebikes like those" or groups of kids just calling them cool, one lady at a stop light asked how much they went for online, I think looking to buy her own. Another lady commented "those are the biggest wheels I've ever seen on a bike".
I personally get shy at all the attention, but if you like riding in style, you'll for sure get lots of comments.
I'm very happy with my purchase, and I highly recommend anyone else considering it for your health to give it a try.
If I had to pick one "con", and it's really not a big deal at all, I'm just trying to sound unbiased here. It'd be that "sometimes" at slow speed when you're coasting, if you just turn the pedals a tiny amount, even without any torque, it'll do like a tiny second of a ghost pedal. Far far far far from a big deal, just, has been noticed.
Also this could maybe count as a con, I'm 6'6", which is definitely within the bike's range, and I'm struggling a bit to find a bar/seat layout that doesn't cause cramps in one spot or another. Twisting the bars a bit and moving the seat forward got the cramp to move from my neck to my elbows, and it's miniscule enough at this point I only notice it after riding for 1hr+, I think I might just need to get an extended handlebar stem for it, so I don't feel so hunched over holding the bars.
Ooh, thought of another actually. THAT SEAT SUCKS. Maybe it's just cause my size, but ooh, protect your buns. Throw that thing in the TRAAAASH. Get yourself a seat with shocks.
I understand I'm a bit of a gargantuan dude, so having something fit my gorilla limbs at all, even with one or two small accessories, is still an easy sell. It's been so nice riding around like a kid again.
10/10 buy one.