I purchased a 700-series in the beginning of August primarily to commute to my business, a 12 mile round trip, 5 days a week for 60 miles a week. Otherwise, the bike is solid, well built, easy to assemble and aesthetically pleasing in appearance. I’m sure I won’t be disappointed in the performance. I only gave the 4 star rating because we’ve not been able to ride them yet. The seat changes are not expensive alterations. I’m disappointed that bike does not have suspension forks but I saw a tip about getting a suspension seat so we might change that out. If that one fits me better, we’ll trade off. My husband likes it so much, we ordered another bike-this time the Core 5. My other bikes have much more, shall we say, “friendly” seats. I’m pretty sure I’ll have to change the seat. I will say, the bike appears a little big for me even though I got the step through. I haven’t been able to ride it at all due to the weather so I’m unable to comment on that. I saw so many comments about the difficulty of assembling it and that concerned me but my husband was able to put it together with no difficulty at all. Then when the price on the 700 dropped and was so close to the 500, I decided to place the order for that bike instead. I originally had my eye on the 500 Series. I made up my mind on a price point and then kept checking the sale pricing periodically. I compared ebikes for almost a year and finally decided the Ride 1Up was the one I wanted. Ordering a bicycle in NE OH in the winter time may not be the ideal time but the price became too low to resist.
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