Rad Power Bikes RadCity 5 Plus

Sentiment is sharply split by platform. On Lemmy, the highest-upvoted comments (+5, +5, +4) center on the CPSC battery recall: users call Rad's official response 'PR fluff,' say the company claimed it would offer discounts on new batteries for consumers who recycled recalled packs but now 'don't offer affected consumers anything at all,' and note that searching radpowerbikes.com support for 'recall' returns nothing. One owner who knows the CPSC well says 'I like my bike, but I don't love Rad,' contextualizing the agency's political turmoil (3 Democratic commissioners fired, Supreme Court emergency ruling). On YouTube — mostly comments under review videos — the picture is far rosier: an owner reports 4,000+ miles with the battery now only charging to ~50% ('starting to show its age'); a RadCity 4 step-through owner with 500 miles calls it 'the best money I have ever spent' and says they chose it over a $5,000 competitor; a first-time ebike owner in Boston assembled it solo with no prior bike-assembly experience and plans winter commuting; riders 6'5+ praise the fit but recommend the step-through model for easier mounting; another user notes hydraulic brakes — absent on older models — were previously a 'deal breaker' for them. Price sensitivity recurs: one prospective buyer tracks the climb from $1,599 to $1,799 to $1,999 and says it pushes them toward the Ride1Up 700 Series ($300 less, 28 mph PAS). Open, unanswered questions in the thread: seat comfort ('Rad never has had good seats'), handlebar adjustability, and post-purchase customer service quality.

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