15 Best Electric Bikes (2026), Tested and Reviewed: Commuting, Mountain Biking

Other Ebikes We Like

Bike Friday All-Day for $5,600: Bike Friday bills the irresistibly tiny All-Day (7/10, WIRED Review) arsenic the world's lightest Bosch-powered ebike, and it's true. You tin customize each the colors and components of this folding electrical bike, and it has a amazingly almighty centrifugal for its size. The Brompton supra is much wide disposable and easier to use, but I emotion this small motorcycle a lot.

Radio Flyer Via Pro for $2,900: Editor Julian Chokkattu could not person had a amended acquisition than this easy-to-use and easy-to-assemble people 2 electrical cargo bike. For much info, cheque retired our usher to the Best Electric Cargo Bikes.

GoTrax Mustang for $1,799: We liked the Mustang, which is simply a amazingly punchy small motorcycle for conscionable the close price. However, it lone comes successful 1 size truthful you should effort it if you tin earlier you bargain it.

Aventon Level 3 for $1,899: The Aventon Level 3 is an easy-to-ride ebike that features a clean, step-through plan and each diagnostic you could privation successful a standard-size ebike for riding astir town. There are built-in fenders and lights, and a large colour show shows you however overmuch of the up to 70 miles of advertised scope you person remaining. I person ridden it up to astir 25 miles astatine a clip with my dense 6'2" frame, easy ending my rides with 20 percent of artillery left. The framework feels comfy and sturdy, acknowledgment to a double-walled operation and improved Shimano gears and brakes. The beforehand suspension fork and semi-hidden suspension spot station adhd to comfortableness comparative to different bikes I’ve tested successful this terms range, and I similar that the Aventon app lets you acceptable up things similar distant locking and geofencing, truthful you tin support an oculus connected your costly motorcycle from afar. The built-in crook signals, which usage the bike’s rear lights, are different bonus erstwhile riding successful cities astatine night. —Parker Hall

Tenways CGO800S for $1,799: This is simply a fund step-through metropolis ebike. It boasts up to 50 miles of artillery life, and I got much than 30. The torque sensor is creaseless and responsive to pedaling astatine assorted speeds. However, there's nary throttle, and due to the fact that this motorcycle is meant to acceptable riders of a immense scope of sizes (they accidental 5'1'' to 6'3''), the framework was not arsenic comfy to pedal for maine (5'11") arsenic immoderate large-size bikes. —Martin Cizmar

Aventon Ramblas for $2,899: Aventon made a upland bike! It's a batch of motorcycle for an affordable price, but conscionable a small excessively dense to instrumentality retired for its intended usage case. It makes a nice, rugged commuter, however.

Linus eDutchi for $1,799: Need a comfy cruiser? The Linus eDutchi is simply a comfy people 1 ebike with beauteous colors and loads of proprietary accessories.

Electra Loft Go! for $960: I besides emotion the Electra Loft Go! (7/10, WIRED Recommends), which is different comfy sit-up formation cruiser, but the Priority has a somewhat much almighty centrifugal for the aforesaid price.

Xtracycle Estoker for $4,499: This is astir apt the motorcycle that I spot astir often successful my Portland, Oregon, neighborhood. It has a durable, sturdy Chromoly alloy framework and larger 24-inch wheels, on with a Shimano mid-drive centrifugal that makes it cleanable for much grueling conditions. Unfortunately, you bash person to beryllium implicit 5'6" (which I americium not) to thrust it.

Gazelle Eclipse for $6,399: If you privation to cognize conscionable however large the Bosch strategy tin be, the Eclipse (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is the much costly mentation of the Radster Road above. It has a nicer shifter, a smarter motor—even the overgarment occupation is nicer. It's conscionable overmuch much expensive.

The Gocycle G4I+ for $5,999: Gocycle's high-end, fast-folding luxury bikes are designed by a erstwhile McLaren engineer. This quieter, lighter iteration has amended torque, a caller carbon-fiber beforehand fork, and an adjacent much achy price.

The Bunch Original Electric Cargo Bike for $6,499: I didn't attraction for the Bunch (5/10, WIRED Review), but my household did. It's a standard, if somewhat expensive, container motorcycle arsenic you mightiness spot successful Europe. It'll enactment good if you unrecorded successful a level country and don't person to spell precise fast.

Bikes We Dislike

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The Retrospec Jax Rev for $1,100: We wanted to emotion this sleek, stylish folding bike, but we couldn't assistance worrying astir its durability.

Niu Electric Bike BQi-C3 Pro for $999: Commerce manager Martin Cizmar tested this motorcycle and had a litany of complaints. The riding presumption is excessively aggressive, and the motorcycle framework doesn't acceptable communal components similar a h2o vessel and his pannier. The disc brakes weren't suited to stopping it from 28 mph.

FAQs

How Does WIRED Procure Ebikes?

Bike companies scope retired to me, and I petition testers successful my size. Once I person finished testing, I either instrumentality the bikes to the manufacturer, the store that assembled them, oregon donate them to nonprofit organizations.

How Do You Secure an Ebike?

Many ebikes person removable batteries, displays, oregon built-in instrumentality locks that marque securing your motorcycle overmuch easier. Other bikes, similar the Specialized Turbo Vado SL 2, are besides compatible with Apple Find My. Check retired our Best Ebike Locks usher for much options.

Should I Build My Own Bike?

Many affordable bikes present travel direct-to-consumer—meaning that they are pre-tuned oregon partially assembled successful a box. As Peter Flax precocious noted successful Bicycling magazine, these bikes bash not get astir the investigating oregon vetting that bikes from a bigger shaper get. Unless you're not riding overmuch oregon for galore miles, oregon are experienced with modifying your ain bike, I urge moving with an established shaper that has a trader network.

What Terrain Do You Live On?

If you unrecorded successful a level area, you're astir apt good with a 250-watt motor, which is the European velocity standard. However, if you unrecorded adjacent hills oregon haul a batch of stuff, you mightiness privation to see a 500-watt oregon 750-watt centrifugal and a fewer extras, similar hydraulic disc brakes, which volition assistance forestall you from skidding into traffic.

How Do I Prevent Bike Fires?

The thought of your store abruptly mounting alight is terrifying, but don't worry—the batteries that manufacturers usage contiguous are overmuch safer than those of yore. We lone constitute astir bikes that person been certified harmless by a third-party organization. Also, workout a spot of communal sense. Do not permission your motorcycle artillery charging overnight successful a boiling blistery garage. Don't usage aftermarket accessories to complaint your bike. And don't plug successful a artillery that has deformed oregon smells weird, oregon effort to crook connected a motorcycle with a cracked show oregon computer.

Follow Some Basic Safety Tips

Not definite wherever to start? The biking advocacy radical PeopleForBikes has a information acquisition program, E-Bike Smart, which it created successful collaboration with the League of American Bicyclists and Bicycle Colorado. Do not fto your children thrust your motorcycle unsupervised. An 80-pound kid should not beryllium piloting a 65-pound bike, adjacent if the centrifugal makes it imaginable for them to bash so. And ever deterioration a helmet, but you already cognize that. Right?

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