

One particularly exciting anecdote was from someone who said that the person who delivered their bike was so inspired by all the boxes of bikes he was delivering that he decided to get one for himself. On my own Twitter feed, I heard dozens of accounts of people buying their first electric bikes because of this sale. The e-bike company’s recent sale was very popular – turns out, $500 e-bikes sell like hotcakes. Right now, the bike is sitting in our basement waiting for someone to figure out what went wrong and get it back in commission.ĭagny isn’t the only person who just bought a Rad Power bike. (No, it wasn’t dead.) Eventually, we got it going again, but only briefly before it puttered out once more and she had to ride to back without any electric assistance or lights. Dagny and I were riding with a group of other people on bikes deep in the north Portland peninsula this past weekend when all the sudden, the lights on her bike turned off and the pedal-assist stopped working. When the bike came, Dagny put it together and charged it up, excited to hit the bike path.īut she’d only had it for a few days when the honeymoon period ended. My roommate and friend Dagny Daniel was in the market for an electric bike, and when she saw Rad Power Bikes was selling their entry-level e-bike for a $500 ($700 lower than its usual price), she jumped at the opportunity to buy it.

It’ll all get sorted out eventually, but there will be a lot of heartbreak in the process.” – Andrew Schnell, The eBike Store Dagny and her e-bike during the halcyon days.
