By Andrea Menzies
I bought one of the Actbest Mars e-bikes, and wanted to warn other customers to buy a tiny scooter instead. The battery does make it go fast up small hills for the first two months you ride it. I bought one of these in black, and it says on the description it is 70 pounds, but when I weighed it the product was over 200 pounds without the battery. With a battery it is more heavy. This is why tiny scooters have taken over downtown as E-bikes are now too huge. You think it folds so you can take it places, but it bangs up and bruises up your arms and legs so badly getting it out of storage you won’t want to move it. Two teenaged cousins had to help me put it in the back of an SUV. It will not go on bus bike racks. The heavy weight makes it fall over and bang your legs with large bruises constantly when riding. It is so heavy it doesn’t go up big hills, and you have to drag the huge heavy weight up large hills. It was pretty easy to assemble in two hours, and can drive a couple of miles to the nearby store, concert, and park easily if the weather is perfect. Tiny amounts of rain will stall it. This is NOT a car replacement at all. The battery has a tiny key that breaks every two seconds, easily snapped in half when turning, and easily falls off and will not go on key rings. They want 39 dollars for a replacement key on the website, and the heavy bike weighs so much you will need 280 dollar replacement batteries constantly. I am certain this is why they made it heavy so the bike will not run without a battery, the weight destroys batteries, and they sell many more expensive batteries. It can barely go 15 miles an hour before it starts weaving and rattling so badly it will not go faster another fact the webpage is not truthful about. If you are a huge gladiator that wants a bike made out of frying pan cast iron go for it, but a folding portable e-bike it is not. I will give it three out of five stars in my review for working a tiny bit, but many parts were lies. Next time I need short distance transportation I am buying a tiny scooter sized bike.
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