I bought my first bike 3 months ago. It's an electric... scooter... motorbike... LSM thing. Here are some thoughts on it.

After tinkering with my front-wheel-drive e-bike for a few years, squeezing more speed out of a tiny motor, it caught my eye. An electric limited-speed motorbike. No gas. Clean. Little maintenance. And it doesn't look bad at all.The top speed is officially ~70 km/h (45 mph). The range is about 40 to 50 km (~31 miles) on a battery. You can have 2 batteries in it. They're each the size of a breadbox and occupy the place where a motor is on a real motorcycle.Some of the styling is clearly just fakery (an air scoop? really? there's nothing inside that area), some are legit. The grill on the front is an aluminum heat sink for the controller, for example. And the gas tank gives access to the batteries and a small storage compartment.Here's the bike as I got it. https://i.imgur.com/UXd0H1S.jpg A 2019 Super Soco TC.Since October, I've been riding to work every day that the weather permits. I'll ride in rain and down to a degree above freezing, but I won't ride in snow, ice, or high winds. Or hail. Or earthquakes. You get the idea.I love this machine, but the lack of power really bugs me. Going uphill, my speed drops to below the speed limit. Acceleration requires the patience of a saint. Today, for example, it took half a mile as measured by the map to go from zero to 60. That's 60 km/h.And is it reliable. Is it, indeed. Well, no. It is not. The wiring had to be replaced within a week of getting it because the gauge was too light to carry the current. The manufacturer cheaped out on wire, in other words. The brakes are obviously crap, which you can tell just by looking at them, if not when you hear them scraping and squealing. Etc, etc.Here's the bike now. https://i.imgur.com/5iTKtcO.jpg I did a few mods.So... would I recommend a Super Soco TC? It's cheap transportation for somebody who can't afford gas. At a price tag of a few thou, you could get a decent gas-powered motorcycle, so you're sacrificing a lot to be green. But in the end, it's the only electric LSM in Canada right now that looks and feels like a motorcycle, and the next step up is a $15k bike from Zero. So if you want to ride green, this is your cheap entry-level bike. via /r/motorcycles https://www.reddit.com/r/motorcycles/comments/f2k50y/i_bought_my_first_bike_3_months_ago_its_an/?utm_source=ifttt