Every other page here is measurement — specs, prices, stock checks, all dated and sourced. This one is opinion: the electric bikes we rate most, why, and the one purchase we would make differently. Where we own the bike ourselves it says so on the card, because “we ride this one” and “we rate this one” are not the same claim.
The annoyances are on this page too. The numbers below are read live from the catalogue, so they always match the bike pages.
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Motor
Mivice Mid-Drive
Torque
100 Nm
Battery
720 Wh
Weight
32.8 kg (72 lb)
Sensor
Torque
Derestrictable
Yes
This has quietly become the daily bike, and the reason is the suspension. It is the most comfortable thing we own by a distance — the kind of comfort that decides which bike you actually reach for, even though it is the slowest of the four. On paper it is also the strongest: a mid-drive motor with the most torque on this page, driving through the gears rather than the hub, which is why it climbs better than anything else here.
The catch
It is the heaviest bike on this page at 33 kg, which you feel lifting it into a car or up a step, and a mid-drive puts more wear through the chain and cassette than a hub motor does — budget for that upkeep. Still the bike that gets ridden most: comfort wins.
This was the bike that got bought after a long shortlist, and the reason is weight: at well under 20 kg it is the only one here you can carry up a flight of stairs without resenting it. The torque sensor and the automatic gearbox mean you push the pedals and it simply goes — no lag, no hunting for the right gear at a junction.
The catch
Two things. The battery is the smallest here, so it is a commuter rather than a tourer. And it is rigid: ours caught a pothole hard enough to knock the front brake out of alignment, and the wheel has squeaked once per revolution since. That is a British road rather than a design fault, and it is a workshop job rather than a serious one — but it is exactly the hit the suspension bike above shrugs off, and it is why that one now gets ridden more.
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Motor
Cyrusher Hub
Torque
85 Nm
Battery
1040 Wh
Weight
39 kg (86 lb)
Sensor
Cadence + torque
Derestrictable
No — locked
The sensor setup is the thing. Most eBikes give you a cadence sensor (power arrives when the pedals turn) or a torque sensor (power scales with how hard you push). This runs both and lets you choose, and it is genuinely hard to go back from — it reads what you are asking for instead of guessing. It is also the newest bike on this page and carries the biggest battery of the four.
The catch
It is heavy — more than twice the ADO. Wonderful to ride, no fun at all to lift onto a rack or carry through a hallway.
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Motor
Engwe Hub
Torque
75 Nm
Battery
648 Wh
Weight
33.2 kg (73 lb)
Sensor
Torque
Derestrictable
Yes
The cheapest bike on this page and the one we would point a first-time buyer at. Engwe build quality has been consistently good across everything we have had from them — nothing has rattled loose, nothing has needed sending back, and the lock is our only complaint about the brand, not the bikes. This one is derestrictable, which is the difference that matters.
Not ridden yet, so there is no verdict here — only why we wanted one. The specifications below are read from the catalogue, exactly as above, and they come from the manufacturer rather than from us. This section will move up into the list when the bike arrives and we have put miles on it.
The one we are waiting on Not arrived yetSupplied by KENOTU
KENOTU are sending this one and it has not arrived, so there is nothing here from riding it. What made it worth asking for is the combination: 19 kg, a folding frame, and a mid-drive motor with a torque sensor. Mid-drives normally sit on heavier and dearer bikes, and folders this light normally run a hub motor with a cadence sensor, so on paper this is doing something the rest of the folding class does not. Whether a 250 Wh battery and 40 Nm hold up on a hill with a rider and a bag is the part a specification cannot answer, which is the whole reason for getting one. The page changes when it is here.
Some bikes let you raise the assistance limit and some are locked shut — which is the difference we flag as derestrictable above. We record the setting because it decides what a bike can legally be, not to suggest you change it.
Keep the bike within its class where you ride. US federal rules define a low-speed electric bicycle as having working pedals, a motor of no more than 750 W and a top speed on motor power alone of no more than 20 mph. Your state then sets the class rules — 20 mph for classes 1 and 2, 28 mph for class 3 — along with path access, helmet and minimum-age requirements. Raising the limit can move a bike out of its class, or out of the federal definition altogether, at which point it may be treated as a motor vehicle. Change it only where that exact bike, configuration and use are lawful and you have the landowner's permission.
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