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Rad Power Bikes Radster Trail Review | Is The Full Size Fat Tire Slimming Down? 

It’s fair to say that Rad Power Bikes helped popularize fat tire e-bikes as we know them today. They don’t seem to be content to churn out the same stuff year after year though. Our Rad Power Bikes Radster Trail review shows the company is taking a fresh approach to the category they helped make mainstream.

The Radster Trail is a mid-size fat tire e-bike with a 27.5X 3.0″ tire, it has a newly designed motor with a serious 100 Nm torque with faster speeds, and Rad’s upping the ante on battery safety with their all-new Safe Shield technology. Those three features represent a slight twist on a classic, a more contemporary experience, and bold new innovation, respectively.

Meet The Pimp: A Five-In-One Phone Mount

The reasons to mount a smartphone holder on your e-bike seem to grow by the day. From serving up navigation info and real-time data functions such as current speed and miles ridden, there are a growing number of apps that can turn a smartphone into a better display than the one that comes with your e-bike. And increasingly, e-bike manufacturers are launching their own apps that can provide real-time directions, connect brand owners and even offer security features including GPS tracking. So that answers the why. The what, in this instance, is the Pimp My Bike Phone Holder, which is unlike any other smartphone holder we’ve seen. In our review of the Pimp My Bike Phone holder we will look at its many functions as well as its overall sense of value.
 

With the smartphone mounts we’ve seen up until now, they generally only serve to hold the smartphone so that it can be viewed while riding. A few manufacturer-included ones offer the added benefit of a charging plug, but most of those provide a single amp, roughly equivalent to a standard iPhone charger.

Why Do People RideFat Tire E-Bikes, Anyway?

So let’s say you’re in the market for an e-bike, whether it’s your first, or your next, and you’re contemplating something that will allow you to ride on more than paved roads and paths. And maybe you’ve even eyed some fat-tire e-bikes as you cruise the web. What you may not know is that fat-tire e-bikes are some of the most versatile e-bikes on the market and there are more reasons to consider one than you may know. Here’s our list of seven reasons why you might want to pick a fat-tire e-bike for yourself.
 

Regular Bikes Had Worst Sales Year Yet, E-Bikes To Be The Turnaround

For the bike industry, 2023 was a year best forgotten. In 2020, thanks to the pandemic, most brands sold out of their entire season’s stock by July, which meant placing panicked orders for more product. In many instances, brands placed orders several times the size of their traditional sales projections. The brands that were able to restock the quickest were the biggest winners and those that were at the back of the queue found themselves glutted with stock when all the pandemic purchasing dried up.

The drying up began in 2022, but with so many people having purchased bikes and e-bikes in 2020 and 2021, demand has yet to return. In an analysis piece on the industry website Bicycle Retailer and Industry News, Rick Vosper showed that e-bikes are poised to save the bike industry from what would otherwise be an industry-wide depression.

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