How we review

What our reviews are based on

Every review, comparison and ranking on Ebike Rider is built from publicly available information about the product:

• the manufacturer's own product listing, specification tables and imagery;
• product manuals and support documentation where published;
• current and historical pricing on the merchant's site;
• certification claims and what those standards actually cover;
• publicly published third-party video and written coverage, clearly labelled as other people's work;
• general engineering principles that apply to any e-bike — the relationship between watt-hours and range, between mass and braking distance, between wheel diameter and rolling behaviour.

What we never do

We do not write "we tested this bike", because we did not. We do not publish star ratings, scores out of ten, or numerical verdicts, because a number implies a measurement we have not taken. We do not publish customer testimonials, review counts, or awards. We do not invent stock levels, discounts or sales figures.

If a page on this site ever appears to claim a physical test result, that is an error and we would like to know about it — tell us and we will correct it.

How we handle manufacturer claims

There are three distinct categories of statement on this site, and we keep them visually and grammatically separate:

1. Manufacturer claim. Something the merchant publishes. Always attributed — "AMYET lists up to 65 miles of range" — and often isolated in a marked callout. We never rewrite a claim into a flat assertion of fact.
2. Verified specification. Something we can confirm from more than one independent published source, or something that follows arithmetically from a published figure (48V × 20Ah = 960Wh is arithmetic, not a claim).
3. Editorial interpretation. Our reading of what a specification means in practice. Always written as our opinion, and always with the reasoning shown so you can disagree with it.

What we look at

For each bike we work through the same list: rated and peak motor output; battery voltage, amp-hours and the resulting watt-hours; claimed range and how it was likely generated; top speed and its legal implications; braking type and capacity; tires and suspension; drivetrain; bike weight and payload; frame material; display and controls; water resistance; certification; warranty term and, more usefully, spare parts availability; price, price history and price per watt-hour.

Where a manufacturer publishes conflicting figures across their own homepage, collection page and product page, we show both rather than quietly choosing the flattering one. Where they publish nothing — bike weight and motor torque are the two most common gaps — we say so.

What this methodology cannot tell you

Plenty. A specification sheet will not tell you how a fork feels over a root, whether a display is legible in direct sun, how loud a motor is at 20 MPH, whether the welds are tidy, how a bike behaves at the limit of its payload, or what the customer service is like when something breaks in month fourteen. Those things require riding the bike and living with it.

What specification analysis is genuinely good at is catching the things that cannot be true: a range claim that the battery cannot physically support, a brake specification that does not match the bike's mass and speed, a price that is worse per watt-hour than the model beside it. That is the work we do here, and it is worth doing before you spend $700.

Independence

Ebike Rider earns affiliate commission on some outbound links — see our affiliate disclosure. No merchant pays for coverage, for a ranking position, or to have a criticism removed. We have declined nothing yet because we have been offered nothing; if that changes, this page will say so.

Our ranking of the three AMYET bikes puts the cheapest one second and the most expensive one third, which is the opposite of what commission maximisation would suggest. That is deliberate, and it is the test we would apply to any site making the claim we are making here.

Corrections

Prices, specifications and availability change. Every price on this site carries the date it was checked, and when a check goes stale the figure is replaced with a link to the merchant rather than left to go wrong quietly.

If you find an error — a spec we have misread, a claim we have overstated, a figure that has moved — email hello@ebikerider.us. We correct errors in place and note substantive corrections at the foot of the page concerned.