Originally Posted by
northernlights
That's what it says on the recall notices so its pretty obvious. They had two recalls to date, and both were for frames made in 2011 and 2012. The company was founded in 2011 according to their website, so you can tell just by the date they are first gen models.
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2013
S- and X-level Verge and Eclipse frames manufactured between September 2011 and March 2012
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2014
Select batches of Link frames manufactured between August 2011 and April 2012
Click to read notice
And there lies the issue. Tern continued to sell defective frames as recently as THIS YEAR, and only older models were listed in their recall. There are STILL frames on undisclosed numbers of bikes that were NOT in those lists. Tern, as quite a few people know by now, is bad news. As recommended, look at UNOFFICIAL sources for more information. Their most likely is/was a design flaw concerning their bikes. And NOT ALL MODELS have been disclosed/listed.
Originally Posted by
northernlights
I'm just going by how it looks. The 40mph number was more joking than serious. It could be just 25-30mph, which is still really fast for a bicycle. Or it might be just 15 or 20 mph for all anyone knows they don't say. I don't think it would be safe or even legal in most places to travel faster than that which is about the speed an average person can go on their own power. Because then it would be more like a moped than a bicycle.
This bike, as most of these types are concerned, will top out at no more than 20mph. Speed
pedelecs top out at about 28mph. This will be a legal commuter, and will be (or should be) more concerned with distance.
As for the moped thing, it's thrown around in the Electric Bikes section of the forum all the time. Even a sloooowwww ebike gets tagged that by people who hate ebikes. Just sayin,...