Originally Posted by
kimguroo
I don’t work for Fiido and I paid a full price which was $899. This is my first ebike and I did not want to drop big money on an ebike because I was not sure I will like ebike or not. Also I don’t want 50lbs+ heavy ebike. Honestly, My bike is fine. There is no cracking issue. Cheapest Tern ebike is $2500+ and it weights almost 50lbs. Fiido X was not perfect but it serves me well for me and weights at 40lbs. I will need to wait long time to receive a replacement bike but I am fine with it as long as Fiido is willing to do recall processing. Also newly designed bike will add 7 additional features so It’s not a bad deal in my opinion. If someone needs bike immediately, Fiido offers other ebikes for recall replacements from them.
I don’t believe that there are bike companies which they never had frame issues.
Having frame issues on occasion is one thing but having to do a recall on every bike is not a good thing.
To buy a decent quality reliable hybrid bike you are looking around $800 and generally a decent enough kit is going to be about $1500 ish so trying to do an entire e-bike for $899 is a bit crazy. The quality just cannot be there because the price just isn't there. Yes Tern is going to be more expensive initially but they have excellent support behind their stuff and at least on the e-bike side haven't done any recalls on their entire bikes that I can think of. I certainly wouldn't want a folding bike that cheap with a motor on it I would be worried it might come apart or have some other structural issues, they aren't putting much if any R+D into it and copying a design doesn't work well because you are usually just copying looks and not actually doing the leg work on how it works and making sure it is truly safe because you don't care you could fold up shop and open up again with another name with the same bikes if need be.
Enjoy the bike if you get the new one but it is hard not to like e-bikes but if you try to "save" too much at the beginning you can easily find yourself not loving the experience as much as you could.