Hi,

New member and just wanted to give some feedback on my new 2008 e-zip trails that came from Walmart on Monday.

I rode it to work today for the 3rd time. 8 miles each way with work being probably 300 or 400 feet downhill from where I live overall. I have found that coming to work I make it with plenty of juice to spare (I am about 195 lbs with my backback on). Today I consciously tried to 'work' as little as possible and rely on the motor when I encountered any significant pedal resistance at all. I still made it no problem.

Going home, with the extra hills I still make it but I can tell that the battery is starting to feel it when I get home. Still have life but instead of pulling me at 17 mph on the flats I get down to about 14 mph.

My only issue so far has been that my battery locks don't quite line up with the holes in the battery pack and I have not been able to 'lock' it in place so far. This causes an issue when I hit a bump of any significance, sometime the battery hops up and does not hop back down onto the connectors. I can usually remedy this by finding another bump in the road but a couple of times I had to stop and reseat the battery. I plan on filing the battery case hole when I get a chance to make it fit.