About a year ago I got a Rad Wagon electric bike.

About a year ago I got a Rad Wagon electric bike. This is the bell that came with the bike. I shook my head, but dared not make a big deal out of it. After all, bike nerds make fun of my electric bike enough. I need not hear the scorn of a bad bell as well.

Anyways, this week I’ve gotten three emails from Rad saying there was a major manufacturing defect with the tires and I should not ride the bike until this is fixed. They haven’t started manufacturing new tires and say it’s going to take 2 or 3 months to get me the new tires. (It’s going to take longer.) And so my fancy electric bike with a bad bell is on the sideline.

Lesson learned, if a company is willing to skimp on the bell quality then they’re damn sure willing to skimp on tire quality too.