it looks stunning and 299 is very cheap, but after i read this
https://www.electricbike.com/pedego-trail-tracker/
i'm not so sure it delivers...clearly fat bike tires are NOT schwalbe big apples (apparently the drag can fry a 600w hub motor offroad)
I don't know much about much but it looked like a good deal to me. It has a 10 year warranty that covers everything on the bike except the tyres and tubes against manufacturing faults, but that's a bit vague to me but guess in general if something breaks and it's a manufacturing fault, they'll replace etc. How to prove it was their fault maybe another thing...that I hope I never get to!
That's a good article, he is of the opinion of having a rear hub motor and the battery on a rear rack was not such a good design. I think it has to be mid drive with bottle mount battery. I did see one guy in a video with his battery in a backpack, which looked like a pretty good idea, he was using the BBS-02 mid drive.
John, you're right, it's the same bike. I bought the one from Argos (Christmas present to myself) and went out with it the other night. I had to get off and walk up a hill with it and that's never happened and I went up that hill the first time, when I was 9. But that was a combination of spending the previous 4 days eating and drinking more than normal and sitting on a sofa and not riding at all. I also didn't check the gears properly (probably due to the drinking) and I couldn't get into the top highest gears and finally, I don't know if the tyres were inflated enough as I didn't have a pressure gauge on my pump so I left them as they were out of the box.
The climb was up a farmers track\road but down was a well used track and the end of the field. something I've gone down on different bikes/tyres (26"x2.10 biggest I think) and on this fat one it felt more like being on smooth ground. Normally I would be weaving, trying to avoid other peoples ruts, bumps etc. At the bottom of the track, the ground levels and always collects water. I've had two mountain bikes get stuck in that mud patch in recent years, one of which damaged the rear derailleur and a couple of spokes. On this, with the benefit of speed from the hill, I went straight over it. Going the other way was a different story.
Coming back the very muddy part was on the flat like me and the way I had to get to it meant starting at the edge of the mud, which meant I had no speed (mixed with the above reasons why I couldn't climb the hill) and couldn't get through it. So muddy shoes, then a walk up the muddy track.
I'm a long way away from sand, to to far from you but these bikes don't need sand or snow, wherever a bike would normally get stuck, the chances are, these won't. I went out on it tonight for a short ride and took it round some of the smaller roads that are pretty iced up and felt a lot safer, my guess is I took the corners a little faster but it's always going to be slower due to the drag of the tyres on the straights. I wouldn't normally think having some snow would be good, but I would like to see how it handles.
Anyho' I'm happy with it so far and will give it a good thrashing before too long
It's the climb more than anything that is hard work and this is why a mid drive motor makes the most sense to me. I don't think a throttle would be necessary for it but a powerful motor would be needed.
The question remains and I'll keep looking
