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It could happen. I don't leave it parked outside very much - it stays in my garage at home and a lot of my uses for it are short, like dropping kids at school or taking kids to brief activity (this morning I'm talking 10yo to Kung Fu). I use a heavy chain lock with it -- I don't mind a little extra weight since the bike is already 85+ lbs.

I think of and treat this bike as my second car more than as a typical "bike".

(It's kind of funny that with the huge size of cars in the US these days, our car won't fit into the garage, so the e-bike gets to share it with a rack of computers. :-)



One could say its a car given the price, you could buy a decent used car for that price but it won't be as cheap to operate or environment friendly.




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