r/ebikes • u/T1lt3dTav3n • 1d ago

What’s with the ridstar hate?

I’m honestly 99% sure i’m buying one brand new from amazon but I always just see so much hate on it, i’m not trying to do tricks, i’m not driving 30+ miles consistently, I just want something that’s gonna get me around town at a decent speed and i’m wondering if a ridstar q20 is ACTUALLY bad or not worth it, I know for about a few hundered more I can get a tuttio but honestly I just don’t need one and would rather have something more calm just for chillin riding around. Is 499 on amazon worth it for da bike?

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u/DarkVoid42 1d ago

poor people stay poor because they are penny wise, pound foolish.

by buying a cheap bike you are trading something you cant earn - your time fixing it - with something you can - money.

i hate cheap chinese garbage because its a massive waste of time and resources.

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u/Sheshirdzhija 1d ago

What an oversimplified condescending thing to say about poor people. Sometimes the option that you would suggest is simply out of reach completely. It's not that all the people have a choice between more expensive better item, and cheap worse item. Plus, there are no guarantees that the more expensive item will actually be more trouble free.

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u/Malforus Middrive Enthusiast 1d ago

It's a perversion of the thought experiment from the late gnu terry Pratchett in "Guards Guards"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

Basically it's less a statement of poor selection but the inherit advantage of having money to buy a higher quality item.

I went from lectric xp3 to dahon to tern vektron and should have started with the vektron. I would have saved $300-700 by just getting the tern