City Electric Bike Reviews

All city electric bikes are rated on Tower's 100-point eBike scale.

Electric city bike shopping can be overwhelming. With so many different brands, styles, and attributes to compare, finding a nice city e-bike that perfectly matches your needs can be difficult.

Tower's eBike Repair Shop mechanics review ciity electric bikes on the following 100-point scale:

86 - 100 = City eBikes of Highest Distinction
71 - 85 = Outstanding City Electric Bikes
56 - 70 = Very Good Electric City Bikes
41 - 55 = Mediocre Electric City Bikes
0 - 40 = City eBikes Not Recommended

Electric city bikes are holistically assessed and given a single score called the "Tower eBike Score". This single point rating encompasses seven core electric bicycle attributes and capabilities. Learn more >>

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City Electric Bikes In Rank Order

City eBikes of Highest Distinction

Electric city bikes scoring between an 86 and 100 are designated as "City eBikes of Highest Distinction". With "good" eBikes rating in the 60 range, understand our structured scoring system sets a very high bar for this highest grouping. Very few city bikes qualify for this class.

Riese and Muller Homage | 96 *Specialty
Specialized Turbo Vado | 94 *Specialty
Serial 1 Rush Step Through | 90 *Specialty
Serial 1 Rush | 90 *Specialty

Outstanding City Electric Bikes

Electric city bikes scoring between 71 and 85 are awarded the Tower eBike status of "Outstanding City e-Bike". While this is the 2nd tier in our classification, these electric bikes are what most consumers and manufacturers consider very premium quality electric city bikes.

Priority Bicycles Current | 82 *Specialty
Juiced Bike CrossCurrent | 73

Very Good City Electric Bikes

City electric bikes scoring between 56 and 70 on Tower's 100-point eBike scale are considered "Very Good Electric City Bikes". Understand the eBike market has an extremely wide range in terms of quality so we use the full breadth of our 100-point scale to rate city eBikes effectively. For this reason, a score in the high 60s is still considered a very good ebike. This isn't like high school letter grading where a 60% is a low D. A 60 on our scale is still a very good quality city electric bike. If you get something in the rating range, you will still have a good city eBike but you are getting close to the distinction line of what separates quality electric bicycles from the rest.

Rad Power Bikes City 3 Step Through | 64
Serial 1 Mosh | 64 *Specialty
Rad Power Bikes City 4 | 57

Mediocre Electric City Bikes

City electric bikes scoring between 41 and 55 on Tower's 100-point electric bike rating scale and what we consider to be "Mediocre Electric City Bikes". While you might be able to pick these up for what seems like a good deal, usually with this classification of electric city bikes there are some major tradeoffs on the quality, performance, and durability front.

City eBikes Not Recommended

City eBikes scoring between 0 and 40 on Tower's 100-point electric bike rating scale are what we consider to be "City eBikes Not Recommended". Our rating system is a very structured rating system designed by eBike mechanics with decades of experience in the bike and eBike industry, so when in addition to getting a bike with a lot of questionable components and quality trade-offs, when you see a city electric bike in this classification group you can expect to have a lot more regular maintenance issues to deal with it.

Ancheer Electric Bike | 39
Rad Power Bikes Mission Step Through | 37
Rad Power Bikes Mission | 37
Hyper E-Ride City | 26