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[quote=Anonymous]The people on this thread are being ridiculous, but this is also my #1 concern about an e-bike. I really want to get one with a seat for my kid -- we have a car but prefer not to drive it except when leaving the city, and most of the places we go are within a 3 mile radius of our home.

The main problem is that we live in an apartment building and I don't think we have a way to store it inside. It would either be locked up in front of the building or locked up on in the parking lot of the building, which is not that secure. Either way, seems like a huge risk for a bike that expensive. It's actually a problem for a regular bike as well, because if we put a child seat on my bike, it becomes very annoying to bring up and down our stairs and is harder to store in our apartment.

I wish someone would solve bike theft once and for all. There has to be some kind of anti-theft device that basically make bike theft impossible. Tracking chip combined with a thumbprint access, so the bike won't work without it? Something. I used to bike all the time pre-baby because I used bike share and it was great. But I can't do that with my kid and I'm struggling to find a solution that would work for our lifestyle (which is just more encumbered than it used to be, with more stuff and more logistics). A lot of people we know in the neighborhood have cargo bikes and it's the main way they get around, but they also have houses with garages or places to store the bikes safely at home. I wish our building had bike storage but it's too small and there's just nowhere to put it unless we convince the HOA to build a shed for it, and even then I don't know how secure it would be.[/quote]

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