E-bikes and e-scooters · Rad Power Bikes
Owners who are still riding it say the bike has kept working; right now, though, most of what they discuss is checking their battery labels against the recall notice.
The bike itself has kept running for owners who have had it for years, including one who has been charging on a charger borrowed from another Rad model since the original one failed early. This is the only supportive note in the accounts, and it sits inside the recall discussion rather than a theme of its own.
The battery recall is the one clear complaint: the CPSC notice tells owners to remove the battery and dispose of it as hazardous waste, and owners are struggling to tell whether their own pack is covered because the model numbers on their stickers do not match the ones listed.
Pick up to three. You get a page with just those, side by side, on the subjects owners raised.
Day to day, the accounts are not about riding. They are about reading the sticker on the battery, searching the code online, and comparing it against the recall listing. Owners with older bikes, including one from 2019, find their battery labels carry less information than the ones pictured by the CPSC, which leaves them unsure whether they are affected. Others notice partial overlaps in the model numbers and want reassurance that a shared substring does not mean a shared fault.
What owners have adjusted to is caution. One is considering charging the battery outdoors, well away from the house, until the picture is clearer. Another is unsure whether the notice covers only replacement packs or every battery the company shipped. The bike has become something to manage rather than simply use, and owners say the company's response has added to the worry rather than settled it.
On the mechanical side, the little that owners say is steady: a RadRunner 2 bought in 2019 is still in service, and one owner who lost the original charger early has run the bike for a long stretch on a charger from a second Rad bike without trouble. Nobody in these accounts describes the frame, motor, or drivetrain failing.
Beyond that, the long-term record here is thin. Every account we have centres on the battery recall, and none of them yet reports the outcome: whether a replacement arrived, whether a disposal went smoothly, or whether a battery actually failed. Until owners come back with those results, this page cannot say how the recall plays out in practice.
Nothing with a clear majority yet. Owners who raised these subjects were split, or too few to judge.
Nothing has a clear majority against it yet. Counted from the owners who raised each subject, not from everyone. A subject is judged once at least 4 owners raise it.
The same owner, asked again at each point. Fills in as owners answer.
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