I have used my Tern GSD ebike with my two kids under 6yo and it has been transformative to how we get around the suburbs of Portland. I have put on about 1800mi

I have used my Tern GSD ebike with my two kids under 6yo and it has been transformative to how we get around the suburbs of Portland. I have put on about 1800miles in a little under two years. We use it for visiting the park, grocery shopping, library, and getting to preschool. All that being said it can be challenging in a few ways: - Infrastructure: We partially chose our current suburb home due to the good bike infrastructure and will have to be even more hyper aware if we have to move again. The two important pieces to us are: trail systems that get you 80% of the way to most places without interacting with cars AND dedicated bike/ped under/over passes around major motordom infrastructure like freeways. Luckily our current home had both. - Maintenance: I think there is a market opportunity for ebike components that are WAY beefier than the current incumbent components. In particular the brake pads and brake systems are just not up for the job in any hilly terrain. And given the weight/size of a cargo ebike getting it to a shop via a car is annoying. So, I have learned to just bleed and replace pads myself but it is a tedious task that needs to be done about every 600miles under my use. - Price: The Tern GSD is pretty crazy expensive at ~$6k but was the only thing that checked the boxes of belt drive, integrated hub, and mid-drive assist for us. Also, to share with friends and interested folks the ways we get around I started sharing recordings of my routes and rides with an overlay map: https://github.com/philips/bike-cam-map-overlay https://github.com/philips/bike-cam-map-overlay