A setup with a 220lbs rider on a stock "muscular bike" is still heavier and will stress bikes more than a setup with a 132lbs rider on an e-bike. Fact is most

A setup with a 220lbs rider on a stock "muscular bike" is still heavier and will stress bikes more than a setup with a 132lbs rider on an e-bike. Fact is most department store bikes comes with shitty brakes, or brakes not setup by professionals (lacking cable tension, shitty stock brake pads) but the very same happen when an high end bike is badly maintained by its owner. But this is a tangential problem. I rate Rad Power bikes as shitty department store quality bikes anyway. They are successful because they are cheap and people know they can easily bypass the set assistance limits. They are cheap because the brand spec them with the cheapest components available. It doesn't help that most bikes are delivered to the owner's door without being revised by professional and appart from googling how to change the assistance limit speed Rad Power owners are rarely knowledgeable enough in bikes to correct any setup issue.