I had a more expensive e mountian bike preordered for months , needed a bike to start riding with buddies, a buddy of mine told me I needed to check out the aventon currrnt adv. said was highly rated and much cheaper than other bikes, fount one at local motorcycle shop and tried it out seemed fine to me bought it. Several hundred miles on this bike and it is great ! I did change the seat to more comfortable one and replaced bars with higher ones, got help adjusting suspension and I’m keeping up with buddies on bikes that are a lot more expensive, so next thing that is awesome is the price of a extra battery! For 550.00 shipped etc.. I have an extra battery . When we would ride the first trip and came back to charge buddies bike had fast charger so he could charge back up in half time it would take me , although battery was only down to 60 % I needed full battery for 2nd ride and it would not charge quick enough without having fast charge ability, buying a extra battery was a game changer less than 5 min I swap batteries and I’m ready at 100% again ! This way as a novice riding with guys more experienced if I need to ride on turbo mode to keep up after 20 plus miles I can without worrying about battery . Plus now after first ride I’m waiting on him to charge his bike for a change ! Most other bike manufactures extra battery cost are double what aventon batteries cost! Love this bike I am getting great exercise and it’s a blast to ride trails with my buddies. My bike cost me 4200.00 out the door and I’m riding with guys on 10k to 15k bikes! The bike holds it own very good and I couldn’t be more satisfied. You can upgrade suspension later if you wanted to honestly most won’t need to. My cheaper bike is a very talked about bike in the group being I’m keeping up with them on very expensive bikes and they have been riding much longer I’m getting in better shape and not even sure if I’m getting the other bike thst is twice as expensive honestly! Absolutely love this bike!!!