>>1977606>I'm looking for an an affordable ($400 - $500 max) Electric bike.~$500 barely gets you a new regular bike.
You should be looking on craigslist.
Second hand e-bikes can be had for that price. I would try to buy one which has problems as a bicycle (wheel buckled, brakes suck, gears suck), which can all be fixed/improved on, rather than that has e problems (battery doesn't last/dead or fucky electrics) so basically hasn't been ridden much and isn't that old. Otherwise you're just buying someone else's e-waste.
