About Sledgeback

Sledgeback is an independent electric bike resource. We research every model the brands we cover actually sell, compare them on the specs that affect daily riding, and publish what we find — with prices and checks dated so you can judge how current it is. Where we hold a discount code, we list it and say when we last tested it.

What we cover

Right now we track 118 models across 15 brands, published as 10 buyer's guides and 9 head-to-head comparisons. We cover electric bikes and, increasingly, e-scooters and e-mobility, across the US, UK and EU — which is why some prices appear in dollars, pounds or euros depending on where the brand sells.

Who writes this

Sledgeback is edited by a named team. Every guide and every discount page is published under a real byline, and the people below are accountable for what's on it:

If something on this site is wrong, it's on us — and we want to hear about it.

What we don't do — and won't pretend to

This is the part most affiliate sites leave out, so we'll be blunt about it:

• We are not a testing lab. We don't own a warehouse of bikes and we don't claim to have personally ridden every model we write about. When we say a bike is comfortable or climbs well, that comes from published specifications, manufacturer data, owner feedback and the work of reviewers who do test in person — not from a ride we invented.
• We don't publish fake urgency. No countdown timers, no "only 2 left", no invented expiry dates on codes that don't have one.
• We don't pad rankings with bikes we can't stand behind just because they pay well.

If you want first-hand ride impressions, we'll happily point you to reviewers who do that — our value is in comparing the whole market carefully and keeping the numbers straight.

How we research and rank

We build each guide by comparing published specifications, owner feedback and long-term reliability reports across the models in a category, then weighting them for the things that actually change your day-to-day experience:

• Usable real-world range and battery capacity in watt-hours
• Motor type and output — and whether it suits the terrain the bike is sold for
• Brakes, frame, components and payload
• Warranty and how responsive the brand's support actually is
• Price-to-value, which is the tie-breaker when two bikes are close

Manufacturer range claims are best-case figures. We say so wherever we quote them, and we generally expect 50–70% of the claim in normal riding.

How we handle discount codes

Every code is entered at a real checkout before we publish it, and stamped with the date we last checked it. We re-check the full list on an ongoing basis — at least once a month — but codes die quietly and without notice, so we treat freshness as something we have to keep earning:

• Checked within the last 60 days, a code shows a green "Verified [month]" badge.
• Older than that, it automatically downgrades to a neutral "Last checked [month]" — and the page title stops advertising the current month too. We'd rather show you an honest older date than imply a check we haven't done.

Always confirm the discount actually lands in your cart before you pay. If a code has died, tell us and we'll pull or update it.

How we handle prices

Prices are the manufacturer's MSRP, read off the brand's own store and dated on each brand page. Brands discount heavily and often, so the price you see at checkout may be lower than the MSRP we list — we use MSRP precisely because sale prices go stale within days. Where we haven't yet checked a brand's prices against its store, the page says so plainly instead of presenting an estimate as fact.

Editorial independence

No brand pays for placement, a ranking, a score or a kinder verdict, and no brand gets to review a page before it goes live. We earn commission on some links, which funds the research — but the commission rate has never been an input into a ranking, and several bikes we rank highly earn us nothing at all. The full picture is on how we make money.

Corrections

We get things wrong sometimes — a spec changes, a model is discontinued, a price moves. If you spot an error, send it to us and we'll fix it and update the page's date. We'd rather be corrected than be confidently wrong, and we don't quietly edit away mistakes that changed a recommendation.

Get in touch

Questions, corrections, a dead code or a deal we've missed — contact us. Timothy Coleman reads everything.