Rad power bikes email. Something out of nothing

Rad Power Bikes Corporate Office

Mike Radenbaugh was just a teen in Garberville, California, when he began making motorized and electric bikes in the family garage.

It took Mike about 6-months of trial and error before he was able to create an electric bike, with speeds of up to 35MPH, that didn’t fry wires or burn out the battery in minutes. He called his creation Frankenbike.

Today, Radenbaugh is the CEO of the Seattle-based company Rad Power Bikes. In 2019, the company had reached 100 million in sales.

The company’s best-selling bike, Rad Runner, retails for slightly less than 450,200, has extra fat, wide tires to absorb shock, and can reach speeds of 20MPH, which means that no license, no plates, and no permits of any kind are required.

The battery pack is no larger than a loaf of bread. It takes about 6 hours to fully charge and it has a range of 20-30 miles.

Despite the booming business, the company was forced to lay off about 100 employees in April 2022.

Rad Power Bikes was also hit with a lawsuit after a 12-year-old girl died from head injuries after she was unable to stop her electric bike.

Rad Power Bikes maintains a corporate office in Seattle, Washington.Rad Power Bikes

Mike Radenbaugh was just a teen in Garberville, California, when he began making motorized and electric bikes in the family garage.

It took Mike about 6-months of trial and error before he was able to create an electric bike, with speeds of up to 35MPH, that didn’t fry wires or burn out the battery in minutes. He called his creation Frankenbike.

Today, Radenbaugh is the CEO of the Seattle-based company Rad Power Bikes. In 2019, the company had reached 100 million in sales.

History

The company’s best-selling bike, Rad Runner, retails for slightly less than 450,200, has extra fat, wide tires to absorb shock, and can reach speeds of 20MPH, which means that no license, no plates, and no permits of any kind are required.

The battery pack is no larger than a loaf of bread. It takes about 6 hours to fully charge and it has a range of 20-30 miles.

Despite the booming business, the company was forced to lay off about 100 employees in April 2022.

Rad Power Bikes was also hit with a lawsuit after a 12-year-old girl died from head injuries after she was unable to stop her electric bike.

Rad Power Bikes maintains a corporate office in Seattle, Washington.

Reader Interactions

Rad Power Bikes FAQs

Question 1: What is the phone number for Rad Power Bikes?Answer 1: The phone number for Rad Power Bikes is (800) 939-0310.

Question 2: Who is the CEO of Rad Power Bikes?Answer 2: The CEO of Rad Power Bikes is Mike Radenbaugh.

Question 3: Who founded Rad Power Bikes?Answer 3: Rad Power Bikes was founded by Mike Radenbaugh in 2015.

Primary Sidebar

Recent Complaints

• Denise Tucker on Hampton Inn Corporate Office
• West Family on Harkins Theatres Corporate Office
• Thomas Markievitz on 4 Wheel Parts Corporate Office
• Carol Ramirez Mateo on National Floors Direct Corporate Office
• American Patriot on Hilton Worldwide Corporate Office
• PK Agarwal on Samsung Corporate Office
• Tammy Robinson on 4Ocean Corporate Office
• Tammy Robinson on Chime Bank Corporate Office
• Greg Neary email c21gregneary @aol.com on Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Corporate Office
• Leo Sessa on 4Ocean Corporate Office

Rad power bikes email

Many of our guests rent from us to try before you buy. If you’ve decided to purchase your own Rad Power Bike, use this link to purchase. To purchase any Aventon model, please give us a call or send us an email. For recommendations on what bike would be the best fit for you, give us a call or send us an email.

If you buy with the link above, Rad Power Bikes will give us a small commission. As thanks to you, we can assemble your bike at a discount. The bike assembly is 150, plus 10 per accessory, if you add cargo racks, baskets, etc.​It’s not that hard, but we’ve built a few, so we know a thing or two. Just have your bike shipped to us, and let us know when it will be coming. This assembly discount only applies to orders purchased through our link. Otherwise, please call us if you want help with electric bike assembly or maintenance.

Location

Everything was top notch from the moment we met at the shop! Loved the bikes and the Hiawatha Trail! We will definitely be back! Thanks!- The Johnson Clan

It was very convenient to rent from Spokehouse and if you’ve never tried an e-bike on the Hiawatha Trail. we highly recommend it. We booked online and Stu and Nick were very quick to respond and remain in contact with us for super easy pick up/drop off in Wallace. Nick even helped us load and unload the bikes in our truck. We had many jealous onlookers wishing they’d had an e-bike to fly “up” the Hiawatha Trail. Everybody’s got to do it at least once.- Karri B.

The one on one service was great. The bikes are very well kept and never had a problem on the trail. I would highly recommend renting using them for your e-bike ride.​- Julie G.

Do NOT rent from Lookout. Rent from Nick! I tried unsuccessfully to convince my other 5 family member to rent from Nick and they rented from Lookout. Huge mistake. The brakes failed on one bike 5 miles in. The seat wouldn’t stay in place on another. And then, 16 miles into the ride, a tire blew on another. This made the day miserable and several hours longer then it should have been. I was the only one that rented from Spokehouse and I had a fabulous day. It was so gorgeous on the trail and so relaxing. Thank you Nick!​- Happy Customer

Word frequency and what it all means

I am currently reading (or, more accurately, utterly absorbed by) Italo Calvino’s if on a winter’s night a traveller. I have just got to the bit where the discussion turns to frequency of appearance of words in certain types or genres of books and what that all means. So, for fun, I decided to test this on the Beast, also known as, my MA thesis.

I found some software on the Internet that analyses word frequency. So I pasted in the Beast.

One of the best books ever

Here is a summary of some of the results (I have wielded out the most boring and predictable words, such as ‘a’, ‘the’ and ‘of’):

The twelfth most frequently occurring word is: ‘objects’ – 184 times (1.1165% of the text).

This is closely followed, at thirteen, by ‘things’ – 159 times (0.95% of the text).

Then there is a steam of boring words before we get to number 25 – ‘life’ which appears 88 times at 0.53% of the text, and at number 26 is ‘still’ at 85 times and 0.151% of the text. This of course begs the question why were there three lives without a still in a thesis about still life?

At number 28 we see the word ‘art’ with 74 appearances and 0.44% of the text. That is shockingly low.

After that, the most notable are ‘virtual’ at 64 occurrences, space at 59, ‘reality’, ‘idea’ and ‘one’ tie at 38 occurrences. I see that ‘power’ and ‘people’ both appear 29 times, and ‘exist’, ‘relationship’, and ‘self’ 28 times each. ‘Artist’ is there 23 times, yet ‘cyberspace’ 21 times. I ‘argued’ 14 times (that sounds about right for me) and only ‘explained’ once. Something must have been quite ‘baffling’ to me about things and still life art, but only just the once.

Some of the words in the thesis

And, very curiously, the word ‘spaceship’ appeared once too. I don’t remember discussing spaceships.

May You Live in Interesting Times – at least while in Venice

I have just returned home from a week in Venice and I didn’t expect to be quite so glad to be back on terra firma upon my return as I am. I expected to be in tears – the usual ‘post holiday blues’ that I always feel. I do feel some loss for being home, but I also feel relief and exhaustion. I haven’t yet cried, which is unusual.

When I left home early on Monday morning, still in the dark, I left with much anticipation for the art I was going to see at the Biennaile and much excitement for the companionship I was going to enjoy with the other art students on the trip. I didn’t expect to feel the full force of an angry sea determined to reach levels it hasn’t reached for fifty years in the city of leaning buildings, bridges and gondolas.

The Venice I expected last week

In brief, the day we arrived, we were warned that the tides were due to be high, which is seasonally as expected in mid-November. This warning meant little to me. I thought it might just mean a bit of a wet day.

After an enjoyable first night of pasta and wine, Day One was mostly wall-to-wall art at the Giardini Central Pavilion. It was neither sunny nor rainy that day. As evening fell on Day One, the mood changed from one of creativity and holiday to one of foreboding and fear. At around 5pm, just after we returned to the hostel, a storm hit Venice with some force: the tides gradually rising beyond expected levels and lightning flashing across the sky. We tried to venture out for food. We didn’t get very far. The sea was by this point moving from outdoors to indoors. We had no choice but to stay at our hostel – I felt fear. I didn’t like it.

The theme of the biennale is ‘May You Live In Interesting Times’. At that point as I walked through thunder, pelting icy cold rain and forceful raging winds I felt that I did indeed live in interesting times. There was something about that moment, as I walked counting the seconds until I was safely indoors, that felt momentous.

I felt huge relief on arriving back at the hostel, just ten minutes after leaving it. The hostel we were staying in is on the island of Giudecca, right on the edge of the water. However, the ground floor of the hostel is three steps above the pavement outside, which saved it from devastation. That night the sea lashed angrily at us, slowly rising wave by wave. It rose first above one step, then a second, then a third. The sea that was outdoors wanted to be indoors. It bashed angrily against the hostel breaking glass at some point in the night. The main doors swung rhythmically into the early hours with the wave formation with an eerie creek, creek, creek. I lay in bed listening to them, my heart beating.

The sea coming into the hotel

Upon waking in the morning, with no hot water as a minor inconvenience, I saw on my phone that Venice was in the news. It was experiencing the worst flooding for 50 years. I was flabbergasted. We were there in the thick of it.

We weren’t able to venture out as planned, at least for a few hours that morning. When we did, just as the water levels subsided a little and the tide receded and the weather calmed, we were able to walk around the neighbourhood. Plans for art that day were abandoned.

On our wanderings, we came across lost shoes; floating books; hotel shampoos and conditioners, apparently washed away from somewhere nearby; broken toys; and random bits of vegetation. Being the artists that we were, we collected and photographed this incredible evidence of nature conquering man. I felt a pang of guilt for doing this: I was acting the voyeur taking advantage of other people’s distress.

Later that day, as the sun shone and the winds calmed, we watched the Venetians dealing with this disaster as we walked further and further around the city: cleaning out businesses; piling up sodden goods; rushing from place to place; rescuing chairs from canals. We saw a boat marooned down a long narrow street between tall Venetian buildings. We saw piles and piles of abandoned cheap tourist galoshes. And we felt a stoic acceptance, bordering on sadness.

After returning back to the UK, yesterday I saw a comment on along the lines of ‘Venice floods were not caused by climate change, it has happened before’. I felt deeply upset by this. ‘Venice is sinking and nobody tells you that’, the comment continued. ‘So it isn’t caused by climate change, it is just an event’.

The arrogance of the artist – myth or reality

A few weeks ago, I had a discussion with a fellow art student which at the time provoked my thoughts and still does today. We were mutually munching on our home-made lunchtime sandwiches when the topic arose. It was about whether artists are naturally arrogant creatures. She put forward the proposition that they are. My initial reaction was opposition. How could she suggest such a preposterous notion? Arrogance is a negative personality trait, and we artists are all wonderful, delicate creatures, are we not? That is what I initially said to her. She smiled wryly in response. She didn’t need to speak.

Surprised, I stopped to think about my reaction, and hers. Then it occurred to me, wasn’t my reaction itself a manifestation of my arrogance? Is it not arrogant to assume that the category ‘artists’ naturally overlaps the category ‘special’ or ‘delicate’, or, even ‘wonderful’?

Point made, I thought. Very clever. I saw the light in what she was saying. Perhaps we artists are by nature arrogant. ‘We’ as a group see ourselves as separate, blessed, special, and, tortured. Indeed, that is true. We may be tortured to a large degree. There could be a disproportionate number of people who self-describe themselves as ‘creative’ who also have mental health issues that might come under the umbrella of ‘tortured’, but there are also a lot of people who might not self-describe themselves as creative who feel similarly ‘sensitive’ to the world and ‘tortured’ as a result (and that is a lot of inverted commas, for which I apologise, it is because I am ‘special’ that I like to use them).

As we discussed this idea, and munched further, I reflected on my own sense of self to try to spot signs of arrogance. I accept that I may be somewhat arrogant but I would like to think I am also willing to reflect and if necessary take myself down a peg or two.

Looking at my childhood, I was indeed often labelled as ‘special’ because I could draw well. At primary school I was given my first ever exhibition. I remember feeling such joy at this and loving the reactions of other children to my first ever retrospective: ‘a year or so of primary school art by esteemed artist of Stafford, Rebecca Collins’. I was also frequently chosen to paint scenery for plays (me and another child, Roland, who could also ‘draw’ well). I happily rose into this elevated position alongside him of someone who could draw well. There was no rivalry between us: he was a natural cartoonist, I was a natural realist. At break times, I drew pictures for my friends: horses, cartoon dogs, flowers, portraits, Disney characters, more horses and yet more horses (incidentally, I hated drawing horses but if it won me friends I was prepared to suffer).

Today, I’m more likely to draw horse poo than horses.

By the time I reached senior school I wore the badge of ‘joint best artist in the year’ with pride. Being plunged into a much larger pool of potential creative ‘special’ people though was an education in itself. There were people in my new expanded cohort who could draw equally as well, and, shock horror, better than me. Yet, we accepted each other’s friendly competition and we all saw ourselves as a group of ‘special’ people. We rolled around in the adoration of our skill like terriers in cow pats. We wanted to wear that scent.

Indeed, I still do need that smell. I cannot lie, I love it when people admire my artistic prowess. I still get that glow of pride and that feeling of slight elevation of myself as a member of humanity when someone says ‘wow, that is good’. However, this is all very superficial and I know that now as an adult. Being able to draw a cat and make my effort look like a cat doesn’t make me special. It just means there is something I can do better than I can do other things. I might be able to draw but my skills in driving a car, mending a car, navigating myself around anywhere, keeping calm in a crisis, housework and trigonometry are lacking. If I were to be sent back to the times of cave men and women, I’d be dead within ten minutes, with a pencil in my hand.

‘Don’t worry about the sabre-toothed tiger coming to get us, we have an artist here who can draw him to death!’

I have a friend. Let’s call her Doris. Doris may or may not be her real name. She doesn’t regard herself as academically able. She left school as soon as she could with a scattering of GCSEs. Soon after, she started working for a popular fast-food restaurant and did quite well in that industry as far as I can tell. She was efficient and well-organized and a good manager of people. Thereafter she moved into another career as a carer of a certain demographic of people who need caring for. She excelled at that. She now is a grown-up, with more children than me. She is an excellent parent and really good at adulting. She never gets lost. She knows how to cope in a crisis. She and I are vastly different. I admire her. She is special in ways I am not. I often think I’d like to be more her, and less me. But, actually, I realise that I should accept that I am me. I do indeed have this creative tortured artist side of me, which she does not. She has a tortured side of her, which is where we meet. I could try to be more organized, calmer and better at finding the M6, but I will never be that person who can do those things without effort. I will never be her. She will never be me. And, so what? We are all special.

Lost in translation

I have a few friends who live in various locations around the world, and sometimes the nosy me likes to know what they are talking about on As I don’t have time to brush up on my Japanese, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian or Spanish (to name but a few) I can just click a very useful link that reads ‘translate’.

However, this translate function isn’t, I suspect, completely reliable (or if it is, I have some amazingly poetic friends). I have been collecting examples of translated text from. and I think are quite beautiful in their own right.

• We have one like dessuton sparkle with chips so it lets in just our cat, almost. Another thing is if the old man wants to start installing and sow in the door to get one of those in place.
• The generations in deep studies before the moon eclipse.
• Ha ha I just need to buy a hula hop.
• The difference is not a mistake, but the difference is the difference. It is a relationship to respect each other.
• Bad timing, I’m sticking down next weekend.
• If you put your sleeves on the baggy garden clothes, it’s like not my usual daughter. Oh, I think it’s so big, but I’m so young.
• Do you know what they call a useless cat in our village? Answer; winter model. The tail never gets between the door and you get the door fast when it’s cold and the cat is going in or out.
• I had a ukulele guitar (who didn’t know) and I was able to play it properly. When I get sunglasses and my hair is short, I’m scared.
• At least you get to be some kind of porter and see what they brought. Not just once I stepped on a dead mouse on the floor when we had a flap and never forgot when someone dragged a whole head in.
• Long time no see shrine. F ried chicken festival in one hand.

I will keep collecting. That last one is my favourite so far – pure brilliance.

This cat lives in cyberspace

Is this art? I think so. I’m fascinated by internet boobies (in the error sense), I’ve written about two-legged google map cats here before, so why not include text about two-legged google map cats?

After living here for two years I have amassed a few friends from these lands.

This is a horrible horrible company

This is a horrible horrible company. They lie on their website and then once you give them your credit card information they refuse to speak to you. Their phone line doesn’t work and they do not respond to emails. Even after contacting my credit card company, they continuously harassed me by sending items that were part of a canceled order that were essentially small pieces of a bike that they had already refunded. The anxiety and stress that this company brought into my life is unbelievable. I have never had such a horrible experience and they do not care at all. The products they sent in my cancelled order were low quality crap that I did not want and will never use. I paid at my own expense to send it back. I am certain that anything you buy from this company will have issues and you will have no way to resolve it and you will never get to speak to a person. I am going to write reviews everywhere I can to try to warn others never never buy anything from this horrible company.

Date of experience : July 18, 2023

Customer service is horrible.

I bought a Rad Rover6 plus with 2 racks etc. 3000.00 on line from Vancouver in early spring of 2022 and put 337km on it. Took it out this spring and went to charge the battery but not charging so I sent probably 12 or so e-mails with requested video’s and photo’s. 6 weeks later they tell me my battery needs to be replaced ,warranty is over and they offered 160 off a 700.00 plus tax battery. Like I’m giving them another penny, was just waiting for them to tell me their not paying so I can open the battery and check it myself. Found a burnt fuse replaced it and works fine now. Took me 25 minutes to repair it ,how many people get ripped off because of a 10 amp auto fuse.They don’t all have a fuse so I’m lucky. Very stressful waiting for a response for so long and not getting anywhere!Never again spend money like that on line unless there’s a store I can go to for service.

Date of experience : June 06, 2023

I would put a zero if I could

I would put a zero if I could. Horrible customer service. Bike started moving on it’s own with no throttle or pedal assist. wrote e-mails to service center for two weeks without a reply. then got on line. they only work 6 hours a day from 9 am PST to 3PM PST. They make you check every connection to see if damage, You tell them no damage and they never reply again. I swear they have only 2 service reps for the whole USA. They don’t have the parts needed to repair it and I waisted two weeks to only go to one of their designated repair shops. Be careful.

Date of experience : July 11, 2023

In the spotlight Downtown Berkeley

City hopes new wayfaring kiosks will help tourists, locals navigate business districts

Standing about 6-feet high, the kiosks feature giant touch screens with information on public transit, restaurants and shops, cultural happenings, events, and more. In an emergency, users can be connected to 911 at the touch of a button. Credit: Kieron Slaughter

If you’ve ever walked down a city street and forgotten the name of a restaurant a friend had recommended, wanted to alert a city agency to a minor emergency or tried to find out when the next BART train departs, the city’s new kiosks will be able to help.

The first of its kind in the state, the so-called Interactive Kiosk Experience was unveiled at Center and Oxford Streets, across from BAMPFA, on Dec. 13. City officials, representatives from the city’s economic development and tourism offices and leaders of IKE Smart City, the kiosk’s creator, attended the unveiling.

Seven more kiosks are expected to go online in Downtown Berkeley during the first weeks of January, along with one in front of the newly completed Residence Inn. In all, a total of 31 kiosks will be installed, in business districts in the Telegraph Avenue area, in the Lorin District and in South Berkeley. The kiosks are being installed with no cost to the city or its constituents.

Standing about 6-feet high and 3-feet wide, the kiosks feature giant touch screens with information on public transit, restaurants and shops, cultural happenings, events, social services and civic resources, job listings and real-time notifications on severe weather, AMBER alerts and active shooter events. In an emergency, users can be connected to 911 at the touch of a button.

Each kiosk serves as a free Wi-Fi hotspot and is geo-located, displaying informational listings based on what’s in immediate proximity to the kiosk. The kiosks are also multilingual and fully ADA compliant.

“As our commercial districts rebound from the pandemic, IKE Smart City kiosks will provide wayfinding and public information, and make our city and businesses more accessible to residents and businesses alike,” Mayor Jesse Arreguín said at the unveiling.

IKE Smart City is a pioneer in creating Smart technology that improves life in cities. Its kiosks have been installed in 10 other locations, including Miami, Denver and Columbus, Ohio. IKE Smart City and the City of Berkeley entered a 15-year franchise agreement that will allow both to share advertising revenues generated by the kiosks.

IN BRIEF

Biz Buzz

• Wells Fargo’s West Berkeley branch at 1095 University Ave. (at San Pablo) closed in December due to “staffing constraints,” with no date set for reopening, according to a bank spokeswoman. The bank advised customers to use its branch locator on the website for info on the bank’s seven other Berkeley locations.

• Three cutting-edge Berkeley companies received Innovation Awards from the East Bay Economic Development Alliance on Oct. 14 during a virtual presentation. ARRIS Composites, which created a technology for mass producing composite materials that are lighter, stronger and more sustainable, won in the advanced manufacturing category. Girls Garage, a nonprofit design and building program and dedicated workspace for girls and gender-expansive youth ages 9 to 18, represented the education category. UPSIDE Foods, a maker of cultivated meat, got top honors in the food category. Winners were selected from a pool of more than 200 nominees, which was then whittled down to 20 finalists in 10 categories. The alliance also honored Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with a Legacy award for its decades of scientific research, breakthroughs and dedication to solving “some of the most pressing and profound scientific problems facing mankind.”

• When it comes to saving the lives of dogs and cats, Berkeley Humane Society is not fussy about the types of donations it receives, which is why the animal shelter is now one of the first in the country to accept more than 60 types of cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. Executive director Jeffrey Zerwekh says donations are especially needed this year as expenses are up and revenue, well, is not. The donation process can be completed in less than three minutes on the humane society’s website.

Before you go… Can you help us make a difference?

The reporters and editors at Berkeleyside are dedicated to covering our city and providing you with the information you need to be an informed citizen. If you value what you get from Berkeleyside, please join us with a tax-deductible donation so we can continue doing the local reporting that matters to you.

Will you chip in to Berkeleyside today?