TONIMOTO uses affiliate links. Where we have a commercial relationship with a manufacturer or retailer, links to that seller are affiliate links, and we may earn a commission if you buy through one — at no additional cost to you. Commissions help us keep the site free and keep updating our specification data.
Which links earn us money right now
Exactly one, and we will name it: TENWAYS. We were accepted into their affiliate program in July 2026. If you click one of our TENWAYS links and buy a bike within 30 days, we receive a commission of up to 6% of the sale. The price you pay is identical either way.
Every other outbound link on this site earns us nothing. Links to Lectric, Ride1Up, Aventon and Vvolt go to those companies’ own product pages and carry no tracking of ours. We have applications pending with some of them; when one is approved, this page changes before the links do.
One distinction matters here. Our affiliate links are the “Check price” buttons, and nothing else. When we cite a manufacturer’s specification page as the source for a standover figure or a weight, that citation is a plain link with no tracking on it — including when it points at TENWAYS. A source you are meant to verify should not also be a link that pays us.
We are telling you this because “we may earn a commission” is technically true of almost any review site and tells you nothing useful. Which brand pays us is the part that could actually bias a recommendation, so that is the part we publish. Last checked: July 28, 2026.
How we mark links
- Outbound product links carry
rel="sponsored nofollow". - Product links route through
/go/addresses so we can update a destination without rewriting articles. - Articles containing product links carry a disclosure above the first link.
Our promise
Affiliate relationships never influence which bikes we recommend, how we rank them, or what we say about them. Our recommendations are driven by published specifications on four measurements: standover height, the manufacturer’s stated minimum rider height, weight, and brake type. Those four inputs are combined into a Fit Score with a published formula that you can recalculate yourself.
A bike that does not fit riders in our height range will not be recommended, whatever it pays. We also cover bikes that fail our criteria when they are widely recommended to short riders anyway, and we name brands that do not publish a standover figure at all.
You can check this rather than take our word for it. The highest Fit Score on this site belongs to the Lectric XP Lite, from a brand that pays us nothing. The best-scoring bike from TENWAYS — the one brand that does pay us — sits below it. TENWAYS also sells a model we tell short riders to avoid: the CGO600 Pro starts at a stated minimum rider height of 5′5″, the very top of our range, and it scores 4.6.
We do not physically test e-bikes and never claim to. See our review methodology for exactly what we do and do not do.
Questions
If you think a recommendation on this site is influenced by a commercial relationship, ask us: contact page.
