Affiliate disclosure
Required by the FTC, and worth doing properly anyway: if money could influence what we write, you should be able to find out in one click from any page on the site. That's what the "Affiliate disclosure" link in the footer is for.
Current relationships
None. We have no affiliate relationship with any of the 7 brands in our database, have not applied to any program, and receive no money, free product, or early access from any of them.
| Brand | Relationship |
|---|---|
| Aventon | none |
| Heybike | none |
| Himiway | none |
| Lectric eBikes | none |
| Rad Power Bikes | none |
| Ride1Up | none |
| Velotric | none |
This table is built from our database at build time and lists every brand we track. It cannot say "none" for a brand that is paying us.
Where you'll see it
A disclosure buried on one page isn't a disclosure. So, in addition to this page being linked from the footer of every page on the site:
- Any page carrying a commission-earning link says so next to that link, before you click it.
- Any article or newsletter containing one says so at the top, not in a footnote.
- Social posts carrying one are marked as such in the post itself.
What a commission does and doesn't change
- It doesn't change the price you pay. A commission comes out of the retailer's margin, not your total.
- It doesn't change a spec table. Specs are read from manufacturer pages by a script that has no idea which brands pay us — the affiliate status lives in a different table and is never consulted during extraction. See how we verify.
- It doesn't change a data-doubt flag. If our reading of a bike's page is unreliable, that bike gets a warning banner whether or not the brand pays us.
- It doesn't change an owner report. We don't remove or bury reports because a brand asked.
- It doesn't buy a recommendation. Where we have an opinion, the reasoning is on the page, and you're free to find it unconvincing.
What we won't take
So that the boundary is on the record before anyone offers: no paid reviews, no sponsored spec entries, no payment to remove or soften a flag, and no arrangement that requires us to show a brand's product in a particular light. If a program's terms require any of that, we don't join it.
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