[plantwallshoe]

Those are high performance mountain bikes with carbon fiber frames, top of the line components, carbon wheels. This is an aluminum city commuter and 4.5k is at the high end of that class of ebike.

[dgacmu]

My tern gsd (cargo e-bike) was in this range and it was totally worth it. Not sure I'd feel the same about a basic commuter bike though.

[plantwallshoe]

Terns are great bikes