aliexpress has all your bike needs, get a back rack and add a pannier bag. I can haul a lot of groceries with this combo. All bike locks can be broken with a cordless angle grinder, best protection is to know the area you’re locking your bike. If the area has few people around, it’s perfect opportunity for a bike thief.

Get a good bell

You’re moving quickly and quietly through neighborhood streets and paths (you should moderate your speed as necessary of course), and you don’t want to startle people by suddenly appearing behind them. That’s the kind of thing that will get ebikes banned in your local area, and plus it adds neighborhood charm when you use it.

Get a good helmet and a jacket. Those things go motorcycle speed and I am tired of seeing people raw dog pavement at motorcycle speed.

Congrats! That looks like a solid basic model for getting into them.

• With it being a cheap bike, my main concern would be vibrational stress on the frame and components. You’re going to want a multitool that fits every bolt on the bike. Tighten everything between rides.

• Cheap tyres have poor grip and are easy to puncture. You’ll get a lot of benefit on bad terrain by upgrading to Schwalbe tyres with a sealed inner tube. I use Schwalbe Marathon Plus on my commuter bike, Schwalbe Pick-up on my cargo bike. Inside I use a sealant called Slime.

• Pannier bags are your best option for cargo, but with that frame and size of battery you’ll want to keep it light with 2-4 bags of groceries. A milk box on the back would also work well and can be combined with side panniers.

• You can’t spend enough on your helmet. I also use a reinforced motorcycle jacket, reinforced crash gloves, and when it’s cold out I use heated gloves and a balaclava. At 32kmh you’re basically falling off a one floor building and ebikes feel deceptively slow. Even if you splurge, the cost of your safety gear will be less than the time/opportunity/financial cost of breaking any bone.

• Security comes from obscurity. Every lock can be broken and what you’re buying with a better one is the number of minutes it takes. I use a kryptonite ulock with a cable lock weaved through the frame as obnoxiously as possible. I always park near better bikes or ones that have worse locks, always in the most public place possible. The goal is to just make my bike the most inconvenient one they could steal for the risk.

• They sell cheap fire bags for batteries. I use this one (https://www.amazon.com/Zeee-Fireproof-Charging-Explosionproof-Capatity/dp/B0BPSDY844/) for charging safety and transporting them outside of the bike. If I parked outside overnight I’d bring the battery inside for safety and temperature regulation, covering the empty port so water doesn’t rust the mount.

I do wish I had gotten one earlier, it’s a lot of fun. A little too much fun. I worry this is going to unlock a yearning for a motorcycle

Whenever I think “wow a motorcycle/moped would be the more capable version of this”, I ask myself if I want to ride in traffic or not. The good thing about my ebike is the total freedom of movement over the most convenient and safest surface. It’s what allows me to ride almost every day of the year even if I’m just slowly crawling over ice. On a motorcycle I’m stuck paying for the privilege to use infrastructure I hate as the least safe thing on it.

Helmet

A proper full face one if you’re gonna go car speeds

I get my lights from aliexpress. You can get away with gloves and bottle cages from there too.

For some bags I’d maybe go with ones from an actual bike store as aliexpress can get a bit too cheap. I have some nice Ortlieb pannier bags but one thing I realised is depending on you needs you could get cheaper pannier bags that stay on the bike and put backpacks or shopping bags in them. It’s a cheaper option if you don’t want to go all out on bags.

The recommended combo for locks is a D lock AND a chain lock for your bike. Depends on your area and how safe it is. Kryptonite is the best brand, Arbus is the most universal. Buy the best you can afford here as a few hundred bucks in good locks can protect a couple of grand of bike.

Just looking at that listing, I don’t expect you need to bring your battery with you. It looks like the bike comes with a key that will be used to unlock the battery to remove it.

As far as lights go, I usually just get the cheapest rechargeable USB lights I can find so I don’t have to worry about taking them off my bike, because lights that aren’t attached to your frame will definitely get stolen.

For locks a big U-lock is basically all you need. Most bike thefts are unlocked bikes in backyards or garages. Locked bikes taken off the streets are rare, and usually via angle grinder, not the lock being picked. Since you don’t have a top tube and just have a big down tube, make sure you get a U-lock with a longer shackle.

Depending on where you live, it may be worth the investment to may it look really shitty to discourage thefts

Ebikes are too valuable to pass up stealing even if it has a good ulock

Any cheap options out there for a rear rack and saddle bags temu, or facebook marketplace

expecting rain, throw a plastic bag over the seat so you don’t get a wet ass. some lads will put scrap metal vent on their handle to shield their hands from cold wind while ridiing.

ebikes and escooters can create motobike like injuries, so if you are planning to go fast adopt more PPE.