The reason that people choose bicycles in the first place is because they are quieter, less expensive, and easier to maintain than cars. The drawbacks to bicycles, however, are solved when someone buys a kit to motorize their beach cruiser. This allows them to solve one of the major drawbacks of a standard bicycle: Self-propulsion. With a motorized bicycle, a person needn’t worry about exertion or pedaling in general. Mopeds and motorcycles offer this same benefit but at a much steeper price. For a paltry sum, anybody with the slighest mechanical inclination can turn their beach cruiser into an electric bicycle, while a motorcycle or moped costs far more and come with problems that can’t always be fixed by a common layperson. For that matter, motorcycles or mopeds are typically run on combustion engines requiring gasoline, which will prove more cost depletive in addition to harming the environment more and causing more noise. Thus, with a motorized beach cruiser, one enjoys the benefits of both worlds while avoiding the pitfalls that plague both.

Electric bicycles have actually been around in some form or another since the 1890′s, using mainly belt driven powering, and various incarnations have come and gone since that time. Motorized bicycles have been extremely common in the dense cities of other countries where a mixture of crowding and poverty leave many to have to choose this as their main form of transportation. It is only recently that the prices have gone down far enough with the power increasing that a kit can be sold for a fair price that will give an electric bike owner a far better experience than the cyclists in the 1890′s.