Every niche of bike or ebike has a fairly clear mission statement right in its name. Mountain bikes go off-road. Gravel bikes go off-road, sort of, just on gentler paths. Cargo bikes carry cargo, and folding bikes fold. But the commuter bike, also known as the city city, also known as the urban bike? What does it do? A little bit of everything.

Don’t be fooled by the Velotric Summit 2’s chunkie-than-normal off-road tires. It’s a commuter bike through and through. I hauled light cargo on it, used it for errands around Brooklyn, and rode it plenty over some roads that, while not off-road, were certainly off. Seriously, that last blizzard up here really wrecked the roads. Not for a second did I mind that the Summit 2 wore such beefy tires.

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TL;DR – My Quick Verdict

The Velotric Summit 2 is a street bike at its core, just with chunkier tires that give it some capability to tackle gravel paths.…