Ebike Oracle

Affiliate Disclosure

Amazon Associates statement

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. This is the disclosure required verbatim by the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program Operating Agreement and by the Amazon EU Associates Programme Operating Agreement. It is reproduced here word-for-word, as Amazon requires, and also appears in the footer of every page on this site. It applies to every link on this site that points to an amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, or any other regional Amazon storefront.

The disclosure also appears on every individual product page above the first Amazon link, in compliance with §5(a) of the Operating Agreement.

Federal Trade Commission disclosure

In addition to Amazon's requirements, this site complies with 16 CFR Part 255 (the FTC Endorsement Guides). Some of the links on this page are affiliate links — when you click one and go on to buy, Ebike Oracle may earn a small commission. The price you pay is identical — there is no markup, no surcharge, and no discount tied to using a non-affiliate link.

How affiliate links work on this site

Every affiliate link is routed through a /go/{slug} URL on our domain. That redirect:

  1. Logs an anonymous click record. Your IP address is hashed with a server-side secret (HMAC-SHA256) before storage — we cannot read the raw IP back from our database.
  2. Rewrites the destination URL with the correct affiliate tracking ID for the regional Amazon store you'll land on (ebikeoracle-20 for amazon.com, ebikeoracle-21 for amazon.co.uk, etc.). Tracking IDs are read from server environment variables and never appear in our source code.
  3. Sends you to the retailer's product page via a 302 redirect. The link in our HTML is tagged rel="sponsored noopener nofollow" so search engines and your browser both recognise it as a paid partnership link, not editorial endorsement.

We never use raw retailer URLs in editorial copy. Every revenue link goes through /go/.

Pricing and availability

Amazon prices on this site come from Amazon's own Creators API, not from scraping. Amazon's Operating Agreement only permits displaying Amazon pricing that is kept current through their official API, so that is the only source we use. Any Amazon price older than an hour is shown with a visible "as of" timestamp and a subject to change note, exactly as the agreement requires, and a price we have not been able to refresh for 24 hours is hidden entirely — you will see "Check price at Amazon" instead of a stale number.

Prices from a brand's own store are checked by a person, and dated. Where a bike is sold direct rather than through Amazon, the figure is one we read on the merchant's storefront on the date shown next to it. It carries the same subject to change note and expires after 30 days, at which point the page stops showing a number and sends you to the shop to see the current one. The only price that counts is the one the retailer shows you at checkout.

Availability ("In stock", "Out of stock") for Amazon listings is refreshed automatically every six hours. When a listing is delisted or sold out, we stop offering the link rather than sending you to a dead page.

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Programs we participate in

This list is generated from the same registry that builds our affiliate links, so it cannot fall out of step with what the site actually does. Rates are set by the merchant, not by us.

  • Amazon
    Active

    Marketplace

    Commission
    1–4%
    Cookie
    24-hour cookie
    Ships to
    🇺🇸 US

    Amazon Associates US — 24-hour cookie. Amazon sets the commission by product category, not us: e-bikes are typically 3% (Sports & Fitness / Outdoor Recreation), and the categories we link to run 1–4.5%. Amazon OneLink auto-routes US links to amazon.co.uk for UK visitors on click.

  • Amazon UK
    Active

    Marketplace

    Commission
    1–4%
    Cookie
    24-hour cookie
    Ships to
    🇬🇧 GB

    Amazon Associates UK — 24-hour cookie. Amazon sets the commission by product category, not us.

  • Kingbull
    Active

    via Awin

    Commission
    up to 8%
    Cookie
    Not published by the merchant
    Ships to
    🇺🇸 US

    Kingbull — via the Awin affiliate network. Kingbull publishes a rate of up to 8% of the order value. We link to Kingbull directly because both Kingbull bikes we review were delisted from Amazon while Kingbull still sells them; the cookie window is set by Kingbull and not published on their programme page.

  • Vivi
    Active

    via Awin

    Commission
    15%
    Cookie
    30-day cookie
    Ships to
    🇺🇸 US

    Vivi — via the Awin affiliate network. Vivi pays 15% of the order value with a 30-day cookie window. We link to Vivi directly because the three Vivi bikes concerned were delisted from Amazon while Vivi still sells them; bikes still sold on Amazon keep their Amazon links.

This list is generated from the same configuration that builds our affiliate links, so it cannot drift out of step with what the site actually does — if a merchant is not listed above, no link on this site earns us anything from them. Programs we have applied to but not yet been approved into are marked Applied, and carry no monetized links until that changes.

Commission rates are set by the merchant and can change without notice; where a merchant publishes only a ceiling, we show it as "up to". Where a merchant does not publish its cookie window at all, we say so rather than guess — a number we cannot source has no business on a disclosure page.

Amazon OneLink

Some of our Amazon links pass through Amazon's OneLink service. OneLink automatically routes a US-store URL to your local Amazon store (amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.fr, amazon.it, amazon.es, amazon.nl, amazon.ca, amazon.com.au, amazon.com.mx, amazon.com.br, amazon.co.jp, amazon.in) when you click — so a UK reader who clicks an amazon.com link will land on amazon.co.uk with the same product. The affiliate credit is preserved in the destination market. There is no extra charge to you and no functional difference in the purchase flow.

How we choose what to recommend

Affiliate relationships do not change rankings, scoring, or which bikes we recommend. Editorial decisions are made before we know which programs apply to a given bike. Our methodology — payload, real-world range, motor feel, build quality, retailer support, and total cost of ownership — is documented in /methodology and applies uniformly. A bike with no affiliate program on it can still be our top pick in a category; it simply won't carry a click-through link, and that's fine.

We also do not accept payment for positive reviews, sponsored content placements, or accelerated review timelines. We don't run "Top 10 X" lists supplied by manufacturers. If a manufacturer ships us a bike for review, that fact is disclosed inline on the review and the bike is rated against the same criteria as bikes we paid for.

Image rights

Product images on this site are sourced from one of three places: (1) Amazon's content delivery network (m.media-amazon.com / images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com) when the image is associated with an active affiliate link to that product, in compliance with the Amazon Associates Operating Agreement; (2) manufacturer-supplied press kits where we have written permission to use the image; or (3) photographs we have taken ourselves of bikes in our possession. We do not lift product photography from competitor review sites.

What you can do

  • Treat any link with a /go/ prefix as a paid partnership link.
  • The footer disclosure on every page is the short version of this policy.
  • Email john@ebikeoracle.com with questions about a specific recommendation, partnership, or potential conflict.
  • 16 CFR Part 255 (the FTC Endorsement Guides) is the regulation behind the FTC half of this page; you can read the full rules on the FTC website.
  • The Amazon Associates Operating Agreement (Section 5, Identification as an Associate) is the regulation behind the Amazon half; you can read it from your Amazon Associates account.

Last updated: 2026-05-03.