Most buying advice for e-motos quotes one price for one part and leaves you guessing whether it was a bargain. This is the opposite. Every figure below is a listed price from the e-moto.bike catalogue, pulled on 21 August 2026 across 804 in-stock parts from 13 retailers. 770 of them carry a price; the tables below use the 447 listed in USD.
Read it as a map of the market, not a verdict on any single part. A median tells you where the middle of a category sits, and the gap between the cheapest and dearest tells you how much room there is to spend.
What each category costs
Median is the middle listing in that category, which is a fairer guide than an average when one or two parts cost twenty times the rest.
Accessories — 57 listings, $5 to $250, median $53
Brakes — 54 listings, $14 to $250, median $72
Handlebars — 48 listings, $10 to $165, median $43
Carbon and body panels — 40 listings, $20 to $389, median $100
Forks — 37 listings, $56 to $3,070, median $166
Motors — 34 listings, $85 to $1,250, median $283
Drivetrain — 32 listings, $4 to $269, median $40
Controllers — 32 listings, $17 to $1,200, median $49
Batteries — 30 listings, $90 to $620, median $279
Seats — 27 listings, $17 to $369, median $50
Frame parts — 16 listings, $10 to $550, median $36
Rear wheels — 12 listings, up to $569, median $40
Rear suspension — 10 listings, $17 to $1,198, median $99
Chains — 8 listings, $28 to $100, median $97
Three things the numbers show
The spread inside a category is wider than the gap between categories. Forks run from $56 to $3,070 — a 55x range. Controllers run from $17 to $1,200. In both cases the category median sits near the bottom, which means most listings are ordinary replacement parts and a handful of race-grade items stretch the top end. If you are reading a single price to judge whether something is expensive, you are reading the wrong thing.
The cheap categories are cheap almost everywhere. Drivetrain has a $40 median and a $4 floor. Handlebars sit at $43. Frame parts at $36. These are the categories where the difference between the budget and the premium option is tens of dollars, not hundreds, so there is little reason to buy the very cheapest.
Two categories dominate any serious budget. Motors and controllers carry the highest realistic ceilings once you leave stock replacements behind. Everything else on a build can be absorbed; those two decide what it costs.
How to check any of this
Every number here is a listed price on a product page you can open. Browse the categories in the parts catalogue and the individual listings are there with the retailer link attached. Prices move, retailers change stock, and this snapshot is one day in August 2026 — treat it as a starting point for budgeting, then check the live listing before you buy.