Ask anyone who lives in a flat why they have not bought an electric motorcycle and you will not hear about range. You will hear about the socket. There is no socket in the street, no socket in the shared bike store, and no way to run a cable down from a third-floor window.
The Anthem's battery weighs what it weighs, but it comes out of the bike and rolls indoors on its own wheels. That one design decision makes the bike ownable by a group of people the rest of the industry has quietly written off.
Charging, solved twice
The second half of the answer is the charger. Most electric motorcycles at this price expect you to buy an external unit or to live with a slow trickle from a domestic socket. The Anthem has a 3.3 kW Level 2 charger built into the bike.
From a normal 110 V outlet, empty to 80% takes about 2.3 hours. From a Level 2 source — a home charger, or a public station with the optional J-plug adapter — the same fill takes 75 minutes. Ryvid puts the running cost at roughly $160 of electricity for 6,000 miles, evaluated in California.
4.3 kWh removable battery with its own wheels.
On-board 3.3 kW charger: 0–80% in 75 minutes on Level 2.
75+ mph top speed, up to 85 mph.
1.1 seconds from 0 to 30 mph — the number that matters at a junction.
Reverse mode for backing out of a sloped parking space.
Two features on this bike exist because somebody at Ryvid has actually parked a motorcycle in a city. The rolling battery is one. Reverse is the other.
The seat is not a gimmick
An electrically actuated seat height adjuster sounds like a press-release feature until you have watched a shorter rider turn down a motorcycle they liked because they could not flat-foot it. The Anthem moves between 31 and 34 inches at the push of a button.
That range covers most adult riders, and it means the same bike can be shared between two people of different heights without a workshop visit. It is a small mechanism doing a job that usually costs a seat swap and a suspension link.
Who it is for
City riders without a garage, and anyone who has struggled to find a motorcycle that fits. The Anthem's 57 combined miles are not a touring figure and Ryvid does not claim otherwise; on the urban cycle it quotes 75 miles, which is a week of short commutes.
Ryvid is a young company, and that is the real risk here rather than any specification. Ask about the dealer and the parts situation where you live before the bike arrives, not after.
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