we've covered a handful of small electric vehicles on this channel so far
some have been pretty cool and somewhat practical others have been cool and
completely impractical and others have just been terrible but none of them are
nearly as practical as a common Garden variety bicycle and that's because
bicycles are fast efficient reliable
easy to repair and cheap that's why I've been riding bikes for over 20 years and
that's why I've been so anxious to try the rad wagon an electric cargo bike
from rad power bikes it's got most of the advantages that come from being a
bicycle but it's also got a 750 W
Motor Corsair boasts unrivaled comfort and Universal compatibility on its void
surround headset featuring a genuine Dolby 7.1 headphone USB adapter click
the link in the video description to learn more the radwagon has has a
21-speed gearing system wide allterrain tires no shocks mechanical disc brakes
an LCD display with lots of information and plastic fenders mud flaps and clear
wheel guards for the cargo area it's a longtail bike and it's heavy at 75 lb so
you won't be doing any tight Maneuvers there's a rear light powered by
doublea's but the front light runs off the main battery the beam is pretty
narrow and not super bright but it will always shine even if you run out of
power for the motor assembly of the radwagon is pretty easy if you have a
decent set of tools the ones in the Box are just okay and there's a YouTube
video to help you out just don't put the handlebars on backwards like I did and
you'll be fine and while you're at it please read the manuals among the other
very useful information you'll find safety warnings like the one about not
putting the seat post too high which I didn't read and accidentally bent part
of the frame and needed our neighbor Steve to help fix it again be sure to
read both manuals cover to cover or you
won't get the best experience I guarantee it at the heart of the
radwagon is a 7lb lithium ion battery
with a whopping 566 wat capacity it even has an onboard
5volt USB port so you could recharge an
iPhone about 70 times but this battery's
true purpose is to power the direct drive hub motor it's gearless brushless
very quiet and runs at 48 volts with a peak output of 750 wat the maximum
allowed by law in the United States that's a lot of torque and let me tell
you this thing kicks but only to a point
out of the box the radwagon has a factory set speed limit of 20 mph that's
as fast as you can legally go on an electric bike using a throttle only
before us law classifies your vehicle as a moped for which you would require a
license according to straa great app by the way I average about 12 mph on my
canondale road bike compare that to 18 mph average on the rad wagon 50% faster
that's respectable especially considering that the rad wagon wasn't
even Built For Speed it's a cargo bike
one that's capable of hauling a whopping 350 lb that's what this huge amount of
rack space is for there's enough room for four standard paer bike bags or two
of rad wagon's Ballard bags though I did not like the Ballard bags for several
reasons worst of which is the pathetic attachment mechanism that has me
fumbling with the clips like I'm in an infomercial fortunately you can use any
bike bag compatible with the rack's 3/4 in tubing and there's even more room on
the wooden deck and running boards you can carry groceries boxes Lumber and
even people as long as they weigh less than 120 lb but don't tell that to your
girlfriend so that's great but but just how much range can you get on a single
charge well that depends rad power bikes
says you can expect a range from anywhere between 20 and 40 mil depending
upon factors like speed weight terrain and how hard you're pedaling I've ridden
this bike for more than 200 miles over the past 2 months with a mix of long and
short trips but I've never gotten farther than 30 mil on a single charge
even on perfectly flat terrain to test the lower boundary I loaded up the
radwagon with 300 50 lb and biked around
on pedal assist mode 3 until the battery depleted I expected to go about 10 mil
but the bike didn't make 10 mil it made 20 and shockingly it didn't give up much
performance either easily reaching above 15 mph throughout my torture test and it
even handled a very steep downhill without losing stability at 30 mph you
can't do that on a boosted board this absolutely blew me away and so did the
results of my new real world test the office to Costco Benchmark where the
radwagon turned in the best performance of a non-gas powered vehicle losing to a
car by only 2 and 1/2 minutes and this
bike gets a lot of attention from people I get stares compliments and questions
about the radwagon all the time love that color man but it's not all good
news the rad wagon does have a few problems and odd quirks in addition to
the mechanical disc brakes the bike also has a regenerator breake which is
fantastic but it does not always engage
even though it is supposed to however I found that I can force it to engage by
twisting the throttle and then depressing the brake lever there's also
another USB port on the LCD display but
it doesn't always work I really like pedal assist mode for long Journeys but
it's not great for stop and go travel because it requires about a half to a
3/4 turn of the pedals before it kicks in and it takes almost a seconds to
disengage after you sto pedaling that's more of a delay than I would like out of
the box the rear derailer was not properly aligned and the disc brakes
also rubbed quite a bit also the back wheel went pretty far out of true during
my 350lb torture test I got the derailer
brakes and wheel fixed at my local bike shop where the mechanic told me that
every single spoke on the back wheel was loose so make sure you check for that
before you do any riding but when the radwagon was in the shop I
really missed having it around riding this ebike helped me remember why I love
biking in the first place and I went on much longer trips that I would otherwise
have done by car I forgot I even had a car and that's really what the radwagon
is all about it's a vehicle somewhere between a car and a bike and considering
that about half of all car trips are less than 5 miles owning a bike or an
ebike for those longer heavier trips makes a lot of sense now if you don't
know much about electric bikes it may surprise you to learn that at
$1,700 the redwagon is a value option at
this price with these features I could not find a better cargo ebike seriously
if you know of one leave it in the comments below but the main deciding
factor for a purchase like this should be one of practicality don't buy
something like this unless you know you're going to use it make sure that
biking is already a part of your life and then you can take it to the next
level with an ebike like the radwagon by the way if you don't want this much
cargo space they also have the rad Rover
and the rad mini the rad wagon is fun
fast practical versatile and it's a great value you could even call it rad
it's not perfect but honestly my biggest concern is that it might get stolen
great job rad power bikes for setting the bar so high I'll be riding this bike
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my other electric vehicle reviews The Fly cly smart ped which is well it was
super disappointing and terrible and um I'm glad that there are good electric
vehicles that exist um that's pretty
much it uh you can buy stuff on Amazon but not the radwagon you got to order it
directly from rad power bikes and uh see
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