electric no e so if I catch any of you
calling this an electric bike this video is over and I'm going home this is the
electric it's going to take some getting used to XP light a bike that the company
electric says is the best pound-for-pound e-bike on the market
I'll be the judge of that electric at
the same time we want to thank them for sending this to us to check out because
we've been using it for a while to go back and forth between
our HQ and the new Labs but I haven't used it and I'm the real judge I have
reviewed an electric bike before just so you know back at NCIX it did the rav
power I forget what it was called rad wagon I think it was like a big old bike
and this is the opposite it's a little bike it can fold up into a very tiny
package they say it can fit under your desk I think it's a 26 inches at its on
the longest Dimension is that right 36 inches 36 inches in the longest
Dimension and we'll uh actually I want to do that right now can I fold it up
right now oh okay
all right you flip that thing over and
then should I take this key out I feel like I should this is the key for the
battery you can't operate it without this key without without this it's just
a regular bike and then we wouldn't be making this video it wouldn't be electric at all like a naughty boy
yeah okay ah and there's the battery inside okay
okay so there's like a there's a little spot for it to rest on there so that's
nice look at that okay and then this goes you can push
this in a bit more I almost pinch my fingers there always watch out for your
fingies that's safety tip number one I was I used to be a lifeguard you know do
you know that in here is the battery it is a 40 it's capable
of delivering 48 volts which is why they say that it's the best pound for pound
on the market that's their claim I don't really know much so
take that with a grain of salt it's 7.8 Amp hours which they say can equip this
bike with up to a 40 mile range if
you're using the weakest pedal assist
because you can go full on just electric or you can use up to five uh pedal
assist levels so you don't feel like you're being all
the way lazy and then I turn it
and it won't go any further oh there it is
oh so the process of taking the battery out
is actually yeah it's a bit more complicated than I thought uh you have
to uh turn the keys so that this little
bolt goes in and then you can take the battery out but you're not going to be
taking the battery out that often because there is a little charging port on the other side here so unless you
have an extra battery that you're swapping in instead of charging and
you're literally riding this thing all day uh you're probably not gonna have to
deal with this that often but it did take me a second to figure out
only my second e-bike review make sure that's in the video
but regardless regardless that's what
the battery looks like four to six hours charging time to get from zero to 100
just like Nicholas Cage
okay so having put that key in a few different times now I gotta say that's
kind of annoying that it's on the bottom that's like a bit of a process to like
get down there especially with this cord in the way I would really like if that
was on the top or somewhere else but I understand why they didn't do that
because it looks so much smoother this way very smooth and sleek and that's
what I'm primarily concerned about when I'm looking for a vehicle to transport
me from A to B apparently 46 Pounds
which I mean
that that feels about 46 to me seven
pounds of that is the battery so I guess if you wanted to convert it into a
normal not e-bike you could you could take the battery out and I
don't know why you would do that Jake Jake that's pretty easy to unfold it again I
gotta say just snap and it's a very satisfying snap I like when things are
satisfying so apparently this thing you know as I said packs a bit of a punch
it's got 48 volts 300 watts uh of power
and it can get up to 720 at Peak power I
don't exactly 100 you know understand what that means but I'll find out what
it means when I take it for a ride which I will do now after
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Circuit so hold the power button there on the
left thing you got a power button and then you got the plus and the minus
button over here as well to uh change your level of pedal assist that 40 mile
range you can hit with level one but that range goes down as you go up to
five at five you're basically just riding a motorbike and you should
probably feel bad about yourself a little bit if you do that I'm going to put it up to I'm just gonna start at one
and then I'm going to uh see how she goes we also got a speedometer here and
a energy bar I like how it says energy and not battery it makes me feel makes
me feel powerful okay let's do it
Let's Ride
whoa whoa
it's been a while I'm just gonna do a loop first I'm going to do a loop and
come back and then I'm going to go to the Labs I
got a lot of testing to do this feels like it's easy as riding a bike and what
happens if I just do this okay there's a throttle
can I go how fast can I go with the throttle
I'm still on pedal assist one I wonder
if going up whoa there we go going from three to
four is a big boost whoa here we go
whoa okay
did you see that felt a big boost between uh
pedal assist level three and four from one two and three I was pedaling
and didn't really feel a lot of acceleration then once you get to four it's like whoa here we go
and uh five is like you want to make sure you're on a straightaway
because unlike a normal bike
this one's electric so so if you pedal
it pedal assist five You're Gonna Go whether you want to or not hopefully you
want to I didn't actually look at my top speed but I'm gonna see apparently the
top speed is supposed to be 20 miles per hour we have it here in kilometers so
I'm going to have to convert that on the Fly I don't know if I can I did play
around with using the throttle there for a second but I'm not sure it didn't seem
like it was really it seemed like it was a smaller boost than when I was using
pedal assist at four and five levels so
I'm not sure whether the pedal assist also affects
your your throttle uh the the the torque
you get from that or the Boost so we'll have to see
well well well couple of camera guys out in the middle
of nowhere where they shouldn't be where's your mama camera guys
huh this is what the bullies in school did
to me and now I'm passing it on
apparently you can't exceed
32 kilometers an hour which is 20 miles
an hour but we'll see about that I'm pedaling and throttling all the way
32.7 33 33.34
oh I hit 34. take that take that electric I'll have you guys know
I hit 34 kilometers an hour
and I haven't went up a little bit but then God pulled me back well between my
previous experience with the rad wagon and uh this one
I think I like this one better although
you know as I said those are really the only two e-bikes that I've tried in the
market but I can't really think of something that really bugged me about
this other than the key placement although Andrew pointed out
you don't want the key to be here either because if you fall on that thing I mean
that's a medical situation for sure the throttle goes nice and
smooth but also kind of Punchy you know there's going to be a ramp up with any
of these devices but I liked how responsive that was again there is a
very distinct push between pedal assist level three and four once you hit four
there's a big boost and five is another big boost
so it's nice to know that like you know when you want the power it's there when
you don't you can also get some exercise as you can see here I'm panting
but that's also because I don't exercise this thing is 8.99 normally right now
it's on sale for 7.99 that's going to be
completely up to you and your situation and you know whether you can make one of
these make sense for your for your for your commute or your life uh in in other
ways oh one thing I forgot to mention is that the weight capacity for this thing is
275 pounds uh and you can get another
basket that can hold 55 pounds but I'm
guessing that you can't put 275 pounds of baskets on
also worth mentioning is the fact that this uh instrument panel on the top here
it was nice to have you know that that information there apparently there are
tons of different profiles and settings that you can tweak in there I didn't
really get into that but you can set profiles so that when you turn it on for
the first time it's already at the pedal assist level that you want and obviously
that kind of thing is nice when you are using this every day and you just want
to get on and ride which is exactly what I did
isn't that right Jake I'm truly a writer
of these Hills I also forgot to mention that it's got a
LED light in the front and uh rear tail lights so you can turn that on by
holding the plus button and
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