I'd call the smart ped a scooter but fly cly is calling it a kick assist ebike
the perfect Urban getaway and the Most Wanted piece of Transportation Tech in
any City the concept here is simple the smart ped will use its electric motor
not to accelerate but to maintain whatever speed you kick it into up to 16
mph and I must confess that it does sound and look pretty cool but is it
cool and is it worth $1,000 no it's not
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fly C smart pet wearing this yeah is it
funny or not kin you are funny it's too late to
change so originally lonus was going to review the Smart Pad but when we got it
both tires were completely deflated which wouldn't have been a problem
except that the front wheel has a shraer valve while the back wheel has a Presta
Valve what and because the Smart Hub that powers the rear wheel is in the way
there's so little space to insert a pump and it's nearly impossible to inflate
this tire this was enough of an inconvenience that lonus never got
around to fixing it and told me to figure it out and do the review sure so
I picked up a press a valve conver and after trying about a dozen pumps I
finally found one that was low profile enough to fit in here and inflate the
tire right so now let's charge it up shall we except I don't see anywhere to
insert the cable H and this thing didn't
come with a manual turns out that the charge port is in the axle hidden
underneath this bolt huh okay so now
we're ready to go right we'll connect it with the fly cly app and nope the app
doesn't connect at all people sure aren't happy about that more on this
later well let's just try it without the app now the smart ped doesn't have a
throttle so you have to push off the ground to get it going and it seems to
take several pushes before it will engage the motor even pushing with all
my might I've never been able to get the smart ped to move very fast despite
being well under the weight limit and that's just on level ground but going
downhill is also slow because of the
regen generative break I wish I could just turn this feature off furthermore
even the slightest uphill will slow it down significantly and if it gets any
steeper the motor will shut off completely you can try helping it along
by pushing with your leg but it's exhausting the best way to get up a hill
with a smart ped is to get off and walk
and sometimes especially if you're going fast the smart ped refuses to lock in
any speed at all so you'll just slow down until you roll to a stop unless you
kick off to get the motor going again you see because the smart ped doesn't
have a throttle control the smart hub wheel has to guess how fast you want to
go and it has to guess whether you've applied the brakes or not that's
probably why it just gives up when you encounter a hill so much for all those
fancy sensors and programming so wherever you're going you're going to be
pretty sweaty by the time you get there and I'm no lightweight I ride a bike
everywhere I have never owned a car in my life so when I say the Smart Pad is
slow and exhausting I mean it to quantify this I decided to Benchmark the
smart pet and compare it to all the other vehicles we have lying around the
office so that's my bicycle my crappy Razor scooter the zboard electric
skateboard lines reviewed here and of course the Lamborghini the course I
chose for testing begins at the office goes down this long Flat Road then up a
hill down a hill around this roundabout and back the same way to the office that
has a total of 2.2 km wow at 10 minutes
for the round trip the smart pet only beat the JD Razer scooter which by the
way has no motor and only cost me five bucks at a garage sale to make this
review I've been using the Smart Pad as my daily driver instead of my bike for
all of my errands around town that's the whole point right cruising through the
city or commuting to work but it's not clear to me if the smart ped is actually
a vehicle or not it's way way too slow for the street but it's too fast for the
sidewalk making it feel dangerous both ways wo wo wo wo wo wo wo hey what the
also fly cly says you can take the smart ped on public transportation but it
doesn't fit in a bike holder on the front of a bus and most of the bus
drivers I talked to wouldn't even let me bring the smart ped onto the bus even
when fold it up it's just too big this one doesn't even have a joint right here
now it rains a lot in the Vancouver area and the smart pet appears to be
resistant to rain which is great but this regular version doesn't have a back
Fender and this means that the back of your pants will get absolutely soaked
with water and mud even on short trips unless you mcgyver yourself a solution
out of a milk jug like I did works pretty well actually by this point in
the review I realized that I was supposed to be using the bit Ride app
and not the fly cly app which I learned after finally my hands on the
pathetically short manual I tried a couple of the different modes settling
on turbo mode which seems to help with
hill climbing a little bit but not much
I'd like to make some recommendations for the Fly cight 2 or whatever but I
don't know if there's any point because basically the whole thing is bad and the
final conclusion about this product can pretty much be summed up with one final
story from the two months I've been using it I completed an entire trip with
the fly cly without realizing that a small piece of wire had broken off
inside the power connector shorting it out the smarted motor wasn't even
working and I couldn't tell the difference that combined with the
rusting body and foldable stem that doesn't even lock in place sometimes
makes it impossible for me to recommend the smart ped to anyone and from the
looks of the angry feedback from Kickstarter backers both the ones that
did receive products and those who didn't I'm not the only one disappointed
in the Smart Pad well thanks for watching guys give us a like or a
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