Same thing. Ah, oh I got pooped on by a bird.
Gross. What a terrible experience this has been. Hello, Short Circuiters. Today
we have the new kick scooter. These guys emailed us and
I said, "No, I don't want to unbox this thing cuz it looks like it's a kick
scooter that doesn't have a throttle." Well, it turns out it does have a
throttle. So, it won't be miserable like some of the other scooters I've tried.
And now I'm really stoked on it. Total range of What was it?
50 50 km range and I think 5 hours for a
full recharge, which does seem
a bit long. Wow, it smells like a new
something. So, you can get in here a little David. Make sure you
see all the stuff. What What do we got?
What do we got here? The recharger. Ah.
What else have we got? Okay, little
hex wrench or Allen key and I'm not sure what this is.
Is this for like inflating the tires? Some screws, charging information. The
use altitude is not more than 5,000 m.
I don't think that's going to be much of a problem. We're at sea level.
All right.
Making a mess. I don't know why.
Oh, yeah, it's just all one unit. Okay.
Oh, man. I'm not sure how I was supposed to take
that out, but this is a bit awkward. It's out now.
Uh a bell.
Yes, it does have a bell. Hey, this is like a safety thing. Hit
that bell. Subscribe
if you're not already. Oh, what is this? Okay, maximum load 100 kg. Do not put
one foot on the pedal or ground when riding. It's prohibited for several
people to ride at the same time or to take a child while riding. Why is it
called a kick scooter if you're not allowed to put your foot on the ground?
That doesn't make sense. So, how do you think this goes on? Bring this up.
Like that. And now, uh
You got to connect this bad boy. I I feel like it's the '90s and I'm supposed
to plug my mouse into this. Okay, there we go.
And ah.
And oh, this is probably what those bolts are for.
Here we go. Beautiful. Some assembly required, but it's really not so bad.
I've had to assemble entire e-bikes and it takes much longer than this. I prefer
e-bikes. It has got like a thread lock on it. Says there like a manual. People
joke about like, "Oh, let's throw out the instruction manual." But you you
really should read it. Okay, good enough for now. Check it out. It's got a tiny
tiny adorable kickstand. There's
regenerative braking. Very nice. Yeah, and of course there is a disc brake.
Is there one on the front? Oh, yeah, there is. The front is where most of your braking
power comes from, at least on a bike and probably on a scooter as well.
So, let's do the peel. Do the peel.
I'm sorry.
Oh, no. Oh, this is Oh, no. No. No. No. What is this? Is
this a compartment that opens up? We'll go outside real quick here and
I'll like go around the parking lot, but I'm going to ride around on this for a
week or two uh to really put it through the paces. Bring it to the gym, you know, show off
show off. Uh we still got some peels
right here. Peel. Peel. Oh, it's got a light on it. Did I
not even notice that? That's awesome. We've got a little cable management
thing as well. And let's turn this sucker on. Is there a key? Oh,
attention.
Right, there's an app. I don't like the
idea that I have to connect an app to make my scooter work, for example, and
I'm hoping that I don't have to. A bunch of writing that I can't read.
Um
There's a Oh my god.
I've wanted brake lights on my bike for so long. That is awesome.
It works with both brakes. That's so cool. Well, there's no manual, so I
don't know what I'm supposed to do other than
check the QR code, I guess. This is not
This is not the web page you are looking for. Uh I baked a different new. I guess
the app's not available yet.
Oh, maybe you do have to start kicking.
Oh, you're right. I think I can hear the disc brakes
rubbing a little bit. Um Get a close-up on that noise. Hang on.
Without a helmet, #don'ttrythisathome.
Woo. Well, here we go.
Hmm, I thought it went faster than this. Well,
I guess this is my life now.
Yeah, this is 15. Wait, it's supposed to go to 25.
Yeah. Don't tell me I have to use the app to
unlock the last 10 km/h.
And Jono has escaped with the scooter never to be seen again.
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really like this thing, but as I
suspected, it does require the app to
unlock top speed and that's like my number one gripe about it and the number
one reason why I personally wouldn't But everything else about it is amazing.
Uh the construction is really high quality. It's got all these safety
features like this light is always on and also, look,
I hit it twice and the headlight is actually quite bright and it actually
shows you where you're going. This hex wrench it comes with is a cheap piece of
crap. Don't use it. It stripped itself just on these four screws. I can't even
screw this one in all the way
anymore. I really actually like that you have to start going a little bit before
it the thumb stick will work as a throttle cuz otherwise I could just be
standing here and do this and woo, it's going to gallop away on me. That's also
a really great safety feature. Oh, oh, oh, here's check this out. We figured
out what this is about. Oh.
Tada. You can carry it upstairs and stuff. Isn't that great? Did you know
about that? There's a little bit of wear and tear on
the scooter from where I've been, I don't know, putting my feet on it. It's
just a cosmetic thing. I'm not so sure how
waterproof it is. Um they say don't ride
it in the rain and don't ride it in more than 2 cm of
water, which is reasonable, but it rains half the year
in Vancouver. And speaking of Vancouver,
um the laws in British Columbia say that
you cannot ride an electric scooter on the road or sidewalk. So, so So, where
can you ride it? Um by the way, any footage you see of me riding this on the
road is Photoshopped. Definitely, I did not do
that. It's not legal. Speaking of not legal, this thing, once you do finally
unlock it with the app, it can go 32 km/h. For you Americans,
that's 20 mph. That's really quite fast.
Any more than that is going to be dangerous cuz you don't have a seat, you
know, stabilizing you. You're supposed to keep both hands on the handlebars, so
you can't really signal. It feels stable. It feels centered. Like
I love everything about this except for
the app. And this is going to be the new
standard by which I judge all other electric scooters. Do you trust some
Chinese company you've never heard of with your data? Cuz it needs Bluetooth.
It needs your location and it needs a Wi-Fi connection to work. You can't even
like transfer ownership of this thing unless you have the app and you have to
disconnect from the app so that you can reconnect to another app. Replacement
parts and your warranty stuff, like all that info is in the app and I bet that
if you call in and say, "Oh, I'm having a tro some trouble with my scooter."
that they're going to require you to use the app to like get the diagnostic
information. I used a burner phone to connect to this thing cuz I just I don't
trust weird apps on my phone. By the way, the app requires you to watch a
safety video and uh travel for 2 km at a
low speed before it unlocks the full
speed. If you don't care, then sure, go
for it. But it makes me very uncomfortable and frankly, I'm not going
to review another scooter or electric vehicle that requires an app ever again
that. I I had some problem with like Bluetooth connectivity and then a bird
pooped on me. No network connection. Rice and chopsticks. No network
connection. Anything.
Oh, I got pooped on by a bird. Gross. What a terrible experience this
has been. There's no footage of the actual poop, but like why would you want to see that? It did happen. Hill
climbing. It's good. I could go up one of the bridges nearby at like 25 km an
hour. It It really doesn't struggle with it too much. It's got some torque to it.
You cannot see the screen in broad daylight. It's You just It's It's
dangerous to even try to look at it cuz you got to like like like cover it up
with your hand to be able to see. Check this out. When you turn it on it goes to
88 mph. Screen's not great. They say that the
maximum range is 50 km. I didn't manage to figure out how far I'd gone on a
single charge, but I think it's probably
pretty close to that. The faster you go the more you're going to burn through
the battery. I did not have battery range anxiety. Like if it runs out of
battery, it's not fun. You're not going to be going very fast and probably
you'll just end up walking with it. And then and then scootering down hills.
They say that this is like a last mile transportation thing anyway. I can
totally see this being really useful to take on the SkyTrain, but like you can't
bring it to the gym. I tried that and
guess what? There's no place to hook up
a bike lock. So you can't leave it outside. So you got to leave it inside
and then I couldn't get through the rotating doors.
What are you going to do with it when you get to where you're going? With like the Boosted Board it's small enough that
you can just carry it with you. This thing is is just a little bit too big. I
don't know how heavy it is. Well, I got to I got to weigh this. I forgot to weigh it. Oh, there's a there's a
locking feature. First off, I need to crap. It's not connected. No, I don't
want to do that. I swear No, there's supposed to be a little Bluetooth icon
here. There's supposed TO OH MY GOSH, IT WAS THERE UNDER NO
INTERNET ACCESS. Did you see that? It was invisible. Okay.
Uh all right. So the app is not finished yet. Anyway, you click the lock button
and now somebody tries to steal it.
It freaks out and and the the electric brake is engaged to
maximum. I can hardly move this thing. And the regen braking is great cuz it
like it keeps you safe on hills. This is
not even on Indiegogo yet. So
if you know anything about how crowdfunding can go, this will not
necessarily be the one that ends up being the final product. I don't know.
So just be careful with that. I think
the super early bird special is 500 bucks for this. Normal price is 700
bucks. I personally wouldn't buy it. I don't know. What's the conclusion, Jano?
Buyer beware. Don't ride like this. This is very irresponsible. All right, guys.
Thank you for watching. Subscribe to ShortCircuit. Leave a comment and check
out some of my older videos. I just did one on the Monogram Creative
Console, but for electric bikes, I don't know. I still ride the RadMini. But
we've got some more electric vehicle bikes coming up soon if they don't get
stuck in shipping cuz of COVID. So see you later.