FlyKly SmartPed Electric Scooter - Another Kickstarter Failure??
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,341 words · ~6 min read
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I'd call the smart ped a scooter but fly cly is calling it a kick assist ebike
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the perfect Urban getaway and the Most Wanted piece of Transportation Tech in
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any City the concept here is simple the smart ped will use its electric motor
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not to accelerate but to maintain whatever speed you kick it into up to 16
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mph and I must confess that it does sound and look pretty cool but is it
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cool and is it worth $1,000 no it's not
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processors check out the link in the video description to learn more you're a
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fly C smart pet wearing this yeah is it
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funny or not kin you are funny it's too late to
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change so originally lonus was going to review the Smart Pad but when we got it
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both tires were completely deflated which wouldn't have been a problem
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except that the front wheel has a shraer valve while the back wheel has a Presta
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Valve what and because the Smart Hub that powers the rear wheel is in the way
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there's so little space to insert a pump and it's nearly impossible to inflate
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this tire this was enough of an inconvenience that lonus never got
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around to fixing it and told me to figure it out and do the review sure so
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I picked up a press a valve conver and after trying about a dozen pumps I
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finally found one that was low profile enough to fit in here and inflate the
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tire right so now let's charge it up shall we except I don't see anywhere to
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insert the cable H and this thing didn't
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come with a manual turns out that the charge port is in the axle hidden
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underneath this bolt huh okay so now
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we're ready to go right we'll connect it with the fly cly app and nope the app
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doesn't connect at all people sure aren't happy about that more on this
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later well let's just try it without the app now the smart ped doesn't have a
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throttle so you have to push off the ground to get it going and it seems to
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take several pushes before it will engage the motor even pushing with all
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my might I've never been able to get the smart ped to move very fast despite
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being well under the weight limit and that's just on level ground but going
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downhill is also slow because of the
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regen generative break I wish I could just turn this feature off furthermore
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even the slightest uphill will slow it down significantly and if it gets any
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steeper the motor will shut off completely you can try helping it along
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by pushing with your leg but it's exhausting the best way to get up a hill
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with a smart ped is to get off and walk
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and sometimes especially if you're going fast the smart ped refuses to lock in
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any speed at all so you'll just slow down until you roll to a stop unless you
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kick off to get the motor going again you see because the smart ped doesn't
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have a throttle control the smart hub wheel has to guess how fast you want to
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go and it has to guess whether you've applied the brakes or not that's
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probably why it just gives up when you encounter a hill so much for all those
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fancy sensors and programming so wherever you're going you're going to be
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pretty sweaty by the time you get there and I'm no lightweight I ride a bike
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everywhere I have never owned a car in my life so when I say the Smart Pad is
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slow and exhausting I mean it to quantify this I decided to Benchmark the
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smart pet and compare it to all the other vehicles we have lying around the
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office so that's my bicycle my crappy Razor scooter the zboard electric
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skateboard lines reviewed here and of course the Lamborghini the course I
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chose for testing begins at the office goes down this long Flat Road then up a
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hill down a hill around this roundabout and back the same way to the office that
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has a total of 2.2 km wow at 10 minutes
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for the round trip the smart pet only beat the JD Razer scooter which by the
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way has no motor and only cost me five bucks at a garage sale to make this
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review I've been using the Smart Pad as my daily driver instead of my bike for
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all of my errands around town that's the whole point right cruising through the
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city or commuting to work but it's not clear to me if the smart ped is actually
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a vehicle or not it's way way too slow for the street but it's too fast for the
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sidewalk making it feel dangerous both ways wo wo wo wo wo wo wo hey what the
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also fly cly says you can take the smart ped on public transportation but it
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doesn't fit in a bike holder on the front of a bus and most of the bus
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drivers I talked to wouldn't even let me bring the smart ped onto the bus even
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when fold it up it's just too big this one doesn't even have a joint right here
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now it rains a lot in the Vancouver area and the smart pet appears to be
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resistant to rain which is great but this regular version doesn't have a back
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Fender and this means that the back of your pants will get absolutely soaked
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with water and mud even on short trips unless you mcgyver yourself a solution
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out of a milk jug like I did works pretty well actually by this point in
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the review I realized that I was supposed to be using the bit Ride app
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and not the fly cly app which I learned after finally my hands on the
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pathetically short manual I tried a couple of the different modes settling
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on turbo mode which seems to help with
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hill climbing a little bit but not much
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I'd like to make some recommendations for the Fly cight 2 or whatever but I
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don't know if there's any point because basically the whole thing is bad and the
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final conclusion about this product can pretty much be summed up with one final
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story from the two months I've been using it I completed an entire trip with
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the fly cly without realizing that a small piece of wire had broken off
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inside the power connector shorting it out the smarted motor wasn't even
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working and I couldn't tell the difference that combined with the
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rusting body and foldable stem that doesn't even lock in place sometimes
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makes it impossible for me to recommend the smart ped to anyone and from the
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looks of the angry feedback from Kickstarter backers both the ones that
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did receive products and those who didn't I'm not the only one disappointed
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in the Smart Pad well thanks for watching guys give us a like or a
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