So I'm back with another electric scooter review this is the ninebot kick
scooter es1 by Segway which you could say is the successor to the xiaomi M
365 that i reviewed about half a year ago. now why I say
successor is because no bot was involved with charmese model and now we
have this one here under the ninebot Segway branding so the ears one has a
maximum speed of 20 kilometers per hour the es2 model which is another one which
is almost identical to this one but it has a shock on the rear has a maximum
speed of 25 kilometers per hour and the range is 25 kilometers however if you
buy the extended battery pack which clips on to the handlebars that range
then extends up to a really big and huge 45 kilometers now that's under perfect
test track conditions will the light person know went I'll do some real-world
testing here in my review find out the range of the es1 that I have so the
differences from you could say the previous model Shelby's as they're now
got hard rubber wheels on them so no more inflated ear tires susceptible to
punctures to flats and then it's a real hassle to change those so they've done
away with that which is really good design move I feel and we also have no
disc brake on the rear it's now a manual brake so the braking probably is not
going to be as good there and it's a little lighter this one's a live in
kilos the ES 2 version is 12 kilos so it is well packaged up here and some
assembly is required you can see that the handlebars aren't in place so
installing your handlebars is easy all you need to do is just plug it in and
then using the four Torx screws that are supplied in the box and the tool screw
the handlebars in place so the front is where you will find the motor solid
rubber wheels we have this cover over here that goes across the shock there so
inside you'll find a spring there and a shock absorber that's going to help
absorb some of those little bumps and just make the right overall more
comfortable now Fork is made out of metal but this cover
over the top is plastic it's only there for aesthetic so you're not seeing the
wheel nuts and wires and all that sort of thing so the scooter has a really
clever latch mechanism here so all you need to do to open it fully it's just to
simply pull the handlebars up and you'll hear it will click into place telling
you it's secured there's also a warning here that if you stand on this while in
use well it's going to be catastrophic isn't it it's going to cause it to
collapse and you'll come off the scooter on the left side there's a discrete
alloy kickstand the clearance you get under the scooters approximately seventy
three millimeters so it's not a lot so be careful when jumping down curbs well
on the base you'll find this nice grey anti-slip rubber so the ears one model
does not have an LED brake light on it the es2 model does which will be located
just in this part here and stayed on this one we get reflectors and the brake
of course is an old-fashioned style manual ones that you press down on this
part here which in turn creates friction on the wheel slowing you down
now the rear mudguard / brake also has the slot in here where the handle clips
in allowing you to lift up the scooter the charger uses a standard common
figure 8 plug and it's rated to 71 watts with a 42 watt output at 1.7 amps so the
build quality overall is excellent I can't really fault it but if I was to
change one thing with the design or the materials they've used at least that's
the handgrips instead of having that foam I would have gone with rubber I
think that will last a lot longer I actually swapped out the ones on my
show me scooter because they weren't really that good so the controls of the
scooter is quite easy so here we have the accelerator then we have the brake
for the front wheel and turning it on just hold down the button and you can
see right now it's what's in the limited mode they call its own OS logo is
showing here and that limits it to what speed you sit in the application so that
would be at the moment it's 15 km/h so it's ideal for
a 14-year old you don't want accelerating accelerating too fast and
you don't want them to come off at 20 km/h if they were to come off and it
wouldn't hurt as much at 15 now double-tapping
this gets you into what's called the standard mode so normal acceleration 20
km/h maximum double tapping again the logo goes red and this is sports mode
which will accelerate slightly quicker than the standard mode but you're still
limited to that 20 km/h max unfortunately now you'll see that the
readout here shows you your speed battery percent so each of these bars is
25% battery and it's in km/h at the moment but using the app you can change
it over to miles per hour so with the ninebot app that's available in google
play store in your Apple store you can connect up to it you can view your
remaining mileage and the battery life you can also change the energy recovery
mode which is basically sitting the amount it's going to DXL rate using a
bit of braking on the motor there to help recharge the battery level now I
keep it on the weak mode I find that's the best cuz I like to be out I just
roll down hills and not have it having that resistance they're slowing you down
a little bit you can also name the vehicle set a password there for
Bluetooth you can view other information like your mileage that the scooter has
done the temperature of the mainframe they're 23 degrees at the moment and
also enable what's called the cruise mode so if you hold down the accelerator
for more than five seconds it will lock in that speed until you break or tap the
accelerate again so it's great just to hold it down let it be and then you can
just cruise along at that constant speed you set without having to hold your
finger down on the accelerator the whole time so once powered on and I'll get up
when you do is just kick off get up to 3 kilometers and then you can accelerate
now the acceleration isn't super quick or anything like that but it's
sufficient this is just in the normal mode you put into sport mode to be a
little quicker and you can see you read out there so maximum speed 21 20
kilometers per hour there's nothing amazing now it writes really well it's
quite agile and the braking most of the time I just use the front wheel brake I
don't really touch that manual brake on the rear so I hit there there's some
gravel I'm going to go over that on the scooter and you'll see how it handles it
pretty bumpy suspensions doing maybe a little not too much
so have a rocky path ahead of me right now this is unless Reuters and Enya nice
view but as you can see bumpy so let's see how it handles it scraping noises
the kickstand don't forget to pull that out of the way so you can see this is
quite a bumpy ride here so wet surface here going to do a form braking test
not too bad no skidding so it does have like an ABS Y electronic system there to
stop it from skidding or locking up so after some heavy riding and heavy
braking can see this little heat logos popped up there so that's just telling
me that it's getting warm domoto and if it gets too hot what will happen is
it'll probably end up slowing itself down a little that happens or so on
these show me me 365 so the official specs claim that you can only go up
gradients of about 10 degrees and my little test here was approximately 1520
degree climb up this little slope here and as you can see it made it about 75%
the way up and that last little quarter I just have to give it a few kicks to
get right at the top now we'll check out the kind of range I did with my very
extreme test here with very hard roads heavy going
I got eleven point two six kilometers well close to thirteen point two
according to the Segway app and it got up to 45 degrees the mainframe
temperature if I touch the front Harbert is really hot so the mileage is quite a
bit off from the claimed so the pros and cons of each I actually like the design
of the es one better the way it unfolds I feel is just an improvement overall
but you do get the faster speed on the Xiaomi scooter
you also get slightly better range probably about five kilometers more out
of a charge charge Titans on both of them are about the same - so the S 180s
- they fold down smaller than the me scooter the m 365 years you can see so
slightly smaller size and it also weighs about a kilo less one thing of course
the is one is missing is that rear disc brake so you've only got that manual
foot brake and it doesn't have the led on the rear the s2 model does the
handlebar height of them is identical in that regard but you do get a little bit
more foot space on the es one now and it's like by side drag race with my me
scooter the es one takes off about the same depending on the riders weight but
these show me will always slowly get ahead but only just to start with the
acceleration test there now this time around me on the me scooter it's
even quicker here because of our weight difference between the two writers of
about 10 kilos so once you're finished with the scooter all you need to do is
to simply press down with your foot on the quick-release
and you'll hear it click then you can fold the handlebars down and click them
into that rear mudguard brake and you're able to lift it up then
walk up stairs or into your house or wherever or put it in your car for
example it will fit in there normal sized car boot without too much of a
problem unless you have a super tiny micro car alright so just to recap here
overall I do like the scooter I love the design of it it just looks a lot more
modern now compared to my show me scooter with its air full tires now the
tires is probably one of the best things about this having the hard rubber is a
good move because on my show me I've already had two flats and that was
enough for me I've actually converted those air full tires and put solid
rubber ones on so you don't have that worry with this of course you're not
gonna get any punctures any flats or get stranded so the build really good I like
the mechanism they've got so you just press down on the the mudguard the brake
on the rear and then push it up you hear the click and it's clicked into place
and feels very sturdy and really good so the ride quality getting around town
it's quite agile and the acceleration isn't out of this world or anything like
that and sport mode slightly faster than when you have it on normal now the
maximum speed of 20 kilometers per hour I do notice that difference coming from
my show me the me 365 which has 25 kilometres per hour
but not as much as I thought but for those out there that want the maximum
speed you're probably gonna be disappointed with this model go for the
ES 2 model which also has a shock on the rear and it also has LED flash LED
lights on the sides and then underneath the other thing to note too that this
material that they put on the top on the ES 2 model I believe is black and not
this grey color as you can see the grey is attracting and showing all the dirt
on this I've only used this scooter now for a few days and look how dirty it is
already the other thing is when you brake using that rear brake which by the
way works particularly well it does the job I mean you can even lock up the rear
wheel if you want it to skid or do anything like that
do it comes off that every time you break and it all comes and lands along
the top here so that's going to get dirty so that's a minor complaint
another minor complaint with the design is the rubber plug that fits over there
DC in there for charging it's a little hard to get in there so so many times I
have to miss about will trying to get that plugged in properly there we go now
it's in sets alright the front shock I know it's doing something but honestly
I doesn't feel like it's doing that much it's prolly taking out some of the
shocks and vibrations a good move this well they have put a rubber grommet so
where the handlebar bolts on to the main part here with the battery is they've
got this rubber on there so that's absorbing some of those vibrations along
with the foam grips now another minor complaint is the ends here and if you
can see that they're kind of a little bit loose they should probably glue them
in place or I will probably glue that I might have to change the grips later on
in the future even though there are nice the foam ones because they dissolve
those vibrations I don't see them with standing the test of time I mean
something like one of those lock-on grips will pull you a little bit better
the ones you get for mountain bikes that's what I actually put on Michelle
me so other than that the range okay not as great as they claimed so 25
kilometers they say is what you can get out of this because that was in perfect
test conditions when they did that test so that would have probably been someone
that weighs 65 kilos I weigh 81 and they would have had no wind and a complete
smooth surface that's how they got 25 so expect less so you if you need to do
let's say 30 kilometer journey this is not going to do it now you can of course
get that extra battery that plugs in here you need to bolt it on to it and
that will extend your range up to 45 kilometers but again that's probably
only about I would say 30 kilometers or 35 with the extra battery but it's still
a really good range then when you had that the application is another contour
are you have to activate the scooter with their app and if you don't activate
it the speed of it is limited and it keeps beeping that's highly annoying I
don't know why segue need to do that so their apps not that great and it's
crashed on me a few times too but it's good that gives you that information we
can set the cruise control and there's a few other little tweaks there have a
look at the mileage of the school as well there so overall as a package I
feel this is a really nice scooter just bear in mind though if you need that 25
km/h faster speed and you want the flash LED lighting underneath and the shock on
the rear go for the ES 2 model otherwise this one to me seems a really good
choice and I'll be using this testing this out and I may have some follow-up
videos and also to compare some videos to other electric scooters that I'm
hoping to receive soon to that I will be reviewing on the channel so keep an eye
out for those and thank you so much for watching this review here you do have
any questions let me know down in the comments and I'll try and answer them
bye for now