Finally I've got another mid-drive e-bike and a lot of you do like this style because you still
get the benefit of those gears there and they tend to be a little bit lighter but been quite
talky too so this bike is from a scoots it's called the poluno pro and it has a buffet M200
mid-drive motor this is 250 Watts so it's legal here in Europe maximum speeds 25 kilometers per
hour and it does deliver up to 65 newton meters of torque which is very good considering it's 250
Watts we've got nine speed with this the gears hydraulic disc brakes that are 160 millimeter
and the step through design means it's very comfortable to get on and off and this style
of bike having the 700c wheels or 28 inch size wheels is very comfortable with an upright riding
position and can get great distances two out of it because it's removable locked into place too
by the way battery here is 20 amp hours and it is a Samsung cell battery so using quality
cells there and it'll give us a range of up to 120 kilometers or around about 80 miles which
I'll be putting to the test in this review very few of the brands that I cover do this they use
a brand name of shock so the front shock here this is an easing it's the four go it's got 40
millimeters of travel you have adjustable preload it can be locked out completely and overall it's
a decent shock it doesn't make clanking noises there's no rattles the mud guards these are made
out of plastic they don't rattle either in fact there's no rattles coming from the bike at all
the front headlight is hard wired it does have a reflector below it you can see there now it's
not particularly bright it's certainly not the brightest I've reviewed it's okay the kind of
coverage it does give us so better than nothing for nighttime riding the rear tail light is the
same it's mostly a reflector the lower half of it and it's not hardwired there's a battery inside
it there's a little switch you need to flick and that turns on just this single little LED at the
back now don't get me wrong here it is better than nothing I just wish it was a little brighter and
it would also be nice if it was hardwired like the front headlight the bike rack is quite sturdy good
welds to it just like the frame of the bike and it's got a low capacity of 25 kilos the seat is
wide it's comfortable decent amount of sponge to it and there is a quick release Here for our seat
post now rider Heights it caters to this bike 160 centimeters up to 200 centimeters in height
the paluno pro uses hydraulic disc brakes they are 160 millimeters and a brand that I've not heard
of before cameras they do a decent job and braking performance is good you'll see this later on in my
braking test portion of this review the front hub and the rear are both using quick release which is
unusual with these bikes that I commonly review normally it's just the front if you're lucky
the ties are from kinder road tires the tread pattern as you can see directional and they
are very smooth and quiet on the road speaking of quiet the mid-drive buffang M200 motor is really
quiet so it's 250 Watts I barely hear it Justin climbs it now puts 65 newton meters of torque
the poluno Pro's kickstand is sturdy I've seen this model before it supports the weight of the
bike which is 27 kilos no problem whatsoever and a little hard to see but right here there is a speed
sensor so the mid Drive motor from buffang has a built-in torque sensor but we also have the speed
sensor here too so it uses both of those systems and the power delivery delivery is very smooth
our pedals are from a company called FP they have reflectors in them made out of alloy they're
decent enough they seem to be reasonably strong and I've got no issues with them
the bike does use a nine-speed setup so the lowest gear is very good for climbs and the
highest is quite good for a top speed of around about 32 to 31 kilometers per hour piddling now
it's from a company called L2 and it's the A5 this model we get the nine speeds now out of the box
my derailleur here was a little out of alignment so it took a little bit of tweaking to get those
gears to all align properly it's no fault of a skewed it's just how it was out of the box it must
have received a bit of damage to it because there is no protector as you can see for the derailleur
the battery comes were two sets of keys you only need to see one set and to remove it very easy
insert the key turn it and that battery which is 20 amp hours or 720 Watt hours just slots out like
so battery charge time is around seven to eight hours there is a little status LED gauge here so
pressing that you can see the remaining battery life if you are charging it in the office that's
rather handy you can at least tell whether you have it 50 charged or not and there are little
gaskets here over where the charging plug is and where the switch is on the battery itself
the bike does come with your standard bottle holder mounting point and most of the cabling
is internally routed which does make the bike's frame look a lot cleaner the frames designed the
Wows the paint finish are excellent and I see no weak points with this Frame they do have a
reinforcing with the stick through style frame it comes with lock grips which is great to see a lot
of Manufacturers do not do this at all installing lock grips and the levers for our brakes now they
do have a good feel to them being hydraulic so they just fit a lot better than those cable pull
ones that I am used to and I'll gear lever here the selector for the nine speeds no she's with it
the handlebar height can be adjusted on this bike you've only got just a little bit here
there's some rings that you can put on top here when you install that handlebar to bring it up
a little bit there is a little bell here because there's no buzzer included in the front headlight
which we typically see and then our controls for the buffang motor very straightforward so
power on we've got an up and down pedal assist levels there are five in total and you can cycle
through the screen to see your trip and odometer and also a button for the front headlight I like
the display here from buffang it is very clear as you can see your speed your trip odometer pedal
assist levels battery life all clearly and yes it is backlit so you can see this when riding at
night so what is our paluno Pro here like to ride I find it to be a very comfortable bike
and if your goal is to have a city bike you have an upright riding position very easy to
get on then really this is it step through frame means that getting on it is not a problem at all
and I do find the combination of that Buffet motor 250 Watts with the torque sensor and then
the speed sensor works really well very smooth power delivery and then there's tires from kinder
finally I've got tires that actually suit the conditions I'm riding which is on pavement on
the roads and not knobbly tires which I am normally covering with the fat world e-bike
so this is very smooth and the motor this buffang motor I don't even hear it nothing at all it's so
quiet such a good motor and it's got that 65 newton meters of torque too as well so riding
position upright and comfortable don't get a sore back on this at all plenty of room for my knees
it is a very smooth bike for cruising around like I am at the moment
now a little bit of rough ground that I'm writing over at the moment you can feel
that front fork certainly better than nothing and it gives us about 40 millimeters of travel
which isn't too bad and for this style of bike I think it's efficient it's fine
so the top speed of the bike is 25 kilometers per hour with the motor with its assistant
anything over those speeds it's all on your own Pedal Power so I can get it up
to comfortably when in the ninth gear about 31 32 kilometers per hour cruising along and
again I'm really surprised that not hearing anything out of this motor it is so quiet
and here I am at my climb test spot so if you haven't seen my other videos this is about 20
degrees this climb now I've got a pedal assist level five and I have it in the first gear and
it's very easy going so with the mid Drive motor 65 newton meters of torque 250 watts
36 volt system not a problem I still can't even hear that motor I really cannot okay now just a
tiny little bit with this climb so I'm able to go up gears here because really it's that effortless
and if I turn off the motor so I'll just put it in pedal assist level off into the first gear now
that's when you suddenly feel that oh actually this is a little bit more difficult now but I
could still climb up the steep climb in the first gear a lot easier than the fat World e-bikes
and now my emergency braking test so this is from 30 kilometers per
hour approximately from this weight post
all right it's made it to that column there that's not bad at all that puts it into a above average
braking category there out of the tests they do of these e-bikes so they're 160 millimeter hydraulic
disc brakes and they work pretty well they did need a bit of bedding in I'd say approximately
20 kilometers before I got the best braking performance that was probably just a burn off
a little bit of oil residue that was on the discs now the range of the paluno pro here is
nothing short of fantastic because it's got the 20 amp our battery not only that they're using
Samsung cells paired up with what is really a more efficient setup too a mid-drive with the
buffang motor and quite a bit of torque there I can get definitely near their claims so the claim
is about 120 kilometers or 80 miles and I can definitely get over a hundred with this do bear
in mind though if you do ride over 25 kilometers per hour you're not actually using the battery
at all you're on then you just own Pedal Power but the range because of these larger 28 inch
size wheels or 700c Wheels it was really great fantastic and these tires they roll really well
over the road too compared to the fat World tires which are normally they have really poor rolling
resistance these ones are fantastic so to sum it up if you're after this style of bike so it
upright steps through City bike mid drive with brand components I don't think you can go wrong
at all with this escute paluno Pro here they have done an excellent job so they've gone with brand
components which a lot of these brands do not do they decide to just go with a No Name front
shock no name breaks but everything here has a brand name to it which is good and as I mentioned
there Samsung battery sales a lot of the times we just see people using the Chinese generic
no brand sales and you really do want to go for either Samsung or LG sales because they really
are the best not into that you can factor in the safety side of things too with them you don't want
to have these sales catch on fire or anything like that which could be potentially dangerous
there so breaking performance very good climbing performance is excellent and overall it really
does get a thumbs up from me this bike it's a Well Done reserved one the paluno pro here a definite
step up from the original palunu that I reviewed and thank you so much for watching this video