Chris here with another Fat wheeled e-bike this is from a brand that I've yet to cover until now
him away it is their Cruiser model and you can understand why they call it the cruiser because
it is a real cruising bike here with those nice spongy fat tires four inches wide 26 inch rims
and this bike is great for City commutes if you've got an A to B to get to and you don't
want a foldable bike and you have space to store a larger bike like this so we have with this bike
here mechanical disc brakes 180 millimeters Shimano seven speed setup for our drivetrain a
rear hub motor that is a powerful 750 watts so this particular model here a bit of a spoiler
handles climbs with ease which is great for a lot of people that do have steep climbs around
and that's why it is a real Cruiser of a bike here so the name just suits it perfectly battery
capacity very large 17.5 amp hours it is a a removable battery so you can easily replace it
you can charge it inside the house if you need to and it is lockable which is great now the
seat post drops right down because of the style of frame which is good so this bike will cater
to Shorter people as well if you want to check out the rider Heights that it can handle that
it can cater to check out their website for that information so all up it's probably one of the
better bikes that I've reviewed of this style so let's find out why I like this Cruiser model here
so much this bike uses Kinder brand they are the Juggernaut tires so they are four inches wide 26
inches and because they're so wide and they're soft they run a low PSI you can run about 10 to
15 psi they're very spongy they soak up a lot of the light bumps the Amway Cruiser does come with
these plastic mud guards and they don't rattle about and being plastic you don't have to worry
about them chipping any paint or rusting later on so there's plastic mud guards and the bike rack
right here are included and do come with the bike now the seat is nice and wide it is comfortable
there's a quick release for the height adjustment and you can drop it down quite low because of the
style of frame and speaking of the frame it does look excellent the quality of their workmanship
here the frame the welds and the paint job finish this matte black is excellent so we
do have the controller right here our battery pack is very large at 17.5 amp hours and my model here
has LG cells now some of the models they do sell might come with Samsung cells but they are using
at least brand components here with the battery there is a lock right here there is even a status
indicator built into this battery so pressing on the button you can see more or less how the
battery is faring there are four little LEDs there so each one represents 25 percent the front shock
is a no brand front shock I can't see any markings on it it's not too bad you can see from the oil
Mark here that the travel you get is approximately about three inches or so it's okay it does the
job it doesn't rattle and yes you can lock it out completely if you wanted to do so the cruiser does
come with a powerful dual LED headlamp here that does have some lenses in there to project that
light ahead it's bright enough to light the path up ahead of you safely and there is a LED in the
rear and a reflector with the tail light that is part of the rear bike rack for our drivetrain we
have 42 teeth at the front here and then shimano's Altus which is very entry level from Shimano but
at least it is Shimano gear changes are good I've had no issues with them whatsoever we've got seven
different gears and it is using a speed sensor which is located here in the crank so it's not a
torque sensor but the speed sensor I find seems to kick in straight away as soon as it detects that
you are peddling the front hub here does have a quick release so it is easy enough to remove that
front wheel if you needed to do so and no quick release on the rear hub which is pretty standard
so the motor here it's a 48 volt system and it's 7 150 watts the output from it so it's powerful and
very good in the climbs as you'll see later on in this review now the brand to break they went
with is tektro they are well known in fact I've got tektro brakes on my Trek rail 5 which is an
e-bike that's a lot more expensive than this and we do have a 180 millimeter discs so larger than
the 160 millimeter I typically see on these bikes and the tektro Aries the pads bite in well to the
discs and overall I've got really no complaints with the braking performance of this bike as
you'll see later too with my braking test the kickstand it holds the bike up well and supports
it's 34 kilo heavy weight and it doesn't rattle about the bike has not fallen over on me yet so
overall it's a good kickstand so this bike does not use lock grips unfortunately you can see they
spin around a little bit so I would be replacing these straight away with some lock grips here
it's a bit of controls for the bike power on light this eye button for info you can cycle through the
trip meter the odometer and a few other settings there we've got the pedal assist levels plus and
minus so it's five levels in total or zero just having it completely off like a normal bike and
right here we do have a bell that is incorporated into the brake lever if that was loud enough so
we have a Twist saw accelerator here now it's only up to six kilometers per hour so it's really just
used to get started and then you start to Pedal so it will not get you up to 25 kilometers per hour
just using this we've got our gear selector here so seven speeds as dimensioned you can easily go
up the gears here with your thumb and then just pull down on this to then change down the gears
this screen is very clear here you can see your pedal assist levels right up to five our speed
battery indicator so each one of those bars does represent their 20 so this five n total
and then we've got some information down here so that is my trip meter there odometer time
max speed and then the average speed can all be shown there so what is the himalay cruiser
like to ride well it's a very comfortable bike those fat Wheels do mean that it soaks up a lot
of the small little bumps you just don't really feel them I'm currently running only 12 PSI in
these tires here now you could go a little higher you could even drop it down a little lower and as
a result it does here soak up a lot of those little bumps and I think it's a good looking
bike now it comes with the mud guards the bike rack and of course the kickstand that's all part
of the package here you do get included now the riding position is relatively upright the
handlebars are nice and high and I do find it to be very comfortable so you can use the accelerator
here on the right side but it only goes up to six kilometers so it's basically just for pushing off
just to get yourself started really is all that accelerator is for but once you start to Pedal
the speed sensor it takes about three to four kilometers of movement before it will kick in
but it is very good the powerful motor 750 watts it's not that loud at all you barely actually
hear it and it will get you up to 25 kilometers per hour very easy now if you push really hard
trying to get a good top speed out of this I can get up to around 32 kilometers per hour
but it's difficult to go over that because of these fat wheels and the bike's weight
as for space you can see my knees are nowhere near the handlebars I've got
plenty of room it is a large frame size very spacious and pretty much
an upright riding position I do find it very comfortable
climb tears now so we're looking at about a 25 degree climb and a 750 watt motor with
the seven semino gears I got it in the lowest gear at the moment so I can start out using
the accelerator here but that's just as I mentioned just to get going really and
then as soon as they start piddling this is climbing up this and powering your head up
to 17 18 kilometers and probably even 19 yeah there we go not a problem at all I
can even go up some gears here it's got a huge amount of power to climb up this not
at a not a problem at all this is climbing a lot better and so many of the other e-bikes
I've reviewed which are normally limited to only 250 Watts boy do you notice that difference when
you've got 500 watts more of power it is just rocketing up this climb absolute ease and I'm
not going to work up a sweat at all I'm putting a little bit of effort in but hardly anything
now our brakes we've got 180 millimeter mechanical
disc brakes from a known Brand Tech trow so from this point I'm full on braking
good breaks it's easy to lock up the rear but excellent braking performance here now the brakes
did take approximately around 20 kilometers to bed them in so in the beginning they don't feel quite
as good as they will after around 20 30 kilometers of riding and braking but good brakes larger than
normal most bikes only go with 160 mechanical disc brakes so I'm glad they went with the larger 180
to improve the braking performance and a known brand like tektro of course we do have a shock
on the front and it's got a reasonable amount of travel I run about two and a half inches it's not
a lot and it is enough to help out with more bumpy roads like right now I'm on these pavers that are
very all over the place we're very up and down and it's helping just remove some of those bumps
there at the front shock but to be honest most of the work has been done by the forage wife
fat tires because they do soak up a lot of these bumps here helping to smooth out the ride even
though it's a hard tail it's not as rough the ride as you'd expect the front shock it hasn't
bottomed out on me it does seem to be reasonably good even though it is a no brand front shop
all right so what about our range now I get around about 15 kilometers for every battery
bar that I lose here on the screen so that means my range is around 75 kilometers which
is yes shorter than 96 kilometer claim but it's going to vary on your terrain Rider weight too
as well and how often you are pedaling over 25 kilometers per hour which it is limited to now
you can unlock that speed there's a video they have to search the Hemingway Cruiser and I think
it's unlocked speed it'll come up in YouTube and that's a guide on how to do that but I've left it
at the lot 25 kilometers which is of course the legal limit here in Europe so very powerful Mode
app it climbs great the frame the just the the geometry of it the welds the finish of the paint
job it's pretty much Flawless it's excellent I don't think it's actually a good looking bike
for this style it rides really well so very smooth comfortable upright riding position
a good handlebar height good handlebar width comfortable seat and yes the climbs as I
mentioned because of that performance it just Rockets up the climbs no problems the tech throw
breaks again another really good area here so they went for a a brand component not a no non-branded
break that you just don't know if it's any good or not they've got no name to them because they
simply have no brand name but no they're tektro and they're 180 millimeters so better braking
performance than normal than the 160 millimeter brakes that I often do see and indicated tires
as well another brand component LG battery very good my complaints about this bike are pretty
obvious one it's heavy it's large so you need a place to store it of course now the good thing is
you can take out the battery you can charge it in your house if you've got the bike locked up
somewhere say downstairs or wherever that is one good thing the other complaint is very minimal
easily fixed the grips on the handlebars they're not lock grips they should be they are that's
a bit disappointing and I would have preferred the brakes to be hydraulic but really how they
break their performance you're getting out of them it's it's not a con it already nice large
screen that you can clearly see so overall this is as you imagine now watching the review if you've
made it this far I think a very good e-bike if you're after this style this Cruiser style so
thank you so much for watching my review here of the himalay cruiser 26 inch Fat wheel e-bike