what's happening everyone my name is alex and welcome back in today's video we're checking out
one of the latest electric bikes from hornbike the one that i have here today it's called the hf-01
this is a lightweight foldable electric bike that's mostly designed for in-town riding so
this is not exactly designed to take on long trips but around the town we have 20-inch wheels on the
front and on the back we also have a very unique design something that you don't typically see with
many bicycles these days and this one doesn't use a chain or a belt so this one is actually using
a drive shaft and according to the manufacturer this is maintenance free up to 50 000 kilometers
with your typical bike of course you kind of have to oil that chain clean that chain every so often
well this one is basically maintenance free you know that being said that let's start with a bit
of an unboxing just so i can show you what comes in the box all right so this bicycle comes in a
smaller than usual box most other e-bikes that i got to see in the past come in much bigger boxes
now inside the box you're gonna find the bike that's a bit disassembled i'm gonna say so you do
have to put a couple of things together you have to put the seat you have to put the rear wheel
the rear fender and so on so it's going to take you about 25 to 30 minutes by the time you get
this ready and on the road the bike itself isn't overly heavy so it weights just over 20 kilos and
of course you can fold it now the top speed for the assisted pedaling on this bicycle it's 25
kilometers an hour so the bike is not gonna assist you over 25 kilometers an hour now of course if
you pedal faster you can reach higher speeds than 25 kilometers an hour but the pedal assist that
we have only goes up to 25 kilometers an hour the motor it's located on the front wheel here this is
a bit unusual most other e-bikes that i got to try have the motor in on the rear wheel but this one
is in the front here and this is a 250 watt motor and according to manufacturer you can get up to 40
kilometers on one charge now let's talk about that range so 40 kilometers will probably happen if you
ride on a flat surface and the bike doesn't have to constantly assist you you're not riding the
bicycle at the maximum assistance level which is level five but we'll talk more about that later on
and you're not riding uphill that much so if you ride on flat surfaces maybe you can get close
to that 40 kilometers personally because i am a bit heavier i do ride the a lot up hills because
we have a lot of hills up here i was able to get about 25 kilometers on one charge this bike also
has a torque sensor and a gyroscope so as soon as you start pedaling as soon as you push on a pedal
a bit more the bike will sense that and it will assist you right away with a lot of other bicycles
that i got to try in the past you have to pedal to a certain speed for the bike to start um assisting
you well that's not the case with this one so the power delivery from this bike is better than most
other electric bikes that i got to try in the past so a very smooth power assistance i'm gonna say
on top of that the bike is also very quiet if you're riding on a flat surface of course so you
don't hear anything you don't hear the motor on the front it's a very very quiet bicycle as i said
earlier the bike's design is very unique so on the front and on the back here we don't have the
regular double forks that we usually see with most bicycles as you can see here on the front we have
a one-sided fork and on the back the back wheel is basically held in place by the drive shaft that i
mentioned earlier so a very unique looking design on top of that we also have a very unique looking
seat now i did ride on the bike for a few days and i have to say the seat is not the most comfortable
system out there now you can also move this up or down so we have a little lock underneath the seat
and you can easily move this up or down again this design is more different than most other bikes in
the past because with most other bikes you kind of have to like move the seat well this one is
extremely easy to move up and down not to mention that we have numbers on the side here so you can
kind of remember what number the seat is for your height of course on the front and on the back we
also have disc brakes these are mechanical disc brakes but they're really good brakes for this
particular bicycle because you're not gonna be able to go that fast so the braking power from
it is really good now of course if you're going fast and you have to brake all of a sudden you
can definitely lock those wheels but the braking power is more than appropriate from these brakes
that we have on the front and on the back on the front and on the back we also have splash guards
the splash guards are made out of plastic and on the rear one we also have a light so you can turn
this on together with the headlight of the bike this is pretty bright so you can still see it
during the day as well and of course at night you're going to be able to see it even better
but one thing i've noticed is the fact that it doesn't act as a brake light so whenever you're
braking uh that light doesn't come on i wish to do came on because it would make the riding a bit
safer out there now the brake lever since we're talking about braking are also very unique the
handlebar here is nice and wide so whenever you're sitting on the bike you feel fairly comfortable
we have a little bell right here and on the right hand side we have three buttons we basically have
the power button and a couple of other buttons so you can switch modes uh and turn on and off
the headlights in the center here we have a little display the display doesn't show that much you'll
see your speed you're gonna see how much battery you have and the modem that you're in but you
can see the screen even in direct sunlight so a very visible screen at all times the headlight
is also pretty bright so you can still see it indirect sunlight and of course at night
it's super bright and it will light up the path ahead of you now the handlebar here can also be
folded because as i said you can fold the bike as well so we have the folding mechanism right here
so this goes down like this then you have a button on this side of the frame
so the pedals are also foldable before you do that so you kind of push on them and
you fold them the pedals are made out of plastic they don't feel bad by any means but they are
made out of plastic so the pedals fold as well and then the folding mechanism is here
so you basically have to do kind of like this let's see if i can do that on the camera
quickly and this kind of folds this way we also have another part of the kickstand right here
so you have to do that and then this kind of folds like this and it can stay in one place
now this is small enough that it will fit in most trunks if you take the bike to the
office you can kind of tuck it in the corner there so it could come in handy to to fold it
like this so to put it back again so you do this you push this in you push this in you lift this up
and then it's folded okay so the battery pack is located right here this battery is removable we
do have a locking mechanism here the bike comes with two keys but you don't actually need those
keys to start riding the bicycle so you can easily remove the battery pack and you can charge it
anywhere else or if you want you can just charge it right here in the bicycle the battery pack also
has this little guard on here so you kind of pull on this metal part here and then this goes down
so this will help whenever you take out the battery so the battery just doesn't fall off and
that will also be part of the kickstand system whenever you're folding the bike talking about
kickstands the kickstand is located on this side here this is made out of metal it's a very sturdy
kickstand so whenever you have the bicycle on the kickstand it doesn't move it doesn't tend to fall
or anything like that so very nice kickstand not to mention that the kickstand doesn't really make
any noise whenever you're riding with other bicycles it kind of like moves shakes and so
on but that's not the case with this one now the riding experience so as i said earlier the
power delivery is extremely smooth so as soon as you start pedaling the bike will assist you to the
level that you actually need so it doesn't give you like a big kick or anything like that it's
a very smooth power delivery as i said if you're riding on a flat surface you can easily pedal and
you don't have to pedal that much i mean you have to get the bike to that 25 kilometer an hour speed
and then you barely pedal and the bike will kind of assist you so you don't have to put them that
much effort in but you still have to pedal keep in mind that we don't have any gears so if you are
riding uphill it's not like you can downshift or up shift so you can make that um pedaling
easier so you do have a 250 watt motor which is not that much whenever you're riding uphill well
the bike doesn't have that much power so since we don't have gears either well you're going to end
up to a point where you kind of have to stop and push the bicycle that is a downside to having only
a 250 watt motor i'm gonna say so great if you are riding on flat surfaces if you are in town and you
don't have that many hills some perfect riding experience but if you do have a lot of hills
wherever you're located this bike does not do great on hills and you're gonna have to pedal
a lot harder so you do actually have to put in some effort whenever you're riding this bike
unlike other e-bikes that i got to try in the past that even have a throttle so you don't have to
pedal as much so this one you do have to put in a bit of effort the 20-inch road tires that we have
on the front and on the back here on these unibody magnesium wheels as the manufacturer calls them
have really good grip on most roads so i haven't had any issues whenever i'm riding the tires don't
seem to sleep and the bike is also equipped with a gyroscope so whenever you're leaning into a
curve the bike will kind of cut down the power so that front wheel doesn't like pull you and
you crash so it is a very safe bike for most situations most riding conditions i'm gonna say
okay so let me quickly show you how this goes so of course we have the power button right here if
you hold this pressed for about five seconds the bike will turn on and then we have the
plus and the minus buttons here if you hold this button press you're gonna turn on the headlights
if you hold it pressed again you're going to turn them on off and from this button you can
also change the modes so we have five levels of pedal assistance so we're in the first one now
second one third one fourth one and fifth one of course the fifth one it's called the sport mode
so this is where the bike will assist you the most if you're using it in mode number one of course
it will assist you the least as i mentioned earlier we have that torque sensor in there
so as soon as you put some pressure on the pedal the bike will start assisting you right away so
we're gonna go for a little ride just so you can see how this goes here how it sounds and so on
so as i mentioned earlier a super quiet bike you can barely hear that front motor so we have
a bit of an ink line here but as you can see i'm pedaling at the same level so i don't have to put
that much effort into pedaling we're going to go a bit faster so of course you have to
pedal a bit faster we have more of an incline here but the bike is assisting us some pretty
well but you do have to put in a bit of power and pedal a bit more on steeper hills of course
so as you've seen we reached our top speed about 25 kilometers an hour
and i'm gonna turn around so you can actually take this uh downhill backwards so it becomes uh uphill
so we'll keep going up to here somewhere i'll do a braking test right here actually
so pretty good braking there so let me turn somewhere around here
and we'll go uphill basically
so of course you have to start pedaling but the bike will help you while you are
pedaling so you don't have to pedal as hard as you would if you wouldn't have an electric
bike so here we are gonna reach our top speed
since we don't really have any gears available you're gonna have to pedal like this this fast
if uh you wanna keep going at this speed of course the bike is assisting you but you still
have to pedal with other bikes that i had in the past you have a little throttle and you can just
hold that little throttle and the bike will keep going well that's not the case um with this one
so you always have to pedal and we'll do another um brake test somewhere around here
so we have 25 kilometers an hour and we're gonna break here
so really good braking as i mentioned um earlier
so yeah i think this will conclude our little uh
riding test so as you've seen from that little road test that i showed you earlier if you're
riding on flat surfaces the riding experience is great you don't have to put that much power into
riding you can keep a constant 25 kilometers an hour speed without putting that much effort
but when you come to heal some you do have to put in some power into pedaling you do have to pedal
because otherwise you're just gonna stop so that 250 watt motor that we have on the front wheel
doesn't have the power to take you up those skills not to mention that since we don't have gears
you're kind of stuck with the same gear ratio wherever you're riding so there you have it
this is the horn bike hf-01 definitely a very unique looking but probably one of the most
unique looking bikes supposedly it's actually one like three awards
in different countries or continents so a very unique looking bike a bike that will
turn heads everywhere you go and definitely a bike designed for in town riding all right
guys hopefully this video was useful thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next one