our first adventure on these e-bikes was downtown des moines at a place called gray's lake
really pretty area it's a small lake it's got a beach walking trails that are paved people
paddleboard kayak they've got a brewery just off the south end confluence brewery i believe
it is they have bike racks outside if you go there sometimes especially on a weekend there'll be tons
of bikes there on these bike racks it's a really neat area and a fun place to ride as you can see
brian doesn't have the comfort seat package and his seat is kind of small
kind of looks like it's going to suck up in there many of you that's been following us for a long
time know that we had these other e-bikes for quite a while we liked the e-bikes but there was
some things that we didn't like especially the customer service so it was really hard for us
to recommend them but those bikes as you knew were not lectric they were not called the lectric
brand the other e-bikes that we had were a little bigger and they took up a lot of
space in the back it took up a lot of the view you couldn't see the tail lights very well but
that wasn't the whole issue whenever we would come to a stop like if we were coming up to
a stop light or on a sidewalk and or wherever it might be they had a shifter for your pedal
and then your shifter for your uh the motor on the e-bike and if you didn't have it in zero if you
had it in any other gear like you're one through five or whatever and you had your you came up with
your pedal and you just barely pushed forward the thing would want to shoot off without you and it
it would give you a little boost it wouldn't keep going but it was enough to be dangerous
especially if you're close to an intersection or you had somebody in front of you you always
had to remember to put it in zero when you came to stop or leave that pedal alone because if you
just bumped it forward it would take off on you another thing was they were the fat tire e-bikes
the xp light from electric is a lot a lot more nimble very much easier to maneuver unless the
electric has an xp and an xp 2.0 and then they just came out with this xp light well these are
supposed to be around 20 pounds lighter which they are they're they're close they're like 19 pounds
just real close to that 20 pounds lighter than our previous models that we had it's a single speed so
it's got the pedal assist or you've got your throttle these go like 20 miles per
hour and our other ones went like up to 28 and we never found i mean that's too fast
really it's not too fast we hardly ever you know put our e-bikes up to that speed because we're
just kind of enjoying ourselves like when we went acadia national park the speed limit there by the
way in acadia national park yes they have a speed limit for e-bikes was uh 20 miles per hour and you
can only have a certain class e-bike there i think we kind of broke the law when we took ours there
so you wouldn't have to worry about either one of those with this
with these xp lights you can get in there with no problem and not have to worry about
getting kicked out again the maneuverability they're so easy too they're similar to like a
little bmx bike lighter of course yeah the slimmer tires seems like they just ride a little easier
yeah and we thought we were gonna like our fat tires more for like the beach riding but we found
a lot of and in fact michelle crashed hers in sand the very first time we took them out yeah
so they really weren't that helpful please something else that i like about these better
than our other models was where the kickstand is the kickstand's back here whereas the other
model that we had the kickstand was up here and it hit your pedal hit it so when you have these
down on the ground and you start to go backwards see how the pedals start to move backwards well
they would hit the kickstand well with it like this they won't do that as far as you know how
we like these and how they compared to our other models those are the things that we like the best
now with these on the back we have a much wider view out the window because the handlebars don't
stick out as far and when you have your cover over it it's not just the handlebar it's that
cover so that cover comes down and blocks more of your view where with these it opens it up
more you can see the tail lights better you don't have to get another light for the back of your
bike rack the other thing we really like is the customer service that electric provides they are
a us-based customer service and that says a lot because our other bikes i think that was a lot of
or some of the issues was dealing with yeah out of the country customer service and if
you're an affiliate and you can't get a hold of them and their phone number doesn't work and
you're having a really hard time and they want you to promote their bike for you can you imagine what
it would be like if you're a customer yeah right so that really turned us off we wanted something
similar to what we had but just a little smaller and then electric came out with this and it was
perfect right oh thank you thank you we ended up giving ours away our old bikes to our son and
daughter-in-law before we even got these right we had our fingers crossed that we were going
to like them so and we did two thumbs up yeah we love them we really do we do we honestly do you
go to our website and live in our vision and you go to the tab resources that's where we put a lot
of the products in our affiliates that we use and believe in as well as the amazon store which is a
link there too but we didn't put the old e-bikes on there simply because of their customer service
even though we would get a commission on those sales we still didn't put it on there and when
people would ask us we were honest with them and told them yeah we like the e-bikes but
we don't recommend buying them simply because if you ever have anything go wrong that it's going
to be a nightmare dealing with them with electric right away they've been like that right you know
every time we would reach out to them they would reply right back and it's been very pleasant so
far this is my phone holder that did not come from electric we have some alarms here i put
one on both bikes if you just come up and you just touch the bike they go off so nobody would even be
able to like disarm them without the alarms going off they come with a smaller seat and what was the
this was the comfort the comfort package it's a wider seat wider seat plus the uh suspension
seat post what a difference in the comfort if you get the xp lights we definitely recommend
the comfort package because those seats make a world of difference all right i'll quit talking
now yeah finally not only is the xp lite more nimble a little bit smaller than their previous
models of the xp and the xp 2.0 but it's also a little bit more affordable it comes in at 7.99
as of june 2022. i like how they put the marks here on your handlebars so that you can get it
the exact height every time like if you push these down when you're storing them away or whatever
you can put them right back to where you had it before now the other old seat posts have the same
thing on it but the comfort package seat does not but you can easily mark it with something if
you'd like to you know so that you get it in the same spot every time when you put that down they
weigh 46 pounds with the battery in it the battery weighs 7 pounds by itself about 20 pounds lighter
than previous models and our older e-bike but this is where your battery goes right here and that's
another thing when you do fold them up it has a stand down there that it that it sits on and they
put these little rubber bumpers on here so that it helps with so he doesn't rub any of the paint off
when they're folded up and they rub together and these are a lot easier for michelle to actually
lift at 20 pounds makes a big difference to release this so that you can get to the battery
or fold the bike up you have a little release here so you push this back this way and then
pull it out and now the bike will fold push this back you just press in until it clicks so with
the handlebars you got the same thing here you got this little lever here that you push up and then
pull it down now the handlebars will fold down you turn the wheel in then it'll kind of
wheel in towards it and then you put it down on that stand down there
push up on this to release the
release that
and there it is now the pedals they also you push in they fold up like that on both sides a lot less
weight 20 pounds doesn't sound like much but boy does that make a difference a few things we should
mention the max payload is for this bike is 275 pounds uh-oh gotta watch how much pie the battery
is a lithium ion battery 48 volt and it can charge within four to six hours and it can also go up to
45 miles on a single charge but that of course it depends on the weather how fast you go the
road conditions so what gear you're in right of course goes along with how fast you go right lower
gear gets you further uh it has five levels of pedal assist it does just have a single speed and
single speed as in for the pedal right you got you got uh five speeds for your motor right which you
can pedal assist during that time in your pedal or you know with the motor of course but we kind of
like that yeah uh less components to worry about for one thing and um i thought it was going to be
an issue like when you start going faster but it actually it still pedals right along with it and
when we don't use the motor and you're just pedaling alone i thought that was going to be
an issue too and it's not it's a lot easier to pedal i think than i would like well it could
be too the the slim tires yeah be a factor too but um yeah i just just the maneuverability i i really
liked but they do mention on their website that with the xp lite model they are putting the slime
again what is that slime in the tires free installed free and if you're not familiar with the
slime it's just this additive that you put in the tires and it circulates around the tire if it's
not it's unlike the type that you put in your car tire and it seals a leak instantly and you
know and hardens to your tire this is a it stays kind of like a liquid and if you get a puncture
or a you know a small leak or something it it helps fill that leak so you don't run out of air
yeah you make it back to your car it is nice knowing it's in there and if you have a slow
leak that it's uh it'll help stop that leak the throttle is just like a twist grip type
throttle over here on your right hand side and the left side is where you adjust your pedal assist
up to your five levels and you can also control your lcd display it does actually come
with the light in the front and the tail light in the back on your lcd display
you just hold down on the plus and you'll see a little indicator here it says manual with the
light emblem that just means that your lights are on and then you just hold down again on the plus
to turn it back off so the motor that it comes with is a 300 watt
nominal 720 watt peak geared brushless motor of course you got your front and your back brake um
a lot of the components that these e-bike companies use a lot of them are this you know
similar or the same something that keeps the cost down though is you don't have your front
fork suspension um and on our old bikes we had that and our seat had the suspension which this
seat looks like it does too in fact i like the way this one rides better it does come in four colors
we liked the arctic white that you see here it comes in their electric blue
midnight black and sandstorm they have options for add-ons we went with the comfort package
for the seat and suspension posts they have racks that you can attach front and back they have bags
they have locks they have phone mounts this is your battery level your speed what pedal assist
level you're in and then your odometer so if you just hit the power button
just click it you can change what shows up down here that from to trip a your voltage
your current timer and back to your odometer and again the plus is what you if you hold down
on that that's what you're going to turn your light on and off with or if you just click it
quickly you'll do your pedal assist levels so the plus and minus obviously is to go up
and down with your gears i really like their display uh it's bright of course
you can change your uh light level but in the daylight you want it as bright as possible but
it um it's very simple and uh very big yeah okay like i mean big as in the display part yeah easy
to read easy to read yeah and they make it so that it's adjustable so they can get the right
angle right depending on how tall you are and get the right angle so that it doesn't have a glare
and uh same thing with your grips too you can turn them i like how they got these little these flared
out on these grips nice place for your palm to rest and it makes it more comfortable when you're
riding instead of having just the round all the way through that just that makes it a lot more
comfortable we just had to put the uh i think the handlebar on yeah you just actually michelle
i put them together putting them together that's how easy did a good job yeah this particular model
would be great for rvers because of the size and how lightweight it is um but it is also great
for commuters especially with fuel prices right now good job electric two thumbs up four i guess
oh and one more thing i forgot to mention the key to turn these on and off is down below key is down
there and the battery is sealed in here the other thing is you can ride them out in the rain very
important things that uh that our other e-bike did not have yeah we're gonna go for a little ride
but now it's time for us
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