So I'm taking a look at a crazy kind of hybrid e-bike here that is the combination of a foldable
bike fat weld e-bike a downhill bike and something in between there so what we have with this is two
batteries that you don't normally see it's the first bike that I've covered has got two batteries
so the seat post is a very large 19 amp hour 48 volt pack and then we have in the frame rate here
where it folds in half a you could say auxiliary battery that is 10 amp hours so you can't use
both of them at the same time there is this cable here that you swap between them so that is how you
control which battery you're going to use because it's got the two batteries the foldable design
and three suspension setup here so in the middle the rear and then the front shock it is extremely
heavy it is 40 kilos making it well quite a hard to push a belt but luckily it's got a walk mode so
the suspension looks like it can take some huge hits right it looks almost like a downhill kind
of setup but a little bit of a spoiler here it's more for show with a bike like this so
we do have a powerful 1200 watt rear hub motor eight-speed Shimano gears and a maximum speed of
if it's limited 25 kilometers per hour if not it can get up to 45 plus with its peak 1200 watts but
it's normally around 750 this rear hub motor the 116 millimeter brakes are hydraulic and they're
from a brand called Logan braking performance is decent and you'll see later on in my braking test
where I test them out they're definitely a lot better than mechanical disc brakes and I'm glad
that they did not go with mechanical disc brakes there are three shocks in total with this bike now
it looks like it's going to have a lot of travel right it looks like a downhill bike a dirt bike
it really the rear shock only has literally about an inch of travel if that and our metal
shock is even worse it's really just there for Aesthetics because the trouble you get out of it
is next to nothing I'm talking on about five to ten millimeters so it is really just therefore
I feel Aesthetics so when you first take a look at this bike you think with that front shock that
oh this must be a downhill bike that it's got a lot of travel on that front shock especially
this style of shock well you'd be wrong there because it's only approximately three inches of
travel so again it's kind of more for Aesthetics just like that metal shock and the rear shock you
don't get a lot of travel now on the rear we have this saddle so someone could sit on this
but there are no foot pegs unfortunately and here we have an LED brake light so it's got two lights
that are on either side all the time and when you apply the brakes they are a little bit brighter
the front light is another LED light that's wired into the main battery and it's bright enough it
lights up The Path ahead of you but I wish it was a little brighter for safety nighttime riding it
does have a reflector below it which is good and speaking of reflectors there is one with each of
the rooms so they're 26 inch rims with those four inch wide fat tires now if you've never ridden fat
tires before they are quite fun they run a low PSI normally I put about 15 in them only so they
soak up a lot of bumps and smooth out the ride and give you a bit more extra Traction in conditions
like this off-road the x26 seat is quite wide it is comfortable and so far no problems with
it at all now it is height adjustable and because that seat post is actually our battery it's 19 amp
hours it's a very large battery it's lockable too so they give you a little key here you can
lock that in place so no one can just walk off and steal your battery now just below here there
is actually an LED light that when you turn the battery on so this is the battery power button
at the top there that light is on the whole time and then we have this removable cable so this is
the cable you use to swap between the batteries you can pull it out and then plug it into our
secondary backup reserve battery that's in the frame in order to access that battery
you need to fold the bike in half so here's our folding latch and it's quite strong around here
there's no cracks I can see in the frame I've been throwing it down some big drops around here going
and riding along some really rough road so simply just push the little button here pull that back
and then you can proceed to flip it around but it's quite hard to do so because it's a very
heavy 40 Kilo bike this battery capacity is 10 amp hours and the crazy thing about the design
of it that there is no hole for the charge port once it's in the frame so you need to charge it
you have to remove the battery every single time you need to unfold the bike slide out the battery
then you can charge it because the charging port is located on the side of the battery
then this is what it looks like when it is fully folded up so it's still a huge heavy
bike you don't really want to be folding this and lifting it into a car and you're going to need an
exceptionally large boot or trunk of course to fit this in now I think why they made it a
foldable is so we could have the removable battery I think that is really the only reason behind this
so at least both of the batteries are removable now plugging it in when you swap over from the
main battery to this auxiliary battery is quite simple you just need to push in the cable without
having the bike fall over here push that end it goes click and it's locked into place but it means
you have now this annoying cable that's on the side that you sometimes here banging and rattling
around the charge time on this main battery is approximately eight hours the auxiliary battery is
around about four and a half and they charge off a 48 volt system you can see at least with this main
battery the charging port is just above the plug right here for it so it's easy to get to in order
to charge this one you don't need to remove the battery this handlebar can be brought forward be
brought down we do have a brake levers that feel pretty good here being Hydraulics so there is an
accelerator here if you are in one of the three different modes if you're just in the power mode
that is then you can use this you have to be very careful with this because it will just launch off
so it is a little bit dangerous just below the accelerator we have our horn which is quite loud
and we've got a large AMOLED color screen which I do like so this screen is very clear we've got our
speed the different levels so using the controls if you hit the little I button and hold that down
you go to the normal mode from assist so that doesn't give you any pedal assist then you've got
the sport mode where you can use the accelerator now stepping it you can go through our trip time
you can see the max speed there so 47.7 kilometers per hour average speed of 20 that I've done total
distance right now is 30 kilometers this is by the way the second charge I'm on and my trip distance
can't all be seen this is my favorite one though the power because I sometimes see this peaking at
the 1200 watts so it's a bright clear screen we do have a cruise control mode that works with the
accelerator and you can clearly see the battery life with a percent there at the top so we have
the eye button that I talked about just before this is the power on and off plus and minus our
pedal assist levels and this is for the light now it does have a built-in ambient light sensor
so the light can come on automatically or you can just force it on manually now if you do hold this
plus button up that turns on or off the cruise control function and holding this down it can
then go into a walk mode that's very handy when you need to push such a heavy bike up a hill on
the right we have our gear selector so this is to go down the gears the trigger here to go up them
and you can clearly see here which gear you're in so one up to eight different gears with this model
the shift is a Shimano Altus very common super entry level it's right at the bottom bracket
when it comes to Shimano gears but hey at least it does have Shimano the chain is a DG brand
chain and it is painted silver as you can see which should help against rust the pedals are
well go pedals so that is a known brand it's got reflectors in it and they are metal but this could
vary from bike to bike depending on what they use so the cable routing is external it looks
quite messy like spaghetti here underneath I wish it was internal would look a lot cleaner
so what can I say about the paint job here well the paint job the finish this matte gray is
all right but I do see a lot of rough areas in the frame where you can see that where they've
just been grinding down where the welds are and things does look a little uneven a little bit
rough so I'd have to rate the frame quality and the just the finish of it to be average
finally how's that kickstand well it seems sturdy enough it doesn't rattle but it's dropped down
already on me it's struggling with the heavy 40 kilos weight of this bike so it's a bit of
a concern I can see this bike easily dropping over if you're not careful because of how heavy it is
and the style of kickstand so let's have a look now at what it is like to ride so it is a large
heavy bike as I pointed out at the beginning there that it's got a lot of weight to it because of the
extra components the extra battery the suspension and everything and it is quite a large frame here
too now I've got the seat position up just a couple of notches you can actually put that
up quite a bit higher now I'm 184 centimeters tall but it will cater for people right up to
190 possibly even higher there and The Handlebar distance from the seat is quite a long way how
I've got it at the moment with these handlebars so the handlebars you can adjust them you can bring
them a little bit closer you can even push them out a little bit if you needed to do so so you can
see where my knees are and in the handlebars there's there's no way that they're going
to strike the handlebars there so I've got it currently in the sport mode and the sport mode is
not using pedal assist at all so just to hold down the I button I put it on to assist now and then
when I start to Pedal straight away it kicks in it only needs about two kilometers before the speed
sensor then does kick in and Away you go so this will take me up to 25 kilometers per hour which is
the legal limit here but this model that I do have is a pre-release version that is actually unlocked
from them but I will end up locking it later on so it's comfortable riding along like this
no problem and the motor's got a lot of power a lot of torque up to 1200 watts Peak power
which is a lot but it is a heavy bike and you definitely notice that in the frame the way it
is suspension gives us a little bit of travel so I can easily go up like a little curve here ride
straight straight up that suspension soaking that up not a problem another little bump here
that's easy and I will take it off-road later on too and see how it does perform
now up ahead I have a little bit of a rough patch here and I'm in pedal assist level five so there
are up to the five levels as I pointed out when we looked at the screen we're just going over this
absolutely no problem but I can hear the battery that's
located in the front is rattling about a little bit in the frame
anyway you can get it up to around about 45 50 kilometers per hour if you do have
it unlocked and I love the noise of these fat tires they've got really bad rolling resistance
here on the road of course but I love how loud they are people can hear you coming
so in a way it's kind of like a safety feature now for my climb test so if you haven't seen my
other videos where I test out e-bikes and these scooters this is approximately 25 in parts and
about 30 degree gradient here the climb so it is reasonably Steep and we'll see how it
feels but I'm thinking it's going to be quite good here because I've got a full battery and
it does have a peak 1200 watt motor so I'm just going to push off and see if the pedal assist
will kick in straight away when I need it it oh it hasn't there we go okay that wasn't too bad
only a couple of turns of the crank and then it did detect that I needed the pedal assistant
assistance there so it's pulling about 700 Watts at the moment I can even go up gears if I wanted
to I will second gear now and the third so it is climbing really without a problem and I have seen
yes on the screen it's showing the 1200 watts that it can peek at so it does have plenty of
power but what happens if I turned it all off just put it into first gear no pedal assist now
oh boy this is impossible oh even standing ah this bike is too heavy and with the fat Wheels
wow you can't climb without that motor now for my braking test I'll get up to 30 kilometers by the
time I hit this post here so 30 31 32 oh because it's such a large heavy bike I find the distance
to brake is quite a bit more than others however the braking performance itself on those hydraulic
disc brakes 160 millimeters is good you can stop safely when you need to plenty of braking pressure
and you can lock up the rear tire if you wanted to do so it's that powerful the hydraulic disc brakes
and just how does it handle the rough Rocky stuff so the four inch Fat ties do soak up a lot the
suspension one it looks like a downhill bike is actually pretty useless very little travel to it
and let's see if I can just go down this steep bit here
off-road ahead to
that's it so it's doing a lot better than other bikes here because again are those tires
and the power of this motor oh just able to get up this
so it actually is climbing pretty well up against all of this Rocky stuff if you just keep powering
through it and have good momentum you can climb quite well this is really surprising me
I'm running back down that same Trail going right but I can hear
that battery is clanking around and they're making quite a bit of noise
but these tires are soaking up all of these rocks and bumps really well
and then what about our range so with the 19 amp hour battery let's work on this one first I lose
approximately 10 for every five to six kilometers that I ride which isn't too bad so we're looking
around 50 to 60 kilometers with some large climbs and bear in mind that I weigh 82 kilos so I'm not
the latest Rider out there so that's good around 60 and then we have the 10 amp hour pack which I'm
looking at approximately 25 kilometers maybe even less around 20 out of it so you're looking about
80 kilometers for the total range it's a little shy of the 100 kilometer claim that they do say
but I can see if you don't have as many climbs that I've been going around here or you weigh a
little bit less and you pedal maybe a little bit more that it's probably possible to be able to get
that really good range thanks to the large 26 inch size wheels of course they're so much better than
the 20 inch size or the 16 those smaller folder bikes this is where this bike comes into a bit
of a gray area I mean what is it is it a downhill bike well definitely not with the shocks on them
with only about three inches of travel basically no travel from the middle one and maybe about an
inch on the rear shock it really is mostly for Aesthetics but with those nice spongy
four inch wide big fat Wheels it does soak up a lot of bumps it's very cruisy and Nice To Ride
Along on however why did they make it a foldable there's some really weird design choices I would
not have made it a foldable because that could be later on a bit of a compromise in the design for
strength although it does seem very strong the latch mechanism is good it is reinforced around
here but it's because the removable battery I mean it's great don't get me wrong they're both
removable batteries it's located here in the frame so you need to fold the bike or at least
split it in half a little bit to be able to pull the battery out to charge it is really poor it's
such a poor design choice I think to do that or at least make it a fixed battery or if you're going
to make it removable have a different style but I guess for the strength of the frame they had
to do it this way they had to make it foldable but it is Pleasant to ride it's just that weight
the big one for me the weight really puts me off there are some rough patches with the frame it's
not exactly super high quality the finish of the frame you can see that they're basically
just been grinding away at it to make it look okay and then just simply paint over the top
of it so plenty of power too it climbs well and that is the full story of the angui x26