With a top speed of 25 miles per hour, a range of up to 60 miles, Shimano 7 speed gears,
350W motor, and more tech than I've seen in any other e bike, this is Urtopia Carbon 1 S.
Hi, everyone. I'm Colin Smith from Photoshop Cafe, and today we're going to be looking at the Urtopia
Carbon 1 S. Now, full disclosure, they did send me this bicycle. However, I am not told what to say.
All these thoughts and opinions are completely my own. One of the things I love about this is the
light weight. For an e bike, this is very light. It comes in at about 33 pounds, and that's because
of the carbon fiber. The frame, the forks, the handlebars, and the seatpost are all made out
of carbon fiber, which really brings down that weight. But what really sets us apart from a lot
of other ebikes is the smart bar. The smart bar is a combination of a screen and two game like
controls, and we'll dig into that in a little bit. Previously, Urtopia released the Carbon One, and
the Carbon One had a 250W motor that was a single speed belt driven, which gives a very smooth ride.
However, by adding the 7 speed Shimano and upping the motor to 350 Watts. Now
that gives us a little bit more boost on hills, which makes it easier for us to ride on those
steep hills without putting in too much effort. A lso, we can get a boost in the top speed of up
to 25 miles per hour. The bike comes in three sizes, small, medium, and large. I'm 6 foot,
so I got the large size and it has a maximum payload of 240 pounds. So in order to stop,
you need some pretty good braking on here. What it has is front and rear dual piston hydraulic disks
by Tectra. As I mentioned, we have a Shimano 7 speed rear derailleur. Now, when the bike arrives,
it arrives in a box and it's 90 % assembled. So what you need to assemble is put the seatpost on,
put on the front wheel and attach the pedals. Really not that difficult. Of course,
also charge up the battery and install that. Once I downloaded the app, there's videos on
there that show you how to do that. Now, what powers this bike is a brushless hub motor.
It's 36 volt, 300 horsepower, 150 watt. The battery is a Samsung Lithion Ion 9.8 amp hour,
352.8 watt battery. The battery quick charges in two and a half hours. You
can either take the battery off, there's two keys included, so it locks on there so
people don't steal it. There's an included charger, you can plug it into the wall,
or there's a little rubber port that you can just pop open and that will give you access
to that battery without having to remove it from the bike, so you can just plug it in where it is.
Now, it has an estimated range of between 25 to 60 miles, depending on what level of boost
you use. Now, of course, you can ride it like a regular bike, just pedal power without any boost,
and you basically have unlimited range. But when you do use the boost, we have four different
levels. We have eco, which is number one, gives it just a little bit of boost and that lets you get a
good workout while still giving you a boost. And it feels like someone's behind you, giving you a
little bit of a push. The next level up, level two is comfort, which gives more of a boost.
Then you get a really good boost at level three, which is sport, where you're not really doing that
much work anymore, but you can move along at a pretty good click. And if you want more, hold
down that button for a few seconds and it will go into turbo mode. Now, when you're in turbo mode,
you really don't have to do much work. All you've really got to do is just turn the pedals. Even
when you're going up a steep hill, if you drop it into the lowest gear and just turn that pedal,
very little effort, you can go up that hill. Now, one of the things I like about this bike compared
to other ebikes that I've had is the integrated design. Instead of everything being bolted on,
everything's very sleek and streamlined, and that includes the lighting. It comes with front and
rear lights and the light actually also has a millimeter wave radar, so it can detect if
there's a car coming behind you and they'll give it haptic feedback in the handlebars.
You'll feel a little bit of vibration when that car is coming up behind you. Now, the rear light
also includes a side projectors, which will project this cool little pattern on the ground.
What it does is it causes cars to give you a little bit more clearance than they might have
normally. Another cool feature is if you just hit the button left or right, you can actually
get an indicator where it will flash on the ground and you can see when you're turning.
As far as tech, it comes with WiFi, Bluetooth, as well as 4G connectivity. When you get the bike,
it comes with one year of free 4G, and if you want to continue it, it's $29 a year. Now, you can do
most things without having the 4G, but that will help you for things like tracking wirelessly and
also for navigation. You can still do navigation though through the included phone app, and we'll
cover that in a minute. The handlebar on this is called a Smart Bar and it has voice control,
has fingerprint unlock, and it has an LED dot matrix display. As far as sensors, it comes with
an accelerometer, gyroscope, and torque. Now, the torque is really useful because rather than
just pedaling, and as soon as it feels the pedal, it just kicks in the motor, what it's going to do
is it's going to adjust the amount of boost to how hard you're pedaling and how high a gear you are.
That way it's going to feel more like a natural boost than it is just this suddenly clicks
in the power and throws you off the seats. One of my favorite features is over the air
updates. That means it does firmware updates, much like you would say something like a Tesla,
where over the air it can wirelessly update the bike, give it new features, fix bugs,
different things like that. In fact, some people have been calling this the Tesla of
ebikes. All right, so let's take this out for a ride and see how it goes. One of my favorite
features on this bike is the smart bar. This is this integrated screen and also the lights.
Notice everything is just integrated. On a lot of bikes, you see these are bolted
on. Here it's just very streamlined and sleek looking. There's several components to this.
There's two buttons. The one on the right side is a fingerprint ID. If I click and hold that,
this will turn it on and we'll start it. The one on the left is like a game controller
and it has four different directions. If I push up, it changes the speed of the bike.
Another feature which is really cool is Walk Mode. If I take the arrow here and I hit the right arrow
and I hold it down for a few seconds, it will go into Walk Mode as the wheel will actually turn.
As long as you hold your finger on there, that wheel will keep turning. Take your finger off,
the wheel will stop. This is really great if you have to push it up hills or in this case,
I'm pushing it up a grassy bank. Let's look at the thumbprint ID again. The thumbprint is
the way that you will start it up. If it doesn't recognize your thumbprint, it won't start. Now,
the bike is still going to work, but it's just not going to have any of the electronics,
the boost, or anything working the smart bar, or anything like that until it turns on with
your thumb ID. Now, with the thumb ID is optional, you don't have to use it. Now,
this also doubles as a button. If I long press this button all the way down, you'll see this
little face here and it's listening and I can say things like, Volume down, lights off, go to sleep.
You're going to get a lot of extra functionality through the Oratopia app,
which you can download from the app store either on Android or iOS. Now,
when you first launch it, you have a welcome screen and on the welcome screen,
it shows you the weather, shows you your recent rides. It's got some news on there. User guide,
which gives you instructions and video tips and instructions on how to do different things. Then
you'll see a list of your recent rides. Where the heart of this is, we're going to go through here.
We're going to go to the main page. First thing you want to do is turn the bike on.
Then once the bike is on, just tap on Bluetooth, and now you can pair the bike to the Bluetooth.
From here you have different things. If you can't find your bike, just hit the beep
and that will beep your bike. You can turn the power on or off
and we can also turn the lights on and off here just by simply tapping.
Of course, you can also use voice control to turn the lights on
just by simply saying lights on. Or you can grab the button there on the
left hand side and just hold that down to the left and that will turn the lights on.
Then you have the alarm mode so we can arm the alarm and have it set. The next
set is we have the volume because the smart bar has a speaker built into it
and you can change the volume of that to four different levels or you can mute it.
Now the vibration, this is where you're going to feel the haptic feedback in the handlebar when a
car comes up behind you. Now sounds, you can go through here and you can change the sound. So if
you don't like any of the sounds of the powering on, the Bell, the turbo mode or the alarm,
you can go through and try different ones. Say, for example, the alarm here,
or we can do an alternative alarm.
The bell, we can try different things like, I don't know, a dog barking, a horse barking.
I'm not sure how a horse barks, but okay. We've got the horn, the game,
and I'm probably just going to leave it on the regular ringing Bell. Then we have the
ability to go to speaker here. What you do is you just pair that with your phone and you can
play your music and podcast or anything like that through the built in speaker if you want.
Then advanced, there's some interesting settings here. There's some different preferences at the
top here that we can turn on and off. There's even a brake light, so when you hit the brake,
that light will actually light up. Then the units of measurement, it comes out of the
box in Celsius and also in kilometers. Since I'm in the United States, I changed it to miles and
Fahrenheit. This is where you would change that. That's what you see on this display.
The matrix display will show whatever unit of measurement you choose here. Then fingerprint,
this is where you set up the fingerprint ID. It's very simple and you can set it up by the writers
or maybe use different fingers. Then the helmet, you can connect with a connected helmet, which
has lights and different things like that, which I don't have those. Then there's other things to
give you the information here about your bike, firmware version, etc. If you hit the update,
this is going to look for updates and this will actually run a firmware update here through
the app. But you'll also see it on the bike and you'll see it on the screen and the screen will
show you the progress of that firmware update and give you a little Yahoo when it's done.
Diagnosis, so we can just tap on that, make sure everything is working correctly, and it looks good
there. Here you can set a fence up, and that fence is basically an electronic fence which you'll
set a radius around your bike. If the bike moves outside of that radius, it will sound the alarm.
This is a good security function. This is where you'll see the eSIM here, and this is where it's
talking about the 4G. Works through an eSIM. It's free for a year, and then after that year, it's
$29 a year if you choose to continue using it. The main advantage of that, of course, is the tracking
of the bike when it's not connected to Bluetooth or WiFi. Other functionality here, we can go into
Community and you can see what other riders are doing. Of course, you can share your own rides.
Then we've got our navigation. We can go in here and you can choose a pin or find a location,
type it in, and then the navigation will work and you can use it on the phone. Or of course,
it will show up on the smart bar. You'll see a little arrow on the screen.
It will tell you when to turn, go forward and all that different stuff. It's nice to have that
navigation right there so you don't have to look at your phone while you're riding. Then you've
got your personal information here. It's got your plans that you can put in here, and then it shows
you your statistics, how far you've ridden, how many calories you've burned, how much CO2 you've
saved, all that fun stuff. You can look at it daily, monthly, or yearly. One of the other
things you can do on here is if you see any of your rides, you can tap on the ride. You'll see
the statistics of that particular ride. But what's fun is you hit that little play button and now you
can relive that journey and see exactly where you went. It's fun. It gives me all the statistics I
need without being overly complicated. My thoughts and conclusions on the Urtopia Carbon 1 S. First
of all, it's a great looking bike. It's going to turn heads, you'll get a lot of compliments.
But the second thing that's really big is the fact that it's made all out of carbon fiber.
That carbon fiber not only is lighter and stronger, but it also helps give
a smoother ride because it absorbs a little bit more shock than what you would get with,
say, a aluminum or steel. I found the ride to be very smooth and comfortable with plenty of
power and plenty of gearing options to be able to hit the heaviest hills or get some good speed or
get a good workout. As far as tech, this bike is pretty much unmatched. From the very beginning,
from being connected through WiFi, Bluetooth 4G, we've got navigation, we've got an alarm,
we've got tracking so you can find your bike if someone steals it, and all the
other functionalities through the screen, voice control, you name it, it's all there. Of course,
the connected phone app gives it more functionality with the ability to get more
updates over the air. In fact, when they added navigation, they did over the air updates and
all the utopia bikes got navigation as an update. Okay, so as far as areas that maybe personally I
didn't so much like or could use some improvement, one of them is the angle that you're sitting on.
This is obviously a good position for riding and aerodynamics. But what I found is a lot of
pressure was going down on my forearms and wrist and they started to get quite tired from leaning
forward. It'd be nice if there was an option to maybe attach some touring bars so you could take a
little bit of a rest and sit up a little bit more. Another thing is the seat. The seat here is quite
narrow. It's more like a racing seat. Fortunately, though, you can go online and order a wider seat,
which I have. I've ordered one of those dog nose seats with the springs in it,
and it's going to be a little bit more comfortable for me, particularly. Now,
this bike comes in at $27.99, which seems like a lot of money, and it is. But if you've actually
been looking at other ebikes and then you realize that this thing is made out of carbon fiber,
it's actually not a bad price. There's three groups of people I would recommend this bike
for. The first group are commuters. If you're commuting to work or school, having the power
from the motor and the gears and everything is really going to make light work of that commute.
The second are recreational riders, either people who just want to go out and enjoy nature, scenery,
or people that want to actually get a workout. Because of the multiple levels of boost, you
can drop that boost down and you can get a good workout, or you can kick that boost up and you
don't have to work very much at all. Which brings me to the third group, which could be people with
some injuries or elderly who can't ride a regular bike. You just don't have the strength to get up
the hills anymore. This is going to be perfect because you can build in the amount of boost
that you want and you can get up those hills without too much effort and even riding on
the flat. If you have some challenges, this can definitely help you. All right, enough talking.
This thing was built for riding. Anyway, I'm interested in your guys thoughts. Drop them in the
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