Chris here so as you can see and from the
title of the video that I'm back looking
at electric scooters so this particular
model here I have is from Inmotion it
is the model L8f and it has a claimed
range of 35 kilometers that's the
maximum you get so the maximum speed of
this one is up to 30 kilometers per hour
which is really good it has a
collapsible design there is a Bluetooth
app you can use with it as well the
front wheel is made out of hard rubber
and the motor on it it's a front wheel
drive by the way where this one here has
a maximum output of 250 watts the
scooter is completely assembled
apart from this right here which is the
axillary wheel just that roller wheel on
the bottom of it so using the included
allen key tool here you just need to
screw it onto the body so in the Box you
get to use a manual and a very short
quick guide on just how to fold the
scooter a valve extension so this is
going to be needed to put air in the
rear wheel and lastly a 42 volt 2 amp
charger that does have a status LED so
read when charging green once fully
charged so on the right hand side is
where you'll find the charger plug now I
don't believe that this is the best
location for it because you're going to
get a lot of water splash and things
come off and even dust and dirt from
that front wheel but it does at least
have a little rubber protection cap here
now the front wheel is where the motor
is housed so on this hub here we have a
36 volt 250 watt motor that can get us
up to speeds of 30 km/h depending of
course if you're on the flat and your
weight so this will get hot this is
metal around the outside where the motor
is inside and do expect it to be hot to
the touch after using it for quite a bit
that is normal so the rubber on this
tire here it's a hard solid rubber and
it's both a pro and a con so the reason
it's a probe courses you're not going to
get flats on this you won't get any
punch flat so you won't have problems
with glass or getting a nail in the tire
now that happened to me a lot on my show
me scooter but the kind of courses means
you get more vibrations and it won't be
as
smooth but you will see that we do have
right here a shock at least to help
absorb some of those impacts the fork on
the front is made out of metal feel
strong reasonable construction here and
the mudguard
plastic the hinge mechanism and base is
made out of metal when we do have grip
tape on the deck the deck has the in
motion logo on it and there is enough
space here to get both of your feet on
sideways and you would have noticed that
there is a spring-loaded kickstand here
which is made out of metal and riveted
into the side of the body through eight
inch wheel is the exact same size as the
front one and you'll see the valve right
here so it's a little hard to get to and
this is why we have that valve extension
so you must screw that into here and
then you can put air in the rear tire
now I recommend around about 35 psi I
want to go too heavy but you don't wanna
go too soft either just in case you give
yourself a pinch flat if you did decide
to jump down a curb or something now you
see it on the sides this is on both
sides you get this led this is when it's
on and then when you brake for example
if I applied the brake right now it will
turn red the front brake is electronic
and that's the one you normally use it's
also anti skid to Evert the rear can be
used just like a manual normal scooters
or if you needed to stop in a hurry in
an emergency then you simply place your
foot down on the rear mudguard and there
is a small little metal pad inside here
that actually pressed down and course
create friction on that rear wheel and
slow you down even faster now one of the
cool features of the scooters this right
here so the front whole front of it is
an LED strip so it is RGB there's a huge
range I think is something like sixty
five thousand different colors that you
can combine with the application here so
right now I've got it in the multi
colored mozi because it's just going
through different colors so you can see
it there too purple pink or whatever you
wanted to when you get the scooter the
handlebars are not in a lock position
you need to lift up this lever here then
unlatch both of the handles push them
into place and then push this down it's
a little bit tight at first appreciating
it all the way down there then locks it
in place so it's very sturdy that grip
we have the accelerator then we have our
brake then our current speed here in
if you want to see the remaining battery
bar percent exactly you have to use the
app for that but this gives you a rough
estimate here with these bars you can
see displayed so normally there there
are five of them and it's indicating
your remaining battery life in order to
get the scooter out of its folded down
mode it's locked in that mode here so
when I lift up on the handle bar it'll
act actually as a handle of the whole
scooter you've got a press here and then
just push up the handlebars you'll hear
that click and that means that is
secured in place to turn on the
headlight at the front all you have to
do is hold down the brake for three
seconds it turns on and then hold it
down to maximum for another three and it
will turn off the application it has is
rather basic it's not a brilliant app it
sometimes has trouble connecting up to
bluetooth and you have to close the app
and try again
so it isn't wonderful so what it's got
is basically so we've got a mode here
that we can lock it down you can see
your range on here so according to this
I can do 25 kilometers and I will let
you know on your battery percent too you
can just see down here that I've got 73
percent remaining if you touch this
it'll also tell your instantaneous
energy consumption too so that it's good
I mean we've got some information in
there
alright here we've got the controls for
the RGB lighting system that it has so
if you love your auntie be on your pc
then you probably love this too because
then you can customize it however you
like or all different kinds of settings
here like different modes you can go
through and each style does its own
things so pulsating it will do like the
Nightrider thing with the lights will
just go up and down so the things like
that and we go the tail light setting as
well which can also set various
different shades there for that tail
light that I showed you at the end so
you can just see it on the video now so
I put that into blue you can see it's
flashing blue now green and whatever
color you would want so I've got a
reason to be a good day here the weather
is holding out for now there are storms
forecast but I mean I do my little range
test and you can see I've got a bit of a
storm here brewing so this could turn
out to be a weather proofing test as
well it does have an IP rating of IP 54
so it's got some splash resistance there
now comparing the scooter to my zoom
strider so the zoom stride is one I
reviewed earlier
I like their ledge mechanism on the zoom
Strider a little bit better because it
is just faster it doesn't quite feel as
secure I think because it doesn't have
that latch there now this zoom Australia
has a 500 watt motor this one's 250 but
both have the same maximum speed of 30
km/h when we have a look at the rear
there's some difference here so we get
of course the LEDs which adds a little
bit more safety on the l8 f-from in
motion and you get that ear full-time
which is going to be susceptible to
punctures hopefully it won't happen to
me you can put slime in there which I do
recommend we've got hard rubber wheels
of course on the strider on both of
these and build quality I think they're
very similar but I think the edge
actually goes to the LH F here when we
take a look at them because the
handlebar they just feel a little bit
better once you push this latch down and
they're locked in place they feel very
solid and that just gives you a little
bit more confidence there and with the
zoom I've noticed that things have
loosened up a little bit now after my 6
or 8 months or so I've been using it now
it just doesn't feel quite as good there
the in motion scooter also comes with
that kickstand
that's an extra you have to buy with the
zoom strider and then we get the front
roller wheels on the front here which
you don't have
with the strider both of these scooters
do have the same exact hard rubber front
wheel and they do look a little bit
similar here when you look at the forks
and the design so we've got front
suspension on both of them not much
travel on that suspension but it does
soak up some of those little bumps from
the rough surfaces ok so let's take a
look at the acceleration so kick off
it's automatically starting to power on
now and then apply the acceleration
accelerator and yeah it's a little
slower definitely slower then there's M
stride a the power deliveries a little
bit smooth
there but we're getting up there speed
wise so you can use it as a manual kick
scooter if you wanted to you see I've
got plenty of room here for my feet US
size 10 by the way if you're just
wondering I don't have the smallest feet
neither do I have the biggest but plenty
room there on the deck more than the
zoom strider now to comment on ride
comfort that you do feel those
vibrations the surfaces and even
services on the road and things more
than my Xiaomi scooter because that
one's got the air filled tires this is
hard rubber tire on the front and the
shock on the front I can feel it it does
take up some of those bumps there so the
ride comfort stability seems great
things are really quite good
now let's take a look at how it handles
rough terrain here so we've got some
gravel ahead and about a oh we're
struggling a little bit with us this is
about a 20 degree climb and I'm almost
having to push the very slow going up
this so I think it maximum is 15 degrees
so I'm not quite as fast as other
scooters that have powerful motors as
expected there with the climb definitely
on these rough surfaces it is hard going
bumpy road here making it quite a bumpy
ride so another coin here this is a
proximate lead I'd say 15 to 10 degrees
it's handling it fine now you do hear a
little bit of rattling from time to time
that's coming from those front roller
wheels from when it's folded so they can
write around it just all depends on the
surface of the road so I made it to the
end of beautiful ice road is here in
denia we'll check on that remaining
battery percentage and just how many
more kilometres like you do alright so
according to the app I have done 6.7
kilometers which seems about right about
67 percent battery life remaining and it
gives me a remaining range of 23
kilometers but it's not quite correct
because it says my maximum speed it's
2.2 kilometers and then my average speed
is 8.7 so if you do plan to jump down
curbs just make sure you lift up the
front wheel quite a bit because
sometimes this will right here you may
curve out you can see where they high
kerb like right now that it is
impossible to sometimes hit that wheel
or even hit the underneath of the
scooter and end up marking it so here we
are at the end of my test it is flashing
with just one bar there that's telling
me I'm on low battery that's warning me
now the application crashed
unfortunately so I don't have any map
readout but you can see here total
kilometers
19 so that is well short of the 35
maximum they claimed of course that 35
kilometers was ideal conditions at
someone that weighed 75 kilos they were
doing 15 kilometres per hour I was doing
30 when I could I weigh 82 kilos and I
also had quite a few climbs and bumps
and things so with better conditions
better roads flatter
anyway lists in notes say expect up to
about 25 kilometers it is still well
short of course okay so after using this
now for a week I just wanted to report
back at the end of the video on my
overall impressions of this so I like
the fact that we do have the manual
latch mechanism here so we've got this
to tighten it up you need to open and
close it of course so it's not so fast
to get going as other scooters but it
won't have that movement in play that
eventually has come into the show me and
also my zoom Strider so there has a
little bit of play but this one doesn't
because if it starts to loosen up a
little bit then you simply need to
tighten this down and that's going to
really help with that the same goes with
the handlebars because you lock them in
place you tighten it down there's no
movement whatsoever with their grips and
the handlebar which has been a problem
on the other scooters that there's a
little bit of movement there on my show
me I ended up replacing the grips with
lock-on grips so and they seem to be
that kind of lock-on style because they
are not going to go anywhere at the
moment they're perfectly fine so we have
the of course RGB strip on the front now
I wish that in emotion could increase
the brightness of this perhaps because
without having too much of an impact on
the battery that is you can't really see
it during daylight so at night you do
see this all lit up and you see the
sides lit up and that is great for
safety so people can see you coming
that's one good thing to have on there
now we've got the hard to eye on the
front so no punctures but we have the
inner tube on the rear so that soaks up
some of the bumps and things meaning the
riding comfort is good max speed of 30
as well which is great so we can get the
the speed up there's one of the faster
ones some other scooters that I have
reviewed there being limited to 25 like
the Xiaomi or even 20 some of the other
ones here the cheaper scooters now this
could be a bit of a problem here it
could give you a flat you could get a
flatter of a pitch flat or something
like that or thorn through this rear
tire so highly recommend putting an anti
puncture solution like slime into this
now I could
not get any additional air into this
because of the valve the way it is it's
quite tight even with that extension
they give you to get it in there so what
I ended up having to do is take this off
right here there's just a little like a
little screw on nuts on the side so you
just need a dime or if I sent piece put
that in there twist that off get this
off and then I could put some air into
that hide I recommend about 40 psi which
was good with that now my biggest
complaint with this scooter would have
to be something that maybe a lot of
people won't actually end up using and
that is the bluetooth application so I
didn't even know that it was locked down
it said that it wasn't locked so when
you put it in lock mode the wheel won't
move as soon as it stops it puts like on
a resistance and you don't see the speed
at the top it's just a spinning around
logo there icon and I had to go into the
app and actually even though it said it
was disabled I had to go through it
three times before it finally got rid of
the lock so that's just one thing to
bear in mind that the application is not
too good it's a little bit slides a bit
laggy to some chinese'
in it it did not record my trip as well
or the GPS because it stopped it crashed
now it is recording the overall mileage
on here so that is good so you can see
how many kilometers your scooter has
done but I think that's recorded
internally here and it's just synced to
the app the app is also needed if you
want to enable cruise control which
currently doesn't seem to be in there
with the current version of the app and
if you want increase the speed so by
default it's 25 km/h and with the app
then you can set that to 30 and again
that took about three attempts for it
then to sink through to the unit here so
in motion have some work to do on the
app if they can tidy that up now I roll
the scooter compared to the other ones I
have reviewed as good the acceleration
is a little slow which is both a pro and
a con and C obviously is gonna be slower
to get off the mark and get up to 30
then same resume striding because the
battery sorry the power output of this
motor is 250 that one's 500 but the slow
acceleration in the wet is a lot safer a
lot more useful I found that when I took
this for a quick spin it was actually
just a shower yesterday and today it was
one as well so I went with wet grounds
it's a lot safer than the zoom Strider
there's in strata when you go up certain
herbs and things footpaths they have a
bit of an angle to them and if it's
slippery almost like pole
concrete it's deadly the front wheel
goes like this you get a little bit of
slipping on this one but because it
accelerates a lot slower and it's not so
heavy on the acceleration when you go on
the accelerator here that doesn't tend
to slip as as much that gives a little
bit more confidence so over oh nice
right now the range is an issue I tend
to have with all of them because when
they test these companies the range of
these they put someone that's light to
someone that was 70 kilos and I'll
completely flat know when perfect test
conditions that's when they get the
claims 35 kilometers so me weighing 82
kilos heavier and also with the rough
terrain
I had a few claims and things I only
managed to get 18 kilometers and 18 puts
it about the same as the zoom strata
that I reviewed - so you're not going to
get phenomenal range out of these but if
you take it easy on the accelerator and
I feel if you're on the flat where you
live then you can possibly squeeze out I
think about 25 kilometers out of this so
overall it is good it is an expensive
scooter there are cheaper options out
there like the Xiaomi but it doesn't
have the hard tires to show me it's not
30 kilometers either the maximum speed
on that Xiaomi and the acceleration is
about the same as this one so every
model has its pros and cons but overall
I do like this one here I do have some
reviews up here so the show is up here
and then a zoom strata I was talking
about that's currently my favorite and
thank you so much for watching the
review here of inmotion L8F