Hi everyone Chris here and I've got an e-bike that is more like a motorcycle than it is really an
e-bike it's from a company called Gunai it is the mx25 model it has Chao Yang a 20 inch by four inch
wide fat tires knobbly tread pattern so they're great for where I am right now off-road and you
typically run a low PSI with these so the max is 20 psi and I currently have in the front wheel
about 11 and 13 at the back so they're quite spongy soaking up a lot of the bumps so this
bike has that motorcycle look to it motorcycle aesthetic due to this well it's got a headlamp
here that has a daytime running LED that's not really that bright the main lights you can't
swap between a high and low beam but that's the way it's geared up it has some focal lenses in
there and very good the brightness you'll be able to ride around at night with even no street lights
and still see where you're going which is good front suspension it's again looking like like
a motorcycle set up here or a downhill style mountain bike we've got about with this one 60
to 70 millimeters of travel quite a bit of travel according to the grease Sparks that I can see on
it and these steel painted mud guards you have them in the box you can put them on you don't
have to install them and the bike I think would look even more like a motorcycle if it didn't have
that bike rack on the rear and then these mud guards which of course I could remove but I've
kept them on for this review the mx25 does have beefier brakes on what I typically see so these
are X1 the brand of them I've seen them before they're very powerful so hydraulic disc brakes
180 millimeter that this themselves are thicker than your standard discs this is to help stop them
from warping under extreme heat hopefully I won't be getting them that hot in my time riding now
the motor rear hub is a 48 volt system and up to 1000 Watts Peak and I can tell you now that it's
got plenty of power and if you have it unlocked it can even accelerate you up to speeds over 50
kilometers per hour and a very run-of-the-mill set up here with our gears seven speed it is
the Shimano Tourney TZ the brand of chain is an slmc I normally see KMC chains on these bikes the
pedals while they're not well go pedals in fact no branding on them whatsoever they look a little
rough they are metal and so far they're doing the job now like all of these Chinese e-bikes I'm
reviewing they don't use brain components when it comes to the shocks at least not well-known ones
we don't have a rock shark or a fox shock this here is a hlt100 hot yeah kind of never heard
of it before I've seen well some of them in other bikes and it works all right it's certainly better
than nothing I will say that so you can see the treble that I've gotten out of it is approximately
35 to 40 millimeters and you do feel it it works reasonably well just like the front shock the tail
light is a two-stage one so when you break it gets a little bit brighter it even does have indicators
incorporated into it now they're not particularly bright I don't think motorists are really going
to be able to see this during the day so you're still better off using hand signals for when you
turn and nighttime however you can see these indicators flashing and then the brake light
does stand out quite a bit more what does set our mx-25 apart from the other e-bikes I've covered is
this the battery is located in the middle of the frame now it makes the frame a lot wider I'll talk
a little bit more about that when I do my road tests of the bike but this is quite convenient
then because the battery can be removed you can charge it inside the office or your house or even
in the bike if you wanted to so it just simply slots into place like so there is a key there's
two keys they give you so it's locked there and no one can just go along and remove it if you
put it into the off position however that's also unlocking it so it's not like you can turn it off
completely the bike because if you do that someone could just go along and pull out the battery so
it's always going to be on unfortunately but I do like the design of this the way they've done it
the trade-off being as mentioned it's just wider here this bar which is a little more uncomfortable
one thing to note that if you wanted to leave the key in the ignition and close down the handle
cover well it won't let you do that even if you turn it to the side the key is just a little too
tall so it won't quite work the seat is adjustable it's got a quick release the only quick release on
the bike there's none on the front hub and the seat is just a standard generic seat here it's
comfortable enough with a synthetic leather style finish to it the frames welds the paint finish to
it and just the overall stiffness of the frame seems to be very good I can't see any fractures
cracks I've been throwing it around down some Trails here and it seems to be holding up well
the only thing I've noticed is that these screws here they have loosened off a little
bit over where we have the white protector here covering over the battery they didn't
use thread locking Compound on those screws so they've loosened off I'm going to have to
remove them all put some thread locking Compound on and put them all back in to solve that problem
and about height is not adjustable it does have adjustable preload for each of the sides there
which is good you can stiffen it up or soften it up if you want to and our gear selector here this
is our cheap Shimano one so this is to go down the gears up the gears and then we have the throttle
here the grips are not lock grips so they are not screwed into place however they seem to be
on quite firmly and I haven't had them start to spin around on me yet that is being hydraulic the
levers do have a very good feel to them and you'll see that we have a reservoir here so that's got
our DOT three brake fluid in it this is for our indicators and the horn which is an electric one
very loud so great for safety pedal assist levels up and down power on here there are some buttons
on the side two of them so one's for the lights the other is to go through the modes on the screen
the display is very clear because that's all of that key information we need when writing
so our speed pedal assist level trip information the battery gauge which I want to say is quite
inaccurate you see it drop right down to about two bars one bar when you're going up some very steep
climbs that's recovered now and telling me I have a lot more battery than I really actually do so
trip meter at the moment I've done 46 kilometers so is this a motorcycle moped or an e-bike it's
really like a cross between everything here the mx-25 heavy bike so it's about 30 kilos you do
notice the weight of it and the kickstand I've had no problems with it so that's good because
sometimes some of the kickstands they put on they just can't handle that kind of weight now it has
a speed sensored it can sometimes be a little bit slow to kick in and when I stop riding I'll do it
now see how the motor continues for about a second or so later there's a bit of a delay there you'll
notice that so if I had a torque sensor that would have been better but beat sensor is still
fine you just need to get used to that sometimes when you start pedaling it will still give you
a little bit of power so we have the fire pedal assist levels the riding position is fine you're
quite upright which is good however you notice the wider bar here because we have the battery
in the middle of the frame my legs should I say my knees are they do sometimes rub up against the
frame and it takes a little while to get used to that was quite off-putting in the beginning when
I started to ride the bike now the motor you can hear it it's not a quiet mode it's very powerful
of course the 1000 Watts now riding it when you have it set and locked to 25 kilometers per hour
you kind of get stuck at that speed because of the weight of it I'm in the seventh gear
and if I push really hard pedal really hard and get it up to around 28. 20 kilometers per hour
due to its weight these tires and being 20 inches you really don't want to be riding it without
the motor or having no battery life climbing performance of the mx25 look at this not a problem
at all for it so if you're someone that doesn't want to have to put a lot of effort into some
steep climbs or you don't need to with this bike at all so I'm just in the third fourth gear at the
moment here pedal assist level two I can put it up to five here about the same though with the Clones
apparel assist level very good I'll stop pedaling now completely and just use our throttle and you
can see with that not an issue it's going up this I'm going at a rate of about climbing at a rate of
about 21 kilometers per hour so very good climbing performance thanks to the powerful 1000 watt motor
emergency braking test test have got 180 millimeter disc brakes hydraulic
very good really good braking performance I'm actually doing about 40 kilometers per hour now
and I'm able to stop well ahead of this post here so because we have the fat soft spongy
tires they give a lot of traction a lot of grip knobbly tires too suspension in the front two is
helping excellent braking performance this happens to be one of the best 20
inch Fat well e-bikes that I have reviewed when it comes to the braking performance
I am now continuing my climb to go right up the top be good test to see if the motor might
overheat hopefully it won't but I'm climbing at a really steady Road here of 24 kilometers per hour
as for the range well it is great to see finally another company there's very few that have an
over exaggerated the claims of what you can potentially get out of this so with my weight
of course it's going to vary between Riders and writing conditions in moped mode they say you can
get 40 to 50 kilometers I'm looking more like 40 to 30 and just pure electric using the throttle
here but the rides I'm doing now I've done 46 or so kilometers I am seeing almost about One
battery bar even though now it's showing oh it's showing like four it's a little inaccurate I have
worked out that I can probably do about 10 more maybe eight or so more so I'm seeing about 50
kilometers 55 kilometer range out of it and I have been peddling a lot so again factor that
in that when you pedal quite a bit it's going to increase your range but it is pretty much
on par with what they say so the good about the bike fantastic climbing performance very good
braking performance it's it's like a motorcycle really the brakes on this are potent good probably
one of the best I have tested out so far front suspension yes it's no brand stuff it does make
a clunking noise a little bit that front shock but it works works reasonably well and it does
Aid the ride Comfort what is really helping the ride is of course the fat spongy four inch wide
tires running a bit of a low pressure here too at the moment I'm running as I mentioned about
11 and 13 PSI soaking up a bit you could even go even lower and that makes it very comfortable so
it's a comfortable fun fast bike to ride with plenty of climbing performance the frame seems
very solid I love the removable battery that it's so easy to pull it out it can be locked
into place too the downsides of this bike well the obvious is 35 kilos it's heavy you don't
want to be lifting this up a flight of stairs you're going to need two people for that job
uh the width of the frame here because of this battery design being so huge too 25 amp hours
it's wide so when you first start writing and piddling you get a bit of inner thigh rubbing
on this and your knees maybe knock up against the frame you eventually get used to it you learn that
when you start to Pedal to have your knees out a little bit which feels a little awkward it's
not that comfortable in the beginning but it becomes a more commonplace when you ride around
on it more you start to remember to do that so this is why I think it's really set up more for
just using the throttle as a moped as more of a motorcycle kind of e-bike and less the peddling
side of things because of it that is the the main thing here with the bike frame quality seems very
strong the paint job looks good the welds do look good I don't see any areas of issue with possible
cracking in the frame no all up looks good such a fun fast bike and if you want something that's
more motorcycle than e-bike and this is probably it the mx25 so thanks a lot for watching my review