this evike here that i'm reviewing today is the escuke netuno it's a new bike from them 27.5 inch
rims it does have mechanical disc brakes they're 160 millimeter a front shock that
is from zoom with about two and a half inches of travel a buffet 250 watt rear hub motor
seven gears from shimano pretty standard it is their tourney that i seen a lot of these e-bikes
and a weight of this bike well it's about 25 kilos again standard there what isn't is the
frame size it's quite large as you can see with me standing next to it i'm 182 centimeters tall
handlebar height is actually quite good for me do like it spacious frame and the battery in this one
it is large 14.5 amp hours it uses samsung cells and the range they claim you should be able to get
up to 100 kilometers out of this e-bike which of course i will be putting to the test so my
typical road test here i'll run over the design the components they have used i even take it down
a few trails around the area here and let you know all the pros and cons of the escude natuno
our seat here is nice and wide good bit of sponge to it it is comfortable i don't have any problems
with it at all we do have a rear tail light here which is an led one it runs off batteries so not
off the main bike battery it is bright and great that they did include this for safety you can
see that at night time it's very visible there which is what you want with a rear tail light the
headlight at the front does have a reflector it is nice and bright and does light up the path ahead
of you for nighttime riding well this is scoot by they've gone with brand components they might
not be high-end but at least they do have a proper name to them so the shock here this is a zoom it's
the four go model and it has approximately two to two and a half inches of travel we do have a
quick release front hub and our disc brakes these are mechanical discs now i wish they
were hydraulic at this price point i do believe they should have hydraulics with this but they
are tectro aries brakes and for mechanical disc brakes they work really well 160 millimeter discs
the rear brake is the same 160 millimeter and you see that we don't have any quick release rear hub
the motor this one is a buffet motor so another brand component
it runs off a 36 volt system and the maximum output of this one is 250 watts which is the eu
legal limit it does come with a included kickstand that you do need to mount that's about the only
thing you have to mount oh that and the handlebars it is sturdy it does not rattle and it supports
the bike well i've not had any problems with it so far the nituno has well go pedal so another
brand component yet again and it does use a speed sensor in the crank there now this
speed sensor i have found at times is a little slow to react to my pedaling to then give me the
pedal assist power the frame does have mounting points here for a rear rack and a bottle holder
the battery is located within the frame right here now it is a samsung battery so the sales i've used
in it the capacity is 522 watt hours or 14.5 amp hours which is quite large for these bikes the
claimed range they say is about 100 kilometers now there is a status led within it that you can
simply press this button to check the power level of the battery before you place it in the bike
it is removable so with the key here it's locked in place but using that i can simply
just turn it and it pops up and you can remove that battery then completely to charge it in
the office for example now the charge time of this battery is about six to seven hours
the rooms on this bike are 27.5 inches and we have kenda tyres so that's another brand component that
they've gone with so the width of these tyres is 2.1 inches and it's a cross-country off-road tread
pattern it does come with shimano gears here which is very standard so seven speed and it is the
tourney very entry level the chain is a rust proof kmc chain and we do have a plastic guard
around the front crank so the bike is not using lock grips unfortunately and they do twist around
a little bit so i would end up changing these for lock grips so this is our front brake lever
here which is a zoom brake lever that does have an incorporated bell in it which is loud enough
the rear brake and then i'll selector there for the seven shimano gears
and then i'll display here now this one's quite clear but it doesn't flicker like this it's only
on my camera here that it's doing this it is however a little hard to see in direct sunlight
i wish it was a little bit brighter so this is to power it on and off and tapping that you then turn
on that front headlight so this is our mode button so there's five different pedal assist levels each
one gives you various different levels of power and the top speed is up to 25 kilometers per hour
now it does have bluetooth and an application which at the moment only works on iphone after the
fun stuff now so just how does it ride so i like this kickstand as i mentioned before it doesn't
rattle and that's a good point about any bike if it doesn't rattle it gets a big thumbs up from me
now there is a little bit of battery rattle that i do sometimes here but most of the time the bike
doesn't rattle which is good so i've got ample space here this is a large frame there's no way
my knees are going to get anywhere close to these handlebars which is great now the handlebar
height for me is good i'm 182 centimeters tall and i find that it's nice and high
i don't feel like i'm crouching down crouching over with this which is good
now the gear shifts typical shimano no problems it's not like saran i've got ceram on my track
and i have issues but no this is working great no problems and the brake levers they feel good
good response from them and i'll be doing my brake test later on too with this bike
so the pedal assist i've got nothing at the moment so number one i actually put it on to number three
four five there you can feel it kick in now it is sometimes a little slow
just popping up that front top speed so me peddling quite fast here as hard as i can in
the seventh gear highest gear of course i can get it up to about 38 39 kilometers per hour but this
is downhill but i can still do it on the flat so this bike does have a reasonably good top speed
i'm happy with it it's not like other bikes that you cannot actually really go over about
30 but this one you can thanks to the 27.5 inch wheels it really do help out so here is
my climb testing spot i am in the pedal assist level number five which is the maximum and i'm
in the fifth gear here but i'm gonna lower that down actually no i don't think i need to this is
going quite well so this is about a 25 30 degree incline the gradient right here that i'm going
up so it's reasonably steep i am having to put a little bit of effort in now the steeper it gets
but this isn't bad but i do feel now i've got to drop it down a few gears so it's certainly
helping me but i can feel the limitation of that 250 watts and the 45 newton meters of torque so
it's a good climber but it's certainly not the best that i've tested out
the climbing performance and my brake test from about 30 kilometers per hour from this post
full arm braking but i locked up that rear these tectro brakes mechanical disc brakes 160
millimeter they're actually pretty good i've got no complaints and i don't feel like i need to go
and upgrade these to hydraulic they do have good braking performance and plenty of pressure being
applied and those pads are really biting into the discs which is what i want out of my brakes
and if you had a flat battery well i can tell you you can do the steep climbs but
i'm on the first gear the lowest this is very difficult 25 kilos and quite a challenging climb
really have to push hard to climb up this and a little bit of downhill testing now
so i've got the seat right down i can get it out of the way
and this drop here a little bit scary on an unfamiliar bike but it did it okay a bit
of rattling coming from the battery and probably even a bit from the suspension
down to see how well it can climb so this trail here very rocky a lot of loose rock around the
front suspension's helping a little bit but this is oh very hard going in unfortunately that is
it so i did the same climb here with a fat tire bike which has four inch wide tires it rocketed
up this but with these skinnier 2.1 inch tyres here i really don't stand a chance getting up this
and then riding down these trails again this is very technical very rough
and it's okay the front shock is definitely getting quite a workout here it's reasonably stiff
and as i've mentioned a couple of times like the travel's only about
two and a half inches but it's still better than nothing i would not want to go down this
without any front shock at all and with a hard tail here and heavy bike it's doing
okay going down the trails at least seems relatively quick and not too much of an issue
now then what about the range you can get out of it so the 14.5 amp hour battery is quite a large
one normally i see 10 amp hour batteries but this one is big it adds a little bit more weight but
the range is excellent out of this bike now the other escape bikes that i have reviewed some of
them with 700c wheels on them i managed to get 90 100 kilometer range and this is very good so
for every bar which is representing 20 of the battery gauge on the display i am losing around
15 kilometers but that's including climbs mostly using the pedal assist level four or five which
are the higher levels so i do believe it is actually possible to get their claimed
100 kilometer range of course when you're riding on the flat and you ride over 25 kilometers per
hour you're not even using the motor then or even touching that battery so that is going to aid to
the range there so mileage always will vary and i'm about 82 kilos now so if you're lighter than
me you get more if you're heavier you'll get less if you've got more climbs range will be shorter
too as well you get the idea now a lot of things i do like about this bike and it's especially
because they've gone finally these brands with a lot of actual knowing brand components so
zoom front shock buffering motor samsung battery cells tektro mechanical disc brakes and even well
go pedals too not no brand stuff there the shock works well the travel's relatively short it's only
really about two and a half to maybe sometimes three inches that i can see from the grease marks
here of the travel i've been able to get out of it but those breaks from tectro they're they're
working well for mechanical disc brakes i really don't have any complaints about them i wouldn't
even feel the need to go and swap them out for hydraulics which i normally complain about on most
of my e-bike reviews however at this price point i still think they should have gone with hydraulics
but the brakes are good there so the gears from shimano they work flawlessly overall i think this
is a good bike considering other bikes that sell for about 1200 euros they have a no brand shock
no brand battery you don't know what the battery sales are they could be lg there could be samsung
they don't normally mention that the brakes are normally no brand as well or they could be
zoom breaks which okay they're all right but these ones are definitely better so you're getting some
brand names in this components that are just a lot better and you only have to pay really about 100
euros more than some of the others i've reviewed so overall it is a decent bike but it is a large
frame size so it's not going to be for everyone the handlebar height is quite high i'm 182
centimeters tall so for me it actually works out to be fine the seat can go down nice and low so
make sure you check on the website for the rider heights that this frame does cater to and then
the frame size the drama tune everything before you pull the trigger on it but it does get the
thumbs up from me the ascoot neutuno here i think is a decent 27.5 inch entry-level e-bike let me
stress that it's an entry-level bike you're not going to be doing downhill crazy extreme trails
with a bike like this but it certainly is for the price tag i think a very good e-bike