Finally it's arrived the foldable Fido X this is a bike I've been waiting a long time for
the original order that I had was canceled in the beginning because it turned out they had a
few little niggles uh some major ones with the designer this bike when it came to the folding
part of the frame thankfully that's all being corrected you could say I now have of course
the revised updated version which has a complete fix for this it's been really reinforced and so
far no complaints for me it looks really sturdy out of the frame so the idea of these bikes of
course has been something a lot more compact for City commutes and something you could fold
up maybe even take it up into the office with you store it under a stairwell or place it in
the boot of a car and travel with it with relative ease because the handlebar drops down pedals fold
in and of course it does fold in half now this bike has 20 inch rims it's got hydraulic disc
brakes yay big thumbs up for that because so many of these bikes just have mechanical this breaks
but I can give you a spoiler here they're good strong braking performance seven speed Shimano
setup and the battery is in this seat post here which is lockable there's a little combination
electronic lock here to lock it in there and also power on the bike now the capacity is 417
Watt hours the motor the version I have is the 350 watt version which is the more powerful one there
is also a 250 watt version of this particular foldable e-bike the tires are 20 inches by 1.95
inches and you'll notice here there's this little bit that sticks out and you're probably wondering
well what is that well it's using magnets so when you fold it it's going to latch the bike together
it's probably this that is rattling around and causing the rattling that I'm hearing comes
with side reflectors on each of the 20 inch wheels foldable pedals you just need to pull in and then
they can go up and then latch down they're made out of an ABS style plastic the X model does use
a torque sensor so it's very quick to react to your pedaling as soon as you start to Pedal you
get that power delivery and it is smooth not like the speed sensors that sometimes can be a little
jerky or they take far too long to give you that pedal assistance especially on climbs not here
the bike comes with a sturdy kickstand it has not fallen down on me yet and it does not rattle also
included in the box you'll find an accessories kit which includes some mud guards now I haven't
installed them because in this climate here I don't really need mud guards it barely rains
the drivetrain consists of a seven-speed setup with Shimano Tourney now I've seen a lot of this
particular derailleur and it is yes entry level drivetrain here from Shimano but it does the job
it's just very common our front crank has 52 teeth and a chain guard around it the bike's frame is
magnesium alloy we are looking at a total weight of 19.8 kilos there's no floors with the frame
that I can see no rough patches very good finish to it and I do like this matte green metallic
paint job the boat comes with a tail light which is quite bright you can see it even during the day
and it lights up The Path ahead of you the front headlight which you can see is a projector style
it's got a lens behind it now the front headlights just like the tail light is part of the frame but
having the headlight part of the frame means when you turn because it's not on the fork the light
beam doesn't turn with your turns so it's fixed Straight Ahead wherever the frame of the bike is
pointing it's just a minor complaint there from me the bike has this little keypad here for added
security so you can lock it out and you need a five digit PIN by default it is zero to five now
in order to turn the bike on you need to press and hold the power button key in the number press the
power button again which is a little cumbersome to me it's great that it's keyless but I would have
preferred actually I think a key it's a little more simple it's quick and easy to do and this
can be a little bit cumbersome often I've gone to first power and on you hold down the button
it does a short beep didn't like it you need to repeat until you hear the long beep then put the
pin in press it again and for me that process isn't that great I'd rather just turn a key
this bike's battery is part of the seat post now it has power rails within it where it does
pick up the power so there's no cables for the seat which is really good there is a main power
button right here with a green status LED and even a fuse this is really good to see so if you
accidentally blow the fuse there you can replace that you'd be back up and running without causing
any major damage I wish more Brands would do this the battery's capacity is 417 Watt hours and they
do claim with this model here the 350 watt motor we should be able to get a range of 110 kilometers
the battery and the seat post lever here is locked into place now when it's unlocked you're able to
simply just pull on this lever it's a little hard to do so it's quite tight so the seat doesn't drop
and then you can adjust the height of the seat post now if you want to know the information on
the rider Heights that this bike caters to do check out the specifications on feeders website
there is a link in the description of this video it is of course a foldable bike and the fold right
here mechanism has changed from the original version this being the version two of the bike
there is a little security latch here that you need to just push towards the front fork and
then you can pull on this handle and proceed to then fold the bike in half like so and there is
this spring here to protect the hydraulic cables the power cable that runs through here so that
is not going to get damaged now it looks very good the newer design of this very sturdy this
is all magnesium alloy right here and this part reinforced and I don't see any weakness this time
around the handlebars do fold down so there's a little security here that's spring-loaded you
need to just push down on that pull on the lever and then the handlebars will collapse right down
so now in its folded state it is taking up about half the space of a standard 20 inch bike and this
is one of the big pros and the reasons why you would probably go for a foldable bike instead of
a standard bike so it makes it easier to place it under a stairwell or in the boot or trunk of a car
the x is using a standard seat with a synthetic material here it has quite a
bit of padding to it overall not a bad seat it is comfortable and I've got no complaints about it
the bike does use lock grips which is good to see often Fido and their previous bikes would use
these real cheap grips that would just spin around and they were terrible levers do feel really good
been hydraulic we have our screen which displays clearly our battery gauge our speed a trip meter
pedal assist levels and then the light now you'll see it shimming away here because the
frequency of the screen I just cannot get it to match with any of the shutter rates of my camera
so it doesn't look like this it is clear you can see it in daylight we've got our gear selector
right here that's Shimano very standard entry level stuff here seven speed as mentioned before
now the right test here of the feeder X so the foldable hinge part here has been reinforced very
solid I have full confidence in it I've gone down curbs and things and it's not budging it does look
really good to me now of course with the version 2 of the bike so I have the 350 watt version as I
have mentioned a couple of times so it's a more powerful version it has the torque sensor and
the three pedal assist levels now size wise it's pretty much like a BMX like riding a BMX it is a
smaller bike it's got 20 inch size wheels now my knees they come a little close to the handlebars
as you can see but not to the point that when I turn I'd have the handlebars touching or my knees
hitting it that is not going to happen here with this particular bike so I'm in pedal assist level
two now and then three you can hear the motor a little it's not that loud now when you start to
Pedal the torque sensor reacts pretty much instantaneously which is good gear shifts
very good typical Shimano there are no grading of Gears here now I can get up to 25 kilometers per
hour quite comfortably once you go over that it cuts out the motor so that's the legal limit here
it is locked to 25 kilometers per hour so it's a smooth comfortable ride very easy on the flat
to get about A to B now I've got a rattle that's coming from I think within the frame at the front
or maybe the front fork I've tightened everything up so I don't know what it is it's rattling to me
it could be the cable but it doesn't seem like a cable maybe the controller inside the frame is
rattling a little bit and you can probably hear that now that it's just constantly rattling away
whatever is loose I do find that very annoying now I'm a big fan of bikes that don't rattle
any rattling really does irritate me so it is a definite con of the Fido X maybe it's a problem
with my unit I hope they all don't suffer from this rattle another real test of any e-bike is its
climbing performance so I have the more powerful version here from Fido which is the 350 watt model
so if you've got the 250 watt expected performance to be a lot less than what I am showing here so
I will start out and the pedal assist level 3 which is the maximum I am in the lowest gear of
course and we'll see how it does Fear so torque sensor straight away gives me that power that
is really good no waiting for it to hit three or four kilometers like the speed sensor models and
this is easy super easy climbing up this because of the gearing I'm in the lowest gear and that
pedal assist is fine I can probably even go up a few gears I can pedal a little faster and gaining
speed here now 15 kilometers per hour so climbing performance is good but what happens if I turn off
the motor could I climb up this without the motor oh you notice it straight away wow I have to put
quite a bit of effort into this but it's possible you will get fit if you ride with a low battery or
no battery then the braking performance if you've seen my other videos you probably hear me rant on
about mechanical disc brakes while this has got hydraulic so from this post here full braking
very good for a 20 inch rim size it is good very good braking performance nice
strong powerful hydraulic disc brakes and for this price point
it's great to see that they did go with hydraulic brakes
then the top speed of the video x what I have noticed for some reason the trip computer will
not read over 25 kilometers per hour now I've used GPS to confirm that I am riding
now actually over 25 kilometers per hour but it doesn't say that on the screen so that
seems to be a bit of a bug now I can safely get it up to around 30 kilometers per hour
but it is a little hard with the 20 inch size rims
so I've made it down the coast I've been riding around everywhere and I've seen that for one
battery bar I'm covering about 19 kilometers that's really good for a 20 inch size room so
of course when you ride over 25 it's not using the motor anymore so that will save
you some battery life but it definitely is looking like 80 kilometers at least for me
so the range of the bike overall with my testing with my 82 kilos a few little climbs for me it's
looking around 70 80 to 80 kilometers which for a 20 inch size bike is actually really good normally
I get around maybe 40 50 kilometers out of most of the other e-bikes but it does have a decent
size capacity and it's got the torque sensor which I think is helping out making it a little
bit more efficient and of course when you ride over 25 kilometers per hour the motor cuts out
so you're all on just your own Pedal Power you're not touching that battery at all which yes I was
doing quite a bit mostly when I'm on the flat when I get up to speed I can happily Cruise along and
I would estimate around 28 kilometers per hour so top speed because of the gearing even though
it does have a 52 tooth front crank it still is quite hard for me to get over about 30 kilometers
per hour peddling away for some reason there is a minor complaint from me and that is the
display only shows 25 kilometers per hour and even though I pedal I've confirmed it with GPS
a lot faster than 25 kilometers per hour even going downhill it'll still stay 25 kilometers
per hour hydraulic brakes really good braking performance for a 20 inch bike that gets a big
thumbs up from me normally they're mechanical disc brakes a little bit cheaper they haven't
been so good I like the fact we can remove the battery here now the cons are very minor they
display with the speed that I've mentioned I've got a bit of a rattle coming from
that thing there the magnet that you attach when you fold it up so it detaches it together and then
the passcode at the back the security to unlock the bike it's kind of annoying now it's great that
it's keyless but I actually probably would have preferred an old-fashioned Serta key turn it it's
on turn it off remove the key non-compare it on so the combination lock is another point that could
actually fail if it imagine you got it really wet or that spot is supposed to be waterproof
Splash proof shouldn't be an issue but it's for me a minor hindrance I would rather not actually have
it so the climbing performance with the 350 watt version I've got turned out to be good I could go
up steep climbs and the lowest gear comfortably without working up too much of a sweat now if you
did run out of the battery then it is going to be a challenge because it becomes a quite a bit
of a heavy bike it's almost 20 kilos so it's not super light so really the only reason you would
probably go for this bike is if you want a modern looking design you want a foldable bike you need
a foldable frame foldable handlebars you can make it more compact you can fold in the pedals because
it is a little bit expensive this particular model feeder also does have other bikes out
there like their d11 which are fantastic value for money because they do the same job as this
gets you from A to B but okay it's not as nice as this particular bike here so overall it is a very
good bike it just has those minor little niggles there for cons that I do hope Fido can address
now by the way they do at the moment have a bit of a competition a bit of a giveaway going on where
you can win discounts for this bike and various other prizes so do check it that out if you are
of course interested in the feedu X so thank you so much for watching this review of the X