this is the Fido T1 cargo and as you can see it's a utility bike here so we've got a front
cage bike rack at the rear very large removable battery this one's 20.3 amp hours it has a 750
watt rear hub motor that can get us to speeds if unlocked over 40 kilometers per hour the bike is
heavy as you could imagine a design like this it's 36 kilos and it does have those fat four inch wide
tires 20 inch rims and 180 millimeter mechanical disc brakes the battery range they claim is up to
a massive 120 kilometers but I'll be putting that to the test of course in this review
so very common here we've got a seven speaker set here and it is shimano's tourney now this is very
entry level but it does the job and the shifts have been nice and clean no grading of Gears
if it's aligned properly and the derailleur has not been knocked in the Box you should not have
any problems with your gear changes the front crank has 52 teeth our pedals are made out of
a hard ABS style plastic and they feel just fine I don't have any complaints the tires that feedu
selected are the CST big boat model here so they are road tires not those nobly off-road
tires better rolling resistance and I'd like this move most companies just go for the knobbly tires
which are very loud and they're not really great for the road plastic mud guards are included our
front shock here has approximately three inches or so of travel as you can see from the grease Mark
here it's reasonably soft and it does Aid the riding comfort of this bike just like our seat
which is padded nice and wide it has Springs and is even a shock in the seat post itself here which
is helping to soak up some of those bumps the T1 cargo as the name suggests is all about being a
utility bike so it does have a bike rack with a wooden insert and I believe you can get a holder
or something that goes over the top of this from Fido so you can store more items carry more cargo
as it was designed to do there's two mounting points as well for water bottles one here and here
the T1 cargo has probably one of the best headlights that I have tested out on a bike
it has both a low beam and a high beam there's a little switch that I'll show you later you
simply switch that up and down so very similar to say a motorcycle and it really is as bright
as what you get on a motorcycle it has day timer running Lids so you can see those when you're
riding around during the day adds to safety and overall it's just super bright probably the best
LED headlight that I have tested yet on an e-bike it's front cargo cage not only is it big it's also
quite deep as you can see it goes down and that means objects aren't really going to fall out
of it and it doesn't rattle it's very sturdy the design of it and it is mounted to the front frame
so it's not affected by you turning which may put off some people as the handlebars of course they
operate independently that headlight too is always going to be facing out the front and not facing
where you turn so I really like this battery Bank design it's huge we've got a battery that
is just over 20 amp hours so enormous there's a little tiny flap that goes over the charging port
charge time is long it's about eight hours now it is removable you can slot it out and you simply
just press a button here a little a little switch on the underside of the seat the seat then pops up
and you can slide out that battery physicals means you can charge the battery in the bike or remove
it charge it in your office at home wherever the great thing about this battery that it is a locked
in place now it's a 48 volt system and with this key here it acts as an ignition too so you need
to have the key in it turn it to the on position so the bike will be powered on so when you turn
it to the off position you pull out the key no one can power it on no one can then remove the battery
it's locked there safe in place so no one can just go along and steal it now because of this bike's
very heavy 38 kilo weight Fido did upgrade the brake row to size so normally the standard is 160
millimeters these ones here are 180 so they are wider increasing our braking performance but they
aren't hydraulic brakes these are mechanical disc brakes I really feel for this price point and the
weight of the bike especially they still should have gone with hydraulic calipers and 180 discs
the front wheel does not have a quick release so I do highly recommend putting anti-punch a
solution in these tires especially if it's like these roads here there's a lot of thorns nails
and screws about which could be a problem at least our seat post does have a quick release
on it now rider Heights the dimensions of this bike can all be found on fedu's website under
the T1 cargo look at the specifications this is by far my biggest complaint the screens on Fido bikes
they're still using the same display now it's got the battery gauge at the top which can be a little
bit unreliable we have our speed three pedal assist levels and it does tell us if we have our
light on or Not by just pushing this in button so that's aim to power it on you can cycle through a
trip meter it doesn't have an odometer either it's just very hard in general to make it out in direct
sunlight especially now for example I cannot see my pedal assist levels so we have the control here
for the high beam low beam our little horn so this is a very loud buzzer I'll give you a sample of it
and then here we have grips that are not lock grips so they spin around I would definitely
be swapping these out for some lock grips on our right hand side here we do have our gear selector
so it's one of these ones that you can use with your thumb the thumb selector so going up the
gears just right here then down but I do find the accelerator which is right here Incorporated with
the gear selector here it's just far too close so I often go to change down gears and end up
hitting the accelerator by mistake this video T1 is a practical bike and it just so happens that
I've got a package here that I need to deliver and take that to the post office it's a perfect
example of what this utility bike is really good for because we've got of course the carry cage
here at the front I can just put the box right in there I don't need to carry a backpack with
me at all and you could actually store some other things down here probably and then I think there's
an option to also add like a a carry bag for the back of it here now the stand I want to talk a
little bit about that that it is very dirty it doesn't seem to Rattle it's holding the 36 kilos
of this bike just fine without any problems here so the right comfort of it what is it like to ride
well the seat because it's so wide and it's got the spring in it it's actually really comfortable
you just kind of Bounce along something's squeaking there that's one of my brakes
so yeah the brakes are a little bit squeaky here the mechanical disc brakes so as soon as
you start to Pedal it's about around the three four kilometer Mark as soon as you get to that
speed the speed sensor kicks in gives the power to our motor in the rear of course and then away
you go so just rolling down hill here very easy and my package it's nice and snug in
there it's not going to go anywhere hoping this car's going to see me yes it's good thank you
foreign and it Powers along really well here but I am heading downhill
for my knees they're not going to strike their handlebars I don't feel cramped and the riding
position is comfortable you are upright quite spacious because of the design of the frame
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so it's a rough road ahead this is where that front fork the suspension does help out quite a
bit and then the seat of course with the springs and this shock in the seat post made that really
quite smooth they don't get a jar that goes through your spine when you're sitting on
this bike now for my client here so if you haven't seen my other e-bike any scooter reviews this is
the test point where I want to test out just how well will it do it's about 25 degrees this climb
so it's reasonably steep now I do have it in pedal assist level number three the speed sensors kicked
in now it took about two three kilometers and it is going up versus first gear just fine in fact I
can go up gears here I'm in the second third gear now and this is effortless so lots of performance
a lot of talk here this is really easy to climb up even steep climbs thanks to that 750 watt motor
foreign so I talk about this a lot when it comes to breaks that they really should
start using hydraulic and especially with a 36 kilo bike so 30 kilometers per hour breaks
oh so an emergency stop actually quite good thanks to the 180 millimeter disc
brakes normally most brands use one 60 millimeter but the 180
does break a lot better but as you can hear from that the pads they squeal a lot with this bike
one thing I have noticed about this torque sensor is that it can kick in quite abruptly especially
if you have it unlocked and give you almost a little bit too much torque to start with now I
know probably people will say well what are you going to complain about that but it's it's just
the way it delivers that power and then sometimes it can be a little bit slow to cut out too so you
can see I've now got a bag in the front little parcel carry cage there and it works out quite
well so you don't have to have that backpack on your back where you might get a little bit sweaty
it does really make the ride a lot more comfortable [Music]
so how's the range of the T1 cargo well they do claim you can get up to 150 kilometers but with 20
inch rims I knew straight away that that's quite unrealistic I think their testing conditions for
that would be a 50 kilo Rider which I'm not I'm 82 kilos and they probably were riding on the flat
and pedal assist level number one now I'm using pedal assist level three that probably most people
will stick with and I am looking at around 80 to 70 kilometer range now I got halfway with the
battery according to the gauge which is a little over the place at times it's quite unreliable and
I've done 43 kilometers so that's how I've gauged it there I think it's decent considering how heavy
it is it's 36 kilos it's only got the 20 inch size rims of course the bigger the wheels the
better kind of range you get it is a very decent battery Bank size too it's a definite pros of
the bike here is the removable battery lockable battery and the ignition Keys you can lock it up
leave it no one's going to turn it on you can't just pull the battery out of it which is great
and then how practical is so it's a very good bike when it comes to stowing things here later you can
get set up with pouches and things for the bike at the rear of it the seat I do like the way it
just flips up so you can slot out that battery and it is a very comfortable large seat with the
springs in it and then the spring that is in the seat post itself there power wise it is powerful
great in the climbs we've got the gears which is good and it does have a very good top speed
if you can unlock it and you actually legally allowed to run at that unlocked speed there
too you can get it over 40 kilometers per hour which is great there too so the things I don't
particularly like about this bike well they're minor things we've got of course no lock grips
right here that's kind of annoying the display is annoying that I can't see it properly during
the day I don't like that at all they need to change this display Fido come on other brands
are using very large super clear displays they need to get up with what their competitors are
doing and offer something that's similar or even better there and then the selector here is so
close to where the accelerator is that is annoying another really good thing I do like is the front
headlight super bright super safe it's powerful low beam high beam setup haven't seen that before
it's really good the front shock is practical practical there and the fat Wheels do soak up
a lot of bumps so there we go that is feedu's T1 cargo thank you so much for watching this review