Last week in one of my videos, I mentioned that I had something
a little bit different here. I wanted to show you. And here it is.
One thing I find very interesting about this is the amount of power
that they have, and you might be surprised about what options are available.
It has two wheels. It has a hub motor, like many electric bikes. It has a battery. It's got a
rear rack, even with a bag on there. It's got a front fender suspension fork, stem, handlebars.
For all intents and purposes, This might look like an electric bike, except for two things.
It doesn't have any pedals. It doesn't have a seat, although there is an option
for that. The first question you have to ask yourself is really what is this?
I had a good conversation with Chris, the creator of the Glide Cycle.
Newscaster: “Good morning. Tell us a little bit about this beauty right here.”
Chris: “We do a line of electric drive standup cycles. So you notice, uh, no
pedals, no seat. And we do high quality frame construction.”
He gave me some good insight about how he came up with this idea. When you think about water sports
or skiing sports, whether it's snowboarding or wakeboarding, you have this certain type of
movement where you can just glide back and forth and he wanted to recreate that.
And that's what this is all about. Let’s show you how this works. Flip the battery. Switch on,
turn on via the key fob and now push the throttle.
Now, this really is an interesting riding experience. It's not like any ebike I've ever
ridden because it's not any bike. Now, some people I know might look at this and think
it looks like a scooter. But I'm here to tell you that this is not a scooter.
Scooters typically have small wheels. They're not as stable. They don't do well on rough terrain
like gravel. But this handles it really well. As you may have noticed in some of those clips,
there were some speed bumps, and basically I was able to hit those
at full speed with this. So the main thing that you get out of the glide cycle is the experience.
Imagine wakeboarding, imagine snowboarding, but being able to do that on the street.
That's kind of what this is all about. I have to admit that I am not a snowboarder.
I'm not a skateboarder. I'm not a skier. I've done a little bit of some of those things.
But I'm not an expert at any of those. And I was almost a little bit nervous about trying
this for the first time, but it's super easy to use you just step on it, twist the throttle
and go. It feels very, very natural. There's a big wide deck with grip tape. Like, you'd see,
on a skateboard. This has by far the lowest step over of any sort of ebike thing I've ever tested.
I mean, It's ridiculous how easy it is to actually, I mean, that's it. Often I have
had people come in looking for ebikes, but they want something that has an extremely low step over
height. And they're not necessarily looking for exercise or pedaling as much because sometimes the
reason they're looking for a low, low step over is because they can't bend their knees that far.
Maybe they can't even complete the pedaling motion, but something like this. Works really well
for that. This is something you could put behind your RV or your motor home, or you could run to
town with, just like an electric bicycle, but it's much easier to get on and off. This is designed to
be a standup cycle, like a standup paddleboard or any of those other things that I mentioned.
Uh, but there is actually an option to have a
seat mounted towards the back here. So if you want something where you can actually
sit down on occasion as well, that is an option. This particular model is called the F1 Raptor,
no relation or correlation to the Raptor model from Bolton Ebikes, purely a coincidence.
Uh, but this is one of the actually lower power models at a thousand Watts. So yes, this is a
direct strive thousand watt hub motor. Yeah. And it's pretty fast
with something like this. You can very easily cruise up and down the street
at speeds, close to 30 miles an hour, and also has a decent amount of torque for getting up hills.
You can also go up to 2000 Watts and if you really want to get crazy, you can go up to a
72 volt system with a 3000 watt motor. That is a lot of power. You've got a standard bicycle
suspension fork, hydraulic brakes. This one has fenders for the front. And then the rear fender
is kind of just part of the frame design fat tires are an option for these as well.
There's a switch right here, which is to turn on, on the awesome blue accent lighting.
So that's pretty cool. It kind of lights up the logo along the side here.
This particular battery is a 48 volt, 18 amp hour, and they go up in capacity and voltage
for those higher power models that I mentioned. The rear rack is integrated into the frame.
So you can have a bag mounted on the back to carry things. It's totally out of the way.
You're not having to swing your leg over it. Like you would a bicycle. Cause there's just so much
room to step over right in the middle here. Very nice bright headlight on the front of the bike.
Some of, you might be thinking that, Hey, piqued my interest a little bit. This is kind of cool.
You know, how much is it?
The price of something like the Raptor here is about 3950. So just under four,
$4,000, I think it's important at this point in time to stress.
What is the quality like? Where is this thing made? This is not an off the shelf frame
made from some other scooter or device it's not made in China.
This frame is made out of aluminum. These rectangular tubes here are custom
formed and designed specifically for this frame. There is nothing off the shelf about this
at all. And the cool thing about this is that these frames are handmade here in California
that I am told is designed to withstand a weight capacity of 650 pounds.
So again, on the price points, they're going to range from about 2850 for a base model,
even the lowest. Model that is offered has that 1000 watt motor. And you can go up
above the $6,000 range. If you're going with something that's, you know, 3000 Watts, 72
volts and all of the possible options. I'd love to answer more of your questions.
So I'm going to do that tomorrow by doing a live. Q and a
session here on YouTube. I'll put a link down. I'm curious to hear what you guys
think about this right now. Feel free to leave a comment. Tell me what you think about the
standup cycle and the whole concept of this type of electric vehicle. One thing I've noticed
on the line videos that we've started doing recently is that the chat can go absolutely.
Crazy to be honest, sometimes it's hard for me to keep up
with everything that's going on. So both to keep up and also eliminate any spam or just
junk things going on in the chat. We are changing the chat function to be for members.
Only if you want to support the channel and the live videos where we can do more
reviews on products like this, then you can hit that join button down below.
If you only want to access the live chat function, it's only 99 cents a month. That's
literally the cheapest option that YouTube will let me do. The Glide Cycle is not the
first thing I've reviewed on my channel or showed off that has two wheels and no pedals.
I've also done a video about the UBCO 2x2.
If you're interested in other types of electric vehicles that don't always have pedals. I highly
recommend checking that video out right over here.