Chris here with yet another e-bike review and another foldable one too so this is from a company
called ENGWE i've reviewed one of their models before but the c20 here has 20-inch rims that are
2.35 inches wide the tyres giving a bit of a fat tire look to it and the frame here completely
foldable with a removable battery that's located in this part here of the frame so it is a 10 amp
hour battery that they claim should be able to get us up to 80 kilometers the range which seems
to me a little bit far-fetched and i do actually know the result which i'll let you know at the end
of this video so we have shimano seven-speed gears with this particular model the rear hub
motor is 250 watts and it can motor us up to a top speed assisted and with the twist accelerator of
25 kilometers per hour it does have a front shock the brakes on this model too uh mechanical disc
brakes 160 millimeter pretty standard there so this review i'll let you know all the pros and the
cons here of the c20 i like the tyres on this they are just row tires but they're wide they're 2.35
inches wide instead of the typical 1.95 and 20 inches there are no brand tyres however
it does come with a sturdy kickstand that does not rattle pretty standard cheap front shock
here that does give us about two and a half inches of travel which is better than nothing we have a
front headlight which does have a magnifying lens over it and it is quite bright good for safety
the c20 has foldable pedals so you simply need to press them in the middle here and they can fold
up and down they're made out of a strong plastic on the outside and then alloy in the middle
there is a 10 amp hour removable battery within the frame right here i'll show you it shortly
and this is where we charge it so the charging port here on the left side and charge time is
about six hours now this little rubber cap doesn't even seal over properly it keeps coming out on me
it's not really going to do much at all but at least it is there but it feels a bit
cheap other areas i've noticed where they've cut corners is to finish around the frame here
it's very uneven it's just like they've been grinding away at it and i don't really care
if it's perfectly flat if it's all up and down and over the place not an issue the paint job a
matte gray here does at least feel reasonably good but you can see lots of imperfections
in the frame the seat post does have a quick release here and you can raise the height so
we'll cater for short riders and tall riders i'm 182 centimeters tall and this can go even
higher for people that are 200 centimeters for example and we have a reflector here on the rear
it does use a speed sensor which is right here on the crank so it detects when you're pedaling
then gives you the pedal assistance there are no levels it's just a set level that it has you
can't adjust this the crank at the front has a plastic chain guard around it and it does have 48
teeth a seven speed setup here from shimano it is their tourney which is very entry level
and standard and it does have a protector here so the derailleur is not going to get knocked around
it does seem that mud guards could be fitted to it there is a hole cut out for that and you'll notice
some more imperfections with the frame around here this is uneven that's not symmetrical to
finish right there which makes it look a little cheap now the fold right here i do like this is
very strong good welds around it there's a little tiny security latch here so you need
to press that forward and then you can pull that back and proceed to flip the bike around so once
it's folded in half and then the handlebars down you can see it fits into the boot of the car or
under a stairwell so great for storage and we have a quick release style for the handlebar now this
feels a little bit cheap but it does do the job there's like a security here so when it is even
loose it's not going to collapse on you you still need to actually push that down and then give it a
bit of a pull to one side then the handlebar will collapse so the bike does weigh 24 kilos and it is
catering for rider heights of 165 to 195 centimeters the handlebar height is adjustable
right here there's a quick release we've got our front brake this is the lights which you can leave
always on if you just keep it pressed in it's for the front light only and then our horn which does
have a very loud buzzer our selector there for the gear so let's go up the gears down the gears
and this is our gauge here for the battery and the accelerator right here so this battery gauge is
my biggest complaint of the bike it is really hard to see and i mean very hard to see even with a bit
of a shadow over it i can hardly even read that to see the battery life so very poor they should have
gone with a different system here so it's really hard to gauge just how much battery you have left
and more on that later on in this review so with this trigger here you can just pull it straight
away and the bike will accelerate you don't need to push off kick off or start pedaling or anything
so you do need to be careful with it and there is no button to disable it we have one of two sets of
keys here so this is for the ignition the other is for the battery and the battery lock and of
course up here that is our rear brake in order to remove the battery you do need to fold the bike in
half you can see this is where it connects in now the area around here feels a little cheap
the plastics used and within this part i think you'll find the controller and it seems to be
just floating around inside at least in my unit i can hear some rattling and i'm pretty sure it's
that controller which is not good you don't want that so the battery you can charge it within the
bike or you can pull the thing right out and it is lockables you can lock it in the bike
and take it upstairs if you wanted to whatever into your house and charge it you don't have to
leave it in the bike and just what is the c20 like to ride well i do like the fact that it's
longer than some of the other foldable bikes that means that there is plenty of room for my legs
my knees are not going to strike up against the handlebars you can see i have a lot of room here
that's great and even when i turn it's still not close at all the handlebars to my knees so
that is good and you're in a reasonable position here so once you start to pedal it detects that
and it will give you the assistance straight away now to me it seems that there is no adjustment on
this level whatsoever it's just in a maximum mode and you can use the accelerator too so simply just
twisting that twist accelerator away i go so an easy little gentle climb like this not a problem
you got the seven gears now the gears they shift just fine typical shimano no problems
it's not like my saran gears that i have on my trek rail 5 which are a bit of a mess no shimano
for me has always been quite good and reliable nice clean shifts there no grating of gears
now the motor does make a bit of noise i wouldn't rate it as one of the quieter motors that i have
ridden it certainly can be heard and you probably hear it right now with this gentle little climb
that i'm doing so i'm doing this in the fifth gear and it's absolutely no problem now they claim that
it can handle climbs of up to 20 degrees i will be putting that to the test now as i head towards
my climb tear spot but just before i do get to that spot what about the top speed now
looking at my gps here i'm currently doing about 25 kilometers per hour
and to cycle over 25 i'm in the top gear here the seventh gear and push real hard
it is harder to get over that speed i'm doing approximately 27 now kilometers per hour
i can just maintain that and the motor is doing nothing of course once you go over 25 it cuts out
and the climb spot so this is about 25 30 degrees and i put it into the fifth gear fourth gear here
and it's able to go up this no problem so far with the 250 watts and now i'm starting to feel
it a little bit that i have to pedal a bit harder so i'm going to lower that gear down to the third
probably down to even the second gear now so climbing performance is it's okay it's certainly
a lot easier than if i turned it off completely and be doing this just manually without the motor
i can hear it struggling again a little so i can comfortably just get up here with the second gear
so i would not call this a top climbing performance e-bike certainly quite average
compared to others i have covered in the channel which have more powerful motors
and now my braking test so normally i do this at about 30 kilometers per hour and i have to
use my watch because i can't see the speed with this so that's about 30 from this post
okay breaking performance i have actually had worse than some of the recent e-bikes
i've reviewed with the same mechanical 160 millimeter disc brakes but right here it seems
the pads that they've gone with are biting into the discs a little bit better here and the brakes
they're okay they're certainly not amazing and again to the end of the
coast with another e-bike now this bike the c20 is riding better than it looks
i do like the wider tires i think they're helping with the ride comfort just to soak up a few more
bumps the front suspension it has very minimal travel it's only about 20 to 30 millimeters
of travel really that you're getting out of it but it is better than nothing having that shock
now what about the range of the sea bike they say that it can get up to 80 kilometers
from a 10 battery with 20 inch wheels i just knew that that was never going to happen
but you're realistically looking at about half of that okay so 35 40 kilometers is what i'm able
to get out of this and it's very hard to actually gauge the range with it because each one of these
bars does represent 25 on the little gauge that we get but it's so difficult to see even if you
use your hand to shade it even now i can barely see that because it's green there too and it's
very unreliable that gauge because at first it was showing me i had 100 battery after doing
20 kilometers and i thought wow that's amazing and then after doing one climb it had dropped down one
bar and even gone down to two bars so it's very inaccurate too i think it's just based off the
voltage there of it so i did use a lot the twist accelerator and if you don't use it so much then
i guess you might be able to squeeze a little bit more out with the range there so one of the
things that i like about this bike i do like the fact that yes it's foldable i like that they've
gone with these tires that are slightly wider than normal normally we get about 1.95 inch wide tires
on the 20-inch bikes right but this one's 2.35 so it gives it a little bit of a fat tire look to it
fat wheel look but not quite like the four inch ones of course and then the frame of it makes
it look like it's very solid sturdy bike now the welds and the way it joins up here are good but
the frame quality i've noticed some rough patches some areas that could be a little bit better some
parts do feel a bit cheap around where the battery is located some of the plastics used and also it
feels like the controller inside here for the battery is rattling if i just give it a bit of a
shake i can hear it rattle all the time that is annoying now the front shock doesn't rattle and
it's certainly better than nothing gives us about two and a half inches of travel which is fine
the brakes they're okay just average mechanical disc brakes i know i rant on about them all the
time in my e-bike reviews but normally they put very poor brakes on these bikes and the
first thing i would want to do is just upgrade straight away we do get a powerful front led
headlight which is good and reflective on the rear and the seven gears means that climbing
is a bit easier thanks to that now the climbing performance of the c20 here i
would not rate as the best compared to other 20 inch foldable e-bikes i would say it's average
you do have to put a bit of effort into it but it's not that bad you can lower it down to say
the third gear second and you're able to get up some of those more steeper climbs so overall for
the price it sells for which is about 600 to 700 euros i don't think it's too bad but there
are certainly better models out there if you do spend a little bit more some areas of the bike
as mentioned just feel a little bit cheap and it does weigh about 24 kilos which you know is
kind of standard there for an e-bike like this oh and the seat it is comfortable nice and wide
so that's another positive there it's just not an ultra high quality bike from them but overall
it's good and i've definitely enjoyed my rides with this bike it certainly rides a lot better
than it looks so thank you so much for watching my review here of the c20 20 inch foldable e-bike