Chris here up in the mountains with ado's new bike this is called the d30 it has 27.5 inch rims
on it so none of those small 24 or 20 inch rims it's not foldable either it's a standard frame
this mountain bike has a 250 watt rear hub motor the gears we've got 11 of them from
shimano they're shimano's dior and we do have a front shock now this shock has approximately 30
millimeters of travel it's a no-name brand shock but it's actually not too bad you can lock it out
it also has adjustable rebound we do get two with this bike is hydraulic disc brakes which aren't
bad once you bed them in i find them to be pretty good so we have three pedal assist modes with this
a very large screen the bike weighs approximately 21 kilos for the size of it isn't too bad and we
do have a removable battery here in the frame which is 10 amp hours or 374 watt hours so in
this review i'll be riding it down some trails up some trails i'll let you know what it's like any
pros and cons the ado d30 here has a nice finish to the frame so you don't see the welds they've
grinded them right down and then paint job here is matte over the top and it's a very good finish
our front shock here is a no brand one the travel you get is approximately about 30 35 millimeters
or around two inches or so so it doesn't actually have as much travel as it looks like it does
i'm looking at our drivetrain now so the front crank here this has a chain guard around it
and then we do have a chain now this one's kmc the brand of it and then our cassette at the back
this is shimano with the derailleur so shimano dior is what they've put on this which is a step
above what we typically see here and it still is bottom entry level though when it comes to gears
but at least it is shimano you can trust it on the motor in the rear hub this is 250 watts and
it does run off a 36 volt system which is very common with these e-bikes that i review it comes
with no brand pedals that you do need to install they are made out of metal and they do seem strong
enough so far in my testing of them you can always swap these out for something higher quality too
you may have noticed this here there's a cable that goes to the top of the shock
that's because we can lock it out so there's a little lever and you're able to lock this out
completely which is good if you're doing a big climb and you don't want to be bouncing up and
down on that front suspension now we do have a front headlight here led with a reflector it's
relatively bright the tie gets in the way a little bit and here's what it looks like
at night so the front headlight and then the tail light too very bright and quite safe and it's good
to see that they include a tail light now this one runs off its own batteries which are two aaa's
breaks on the d30 we have hydraulic calipers it's a whole full hydraulic
system not just the calipers themselves and 160 mil discs front and back you can
see here that we do have this quick release for the front wheel but not for the rear one
this bike does not use a torque sensor instead there's a speed sensor here in the crank
the battery is 10 amp hours and it sits within the frame right here there's this
little button you press and you can check on the status of the battery without even turning
on the bike so blue it's good green it's in the middle and red you need to charge it
just on the side you'll find the dcn plug charge time is about five to six hours for this battery
our seat here is a typical mountain bike style seat but it does have a gap in the middle of it
just for a bit of ventilation there the padding on it we get approximately two centimeters worse and
overall it is a comfortable seat the seat post has a quick release on it so very easy
to lower and raise that seat which can then cater to various different rider heights
it comes with a kickstand that's already pre-installed now i do have a bit of a complaint
with this kickstand it's an adjustable one it's already at the maximum and it tends to rattle
sometimes especially when riding over trails as you'll probably hear later on in my review
so i wish that it was a better kickstand and me personally i would actually just remove it i don't
like kickstands on mountain bikes they just make too much noise the grips they have these aren't
lock grips but they're on super tight like they are or maybe they're going to move a little bit
they're really not going to go anywhere i would probably change them out for lock grips later on
if i was going to be keeping this bike so we've got our up and down with the pedal assist levels
and that is the m they have to go through the mode it's also power on now if you hold
the up button that will then turn on the front headlight for us this is our rear brake and
the oil reservoir for the mineral oil that's needed for the hydraulic brake system it has
on the right our front brake a bell relatively loud and then our gear selector here from shimano
so that's to go down the gears this trigger right here is to go up our gears and you can see more or
less where you are by this little indicator then the display so this one is an s 830 very bright
you can see your speed battery gauge right here the pedal assist levels and then we do have here
a few little modes so it's in the trip at the moment you can go over to our voltage current
and then the time that you have been riding so pedal assist level three is the maximum
up to 25 kilometers per hour pedal assist level two 20 kilometers per hour and then the lowest
is just 15 kilometers per hour that it will boost you up to that speed now this gauge here does run
off voltage so you'll often see it dipped down to 70 percent and climbs but then it will bounce back
time now to see just how the adod30 rides now i've noticed that because i'm so used to my trick rail
really wide handlebars that these handlebars seem
quite narrow to me and turning is fine the handlebar doesn't feel as light as it should
it feels a little heavy but the ride is good so with the pedal assist how does it work when
you get up to around five six kilometers you feel the motor kick in so it's a speed sensor
it isn't unfortunately a torque sensor which would be straight away instant power there
but not with this so i'm on level three so it's up to 25 kilometers per hour
i'll lower that down to level two here and i've got a short little climb but i'll take it on some
proper climbs and then up some rough trails too to see how it performs so the front shot going to
rattle about there is something that is rattling i should really get myself in a better gear here
too as well so the gears shimano dior 11 speed good changes okay no problems at all with them
changing good up and down and they have a line this great out of the factory with no
problems what about our top speed it's up to 25 kilometers per hour
30 now cuts out no motor and any little bumps front shocks handling quite well and there
doesn't seem to be any rattle well not much occasionally the stand is rattling and i would
probably just do away with that anyway it's up to 32 kilometers peddling in almost the top gear here
it's quite good under my own pedal power so not using that battery at all
the big climb tears now so not only am i going to just climb up this short distance no i'm going
to go right the way up here with this bike because i want to go down the typical trails
that i ride so this climb is about 25 30 degrees let's see how the d30 handles this
okay so i'm starting this with actually no pedal assist whatsoever because it's often
a frequently asked question in my videos of e-bikes can you ride it
without the battery if it's flat you can but yeah i'm telling you now it's heavy 20 kilos
and i can do this i can do this in the lowest gear this very steep climb but
people are level one oh oh that's so much better hello doggies they don't like e-bikes these dogs
pelosi's level two and this is very easy i can even go up some gears here
so we're going about the third gear now absolutely cruising pedal assist level three this is easy
but without that motor it will be tough going with this climb and such a heavy bike brake test now
so when we get to this post full on brakes
not bad at all because they're hydraulic brakes now one word of warning beat them in first
the first two to three five kilometers actually these brakes need a lot of
bending in the brake pads then they start to break very good
about halfway now with my climb the climb is approximately 300 meters
over about two and a half kilometers and it's really easy going that motor
even though it's just 250 watts is making this an absolute breeze
now light trails like this one right here this bike is okay for but i wouldn't go on any
intermediate or expert not with a bike like this not with this kind of quality so the front shock
it's doing an okay job but just soaking up some of those little bumps
but anything major it does kind of bottom out it's only got really about two inches of travel uh
not even that i'd say just under you see with this rocky bit it's doing okay now i have a
big drop up ahead i normally do this on a 29 inch full suspension so let's see how the d30 is going
to handle it big bumps front suspension's doing okay and here we go the big drop
which from the perspective of the gopro didn't look big at all
what about climbing now so very rocky along here i can go up this a lot easier than if i did not
have of course the motor helping me but with this front suspension and the hard tail it's pretty
hard going the speed sensor has now just cut out because i'm not going fast enough so that's about
all i can do when it comes to climbing up this because you need to be about five or
six kilometers for it to actually work because it doesn't have a torque sensor now for the ride down
to the coast you can just see the waves down there that's my destination yes i know on this thing
a little scary but let's go let's see how it handles it going down trails
you get the seat right down which is good helps my balance
and as long as i don't touch that front brake i should be fine going down this trail okay
so i survived going down that trail very rough though really do need a full suspension and just
a lot more travel on the front shock definitely for a trail like that that i just went down and
tackled so here at the end of last rotors the battery for this ride is holding up really well
i've made it back home now so 58 battery remains and i managed to do 27 kilometers with two very
big climbs so this battery life is excellent there goes my cat vera she's agreeing with me here
so my calculation is 60 to 70 kilometers out of a single charge and if you're on the flat
all the time and you're riding over 25 kilometers per hour then you can probably get somewhere
around even 80 kilometers so removable battery is good it takes about five to six hours to charge
the brakes they're not bad once you bed them in the gears from shimano work well the overall
finish of the frame and the paint job is excellent i really do like it the screen is large it's
backlit and it's very easy to control the pedal assist levels the areas that i don't like about
this bike well it's got a speed sensor so there are times when you're in climbs if you're not
in the right gear and you're just starting out it won't give you any assistance until you hit around
five kilometers per hour then the motor will kick in so i feel it really needs a torque sensor the
other is the kickstand rattles a little bit i find that annoying i would probably get rid of it
but the big one for me which cost me a whole day of filming is these tyres they are simply too thin
too soft the rubber on them and they're not really made out at all for a mountain bike
i got a puncture and i had to push this bike all the way home and i lost the whole day recording
which was highly annoying apart from that for an entry level bike that you're going to be using for
example just for casual rides on the weekend for the price point if you're on a budget i do think
this is a great bike here from ado it's got a lot of things that other bikes don't have the
big ones being the range on it the shocks and the hydraulic disc brakes so thank you so much for
watching my review here of the d30 hope to see you back with my next up and coming videos bye for now