what's happening everyone my name is alex and welcome back in today's video we are checking out
one of my favorite electric scooters this right here is called the varla pegasus this is a scooter
that has a top speed of up to 45 kilometers an hour a range of up to 45 kilometers for one charge
we have a 500 watt motor in the rear wheel and another 500 watt motor in the front wheel so a
thousand watts of power basically on top of that we have a front area suspension so you
also get a comfortable ride just before we go any further let me show you the box and what comes in
the box so you can get an idea of whenever you get this what comes in that box all right so the
box is pretty big as you'd expect and inside the box you're going to find the scooter but
you do have to do a bit of an installation so it's going to take you about 20 minutes
to put this together you basically have to put the handlebars together and the screen on top of that
handlebar in the box you're also going to find the user manual there is a big chain
so you can chain the scooter to something for example so people don't steal it and you also have
a set of replacement brake pads now the scooter itself looks very different than most other
scooters available on the market first of all it is bigger than most other scooters available
on the market and whenever you're riding on it you do have a bit of a stance on the road if i
may say that not to mention that everybody looks at it because yes it does look quite different as
i said earlier we have a rear and front suspension this one gets eight inch tires but the tires are
also much wider than most other scooters out there now personally i would prefer to have somewhat
bigger tires but i am happy overall with these ones we also have a disc brake on the back and a
disc brake on the front and the braking power from the scooter is quite impressive now i'm getting to
the point where i kind of have to change those some brake pads but the braking power from it
is really good and we do need that braking power because this scooter has a lot of power as well so
as i mentioned earlier we have a 500 watt motor in the back and a 500 watt motor on the front so the
peak power for these motors is 800 watts so you get a total of about 1600 watts so most scooters
that i've tried can not really take me up hills on most uphills well dude this one i haven't had
any heal that it cannot take me up to so a lot of power with this scooter all right so next i'm
going to show you how the scooter goes uphill i have a pretty steep hill up here so let's do that
so maximum power
and we are starting to climb
pretty steep hill uh around here for sure
we are slowing down a bit but it's still pulling us up so quite quite a lot of power i'm gonna say
the top speed on it is about 45 kilometers an hour even though i've actually seen the scooter going
close to 50 kilometers an hour so definitely a lot of power and a lot of um speed alright so
we are starting with the back of the scooter just so i can show you closer how on it looks so on the
back here we have a plastic fender on top of that fender we have a light this gets bright enough so
you can actually see the indirect sunlight and this also acts as a brake light so whenever we
are pressing a brake lever this will break then we have the suspension on the back there and then
we have these two super cool um swing arms if i can call them that i'm not sure how to call them
but this is basically part of the suspension here and on the back there we also have the disc brake
the same kind of goes for the front of the scooter so again we have the same 8 inch
wheel this is a 3.5 inch wide tire so the tires are wider than most scooters out there
then we have the suspension components and the disc brake on the front and as i mentioned earlier
the braking power from the scooter is quite impressive even though i would have liked to
see a bit of regenerative braking as well since we have a motor on the front and one on the back
but that's not the case with this one so you have to rely on those uh mechanical brakes basically
the battery pack is located at the bottom here so you basically stand on top of that battery
pack whenever you're riding and here we have a rubber surface so your feet are not gonna slip
this is also longer and wider than most scooters out there so whenever you're riding you do get to
move your feet a bit so you have plenty of space whenever you're sitting on this the charging port
is on the right hand side um here and on the left hand side we have the kickstand that you cannot
really see now i have turned the scooter around so the kickstand is pretty small it's made out of
metal and i wish you'd have got a somewhat bigger kickstand something a bit more substantial because
this one is a bit tiny and i had the scooter fall over a couple of times when standing on that
kickstand not to mention the kickstand is that small that you can't really open it with your foot
so every time i want to open it i have to bend over and get that open so i wish the kickstand
would have been a bit bigger but i'm sure they can find the replacement on something a bit bigger
but i haven't looked into that quite yet on the front here we have the headlight the headlight is
quite bright so it will light up the path ahead of you at night and during the day you can kind of
see it i've seen other scooters with more powerful uh headlights so this one you can kind of see
it during the day here we also have the folding mechanism so to fold this you basically open this
and then you do this and then you can carry it now this scooter weights about uh
29.8 kilos so that's about 66 pounds so this is a pretty heavy scooter actually this is the heaviest
scooter that i got to try up until now so you're not going to be able to carry this for extended
periods of time you basically fold it so you can put it in the trunk or on the bus or something
like that but it is a very heavy scooter moving on to the top here so here we have the handlebar
the handlebar is nice and wide so whenever you're riding on this you don't feel cramped at all so
very nice and wide handlebar here we have a couple of buttons so of course we have the brake levers
as i mentioned earlier the braking power from this is quite um good on the right hand side
we have the accelerator here and then we have a screen right in the center here the screen will
show the speed how much battery you have left the power that you are using you can change a bunch of
things on the screen and you can see the screen in direct sunlight so it doesn't matter how bright it
is outside you can always see the screen so you're gonna be able to see your speed no matter what so
very nice screen on this particular scooter there is also a mechanical bell on this side
here you can actually remove this if you don't want it i just put it on today for the video but
i don't have it done on normally all right so next i want to talk about the battery life from
this scooter so according to the manufacturer you can get up to 45 kilometers on one charge
now in my experience i can get about five kilometers on one charge you heard that right
but i was talking to customer service for quite a bit so um supposedly the battery pack inside
my scooter is defective and they're going to be replacing that battery pack it hasn't happened
yet because i haven't had time to take this one apart so i will kind of post some updates in
the video's description as things happen but as of now the battery in in this scooter can
only give me about five kilometers of range and i ran out of power so many times that i can't
remember now even like that it still has plenty of power to take me up those some
hills and the top speed that i was able to get on it is about 48 kilometers an hour even though the
manufacturer says that the top speed is about 45 kilometers an hour okay so next let's talk a bit
about comfort so with this scooter we get eight inch solid tires now the main difference between
a scooter that has solid tires or inflatable tires is the ride comfort because whenever
you go over bumps if you have inflatable tires those will kind of make the ride a bit smoother
well the ride is a bit harsher with this one but since we have the rear and front suspension
you don't feel it that bad but compared to a scooter that has inflatable tires the ride is
a bit more rough i'm gonna say but overall still pretty comfortable because of that front and rear
suspension the steering on this one is also a bit stiffer when compared to most other scooters out
there so this one is not as easy to turn left or right but that makes sense because you have that
motor on the front as well so it kind of gives you this more steady feel whenever
you're going faster so i think that's why the steering is not as light as other scooters that
i've tried also we have on three and a half inch tires so those will give you some more stability
as well at higher speeds because this scooter does go quite fast so overall aside from the issue that
i'm having with the battery on this scooter this is one of my all-time favorite scooters mostly
because it's quite comfortable to ride so you can kind of go over rough terrain and you don't
feel it as bad the suspension is super nice on it better than most other scooters that i
tried it has a lot of power so it can take me up any hill i don't have to push this at all
with most scooters i do have to push them every so often but that's not the case with this one so
plenty of power plenty of speed comfortable it's also bigger than most other scooters
and it kind of has a stance on the road so people can see you easier cars can see you easier
so if you're looking for a very unique scooter even though it could have a couple of improvements
like an ignition because it doesn't have an ignition basically anyone can turn this on and
go with it so with a couple of exceptions it is a really really good scooter alright
guys hopefully you enjoyed this video thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next one