ADO is back with a new bike and it's their best year this is called the a20 air or just the Ado
air it weighs 16 kilos and it has a claimed range of 100 kilometers which is huge for a bike of this
style with 20 inch rims I received a bike with no damage at all thanks to all the padding that
it does have it does come folded up I do have some mud guards here and I need to assemble The
Handlebar and front wheel along with the plastic mud guards we do get a mobile phone holder it's
very cheap I wouldn't use it myself a cheap pump some pedals the charger paperwork and some tools
now what makes this bike so interesting is this here it's got a carbon belt for its drivetrain
so no chain no Ollie chain you have to worry about oiling you've got that maintenance and
they claim it can last up to 30 000 kilometers plus it uses a torque sensor now it does have
a rear hub motor this is 250 Watts with the EU version or 300 with the International Version
and then for a break something a little different we normally see mechanical disc brakes right that
I rant on about in my e-bike reviews and I wish they were hydraulic well not here Ado
did the right thing and we do have 160 millimeter hydraulic disc brakes really good lever pull feel
to them great braking performance and I'll do a test later on in the video and show you exactly
how this bike breaks but it's very good now you would have noticed we've got a light here at the
front and a reflector that comes with the bike and there's also rear tail light too now both of
them are bright enough the front headlight is decent and great for added safety when you're
riding at night so other things the bike does have well we've got these pedals that do fold in
so everything is foldable with it and our battery here so it is 364 Watt hours 10 amp hours and as I
mentioned up to 100 kilometers range it's height adjustable and there is a button on it to turn
it on and off and you can remove this battery completely because it's the seat post you can
take it right out there is a cable that you plug in here and it's very easy to take that in and
out so there is this little flap right here that covers the charging port now the charge time is
about four to six hours and the battery cells good news here they are Samsung so a big thumbs up for
using a proper brand of cells and some more good news with the frame here is that it's an excellent
quality the matte paint job they've gone with here looks nice well to good frame is excellent
we do get these plastic mud guards they're okay but the good news being plastic is that they're
not going to rust of course on us and they don't rattle either nothing rattles on the bike so far
in my time testing it out and that's something of course you don't want is annoying rattles we
have lock grip so these do not spin around brake levers feel excellent because they are hydraulic
and we get an included Bell it's loud enough so the bike has this really nice color display it's
IP67 Splash resistant water resistant so it can be out in the rain and where they get wet it won't
be a problem at all for it so it clearly displays here our pedal assist levels so one two three and
then we do have here our battery life remaining this gauge here voltage average speed trip and
odometer and the speed there all quite clear now here we've got our up and down of course for those
pedal assist levels all three of them turning it to zero it's off completely then so when you pedal
the torque sensor won't do anything the motor won't come on it'll just be a manual bike and
that is it now if you want to put the lights on you simply need to just hold this down for about
two seconds and you'll see the little icon there for the light so the good thing about the display
is you can make it out indirect sunlight and it's very bright too if you're riding at night
so the seat has a little bit of sponge to it here it's comfortable enough but I will say it is a
little firm but of course you could swap this out if you wanted to this a20 air is very easy
to fold up and for example place it in the trunk or boot of a car and I'll demonstrate just take
seconds so there's a little security latch you need to lift up then you pull down the lever for
the front handlebars that drops down to one side another little security so pull that then pull out
the lever fold it around in half and you are done now it's just 16 kilos so it is very light and I
can now just place this in the boot of my car very easy to do this and I'm done on my way and that's
great for taking it upstairs into public transport all lifted into the office for example and then
it's three easy steps to get set up and of course wear a helmet bit of safety here common sense of
course lift the bike out and then you flip it open clip the latch in handlebars up and then
the third final step is adjusting then the seat position and I'm done I'm all set ready to ride
now if you want to know about the dimensions of this bike for example the seat height how low
you can lower it down and how high The Handlebar height as well can be raised check out the Ado
website for that for the air you've got all the information on it now it has that torque sensor
now it's using a torque sensor and a speed sensor and it's really smooth thanks to the the belt
drive it's got though so when I start to Pedal straight away instantly you get that power unlike
the speed sensors which will take about two to three kilometers normally some of them are really
slow they kick in at about four or five but on this particular bike here so the air very smooth
really nice comfortable ride and it is perfect for this which is City commutes bike lanes that I'm on
right now really handles this well so the more you give it the more it will give you in return with
that torque sensor which is fantastic it's really good I can just hear the 250 watt motor now the
international version has a 300 watt motor and the torque is slightly higher so this model I've got
here it's 37 newton meters and 250 restricted to 25 kilometers per hour so it is all legal
here which is great there is no accelerator twist accelerator like the international model will have
because the EU of course has those restrictions not allowed here now you see here that I've got
a lot of room my legs are not going to be going anywhere near these handlebars well your normal
turning circles that you do no way my knees are going to strike this now I'm 182 centimeters tall
and I'm finding this is a very comfortable upright ride and my climb test I'm in the pedal assist
level three of three so that is the top and as I mentioned we know there's no gears because it's
designed for City commutes however I do have a bit of a steep climb here about 20 degree gradient
how will it handle it so pushing now not that hard in fact it's off to a very good start here
and now starting to slow a little and my standard emergency braking test from the White Post here
at approximately 30 kilometers per hour one two three oh really good brakes very easy to lock up
the rear because it's hydraulic a lot of braking performance and I hate to feather the brakes in
the end too as well so that helps so my own kind of cheap style ABS it works though doing that
just be careful with that front and of course braking really hard in the way so great braking
performance Hydraulics really happy with the brakes that Ado went with on the air
and this wraps up my testing the typical route that I do ride with these bikes and
wow it's been so smooth so pleasant thanks to the torque sensor no rattling even when I do this I
can't really hear no any rattles at all so very good everything's checking out with this bike
so all around this has to be Ado's best bike get from them I believe it is out all the bikes
I've reviewed from them the build quality is superb it doesn't even almost feel like
one of their bikes uh the the join here with the foldable part of the frame the handlebars
the fact that they went with hydraulic brakes they went with lock grips here even foldable
pedals and then the carbon Mount drivetrain on this is fantastic with the speed sensor
so the power delivery is there when you need it straight away even if you've got a bit of
a climb it will handle that this is a bike that has more for City commutes A to B the positives
of having the drivetrain being just about is that there's no maintenance so there's no chain
to oil there's no noisy change don't have to worry about the derailleur being not gears
out of alignment the wear and tear on the gears because it's supposed to go for up to about 30
000 kilometers these bout Drive trains these belt drives which are really good there the lights on
this bike are okay and really I think it's solid offering from them and for the price they do sell
this for yes it's a little more expensive but it's well worth it compared to cheaper models
because of everything I've covered in this video you are gaining a fantastic bike here
excellent braking performance very smooth nice ride well done Ado you have just picked up your
quality a lot so thank you so much for watching my thoughts and opinions on their new Air Model