This here is the Onebot S6 it's a foldable e-bike with a 250 watt motor it has 16 inch rims 160
millimeter mechanical disc brakes and the best part about it is it does fold into a very small
compact size it folds in half the handlebars come down and that means you're able to stow it away
under a stairwell get it into the boot or trunk of a car without too much of an issue
so in this in-depth review i'll be going over the build quality the design exactly what you
can expect out of the one bot s6 here and then the range that you're able to achieve as well
so the rear seat is nice and wide it's comfortable there is a good two or three centimeters of sponge
right here now the seat height is adjustable and i wish it would go just a little bit higher
as it stands for my height of 186 centimeters it's just high enough for me and here we do have a
rear reflector so we have a little tiny short kickstand right here and it does support the bike
just fine without any problems it has not toppled over now and the week or so i've been riding on
this bike this breaks right here so 116 millimeter mechanical disc brakes and there is this little
shock absorber in the rear which gives well it's only about an inch or so of travel but it
does help dampen out some of the bumps as you're riding along up the front another 160 millimeter
mechanical disc brake the wheels on this one so they are 16 inches by 1.95 the tyres the width of
them and up the front we do have a front headlight which is rather bright you can turn that on by
just holding the plus button for a few seconds and it does also have a reflector within it
now you may have noticed that there's this disc here now why would they have a metal disc right
here with the spring on it well it's actually when you fold it in half to hold the bike together
and our magnets here in the front wheel so when it is together that stops the
bike from coming apart or rattling when you're moving it about in the folded form
so there are no gears on this particular e-bike here the motor at the rear this one is 250 watts
so if you need gears you've got a lot of hills and things to climb clearly this is not the bike for
you then because it's just got that single speed the pedals on the s6 this one's a foldable one so
you can press them in fold them up just to help to make the bike a little bit more compact if
you're going to be stowing it away somewhere or putting it for example in the boot of a car now
this latch here is what you need to pull open if you're going to be folding this bike in half
now i really do like the little security it's got on here so you push down on that that then
releases the latch and you can open it up pull it out and then the bike will then flip right around
and you can do the same with the handlebar so this is little tiny red security there push that in the
latch goes down and then the handlebars drop right down like so and this is what the bike looks like
when it's completely folded down the handlebars down fold it in half here very very small
super portable and easy to fit into the trunk or the boot of a car now right down the bottom of the
frame there is this little rollerblade style wheel there and it's really quite convenient
because this lets us then roll the bike the 230 watt hour or 6.4 amp hour battery is located in
the middle it's lockable and you can remove it and also charge it outside of the bike
so here we have the controller with all of our information our front brake right here the grips
they're not lock grips but they aren't going anywhere they're on quite solid and tight which
is good so here if you just hold down the aim it will power it on turn it on so we've got the three
different pedal assist and then the moped speed as well is actually controlled by this so level three
will take us up to 25 kilometers per hour maximum level two is approximately 20 kilometers per hour
level one that is around 15 16 to 17 just cruising along which you can also use with the moped
mode the battery gauge there at the top this is our speed and you can cycle through the trip meter
odometer which is currently at 47 kilometers that i've ridden at the time of recording
and our time and the trip meter over on the right side here we've got our rear brake
and this is to accelerate with the moped mode now if you just turn that it will go straight away so
you don't even have to pedal off and you can use that to get around effortlessly with zero pedaling
but the range is very limited in that mode they claim up to 15 kilometers but really
for my weight of 81 kilos you're looking about 11 kilometers or so right here is a buzzer just to
alert people if they're in your way or whatever and it's quite loud i'll give you a sample
okay so let's have a look and see how it rides which is the most important thing so power on
and it takes a few seconds and i'll start out here with just the accelerator so using that
you can see it's very effortless and i'm doing a currently about 14. it gets up to
around 15 kilometers in mode 1 mode 2 that then takes me up to about 21 kilometers and finally
the mode 3 here so still not pedaling that will get me up to 25 kilometers per hour and you get
a range of approximately around well they claim 15 kilometers but really in just the moped mode
for me it's about 10 to 11 kilometers depends on your weight and any climbs you may be doing
and now i won't use that accelerator at all and i will start to pedal so just a single speed here
and once your pedo get up to about about two three kilometers it detects that from
the crank sensor that it has and now we're away you can hear the motor a little bit
and it's giving me quite a nice boost along here that's on mode
three so on mode one it's only going to do it at the lower speed so as soon as you get to 25
kilometers per hour and once you go over that the motor is then doing nothing and that's just all
your own pedal power then so you do get a little bit of a workout and some fitness from that if you
wanted to do that of course otherwise you can just stop pedaling and use that accelerator there again
i have a bit of a climb ahead i'm in power level three and a little bit of rough terrain
too so this bike is not really made for rough roads like this it's not a mountain bike tiny
little wheels no front shock but it handles this just fine that's a very small climb
with ease no real problem there which is good to see even though it's only a 250 watt motor
i feel it's got plenty of power for situations like this and i'm powering along here with ease
i'm at my typical climb test spot now here so will these 16 inch wheels and the 250 watt motor be
able to handle this 25 to 30 degree climb okay so i will start off with the accelerator here
and that's on level three so it's actually doing okay i'm up to 11 kilometers per hour
with this very steep climb but it's starting to struggle right now dropping down to now
nine kilometers so yes big steep climbs like this you are going to have to pedal so i'll try
now pedaling a little tough at the start but there we go we're getting ahead now with a bit of
physical power and then the motor power up to now 17 kilometers per hour climb
i'm going to catch up to this guy up here who's climbing on a normal manual mountain bike
all right so now my brake test so i'm going to scoot down here get
up to about 35 kilometers per hour as soon as i hit the post hatful breaking
it's actually not that bad at all considering it's only 16 inch rims and i annoyed the dogs
right here they're not happy with my brake test so braking performance better than expected i
have bedded in these mechanical disc brakes 160 millimeter ones and they're actually working
pretty good for a bike of this size so when you go over a few bumps you can hear that battery
rattle around that is one minor little con there and even my track i've got a trick rail five
the battery in it does rattle too so it's very common for electric bikes to have that
issue with rattling batteries so an uneventful ride here
really quite effortless with that battery when you're pedaling now if you're just going to use
that moped mode only so that's just the motor only it's well a little slow going when you're
using that there but it has been a nice gentle ride here made it to the end of last rotors
now this is really what this ebike is about is the city commutes it's made for this
so from a to b on the bike lanes this is where the one bot is really good
now what kind of range can you expect out of the one bot s6 here so just in the moped mode which
is just using the motor not even peeling at all you'll be lucky to get around about 11 maybe 12
kilometers out of it that's with my weight of 81 kilos so i'm not exactly the lightest person out
there if you're lighter you ride more on the flats then maybe you can get up to the 15 kilometer
claim now if you pedal with a pedaling you really do increase that range because once it gets up to
25 kilometers per hour the motor will cut out then and is not doing anything and that does save a lot
on the battery so so far i already charged it twice i've now done almost 60 kilometers
and i'm charging it really about every 26 kilometers or so that's with some steep climbs
and using of course pedal power combined with the motor with the pedal assist mostly a mode two but
a little bit of mode three you use on mode use it on mode one it's a lot slower but it does save
more on the battery so maybe it is possible to get around 35 to 40 kilometers just using that and if
you are on the flat but still falls short of the 50 kilometer range claim that they say you should
be able to get out of this out of that watt hour motor now with the climbs i found that it does a
very good job when you're pedaling but you still need to actually put a little bit of power into it
if you're just going to use the motor and not pedal at all it will handle small little climbs
but anything that's quite steep like the climb that i showed you which was down las rotes here it
did struggle a bit but when you pedal then you can actually rock it up most of those hills and that
is great so you can get around quite easy now for the comfort of it my size so i'm 186 centimeters
i did find that my knees are getting a little close to the handlebars i find the compact size
uh to the point where it's i wouldn't call it uncomfortable but it is getting a little cramped
for someone like me so if you're a little shorter you'll find it to be fine then it's more like of a
a small frame size really now the key thing to go for a bike like this of course is its compact
small size so the fact that these handlebars that you can pop them down so easy like that
and then it folds in half is just the other one right here so that opens up
and it flips right around like so and you can stow it away the seat comes down as well and that is
really the key thing why i would go for a bike like this if you're going to be doing a lot of
city commutes perhaps later you get on the train then this is the bike for that because it's so
small and compact and i'll just show you that it's very easy to get it up and running again
there you go it's back in its normal state there all unfolded so that's really why you would get
it because you could get on the trains you could fold it up you could take it up into the office
now the weight of this one it is approximately 19 kilos so it's not a super light e-bike
so thank you so much for watching my review here my take on the one bot s6