Hi i'm Chris and this is Vera my assistant here and the Varla Eagle One this is by far
the fastest e-scooter that i've reviewed in the channel now this one really is
like the tesla of e-scooters and why is that well it has
dual motors on it 1000 watts so this thing is an absolute monster top speed is 40 miles per hour
65 kilometers per hour and that really is quite scary so that's why i've got the full face
helm right here and i've got some extra padding on just in case but i didn't really want to do those
kind of speeds on such tiny little wheels here but it actually doesn't feel bad at all once you
get up to higher speeds this is a scooter that can really handle it with the dual suspension
the Eagle One comes well packaged up we just need to install the handlebar and then the control
screw those firmly into place and we are done so some very light assembly it only took me about
10 minutes or so to get myself up and running with this so they do include a spare inner tube we have
three different grip tape styles so if you don't like the one that it comes with you can swap it
out and they also include some elbow and knee pads for protection most people would just have
a helmet and i do recommend definitely wearing a helmet and some extra protection with such a
fast potent scooter as expected for a dual motor scooter that this one is a bit heavy so it's 35
kilos and i like the ride height on this so it's high enough that you can drop down curbs
or even go up then without scraping the underside where the battery is our front motor here this is
a thousand watts just like the rear one and you can see that either side we do have these bright
led lights for a bit of safety i do like this now the mud guard here this is probably the cheapest
thing out of these scooters is the mud guards the plastic used isn't exactly high quality
and there's a little bit of red here it doesn't actually do anything it's just well for decoration
and that does feel a little bit cheap there's also a little bit of that red plastic just on
the side here now this doesn't seem to have any leds in it it doesn't light up so it's just a
again for decoration. 1000 watt rear motor again the front and back suspension i'll get more onto the
ride of this later on but just to say that the suspension is really well tuned for the weight
of the scooter and at least my weight to on it i really do like it it's the best yet that i have
tested kickstand right here and this part is metal again that the everything is bolted in place there
build quality is excellent it's just the mudguard plastics i think they could have used a slightly
better material there and the deck on this one nice and wide i can fit both my feet on here
without any problems and you can use this for your rear foot too if you wanted to do so and the grip
tape here you can change this there are another three included in the box the battery is inside
here and it is 18 amp hours and up the front right side here we have the charging connector
now it will take about eight hours to fully charge with just the single charger but you can connect a
second that's why it has the two charging ports and you can halve that charge time to bring it
down to four hours which is great considering that this is a large 18 amp hour battery
and for a scooter as fast as this one that can get up to 40 miles per hour 65 kilometers per hour
it does have very good brakes on it now our tires they are small so 10 inches by three inches wide
we've got a hundred and sixty millimeter discs here a hydraulic brake setup so this one just has
a single pot caliper here hydraulic of course and the brakes are very good and i will test them out
later on in this review there is the same setup so we've got the hydraulic brakes 160-millimeter disc
another thing i like about the scooter compared to the other large scooter i have here is the
way they've done the handlebar stem now it has these two quick-release latches but it actually
slots down over so there's this clamp that goes over where the stem is and it has no play in it
so this is a very secure way of doing it and as a result it just feels so much safer and more secure
than the e-move cruiser that i have from Voro motors so the handlebars they don't fold in
and this in a way is a good thing because i don't normally fold handlebars in any way and it means
that the handlebars just feel stronger more rigid there's less play and movement in them giving me
again more confidence when i ride this scooter and now our handlebars here so we've got the hydraulic
brakes as mentioned before they do include a bell for a little bit of safety i would have preferred
the electric buzzer we sometimes get with these scooters and the e-bikes i've been reviewing in
the channel but hey that's good enough to just advise people to get out of the way or whatever
so we've got a switch here that in is on the eco mode out is the turbo and we've got the single and
dual switch then so you can either have the two wheels driven that's the thousand watts
times two or just the rear which is good for safety if you're gonna be riding this in the wet
i highly recommend you only use the single mode why is that because the front wheel can slip and
in the wet that's a recipe for disaster you coming off this and hurting yourself so we do have a key
and the spare there for locking this this is our voltage a little hard to see and sunlight here
now the grips they've used they are lock grips and they are not going anywhere very sturdy
so the handlebar and then i'll stem here everything is bolted into place
i did have to tighten all of this up when i first assembled that's the only assembly you need to do
is just to put on the handlebar and then tighten everything up now this is a little bit cheap it
wiggles around a little this is for our okay our ignition you could say the on and off and it's
good to have this lockable so you can leave the scooter somewhere and no one can power it up but
the build quality of this the plastics they're a little on the cheap considering the price of this
one so obviously we have power on holding it down will power off mode goes through the different
gears so this is for our power and speed really so gear one gear to get three holding down mode
will then turn on the front and rear led lights this is our accelerator now this i do find to be a
little sensitive now there's two ways you can set it up if you go into the advanced settings of this
you can set it up that you just pull the trigger and it goes which is great but it can be a little
bit dangerous now this has happened to me before on a previous scooter not this model here though
i accidentally touched it when i was walking along with it and then the scooter took off and almost
pulled my arm out of my shoulder my collarbone there and that was very very sore so i recommend
to have the kick kick to start is a little bit of a safety option there which i've currently
actually got disabled now to go into the advanced settings here you can hold down those two buttons
and that's when you get into the advanced setting menu which is the p menu so you go through
p01 and all the different ones there to change and adjust things that's how you can unlock the
speed limit but i won't tell you exactly how to do that there's plenty of good tutorial videos
out there that you can find on google on that so if you click this with the power button
just tapping it you can go through our trip meter you can see our voltage there which
is currently 54.6 volts and the odometer here too which are currently done 24 kilometers now
yes you can change this into miles per hour too if you wanted to do so and the shimming you're
seeing this screen just shimmering away that is only on camera unfortunately all my cameras
shutter rates and whatever i try it seems to do that because of the refresh rate of the screen
so i want to talk a little bit about the ride comfort of this one just going along right now
that it does have plenty of room for my feet you can see on the deck here so plenty of room
right there handlebars are good now you cannot adjust the height of them at all but i don't find
it a problem at all i do want to point out one thing though that with this particular scooter
the front of it because it's got the motor on the front it's a little heavier the turning circle
seems not as good as the others that don't have the motors on the front that's because of the
cables there because of the front suspension setup is just a little bit different and i do notice
that like if i want to go around here they do this at lower speeds it's a little bit cumbersome and
the accelerator is a little twitchy you get used to it i managed to do that okay but it's just not
quite as smooth as the other scooters that i've reviewed here in the channel but the acceleration
on this even though i am in the eco mode speed limited it's still so quick i mean it spins the
front wheel a little bit on smooth surfaces so you do need to be careful with that because if you're
really in somewhere that's got a lot of loose gravel or something you've got to be careful with
that front wheel that's when you need to push the button there to put it into the single motor mode
and that's when you get the most battery life too of course okay so i have an empty car park here
and i'm gonna test what this can actually do the vala eagle one because they say it can go up to 65
kilometers per hour 40 miles per hour so what i've got it on is the dual motor mode turbo mode
and i have unlocked the speed limit now this is the only time during this review that i will be
unlocking the speed limit here just to test it out in this private empty car park okay so let's go
so the front wheel's spinning and i've just hit 20 25 30 kilometers per hour 40 45
55 about to hit 60 and that's getting too fast for my liking i have a full face helm on
but that is just crazy crazy fast for a scooter
with 10 inch wheels some rough road just up ahead and let's see how it handles it but the suspension
on this scooter it just gives me a lot more confidence than the others it's very very good i
mean they've got it perfect i think for the weight of the scooter and then my weight which is about
80 kilos so this just goes up that climb with absolute ease it just pulls ahead and remember
i'm limited here to 25 kilometers per hour i have not got it in the top settings at the moment
all right so i've got my little climber head that
i use to test out scooters and e-bikes now normally with the e-bikes of course
about halfway i need to start pedaling but not with this hopefully i won't have to
kick it all but you know with this kind of power i will not have to do that so this is about 25 to
30 degrees and this climb and i'm just going to go dual motors turbo mode so one two three accelerate
front wheels slipping and off we go this is just rocketing up this for a scooter
unbelievable so it absolutely aced that climb but there's no point having all of that speed
and power if the brakes are terrible now they are really good on this e-scooter they are the
best i've come across so once i hit this pole here i'm going to do some braking there's a car coming
but very very good i ended up locking up the rear a little bit and the suspension really does help
with the braking as well because you can feel it just aiding and overall i think for the 160
ml discs it does apply a lot of pressure to these hydraulics the hydraulics on the
calipers they're very very good and just excellent brakes the best i've tested yet
and now i'm coming up to the end of the ride which is the last rotors and speed
bump let's see how it handles i mean you can pop the front up if you want to but really not
too much of a problem again the suspension on this just seems to be very very well balanced
and a very smooth ride
now just the head is actually a lot bumpier than it looks this path is made up of like crazy paving
rocks it's all up and down over the place so this will be a very good test of our suspension
and just how it's going to handle this the smaller scooters that i test out completely
just rocklin sounds to bits and this is very bumpy i won't say it's smooth and i can hear something
rattling it's the rear mudguard but this is very pretty well for very very rough terrain and you
can see that front suspension especially i can see it anyway looking down working very very hard
okay so what about our range burning around town using the dual motor mode and pretty much just 100
for throttle the whole time i was able to get 25 kilometers with two bars left so i should be able
to achieve i would say at least 30 to 35 which surprised me that's a little bit better than i
was expecting considering i did go up quite a few hills now if you use the eco mode they claim up
to 65 kilometers is your range but i see it as being more at least with my weight of 80 kilos
i've been more around the 55 kilometer mark there when it comes to the kind of range in
the eco mode you're able to get out of this now i love the dual suspension i think they
have just done it right with this okay it doesn't bottom out it doesn't rattle and you can see when
i just jump on it right now that the suspension it does a really really good job and it really
gives you a lot more confidence and it feels so much better than what you would think looking at
it you think oh that would be horrible you'd feel very insecure the braking will be poor because of
the small wheels it actually is not really what you think when you ride this you feel quite
confident with it you've got great brakes on this the braking is very very good you've got a wide
deck on here of course too which houses the large battery and talking about that battery charge time
so eight hours is kind of the norm it can eight to nine hours with just the single charger but it is
good that we have the dual charging option with this particular model here so i can charge it in
twice the time twice the rate sorry half the time it will only take then about four hours to fully
charge the eagle one now what other things i don't like about this particular model i think
they went a little bit cheap with the mudguard plastic i mean this one here at the rear
if you go over a lot of bumps you might have heard with some of my road tests there that the
rear mudguard was whacking down onto the tire just making a little bit of a noise there otherwise the
suspension doesn't rest or anything like that which is good and then the like red plastic they
have around the side here uh on top of that it just feels a little cheap now i think they should
change that and maybe go something a little bit more high quality for our mud guards at least
and then we have our key okay so you can lock it you can remove the key that's great
but it's a little bit cheap the plastics that they've used for that the rest of it
is pretty good i mean we've got the lock grips brakes are really good as mentioned and one of
the best things i like about this scooter is the suspension design here now when i put the pressure
on the brakes both of them locked up now and give it a bit of a move back and forth there is
a bit of play and movement in the handlebar but it's only moving just the metal there but there's
no actual play down where the suspension is unlike the other e-bikes that they do have
sorry not e-bikes but e-scooters sorry it will rattle a bit and it moves around there's a bit
of play but not with this particular model here it just feels so much safer and secure so really do
like the fact that they have the ring around the outside that goes over the handlebar stem and then
we have the two quick release locks so not even one of them but two of them just in case there is
a backup and that gives me a bit more confidence in this that it's not going to fail me because you
can imagine with one of these scooters if that was to break here or something it would be an
absolute disaster especially at the speeds you can do on this one and then when it's when it comes to
safety with this one there's a couple of tips here that if you're going to ride it on loose gravel
or on roads where there could be rocky patches of loose dirt or something like that
and in the wet differently put it on to the single motor mode and what that does then is just give
the power the thousand watts to the rear hub and then it becomes then rear wheel drive instead of
all-wheel two-wheel drive this has because the front wheel is prone to slipping there's a huge
amount of torque even just under full acceleration that speed test that i did the front wheel because
it pulls you back it's very quick it will lift up the front wheel there's a tiny fraction and cause
a little bit of slippage there and if you're doing that going up hills and things or if you happen to
go up like a sidewalk or something that's quite smooth the concrete just be careful that front
wheel could slip so there's a bit of a danger there because if that slips out you'll fall over
and it's going to be face first it won't be pretty if you can get your hands out in time so that's
why i've got the full face helmet i do recommend got to wear a helmet maybe some knee pads
and maybe even elbows and things like that as well should be uh considered with a potent scary
kind of fast scooter like this one so the range i think is acceptable for what it is considering
it's dual motor and it's just crazy fast it is so quick the acceleration is something else and
for me this is like the tesla of the e-scooters that i have been reviewing and if you're after a
beast like this this is definitely one to look at compared to what i have already reviewed
in the channel so far with the e-scooters so thank you so much for watching this review here
of the vala eagle one great scooter i really do like it do check out my other videos of scooters
that i have posted in the channel and i do hope to see you back in the next one bye for now