Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines!
let's get it! let's rumble!
on your marks
get set... go!
hey! hey! no, no! that's cheating! you cheated. my throttle stuck on cruise control.
Today we are going to show you the Rattan e-bikes. we've got the 750 models they have an LM and L...
i don't know, it's down here. but the LM model has the crossbar here and Michelle's has the walk
through, the pass-through, step through, whatever you want to call it, that's what it is! these
bikes have a 750 watt motor and four to six hour charging time. these i believe are a class three
they'll go up to 28 miles per hour, i personally have tested that plus we're gonna race here pretty
quick. what? we're gonna race. these bikes also have the four inch fat tires which makes it
nice if you want to go on a beach gives it extra cushion they also have michelle's and mine both
have a shock system on the seat kind of hard to push but when i get my big butt on there it goes
down and also it does have a front shock system a lot of e-bikes do not have that
these bikes have the capability of doing pedal only pedal assist or throttle only when you want
to turn it on you hold down on this button and you'll see the screen come on it automatically
goes to one now if you were to pedal on this it wants to take off which is kind of dangerous
it takes off and then just a little bit to give you that little assist to get going you can press
your gear down right here and you see it goes to zero press up on your gears and you can go
all the way through to all the gears up to five now you do have your pedal gear system here where
you can push this in and go through all seven gears now if you're on pedal assist and you're in
one and you have this up to gear two through five it's gonna be too low geared if you want to do the
pedal assist so you might have to bump this up a couple gears depending on what gear you're in here
so to give you an example what happens if you have it in gear one soon as you try to start to pedal
it takes off on you but it just gives you that little bit of boost just saying just be careful
um the best thing to do is put your gear in zero until you're ready to go if you want that pedal
assist you can put it in one as soon as you start to pedal it'll just give you a little
boost to get you going another cool feature it has is cruise control if you hold your throttle
at a steady speed for about five seconds and then let go it will maintain that speed for you
this little lock system you can take it off there this is just where we put it
you can put it in different places if you'd like we just found that useful the battery is
not hidden it is out here but it cannot be taken out without your key you can turn the key to on
and off and if you push in you unlock it now you can take the battery out these e-bikes are
supposed to have a range between 40 and 60 miles i say we take them for a ride and do that race
i have not been on a bike in years we're not racing
you've been riding this bike like on the sidewalk
we're not racing we're gonna race you lead i follow here we go we had to pick the busiest
road it's fun getting used to these bikes though i haven't been on a bike for so long
we've been wanting to get bikes for the longest time even when we had our motorhome vinnie
but we just never did we kept looking
trying to decide what ones to get
boy even with the pedal assist though this workout
you bump the gears up on the on the motor here that's only third and now i'm pedaling
too fast for that so if i want to do a pedal assist i need to bump the gear up
on the shimano shifter
i'm guessing i left michelle and dust
you ready to race
you ready to race no let's get it let's run ready all right you mark
get set hey she cheated she what right next to the campgrounds we've got a
little desert area with a lot of sand it's pretty thick sand in some areas but
a lot of areas you can stay on and it's pretty good just got to be careful here but we came
here when we first got these e-bikes before we had our helmets we just told on ourselves yep
the cruise control i kind of like that sometimes like when you're on a
sidewalk or a long ride you can just hold it down like michelle said for that five seconds
at a steady speed and let go and it'll just keep going it's got a headlight tail
light brake light when you hit your brake the shocks now you really notice them when
you get on the sand areas and all the bumps you'll notice the shocks the fat
tires really help absorb some of that then you got your shock on your seat of course as well
two months later here we are here we are so we've tested these bikes for a couple
months now and we wanted to give you guys a good honest opinion of the bikes before we
said oh they're great or they're junk show you how we have our e-bikes stored we've got them in uh i
think they're 40 gallon tubs commander tubs in the back of the truck so far it's working out really
well because we do not want to put a hitch on the back of the airstream these e-bikes are pounds
apiece and uh airstream they do not recommend you put a bike rack on the back of the air strains
especially for an e-bike inside the back of the truck or a hitch on the front of the truck is our
only option try this out for a while and go from there yeah trial and error hopefully no air no
errors
so
before you turn on your monitor up here for your odometer and all that you have to turn the key to
the on position and make sure you always wear your helmet no i did not get the spike helmet
got one much cooler i wanted the pink minnie mouse
some people don't think these helmets are cool but i do
we're gonna race again are you ready to rumble yes that was the trick you've got to say i'm
ready to rumble she won both times she said that no cheating this time remarks get set go
eat my dust we went change clothes again no this is another day happy st patty's day yes happy st
patrick's day we decided to do multiple days kind of record different days and throw it all
into into one video we did miss one recording when we were over at fun and sun and encore
here in southern texas it was super windy that day and it was too noisy yeah it didn't work
out been noisy here too but we managed to to use the film and we got three races in
and i finally won one it's still two to one yeah wanna go over some things that we did not cover
on this and discuss some things that we do and don't like i think really about the only thing i
don't really like is how cumbersome it is when it's folded up and you're trying to lift it to
put it some you know store it somewhere it's just awkward it is you hear a lot of people say oh it
folds real easy it does fold really easy holds very easy and unfolds easy but they're not they're
okay but they're not that easy uh some people make it out to be putting it in and out of you know of
your tub or whatever they're a little cumbersome because when you fold this they're a little
a little wider than they make it look yeah and i don't know it because of the weight of 64 pounds
which by the way a lot of the other ones of the same class are right there around that same weight
and if you look at some of them they don't have some of the features that this has
but you can handle the weight but i'm thinking you know even though you know i have pipes
and everything but i'm just thinking by myself i don't know if i could really no
it's lifted up in probably you could probably do it but it's probably not good on your back to do
that yeah but we just wanted to be clear with that um it's doable yes but it's not as easy as
some make it out to be i think it requires two people it two would be best but i i can do it
by myself but not everybody can right that's all we're trying to say but that really really i think
that's the only thing i i can find a little fault with i don't like the kickstand so much and it's
only because they didn't put enough adjustments on it the kickstand has an adjustment here to go down
further so if you need to extend it but if you want it to angle this is as high up as it goes
and it's about ready to tip over we're at a little bit of an angle right here it needs to be adjusted
a little bit more it holds it up without tipping over but it's really close so which that isn't a
huge deal but i'm not sure why they extended it so many adjustments going out other than going
the other way this is the charge port so and this is your charger this goes into a normal 110 outlet
goes in plug it in light comes on it lets you know when it's fully charged put this flap back
down so that you don't get any moisture in there another thing that i don't care about with it it
is a little tricky to get the battery to go back in and get the key to turn because the key won't
turn unless that latch latches on that battery and locks the battery in place you can get it to do it
but sometimes a little tricky one thing we didn't mention before is uh that has a little back seat
and it's nice and cushy probably wouldn't like put a normal adult sized person back there i
think it's really only meant for maybe little kids or you know some baggage or something you're gonna
carry honey you care if i bring my bag and it also comes with foot rest down here that we decided not
to put them on because they stick out a little bit and they're getting away when we fold them up and
put them in those tubs that's the only reason why we didn't put them on and plus we figured we're
probably never going to have anybody on the back if we do it's probably going to be our grandkids
when we go back to see them and they're little yeah and i can easily put those on it's just two
screws they go on really really simple not sure if you guys know this but a lot of these e-bikes
use a lot of the same parts your disc brakes shimano shifters a lot of them are the same parts
you just get a little different features with each bike so overall how are we rating this i like it
and we have not tested any other e-bikes but we've talked to a lot of people that do have
different e-bikes and we've looked at them it looks very similar a lot of the same things some
of them have a metal fender i'm not quite sure i kind of like the plastic because you don't
have to worry about it bending or anything like that i like that you don't have to buy an extra
seat suspension because a lot of them don't come with that a lot of them don't come with the front
suspension forks a lot of them don't come with the padded seat you can use this still for storage and
strap things down as some of them have just a platform back here to put stuff on i like
it and the fat tires so we can ride it on the beach yeah i like it too i've been having a lot
of fun getting used to it and yeah i really like it i enjoy it i guess the third thing
that i would if i had any complaints at all uh customer service has been a little hard to reach
uh they hopefully they're working on that so that you can get in touch with them a little bit better
they had a phone number that wasn't working for the longest time not sure what the deal is
there rattan but you need to get your phone number working don't give it to people if it doesn't work
but the bikes seem to be decent quality yeah they do now these i believe normally run 12.99
this is the 750 models right now with the living r vision code you can get 150 off hey
and you can use that live in our vision code for any other models now i think they have a
different discount depending on what bike you get so i think it's time to call today yeah before we
get eaten alive by these mosquitoes yes see you next week bye let's call it today don't forget
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