Hi chris here with an awesome looking e-bike this is the Urtopia now it is a carbon fiber e-bike
road city bike that only weighs 13 kilos that's including its battery which is 10 amp hours
and the motor which is 250 watts now it has a torque sensor that means the power delivery is
very smooth it's not that simple on and off that you have with speed sensor setups this is superior
now it has a gates carbon drive that means no chain but also no gears with this and it's rated
for up to 30 000 kilometers that belt that it uses instead of a chain so hydraulic disc brakes both
front and back it has a big screen on here gps fingerprint reader and even voice commands with
this and then four pedal assist modes ranging from no pedal assist comfort sport eco and even
a turbo mode so in this in-depth review i'll be going through it in detail and i'll let
you know all the good things but also all the bad things i encounter in my week of riding this bike
i absolutely love the design and look of this frame and the carbon frame is mentioned so that
means it's super light only 13 kilos which for an e-bike is really something it has 700 by 35c
wheels with 160 millimeter hydraulic disc brakes now there are no brand ones i can't see any brand
markings on them and the pads themselves do need a lot of bedding in i'm talking about 25 kilometers
before you get ideal braking performance the rear disc is the same 160 millimeters there
is a mounting point right here for a stand and included in the box are some well go plastic abs
lightweight pedals and a mounting point here for a rear mud guard and one at the front right here
but it has a charging port on the side with a dust cap weatherproof cap over the top of it
now charge time is about two and a half hours which is quite quick for a 10 amp
hour or 365 watt hour battery now it is removable something that the 10 ways c600 didn't have and
there's a key on the side here so turning that it pops the battery out and then you can simply just
pull it right out the charge port is still in that same location so you can charge it out of the bike
now the battery locks into place quite nicely you can see the contacts right there
so you simply just place the lower end in first and then it slots in and clips
into place i just triggered off the anti-fifth then one thing to note with our battery that
it does have a built-in battery gauge so if you press this little button here there's a
status led so we've got blue for full and there's green for medium and red for low
so the review unit that i've got here does not have the turn signals or the rear tail light which
would be located in this gap here unfortunately it's not a completely finished product that i'm
reviewing here today so we have a velocity i do find quite comfortable no problems with that
now the seat it is screwed into place and locked there you can adjust it up and down but you need
an allen key in order to do so so if you're going to have two different riders of two different
heights riding this particular bike you're going to run into a few problems with that seat as you
can't just quickly adjust it up or down so along the front here we do have a headlight and i've
noticed that with the front fork there's a little bit of play that when i apply the brakes here
and just give it a bit of a move this moves a tiny little bit which i'm not too happy about
there's another couple of allen keys in here another couple of bolts that hold this
top into place the thing is that i tried to remove them i cannot simply just pop this off so i don't
know how i can tighten up that fork i hope the final retail models don't suffer from this issue
for the drivetrain we have that gates drive which is a carbon belt which means this belt
here requires no lubrication no maintenance and it's good for 30 000 kilometers they claim gates
so a motor's right here and you'll notice that there is no gears at all the motor is quite
small too so it doesn't even almost look like it's an e-bike we've got 22 teeth right here
and our 250 watt motor so this can power us up to 25 kilometers per hour
and then it cuts out and doesn't give you any assistance it's got a clutch built into it
so that means there's no drag or resistance once it's not in use and it does use a torque sensor so
the power delivery is super smooth the front hub does support quick release which is great for easy
repairs of that front tyre if you get a puncture however on the rear we don't have this option
and our tires the europa is using our kinder brand and they are their k west road tires
so it does have anti-fifth mode that's built into it that just currently on so if i start
to move this bike like i'm going to use it it'll it'll start beeping at me that's just right now
because the fingerprint scanner didn't detect i haven't set that up because the application's not
working for me so if i start to move the bike now or go to pedal it will start to beep at me
there we go that's the anti-fifth thing which really that i don't think is going to stop anyone
from stealing this bike so the display here should look a lot brighter than what i'm showing
you currently as mentioned before this is not the final version of the screen that goes over where
all these little leds are so pedestal level one at the moment this is the remaining battery life
now i have noticed that this gauge on my current firmware the current software this
is running which is basically a beta it doesn't ever show fully charged for some reason that's
i'll speed there at the top now over here on the left here if i press up that's comfort mode
sport mode and if i keep holding up
it then goes into the maximum pedal assist mode so there's actually four levels
it has here now tapping on this control to the right it turns on the right signal but of
course i don't have that hardware in the seat post tapping on the left there that's the left signal
now there's built-in gps and it will be in the final version be able to even give you gps signals
navigation signals on the screen right here now if i do get out of this and just
hold here i can issue voice commands because there's microphones built into this light on
light on
okay so let's turn the front light on for me
light off light off all right you need to wait a second for it to start showing
that funny little man there listening to you and then it works i'll try that again
light on
and in the final version there'll be various different voice commands that we can issue
so now for the fun stuff to let you know exactly what it's like riding
the Urtopia here i've got it in the pedal assist mode 1 here and i'm just going to do some climb so
i'll stick to the road this is strictly road and city bike and you're not going to go off-roading
with a carbon fiber bike with 700c wheels so right now pedaling the more i give it the more it's
giving me with that torque sensor and the power delivery is really smooth i mean it's super smooth
and i can barely hear that motor so if i push harder a little bit now i'm going faster and
it's giving me more assistance there now that's only on level one level two here comfort mode
even easier and i'm just going up this well relatively it's not a steep climb here this one
easy climb and on sport mode number three even easier i'm doing about 25 kilometers per hour now
just going up this with absolute ease so plenty of room here handlebars and my knees
are nowhere near that so it's comfortable i feel that i'm in a bit of an upright position
now the seat post has dropped down on me i need to tighten it up again
this is the second time it's done it see even though i tightened it up really good
it somehow loosened off and dropped down again which is a slight annoyance
what about top speed so it's 25 kilometers per hour and then the motor doesn't seem to do
anything at all and it's all your own power then so if i press really hard push really hard ride my
guts out i can get up to about 40 kilometers per hour and you're not using any battery
so no battery is used once you go over 25 kilometers per hour the clutch very good in this i
feel no resistance from the motor at all it's like riding a normal bike when you're rolling like this
i've reached the area now where i do my steep climb tests on all of these e-bikes so this
is a 25-30 degree climb and most of them do struggle with this remember we've got no gears
at all with this Urtopia bike none it's just that single gates drive that it's got the belt no chain
okay here we go i can hear the motor and feel it already so pushing the more i push the more it's
giving me 250 watt motor oh this is on level three i'm starting to struggle a little bit with this
a steep climb like this is looking like it's just a little bit too much for this motor
now i'll put it into the turbo mode that's holding down the top button
okay turbo mode on oh this is hard going i'm going to have to stand up
and power through this now we're getting somewhere
but it is hard work with steep climbs this bike just doesn't have enough power
braking test so i get up to about 30
and then full on the brakes now i haven't been that happy with these brakes to start with
they need a lot of bedding in so i'm about 30 as soon as i hit the post right here brake
oh all right i tell you what that's a lot better than what it used to
be these brakes do need the brake pads a lot of bedding in at least 20 kilometers
before you get that braking performance so quite scary at the beginning
so i can happily break just like that on a stop sign no problems okay so what about the
range now you're able to achieve from this bike well it's around 50 to 60 kilometers
factoring in my weight of 81 kilos and then the fact that i also rode a lot over 25 kilometers per
hour where the motor does absolutely nothing so the things i really like about this bike
the torque sensor the power delivery is very smooth it's great however on very very steep
climbs as i showed you because we've got no gears just a simple single gear the belt there it is a
bit of a struggle to get up a very steep climb you're gonna have to put a lot of effort into it
so if you ride around areas with a lot of steep climbs and hills you're certainly going to get a
good workout with a bike like this now i hope that firmware updates will be able to give us a little
bit more power in the turbo mode or in level 3 mode pedal assist so we can power up those hills
just a little bit easier now i absolutely love the design of this frame it's super modern looking
it does look the part carbon fiber the way that they have routed the cables through the handlebars
here so we've got no ugly cables on the outside of it to go down to the brakes and everything else
looks really good now some things aren't final so i can't give you my final opinion
on what was going on here with a computer so the gps tracking the application that's not
yet really at the time of this video but i could test out a few things with it the voice
command seems to work we can see the display clearly but it will be clearer in the final
version as they claim there you've got your turn signals but unfortunately i don't have
the actual lights for the turn signals or the rear tail light which is a bit unfortunate
so really a comfortable bike great for city great for flat areas but what about the things that i
don't like about it well i do have this bit of play in the front fork here that i'm not too fond
of the seat post have they compromised on just having a great looking design that compromised a
little bit on the practicality of this bike here you can adjust it up and down there two frame
sizes but i don't like the fact that now twice the seat has dropped on me loosened off even though i
really did torque up that screw in there the bolt that holds the seat in place it ended up dropping
on me so those are two areas they definitely need to fix before the final retail version is released
the brakes in the beginning are a little bit scary the brake pads seem to have paint over the top
of them or oily residue so they weren't really working that well at all for me until i've done
about 20 kilometers so you really need to bed them in first before you get that braking performance
which i'm now happy with so it is a good bike but think long and hard it's 2 000 carbon fiber
if you want an alternative take a look at the 10 way c600 which has got the same drive train
but an alloy frame not carbon fiber it's also cheaper and i did find it actually
handled the climbs a little bit better than this bike here so that's my full story here
on the Urtopia e-bike thank you so much for watching if you did like this review please
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