Hi i'm Chris and i'm taking now i look at yes some normal kind of e-bikes now i've looked at just
foldables until now on the channel and i know a lot of you have requested that i look at more
what you'd call like a normal kind of e-bike this e-bike here is made by a company called Eskute it
is their wayfarer model they also make a mountain bike model too as well and what we have with this
model is 28 inch rims we have mechanical disc brakes which are 160 millimeters it does have
a trip computer here giving you all your kind of information and five different pedal assist levels
powered of course by the 250 watt motor we have down here in the rear hub we've got a seven speed
setup with our gears here from shimano and the weight of this bike is about 25 kilos now it does
have a removable battery so this battery pack in here is 10 amp hours and it does last they claim
60 to 80 kilometers but i will be doing some range tests in this in-depth review i will be
taking a look at the design in detail a few road tests including say braking test and top speed
so you know exactly what to expect out of the wayfarer model here the wayfarer comes really
well packaged up and just hats off to them on their packaging that nothing was damaged at all
everything is separated well in the box with a lot of padding around it as you can see
so some small assembly is required you need to install the front wheel the mud guards
the handlebars tools are included as well as some instruction manuals there's an instruction manual
for the computer too as well the trip computer and how to install a throttle if you wanted to
do this you can check with your local laws as well too because a lot of countries having a throttle
is actually banned so just make sure you're aware of that the included charger this one is 80 watts
and it will take around six to eight hours to fully charge the 10 amp hour battery so we have
160 millimeter discs front and back now these are mechanical discs i'm used to hydraulics so they
don't apply the same amount of pressure so you do need to pull on those brake levers a little harder
for a non-branded shock this one is actually one of the better ones that i have come across
in a bike in this sort of price group and category and the headlight up the front this one has four
leds within it and a reflector around it it's bright enough that it lights up the path ahead
of me when riding in low light and there is a tail light here with one single led inside it it's not
very bright and this is one of the cons i think they should have put a brighter rear tail light
in this particular bike of course you can add your own accessories your own lights on
the rear if you're not happy with it does have a very strong looking bike rack here now this one
can take up to 25 kilos the welds and the build of it are excellent like the rest of the bike
we have a rear motor hub in this so this one is 36 volts and the maximum output in wattage is 250
watts which will of course aid us in those climbs and can go up to 25 kilometers per hour it is
limited our pedals are not foldable because well this is not a foldable bike they've got metal
around the outside plastic like abs style in the middle of them the crank here does have a plastic
chain protector around it well to stop the chain from coming right off but that's very unlikely to
happen and the chain they have used here this is a kmc branded one which is apparently rust proof
our gears are handled by the ever so common seven speed from shimano and there is a protector here
around the derailleur and a seat i do find this one rather comfortable it's not too wide where it
will start to chafe on your inner thighs or anything like that there's a bit of padding
which is approximately one and a half to two centimeters and my time running around on it it is
comfortable i think it's sufficient the seat can be adjusted down to a very low height for shorties
and reasonably high there for tall riders so i'm 186 centimeters and i find that that is even too
tall for me it's quite a large frame that this bike has now handlebars here reasonable width
to them i'm used to quite wide handlebars with my mountain biking and there's our shifter now i did
install the throttle so you can do this this is optional to install that you just need to remove
the grip on this side now the grips are not lock grips on this so after a while they may loosen
up a little bit i do highly recommend to swap them out then for lock grips if that does happen
so the handlebar height can be adjusted you can pull out some of the rings here and light down
a little bit and you can use this too to bring it up to a more comfortable position whatever suits
you then on the left we've got our power on with the controller here up and down for the different
pedal assist modes so that's one two five and putting on to zero allows me to then use the
throttle so down here there's a switch and i do like this so you can always keep it on to keep
those lights on all the time and then we do have a buzzer here this is very loud here's a sample
the trip computer with this one is a kyb display brand now there's an instruction
manual that it does come with inside the box pretty straightforward here so our speed
we've got our distance there the odometer this is the different pedal level mode so right up to five
as mentioned before and zero is when you can use the throttle
battery gauge here so each one of the little bars the bars there represents 20 battery when it all
disappears and starts flashing that's when it is critical and you do need to charge it
i wouldn't get it that low i wouldn't run it down that much before i charge it anyway
and you can cycle through your trip time the power output right here and then our max and average two
so i have it on pedal level assist one and once you get to about three kilometers
it then detects that i am pedaling from the crank sensor and it's giving me a bit of a boost now
so right now i've seen it go up to 230 watts you can see from the power menu here with the display
to around about 120 150 now this is very very smooth here just riding along
and not really used to this style of bike what i would call a dutch or german bike really see a lot
of them around here in europe but of course without the motor and without any gears too
normally single speed so i've got plenty of room here and i find that the geometry of the frame
has me quite upright when i ride i could probably lift the handlebar up a little bit more but it is
very very comfortable for what this is designed for which is basically city commuting riding on
the road very very smooth and it's not making any noise or anything so far very comfortable
so if i put it onto level zero i can use now the throttle here and you just turn it and you go okay
the motor i can hear that a little bit i can feel it vibrating through my seat
and that'll take me up to 25 kilometers
per hour which i'll slow down a bit here because there are progesterones pedestrians around now
as soon as you brake when peddling all of that it will detect it and it cuts the power
rough terrain ahead which is just a bit of a bump and some rocks this is a road bike of course with
road tires but i can use the gears and put it onto level 2 here to help me so just change down
now the gears have been very smooth for me the changes from the shimano derailleur
just perfect there's been no clanking there's no skipping of the gears on the back and that
was level two there which really did help me and that small little climb was very very easy for me
i can just hear the motor i don't know if it's coming through on the microphone that i'm using
i can just hear it a little bit but it's quiet it's not a very loud motor
so this is certainly not a mountain bike not meant for off-road but i do have a bit of
gravel ahead it's quite bumpy there's a lot of stones and it's not too bad now the front shock
helping out definitely i've got another e-bike that i'm currently reviewing that
does not have a shock on the front and i really notice how bumpy it is it's helping out here
now it does make a bit of a clanking noise probably hear that coming through just now
and then just then that's kind of normal but the shock for a no brand one no name shock
it's actually not too bad and definitely one of the better ones that i have tested
and here is my spot here with a 25 to 30 degree gradient here for the climb up this hill we'll see
how it fares with 250 watt motor and the different modes and of course we have those seven gears too
okay so here we go this is on mode 0 so i can use the throttle and that is powering me up
but it's slow and i can see it's starting to slow down yes i'm losing speed holding
about 12 kilometers so you do need to pedal on the steeper climb so the gear shifts they have
been excellent they've been very very good and i haven't had any problems of course you should not
shift under load like i just did that's really bad on a chain okay so this is now manual hard going
now level one okay definitely feel that that is helping so much this is so much easier
now level two using up to 410 watts and it's saying it's using up to 670 right now
even almost up to 700 watts of power that's a lot and number three number four and number five
doesn't seem to make too much of a difference but it's handling this well thanks to the large
28 inch wheels doing a much better job than those 20 inch or 14 inch models now for the brakes this
is my big area of criticism the brakes on this i'm not too happy with them at all i've tried to
bed them in i've tried to get them really hot it feels like there could be some oil on them
so i cleaned the pads so what i'll do now is they'll break test from this post here now
oh not too bad but really it could be better but they are slowly getting better so
these brakes definitely need to be bedded in quite a bit before you go out and ride i
would do this just so you can brake at safe distances of course coming up to the end of
beautiful last rotors like i've done on my other e-bike and scooter test it has been a smooth ride
the front shock you do notice it does help out a little bit with some of those bumps and there's
no noise coming from there's no rattling it's just a shock with really bumpy roads will rattle a tiny
little bit that's really been the only thing for me it's these brakes they need a lot of
bedding and i'm talking like 20 kilometers before they've really started to improve a little bit
and what about our top speed so if you are riding your guts out and you're on the road i've been
able to get it up to 37 40 kilometers per hour that is in the highest gear of course which is
number seven okay so range now let's talk a little bit about that 45 to 50 kilometers is
what i'm able to achieve with this with my 80 kilos and quite a few climbs around here so if
you're a lighter person you don't have a lot of climbs and you do just plain simple city commutes
and you're riding around we will be going over 25 kilometers per hour that's when the motor will cut
out saving on your battery and you're just off your own pedaling force then you should be able
to get i would say about 60 kilometers now they do claim 60 to 80. i think 80 is really pushing
it but 60 i do believe is possible there so that for an e-bike is very good actually for the range
out of this style and type of bike so there are a lot of things i like about this bike for the price
point so this sells for about 850 pounds and it's just i think under 1 000 euros and we have a very
good finish to it i like the welds the frame and the matte black paint job the packaging is very
good that they have used they've done an excellent job because nothing is marked at all the assembly
does take approximately 25 minutes or so to get it all i mean you have to put the handlebar on
as mentioned before and you've got the front wheel and the front mudguard but that's not too hard but
nothing is marked there now if you're after a bike with a style of course you've got the rack here
which is handy for your you know if you're going to be buying and shopping and put things onto that
which is great with a style and the larger frame i do find that the geometry of it for me for my size
is very very comfortable and you tend to ride quite upright you're not leaning
over like that so it's not going to give you a sore back or anything front headlight is very
good the horn the buzzer in there super loud it does actually give people a fright if you've got
someone walking in a bike lane in front of you you give them i've given people a little buzz with it
and it really does make them jump so the removable battery this is a good thing because you can take
it right out see if i can do it now on camera there you simply got the key here the release and
this other release on the on the side and you got to give it a bit of a pull and there's enough room
with the frame there to take it right out now this can be charged indoors you don't have to charge it
in the bike so you've got two options of charging it on the bottom of the battery itself and then in
the bike you don't have to remove it okay because it's lockable and it will take about six to eight
hours and that's normal for a 10 amp hour battery there so the overall weight of this bike it is
heavy with the battery that is this is 25 kilos so it's not a bike that you will be lifting up stairs
or anything like that if of course you have to do that then i would probably go for one of those
foldable e-bikes there so what about things that i don't like about this particular bike here well
the brakes for me is definitely at the beginning was an area of concern because i even felt that
it was almost borderline dangerous writing this in the beginning the breaking distance was terrible
now what had happened is i think they put a bit of oil over the disc to stop any rust and corrosion
there if it's sitting in the box for months they normally do this for storage purposes
so i wipe down the discs later and there is a definite bedding in that these disc pads the pads
on them need okay and that's about 20 kilometers after then now finally i'm starting to get
what i would say reasonable braking performance but i wouldn't call the braking performance from
these brakes amazing so if they are going to do any upgrades in the future models i would look
at the brakes and possibly they should go with hydraulic brakes i think would be a lot better
for a bike of this weight and considering the size of the rims too that you can get
up to easily 40 kilometers riding this and you imagine a car pulls out in front of you
you really want to have that breaking performance now my second con and this is very common a lot of
e-bikes that i've reviewed don't even have a rear light so it's good that we've got one at least
this rear light it's big okay our tail light here but it has just one tiny little miserable
led inside there that's not really that bright at all and it should be brighter for safety reasons
that is why i have my own rear tail light here which is a flashing really bright red one so i
recommend putting additional lights on for safety of course there so all up i think for the price
and if you're after this style of bike it does actually get a thumbs up for me this one is good
it's just the braking performance be aware of that when you get hold of these if you're going to buy
one just bed those brakes in first before you go on a serious ride and be prepared for extra long
breaking distances when you first get it so thank you so much for watching my review here
of the wayfarer and i do hope to see you in more up-and-coming e-bike reviews bye for now