Decent component commuter bike with comfortable upright riding position.
yea its certainly more of a hybrid than a mountain bike.
Looks like a great downhill unit to me. 180/160 brakes on a 22kg frame for that "my brake lines must have been cut" feeling, 42mm tyres to ensure decent pebbles will deflect you, 75mm fork travel so said pebbles will be felt, 9 speed so you're not going back up the hill, and a kickstand for when you realise bikes just aren't for you. Perf.
You forgot to add /s
Never know how people will infer your post!
Why so harsh? OK, poster mis-labelled this as an MTB, but it isn't that far off. Remove the mudguards, put on some knobblies, and have a lot of fun.
Not every trail is a black diamond, and not every run is a race.
If someone takes this mountain biking they're going to be in a world of pain. No amount of mudguard removal, knobbly tyres etc are going to make up for the relaxed frame geometry, undersized tubes, undersized shock travel, undersized brakes, underengineered headstem will make it into something you can take on mtb trails.
Gravel yeah
Anything more - would avoid.
For 90% of the general population, riding on an unsealed road/fire trail is 'mountain biking'
Anything can be a mountain bike once
Meh. WOuld rather pay a bit more and get this one instead: https://www.reidcycles.com.au/products/e-trail-2-0-charcoal-…
I have an E-Trail 2.0 with tiny 10.4A battery, poor brakes and clunky derailleur. Ananda M100 motor is great though. Reid improved the 2023 model a lot. They finally LISTENED to customers 'feedback' (complaints).
https://www.reidcycles.com.au/products/etrail-2-ebike-my23-c…
Have you attempted any speed unlock on the bike (for competition use obviously lol) wink If so, does the unlock work on those Ananda motors?
If speed sensor is located inside swing arm with wheel magnet, it's a simple process of moving magnet to pedal crank and locate sensor to underside of swing arm. Goodbye 25 ;-)
Most motor firmwares are locked and without manufacturers software and connection toolbox impossible to unlock. Bafang the exception. All aftermarket kits do is same as moving the sensor and magnet, but electronically by halving the pulse of hall sensor for +$200 or so and your speedo will be out the same.
Better to buy a nice secondhand Giant with hydraulic brakes and a Bafang 750W mid-drive motor and 17.5ah battery package and build your own for under $2000. Technically illegal but you'll be fine.
cut your commute time in half!
think of the strava KOM's
Yeah but that is a ton of work.
Why don't bike companies do that and sell it.
Can't be bothered looking at marketplace for one bike then checking
nice $2,500 fine in NSW
btw i test rode a 750W Bafang that had bene "tuned" to run at 1300W peak, and it was so terrifying i decliend to buy it, even in assit mode 1 it was an accident waiting to happen. 2 most notable issues - pedal on surge…and worse pedal lift off surge…it wanted to kill you at both extremes. im usually up for mad, but that was a bridge too far, especially at 52. i decided i didnt want to die on an overpowered bike. the kiddie bought it already modded and had no way of detuning it, and i couldnt be arsed buying the cable and possibly hosing the controller myself, so i gave it a hard pass. he wanted $700 for it with a pirez triangle battery. it took him weeks to sell it at that low price, i mustnt have been the only one to call it a death trap and pass. theres a reason the law is 25km/h, because thats actually safe folks….
however i got why it had been goosed to the max, because it was owned by a food delivery driver, who work like modern day slaves on a small margin where they need to be everywhere at light speed…sadly seen a few come a cropper up against cars, one at the corner of my street in Redfern, very unpleasant. thats what seems to drive the overpowered bikes, food delivery kids bringing cheap food to entitled lazy folks, and sometimes theyre dying doign it.
i would now top out at a non-tuned 500w bafang, and probably limit the wattage to get more range over speeeeed…then again im not bringing entitled millennials and gen z'ers their food…
Built my own with a Bafang 750W middrive and it's not terrifying, it's exhilarating. Top speed of 45km/h. Took an afternoon to build. A 250W Bafang middrive is identical to their 750W motor so no way to tell by looking at it. Been riding it around for 18 months without issue. https://imgur.com/a/nRoJLLe
i think you missed the part where i said it had been tuned to the gills….even so 750w is 3 x the legal limit, and before i rode one i didnt see why, but after i did. Basically those things should require a license at that point. Also as pointed out i saw what happened when one of them went up against a car, and then seeing the police hosing blood and flesh off the intersection of chalmers and cleveland street that was once a poor overseas student, with my own eyes, i didnt want to join the club…worst initiation ever….
@amosmilburn: I've tuned mine "to the gills" as well. It's as simple as buying the programming cable and downloading the software. The 750W motor tops out at 45km/h.
@[Deactivated]: and yet youre putting that out as a good thing, its not….and as already stated, dangerous, not to mention illegal
Please don't take this mountain biking