Fazua Ride 60 Test

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Yesterday I rode a Ride 60 bike with the 430Wh battery. I rode it in Turbo and maxxed out the assistance to kick in at minimum pedal effort. Here is the Fazua Ride 60 Range and early thoughts.

I got down to 4% battery showing on the app (from 100%, full charge) and the bike was pretty much done (maybe had another 50m of elevation).

I also used the overdrive / extra boost thing about 15 times over the ride to test it out!

There is a lot of marketing about the Ride 60 being 450 watts. But in reality it’s a peak of 350 watts for most the riding (99% of the time), with the Boost feature giving an extra 100 watts only for 12 seconds, activated by holding up on a few seconds on the remote.

I tried pressing the boost feature as many times as possible up a steep climb and found out after 5 presses it would stop working - it needs time to cool downbefore you can use it again.

Early thoughts:
- Decent power at max assist with the 12 second boost it gets a little kick which is great
- although, that 12 second boost will try to kill you if you activate it on a very techy climb, when it drops out after 12 seconds and you stall the bike 😭😂
- remote is a bit cheap feeling, flimsy and plasticy. Also can’t run brake lever close enough to grip for my personal preference
- motor isn’t quite as smooth as TQ
- freewheeling makes a bit of a noise a bit like a loud hub. No noticeable rattle on descents. Motor ratchets when you backpedal.
- motor is pretty quiet under load (WAY quieter than Levo SL, but NOT near silent like TQ)
- LED plastic top tube mount is cheap looking, bright LED’s don’t look good. Way too bright when ambient sunlight drops.
- Only 5 bars, no percentage, no increments in 10% levels (the LED bars represent 20% battery increments
- App is basic. No ANT+ built in to the drive system to connect to Garmin watch for power / cadence levels etc

Overall, good system, power to weight is decent, quiet (but not silent), integration is OK but not amazing (effective integration. but doesn’t feel premium) efficiency level is good, disappointed about no connectivity to Garmin and basic battery level info.

EDIT: Fazua FAQ states that it DOES infact have Ant+ so it should connect to Garmin. I couldn’t get it to work when I tried so I’ll have to try again!

EDIT EDIT:
Message from Fazua on Garmin / Ant+ connectivity: "Hello Rob, there seems to be a problem with the Garmin devices at the moment but we are working on a solution. At the moment it is still unclear whether this is due to the current Garmin software. I hope everything else is fine with your RIDE 60 bike :)"

I can’t share pics as the bike isn’t out yet but here’s the range:

Riding weight with gear: 85KG

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Was it a lightweight bike or a full fat ?

On the rare occasions I have a turbo (boost) hour on my Rise I’ll get more distance and elevation than that on a 360Wh battery, around 30km & 1250m elevation

I’m a heavy guy too!
 

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Was it a lightweight bike or a full fat ?

On the rare occasions I have a turbo (boost) hour on my Rise I’ll get more distance and elevation than that on a 360Wh battery, around 30km & 1250m elevation

I’m a heavy guy too!
Lightweight
 

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This was my Sunday morning ride on the Rise, using Boost on the climbs (I was feeling lazy) and Trail on the descents

Finished with around 19% left (the red light just came on)

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Nice. The Rise required more pedal input / cadence to get the power. Hence your increased range. The Fazua gives almost full power at low RPM, and by 55rpm is giving full power
 
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Nice. The Rise required more pedal input / cadence to get the power. Hence your increased range. The Fazua gives almost full power at low RPM.

Tyres wise I’m on Dissector up front, 26psi, DHRII rear, 28 psi

what tyres were on the Transition Relay, I mean test bike ? 😀
 

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Doesn't sound like a massive upgrade to the Evation system. The ride 50 and 60 are basically the same except the motor and bb are integrated in the 60 and separate in the 50. The 50 upgrades from the Evation are the engagement amounts and some improved thermals, which allow 350W rather than 300W in the Evation system (which would throttle). It's an evolution, not a revolution. My Evation bikes are 55nM. Neither is close to my Forestal in power (60nM) but they're lower in noise level.

The ratchet you notice backpedaling is Fazua's version of disengaging the motor like Shimano and Bosch. I almost never back pedal so it's not an issue. I'd rather have that than the noise from my EP8. It's only there if you go looking for it, or over tighten the cranks.

My bikes have both BLE and Ant+ and connect to my Garmin. I can't see that the newer systems wouldn't. I do remember that it wasn't as easy to set up as my Levo, but it's there.

I'm upgrading my eZesty to a ride 50 but I'll still be able to use the Evation motor, so I can compare them directly.

Gordon
 

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Rob, you mention a 15 second boost, and then a 12 second boost. Is that a Typo, or are there 2 different boost modes?

...and you GOTTA give us a hint on what bike it was! C'mon man!!!

Ace
 

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Rob, you mention a 15 second boost, and then a 12 second boost. Is that a Typo, or are there 2 different boost modes?

...and you GOTTA give us a hint on what bike it was! C'mon man!!!

Ace
Apologies, it’s 12 seconds of extra performance (cue @Zimmerframe for a cheeky quip here 😂)

Bike will be released soon,but you’ll probably not be expecting a bike like this from this brand!
 

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for a cheeky quip here
I almost did ... but somehow managed to restrain myself .. a minor moment of maturity or something ..

but you’ll probably not be expecting a bike like this from this brand!
Excellent - guessing quiz time !!

The new Levo SL - no one would expect it :)

Focus lightweight - but they've done lightweight before.

Santa Cruz lightweight ?

The Raleigh Turbo Grifter ?

You can't say .. so we can only guess ..
 
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To balance out the Fazua ratchet noises you could always build a rear wheel with the Onyx sprag clutch hub :)

Is it quieter under load than the EP8 RS? Not counting the clackety noises going downhill.
 

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To balance out the Fazua ratchet noises you could always build a rear wheel with the Onyx sprag clutch hub :)

Is it quieter under load than the EP8 RS? Not counting the clackety noises going downhill.
Yes definitely quiet under load. One of the quietest! But not TQ quiet - The TQ is the noise benchmark I'd say at the moment.
 

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