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
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I can’t share pics as the bike isn’t out yet but here’s the range:
Riding weight with gear: 85KG
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.
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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