Capability Testing the Askmy E500 Electric Bike!

All right guys, what is up? We are out on another electric bike and I'm excited to dive into this one because this is a lot more of like a full-size e-bike. So again, I'm excited. What we are on today is the Ask My E500 electric bike. So far this thing rips. You can see we're cruising one hand going 35 miles per hour, which is fast. Not many of these are going that fast. So I love it so far. We have a Shimano derailleur, seven speeds. So we're going to test that out, feel the chain out, see what that's like and a bunch of other stuff. So we're just going to dive right into it. So what I always like to do right off the rip is test out the speeds on this thing. We're going to do the speed assist, or I'm sorry, the pedal assist mode first because we have three of them. We have three speed modes. I'm going to go ahead and slow this down. We have it in speed mode one here. I'm going to start pedaling and see what kind of assists we're going to get. I'm curious if this is going to, okay, yeah, it's taking us 17 miles per hour in speed mode. Number one, you know, I'm also going to crank our shifter or our derailleur up here. We're going to go to gear seven. I like keeping them as full as we can, but regardless, we're at 17 miles per hour here. All right. You press the green button over here to change your speed modes. Oh, that, that kicked in quick. So we went from 17 miles per hour to 25 miles per hour in speed mode two with pedal assist. And then three, I'm going to assume is going to be max speed here. And again, I'm pedaling the same speed on all of these. So I'm pedaling, but I'm not putting much effort in at all. And right now, yeah, we're going max speed, 34, 35 miles per hour. So, and I believe it's going to correspond with the throttle as well. We have a twist throttle on the right side. So as you can see, if I'm holding the twist throttle in speed mode one, it's actually slowing me down right now. We are going all the way back down to 17 miles per hour. Now we went off the road for a second, but speed mode number two is going to take us like we already have figured out about 25 miles per hour and speed mode number three, click it again. And it's going to be full speed, right? And like I said, this thing goes 35 miles per hour, which is crazy. And so far, I haven't had any issues with it off road. Pretty smooth overall. I will say it is a little bumpy. You can probably hear it in my voice and hear the rebound maybe a little bit on the front wheel. This dirt is a little loose. So, you know, I do feel it. I do feel it sliding around a little bit. It is a taller bike. So you're definitely going to feel it a little more. But I will say the suspension sitting down isn't amazing. Like I can definitely feel the bumps we're hitting. But again, overall, it's really not that bad, especially if I'm standing up and using my knees. This thing definitely can handle off road. So that's a good thing. The tires are big, 20 inches diameter, four inch wide. So they're good size tires. They are treaded. So again, you can take them off road like this and you can still ride on the street and it'll still be smooth. So that's good. But I will say another thing, you know, kind of bothered me a little bit again, is the right brake lever over here is for your rear brakes and the left ones for your front brakes. I'll always say this. I don't really care for that. I wish these companies would leave the brake lever, just like any other motorcycle or bike. The right side needs to be your front brake, in my opinion, because I have experience in riding motorcycles and dirt bikes. So the minute I hop on this thing, I'm assuming this my front brake. So I don't grab it. I'm going to grab by the left side over here, which ends up actually being my front brake. Because then what's going to happen is one time I'm going to grab the left lever here to slow down thinking it's my rear brake. When in reality, it's my front, could cause the front wheel to wash out in the dirt and we're going to go down. So we don't want that. So that's one negative I don't really care for. But again, it is what it is. It's really not that big of a deal. But so far with our speed tests, that was pretty straightforward. And I'd say a bike did pretty good, 35 miles per hour. I mean, that's a solid number. We're going to go take this out in the dirt. Now we're going to try to make it through a wash over here that has a pretty thick river rock in it. I really feel like this will make it through no problem, especially with the speed that it's capable of going. And again, I believe it has 60 nms of torque. So like it definitely has some get up and go. There's only one motor mounted in the rear, no front, but it does have dual suspension as well. So that's very helpful. And so far I do like the display. I mean, it's cool shape, good size, nice and shiny flat screen there. And we do also have blinkers on the bike, only in the rear taillight though. There's no blinkers in the front, just in the rear, but still a cool feature to have. We also have a horn as well. You can hear it's pretty loud. And the cool thing about this e-bike, I don't see much, but with the Ask My E500 is it does have keys and an ignition. So the bike is not going to start off unless you put the keys in and turn the ignition on and it'll fire up. So cool feature. A lot of bikes come with keys, but only to unlock the battery to take the battery out for security purposes. This one actually has an electric ignition there, which is really cool in my opinion. And also all of the specs that I'm about to tell you guys, I got off of Ask My's website. They also sell the same bike on Amazon by Ask My, but some of the specs that they put differed from their website and Amazon. So all these numbers I got from their official website. So if you see difference on Amazon or whatever, that would be why. And something you'll see on the display here, if you're confused, this says 48. There's a dash and then a number, a number on the right. That's your miles on the bike. The one on the left is your voltage, I believe. So as I'm giving it a throttle, 48 volts, and we have four miles on the bike. So again, I've just been cruising it. It's been a lot of fun though. All right, this is our stop. We're going to go up this bump and this bike definitely has enough clearance to get up that, which is nice because I've been on other ones that do not, but this one made it up. No problem at all. All right, again, now we're in the dirt. We're going to go ahead and park it over here, really go over the specs and give you guys a better look at the E500. So let's do it. All right, you guys, this is the Ask My E500 electric bike. Let's dive into it. So straight out of the box, if your Ask My E500 is empty, it's going to take around five to six hours to charge, which is pretty standard. I plug it in, like I say, overnight and let it charge when I wake up in the morning. We're good to go. On that charge, you are going to get around 30 miles, give or take, on one charge. So that's not too bad. It depends on how you're riding it, but 30 miles, that's not really a bad number. Max load capacity on this thing is about 330 pounds, which that's a lot of weight. You can really, there's no restrictions on this thing. And the best rider size and height for this is going to be around five foot four to six foot two. So again, wide range, a lot of weight, solid bike, solid build. And while on the note about the solid build, it is built from high carbon steel. So this thing is very solid while also staying light. It weighs under 70 pounds. I believe it's 66 pounds. So this thing is incredibly light for what it is. The battery, 25 amp hour, 48 volt, pretty standard, but 25 amp hour sounded like a lot. That's what their website said. I believe Amazon said otherwise, but we're going to roll with it. And also the motor on this thing, a thousand watt peak, pretty solid. The torque could be a little more get up and go, but honestly it still has a good amount and it feels nice and smooth. And again, it's just a rear mounted motor, not dual. So it makes sense, but 35 miles per hour, they claim up to 38 miles per hour at a full charge. So solid numbers. In my opinion, the seat height on this bad boy is 36 inches. You can see this is a taller bike, but again, they recommend five foot four to six foot two riders. So if you're anywhere in between there, odds are you will be just fine on this thing. And it has dual suspension rear in the front takes care of you. Nice headlight and a taillight with blinkers in the back. So in a second, we're going to get into the Shimano derailleur and kind of go over how it feels, how smooth it is and what the chain feels like. Another thing that's nice is the bike does come with mud guards on the front and the rear, and they're insanely easy to take off. So if you don't like them, go ahead and remove them. Super simple. All right. So with all that being said, let's go hop on the ask my E 500 and test out the sprockets, the derailleur and the chain. Let's do it. All right. So the chain and sprocket and the derailleur, which is what shifts your chain feels good so far. The one thing you cannot do on this bike, though, is completely turn off pedal assist. So I can never just use this as a static manual pedal bike unless you completely power it down and turn it off. Then you can obviously. But when it's on, it's always going to have some sort of pedal assist. So we haven't pedal assist one. You know, on that note, we're just going to we are going to go ahead and turn this thing off and give it a go. All right. Now we got to get a workout in which I didn't exactly sign up for, but that's OK. Let's do it. All right. So right now we are in gear six. We're going to downshift. Now we're in five for feeling it out here, seeing how well it clicks through. I mean, there's no clicking. There's no clanking. Now we're in two. Now we're all the way in one. I mean, it does a good job. It feels good. Now let's shift back up through them. Now we're kicked into second, kicked into third. Yeah, no, I mean, it's working. I mean, I would say seamlessly. I mean, the Shimano's normally do a really smooth job and now we're all the way back up in gear seven. So, yeah, that works great. So again, if you want to ride your bike without any type of pedal assist, turn it off and there you go. But for me, I'm going to fire this thing back on and we're going to go test it in the wash really quick. Speed three. Here we go. You can see here this road's bumpy. I will say the seat isn't incredibly comfortable and the suspension could be better, but for the price of the bike, you can't complain. You can go almost 38 miles per hour. They claim you can go 38. We're going to see how this thing feels though in the river rock here. It's either going to be good or bad. Let's give it a go. Here we go. Losing a little bit of traction, a little bit of traction, fishtailing. All right, we made it and it struggled up the hill a little bit, but it did do it. And I will say that hill is pretty steep and the river rock is no joke. With this wheelbase and the height on it, the way it's set up, it doesn't surprise me. It struggled a little bit more than some of the other bikes we've taken across there. We've had some scooters that obviously can't even make it across there at all, but I'd say overall it handled it well. Always fun to test it there, but if you guys are interested in your very own Ask My E500 electric bike, link is in the description. Definitely go check it out. They have their very own website or you can buy it on Amazon. Totally up to you. Do some of your research. I give it a thumbs up. There's a few things that could be better, but again, for the price point and what it comes with in 35 miles per hour, I think you're good to go. So thanks for watching the video guys and I'll catch you next time.