37 reviews for isinwheel U7 Electric Bike for Adults, 20 mph Cargo Ebike 1000W Peak Adult Electric Bicycles, 55 Miles Range E Bike, 48V 10.4Ah Removable Battery, 7 Speed Gearshift, 20″ Step Thru Ebikes for Adults
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USE: I bought this bike in April to use as a utility cargo bike (for shopping and so forth), I attached two Costco tough boxes (to the front and back), each container can hold about 4 to 6 grocery bags worth of stuff. Point is it can haul a lot. And to the bikes credit I've overloaded it with 400 pounds and it held fine.
BATTERY: I live in West Seattle, it's VERY HILLY here, I get about 25 miles on a full battery(although I've never completely drained it). This is done by using pedal assist level one (10 mph), coasting down hills, and regularly shifting the gears. I have tested out only using max pedal assist (level 5) and I can get about 10 miles (again: the hills).
THROTTLE: The throttle matches whatever the pedal assist level is set to, so at level one it'll go about 8-10 MPH, and at level five it'll go about 20mph. It has some sort of automated limiter, so if you're holding the break or going backwards or really wrench the throttle it won't go forward (you'll see a symbol on the screen that looks like this: ("!") whenever it kicks in).
LOOKS: I have had more then a few people ask me about the bike, mostly older men (although some women), people seem to like how it looks. I think it looks good but I'm more concerned with practicality.
TIRES: Although the wider tires do seem to make cornering on gravely/sandy areas a little easier, it doesn't seem to make much difference from other e-bikes I've had. That said, it was easy to take apart; as I got a flat tire (ran over a rusty nail), and getting the wheel off, the inner tube patched, and putting it back on took less then 10 minutes.
QUALITY: The workmanship is more or less good. I have probably slammed into 200 pot-holes and there have been no problems, a car even backed into the bike while I was inside an Azteca and it still holds up fine.
RIDING: I have fun riding it as I like being able to haul a bunch of stuff and explore the city at my own pace, the issues is the lack of shocks can make it a bone-shaker if you go over 12 MPH or so. Also the seat kept going down every time I hit a bump so I had to really crank the latch down which required me using a hammer to push the latch back in.
BREAKS: the break shoes it comes with wear out fast (again I live in area with hills) but otherwise they worked fine.
LIGHTS: the light are okay, they're enough on a forest trail to go about 7MPH and not hit something.
HORN: Horn works great, the problem is I kept hitting the button by accident so I turn the control panel upside down so it wouldn't happen again.
SEAT: it's ok, my butt starts hurting after a full day of riding but that's to be expected.
KEYS: one nit pick I have is that the key stays in the battery when it's on. I wish this wasn't the case (although it's not a deal breaker for me). The manual says the key comes out when it's on but it doesn't, so obviously they changed battery designs without changing the manual.
Before I bought the bike I read all the reviews on the bike (on various sellers pages), so I want to address some of the common criticism I found to be inaccurate:
1)"it's too hard to put together". This doesn't make sense because it's very easy to put together (I did it without instructions) all it is is: put on the wheels, put on the handle bars & seat, attach the racks, that's it.
2)"the wheel/racks/lights/etc fell off". This seems to boil down to either: someone who didn't apply enough physical strength when bolting things down or someone not doing routine maintenance (bolts can vibrate lose). If you apply enough force and do checks/maintenance you'll probably not have these.
3)"it just stopped working after ___ number of days/weeks". I think this boils down to draining the battery 100% multiple times. I've done this on e-bikes in the past and killed the battery.