Juiced Bikes pushes the envelope with a new 40 mph fat tire electric bicycle

Electrical bicycles have come a great distance in the previous few years. Regardless of initially being designed to offer cyclists with a relative quantity of help, many corporations at the moment are pushing the boundaries of what may be thought of a bicycle. From Vintage Cycle’s 36 mph retro-looking Scrambler to Onyx’s 30 and 60 mph CTY and RCR models.

The latest manufacturing electrical bicycle to hitch the 40+ mph (64 km/h) membership is the HyperFat HF1100 by Juiced Bikes.

Juiced Bikes, a California-based electrical bicycle firm, has been including plenty of fascinating e-bikes to their lineup lately.

Final month they launched pre-orders for his or her new mini-bike styled rides, the City, Camper and Hyper Scramblers. Designed to problem the favored Super 73 line of e-bikes, Juiced’s Scrambler e-bikes hit their funding purpose in just some hours and have thus far acquired over $1 million in pre-orders.

Now the corporate is preserving that momentum going with their subsequent e-bike launch, the HyperFat HF1100.

Along with the 40 mph (64 km/h) high pace, this fat-tire electrical bicycle has different spectacular specs as nicely.

The HyperFat sports activities a 12T Mac motor rated for 1,100 W max steady. However with a 35A controller and a 51.8V battery, this e-bike will truly be pulling round 1,813 W peak from the battery. How a lot of that energy truly reaches the bottom is anybody’s guess, but it surely’s positive to be one of many extra highly effective e-bikes at present available on the market.

The Mac motor has lengthy been widespread with the DIY electric bicycle building group, and has lately begun discovering favor amongst e-bike producers resulting from its mixture of sunshine weight and excessive energy.

The 51.8V Li-ion battery discovered within the HyperFat is sort of giant by e-bike requirements at 19.8 Ah, which quantities to roughly 1 kWh. Ordinarily that might end in a formidable vary estimate on a regular e-bike, however the HyperFat will not be a regular e-bike. It wants that further capability to realize even respectable vary when flying at 40 mph (64 km/h).

The HyperFat additionally sports activities a 1,050 lumen headlight, an built-in LCD superior matrix show with “race mode”, a mix of a torque sensor and cadence sensor for finer pedal help assist, and a hand throttle for anybody who doesn’t really feel like pedaling.

The bike can also be designed for a variety of riders, with three body sizes to select from. Every body will embody an adjustable air shock entrance fork, 26″ x 4″ racing slick fats tires, rear half fender, 180 mm hydraulic disc brakes, 9 pace Shimano cassette and might be rated for a weight capability of 275 lbs (125 kg).

The HyperFat is at present available for pre-order for $3,299 on Juiced Bike’s website with an eventual retail worth of $3,799.

If that sounds costly, then you definately might need the present political state of affairs to thank. Because of the Trump Administration’s rising commerce battle, electric bicycles imported from China are now subject to a 25% tariff. Like nearly all US-based e-bike corporations, Juiced Bikes designs their bikes within the US however has them manufactured and assembled in China.

And naturally if you’d like a road authorized model of the HyperFat that’s simpler in your pockets, you may try Juiced Bike’s $2,399 RipCurrent S, an identical fats tire electrical bicycle with a 750 W motor that tops out at 28 mph (50 km/h), making it road authorized anyplace Class 3 e-bikes are permitted. Or if fats tires aren’t your factor, Juiced has a similar spec’d 28 mph “normal” e-bike, the CrossCurrent S, for just $1,799.

Take a look at the video beneath to see some behind the scenes information on the brand new HyperFat HF1100:

Electrek’s Take

On the engineering facet, the HyperFat HF1100 is an superior feat. I imply, it’s no Sur Ron monster e-bike, however even with a high pace of 40 mph (64 km/h) it nonetheless appears to be like much more like a bicycle and has a greater hope of not less than pretending to be road authorized.

Not that you’d experience one in every of these on public streets although, proper? Proper?

I’m guessing these can be nice for racing and different shenanigans on the asphalt, although I don’t understand how nicely they’d do off-road. The fats tires will assist take in some bumps and pot holes, however with no rear suspension, you’ll undoubtedly need to be planning your monitor accordingly at 40 mph!

I’m nonetheless curious to listen to some vary estimates on this bike, as this mannequin is so new that a few of the particulars haven’t but been publicized. At these speeds the Mac motor goes to be guzzling electrons, however I feel the 1 kWh battery nonetheless ought to assist present good vary.

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