Real world review of the Juiced HyperScorpion 30+ MPH electric moped

The Juiced HyperScorpion is an electrical bicycle… errr, electrical moped, that fully embraces the rising development of excessive powered electrical bikes that blur the road with electrical motorbikes.

Sure, it’s nonetheless an electrical bicycle. It’s received two wheels, pedals, a series, and could be pedaled all day till your coronary heart’s content material.

However it additionally provides a complete different stage of enjoyable and utility as an electric moped that really deserves its place on the highway with each different car.

And therein lies the attention-grabbing duality of the Juiced HyperScorpion. It’s an electrical bicycle and an electrical bike multi function.

And that, my mates, is what makes it such a potent little EV for everybody from thrill riders to day by day commuters.

Juiced HyperScorpion video assessment

Juiced HyperScorpion tech specs

• Motor: 1,000W (actually extra) Bafang RetorBlade rear hub motor
• Prime pace: 31.5 mph (50.7 km/h), as examined
• Vary: As much as 70 miles (112 km) on pedal-assist or nearer to half that on throttle
• Battery: 52V 19.2Ah 1,000Wh (detachable and lockable)
• Weight: 102 lb (46 kg)
• Max load: 275 lb (125 kg)
• Wheels: 20 inches with 4-inch fats tires, mag-style forged wheels
• Brakes: Tektro hydraulic disc brakes (180 mm rotors)
• Entrance suspension: Hydraulic fork with adjustable pre-load, compression, and lockout
• Rear suspension: Swingarm with twin adjustable spring coilover shocks
• Extras: Moped seat, included rear rack, included fenders, massive LED headlight and tail/brake mild, flip alerts, mirrors, alarm, superior matrix LCD battery meter, kickstand, USB charging, Shimano 8-speed drivetrain

Juiced HyperScorpion: Extra is best

What actually units the Juiced HyperScorpion aside is simply how further the bike is.

The whole lot is simply a lot greater than you’d get on any typical e-bike. The battery is gigantic at 1kWh and provides extra vary than most individuals want (as much as 70 miles or 112 km underneath “supreme” circumstances). The motor is extremely highly effective, with a 1,000W steady ranking and certain north of 1,500 peak watts. You recover from 30 mph (48 km/h) of pace. You get flip alerts and mirrors and people tremendous grippy road tires.

The whole lot concerning the HyperScorpion simply places it in a unique class, a moped class. There’s even a lighted license plate holder, that means you may presumably go down the route of attempting to register it as a moped (which opens up a quagmire of various state legal guidelines and laws, so we’ll allow you to sort out that by yourself).

However the truth that you’ll be able to restrict the bike all the way down to Class 2 and Class 3 speeds implies that it’s in the end nonetheless an e-bike at coronary heart and by design, thus making it extra approachable to extra individuals. It’s if you unleash the ability of this beast that it comes alive and provides you all these further watts and bursts of pace.

How does it deal with?

The Juiced HyperScorpion really feels fairly lighter and nimbler than its 102 lb (46 kg) curb weight would possibly indicate.

With entrance and rear suspension, sticky road tires, and a bench seat that really feels snug to each sit on and pedal on, the bike is clearly effectively designed for correct driving — not only for trying badass.

Which it additionally does.

It even includes a true torque sensor to allow snug and tuned pedal help that isn’t jerky or excessive.

The one time issues get jerky is if you delimit the Juiced HyperScorpion by placing it in Race Mode. At that time, you’ve received a lot energy on faucet that you might want to watch out with the throttle. That energy doesn’t ease on — it dumps abruptly in the event you ask for it. That makes your wrist the limiter (appropriately) and in addition means new riders would possibly wish to follow a bit within the decrease modes earlier than exploring Race Mode and studying to feather the throttle.

Why does an e-bike want flip alerts or mirrors?

The sunshine package deal and mirrors on the HyperScorpion do two issues. To start with, they offer me a greater sense of the highway and my environment. Secondly, they let different drivers know I’m not only a toy bike on the aspect of the highway — I’m a car.

The Juiced HyperScorpion offers off a really totally different vibe, from what I’ve seen to this point. On a typical bike, drivers pay me no heed and fly by me with reckless abandon as if I’m encroaching upon “their” roads.

However with the Juiced HyperScorpion, it has sufficient of a presence that vehicles appear to offer me extra respect and area.

Possibly it’s the bunny ear mirrors. Possibly it’s the truth that I can sustain with the pace of visitors in most locations. Possibly it’s a mixture of things. Both method, all I do know is I really feel safer when vehicles see me as a reputable highway consumer and never a “bicycle owner” that will get of their method (their hypothetical phrases, not mine).

Plus, once I’m touring on the greater finish of the Juiced HyperScorpion’s pace vary, having a shiny headlight and mirrors for situational consciousness are key security options that the majority bicycles merely lack. I don’t all the time wish to have to show my head to test my six. And I wish to see if there’s an impediment arising on me at evening earlier than it’s proper underneath my tires. The Juiced HyperScorpion does that for me, plain and easy.

Alright, so that you prefer it. However what’s flawed with it?

Sure, as you’ll be able to inform I’m a giant fan of the HyperScorpion.

However as common, no e-bike is ideal, and the HyperScorpion does some slight sinning as effectively.

Whereas the heavy weight of the bike isn’t as noticeable whereas driving, it’s nonetheless a behemoth. Don’t count on to carry it right into a truck mattress or onto a rear auto rack by your self, except you’re repeatedly snatching a number of plates on the gymnasium. Rolling it round within the storage is okay, however this ain’t a straightforward lifter, that’s for positive!

And the brakes are good however not blow-you-away good. Possibly I’m simply spoiled by my Magura MT5E four-piston hydraulic disc brakes on other e-bikes of this power level. The Tektro’s are nonetheless good high quality two-piston hydraulic disc brakes, however the greater weight of the bike means it might need benefitted from an additional pair of pistons, a minimum of up entrance the place extra braking power is actuated.

Lastly, relying on the place you journey may imply you’re in a little bit of a authorized gray space. Juiced Bikes is cautious about indicating that Race Mode isn’t for public streets. And so they’re proper since most areas don’t enable e-bikes over Class 3 speeds (28 mph or 45 km/h). However let’s be actual, you’re going to wish to pop it into R mode and let ‘er rip sometimes. Simply be sure you’re being each protected and accountable about the way in which you journey the bike at greater speeds. Don’t fly previous riders within the bike lane or in any other case put individuals in jeopardy. The Juiced HyperScorpion provides a stage of energy and capabilities that the majority e-bike riders can have by no means skilled earlier than. Go simple with them.