For me I’ve been riding my new mten5 around a lot. It gets about 20 miles of range and will happily cruise at 20mph (max is somewhere over 30).
I also have an ebike, escooter, and 3 other electric unicycles (EUCs) but this little ripper has been my favorite this week.
Sadly, I am recovering from a crash that a faulty fender on my Engwe caused and have been driving this week.
Hopefully I’ll heal up fast but to anyone out there that has an Engwe: Remove your front fender bolts that attach the stays to the fork and replace them with zip ties or remove the fender entirely.
These shitty fenders fail and wrap around the front tire, sending the rider into the pavement at great speed. Bones were broken, Engwe did not give a single shit and as far as I can tell, they are taking no action to fix the issue.
To anyone considering their bikes: Look elsewhere, they are not worth it and the company apparently DGAF if you get killed as long as they have your money.
I’m sorry to hear that! So the front locked up and you had a highside crash? That’s my greatest fear on my ebike (heybike ranger s) and my motorcycle (suzuki gs500). I hope you heal up and can get back to riding soon, and I’m glad you’re still alive and coherent
And that really sucks that Engwe didn’t care
Yeah, my helmet probably saved my life. RIP in peace Bell Super Air R, you were a good helmet.
Quality fenders will have some sort of emergency breakaway in case something fails but cheaper ones that are all metal lack this basic safety feature. You can create your own breakaways by replacing the bolts with some 5-10 lb zip ties that will break and throw the fender instead of you.
Bell Super Air R is such a good helmet, great choice
I have a similar helmet that I wear when going from 20-30mph from Smith, anything faster and I use my sedici motorcycle helmet
You should probably make an actual warning post about this so more people will see it. You aren’t the first to get thrown by an Engwe because of the fender.
Yeah…