But if you start riding an e-trike as your main bike, you’ll quickly become accustomed to knowing where all of your wheels are at all times. You have to either straddle it between two of your wheels or take an even wider path around it than you would on an e-bike to make sure you don’t catch your outer wheel in it. So when you see a pot hole or a piece of road debris, you can’t just think “Okay, I’ll go to the side of it” like on a typical e-bike. But unlike a typical two-wheeled e-bike where you have a single track of wheels to manage, an e-trike has three. This is true of all electric tricycles, not just this one. That sounds a bit odd, but let me explain. One thing to note: You have to pay attention to where all your wheels are. That’s just another testament to how stable the RadTrike is, even at higher speeds. I don’t recommend making a sharp 90 degree turn at max velocity, but you can actually do it if the 90 degree turn is wide enough (think street intersection, not sidewalk turn).
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I could even take turns at full speed as long as the turn was wide enough. The RadTrike only gets up to 14 mph (22 km/h), but that speed actually feels much faster on a trike than it does while doing 14 mph on any other of Rad’s electric bikes. I tested the RadTrike if flat Florida so there aren’t any big hills, but even climbing up loading dock ramps and other inclines shows that the motor isn’t a weak little thing. The motor is quite powerful at 750W, and you really feel it pulling you along once those first few seconds of slow throttle ramping pass. That’s a nicely thought out feature and one that is especially important when you have a front wheel motor like this. That means that even if you go whiskey throttle and essentially “floor it,” the trike will gently accelerate over the first three to four seconds. On the RadTrike, they’ve design some very slow and easy throttle ramping profile. Some other electric tricycles I’ve tried do instant front wheel burnouts because the throttle gives you all that power at once. Unless you’re actively trying to tip it, you probably won’t. The point is, despite many people thinking electric tricycles can be tippy (and they can), the RadTrike is well designed to feel pretty darn stable. Unlike other e-trikes I’ve tried, I never accidentally went up on two wheels. I had to really try to get it up on two wheels, meaning I could only do it while going fast and simultaneously making sharp turns, or else throwing my weight in a corner turn to purposefully lift the outer wheel.
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They made the rear as wide as it could be while still fitting through most standard exterior doors, plus the 18″ wheels keep the center of gravity lower, so you get a nice and stable platform. The first thing I noticed about the RadTrike was just how stable it is while riding. Extras: LED display, integrated head/tail/brake LED lighting, bell, five pedal assist settings, half-twist throttle, mounting for front and rear racks/accessories, parking brake, reverse feature, comfortable two-part saddle with adjustable back rest.
So I got my hands on a RadTrike and took it shopping, rode around my neighborhood, tried commuting on it, did some leisurely trail riding and basically used it in about as many real world cases as I could imagine.Īs a three-wheeler, it’s a bit of niche product. There’s no better way to get a sense of an e-bike (or an e-trike) than by putting it through its paces of real world use. After testing the trike I can tell you that there’s a lot to like here, though I’ve also got a few critiques in areas I would have liked to have seen changed. It’s designed to make e-biking more accessible to a wider range of riders, especially older riders, and it sure fits that bill. The RadTrike is the first consumer-focused electric three-wheeler from Rad Power Bikes, the largest e-bike company in North America.
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