Aipas M2 Pro Xterrain E-Bike Review and Buying Your First Ebike
Heat. Heat. Hello everyone and welcome back. This video is going to be a little bit of a departure from my typical videos on guns and instead we’re going to be talking about an ebike. And now typically I don’t uh I guess the word might be shill but I don’t take free product to do a review. I’ve been offered many times but I usually do not do it. In this particular instance I said you know what this kind of fits what I’m doing so I will take this. So yes, this is a paid promotion and so in the video link below, you will see some links or affiliate links. So if you end up buying something, I’ll end up getting a little cut of that. Nevertheless, this fits my profile for this particular time just because I’m going to go on an elk hunt here in about a week and an ebike is potentially going to be useful for getting the animal out of the the mountains. So anyways, I agreed to this, but I thought maybe I will consider doing this not from just the specs and all that stuff, but more of a of a uh if you’re looking to buy an ebike for the first time, you really don’t know what you’re looking for. I’ve looked at a ton of videos out there because I was actually looking for an ebike. The people talk to you like you are supposed to know what all of these things mean. And so I’m going to try to break it down on a simplistic level kind of as much as I can to try to help those people that are looking to buy a bike for the first time. An ebike that is. So with that, let’s get into it. So first I need to tell you about the specs on this. However, they’re kind of lengthy. So I’m going to put them in the video description below. So if you want to read on them, that’s that’s uh that’s for you to look at. Now, what I will say about this thing is the motor on it is 110 nanometers worth of torque. That’s a lot of freaking torque. I’ve been looking for an ebike for a while now trying to shop. I can’t figure out what what I want, what I don’t want. Um, but I can tell you this, 110 nanometers of torque for mountain bike, and I’m doing basically trails that are kind of like this. This is This one’s pretty smooth that I’m on right now, but a lot of them are really, really rocky. Um I grew up around the Austin, Texas area, and there’s a ton of mountain bike trails here, and a lot of them are really, really rocky. So, um having a mountain bike that has a little bit of torque in there to help you get up those hills is nice, but I think this one has so much that it’s just a little much. And I’m going to go straight into that right now. So, if you come over here and you look at the uh the power assist, which is what PAS stands for, I got it in two right now. Two’s fairly It’s okay. It’s doable on these trails. Three, you’re it’s a little too fast. You’re going to get pushed. I mean, really pushed. It’s like having your big sibling trying to teach you how to ride a bicycle and pushing you too much. Like there’s a couple of times when I actually rode off the trail because I could not make the turn easy enough because the damn thing was going too quick on me. So this one has some power assist that is just crazy. U I’ve tested one other bike that was I believe an 85 nanometer nano new sorry Newton uh 85 newtons of power of torque and it seemed to be a lot better. So when you’re when you’re just It gives you the assist that I was looking for, not the push. In fact, you could put this bike in gear one and roll with it. Never put any kind of torque on the the the pedals at all. Just crank it and it’s going to do maximum speed of the power assist that you’re in. So, if you’ve jacked with the uh the controls and got it to do its maximum speed of 36 mph, you can put this thing in gear 1, power assist 5, and just sit there and gingerly crank and you’re going to do 36 m an hour. There’s it’s no different than putting than using the throttle. This comes with a throttle. Most of these mountain bikes that are uh or ebikes do come with a a throttle right here. And this one’s a twist throttle. I’m going to put it in uh zero cuz otherwise if I do it right now, it’s going to take off on us. So, it twists right here. Others have like a push button, a thumb, but this bike here comes with a light, a horn, and then the controls and the display. They’re pretty much the same. If you were to uh hack into them and look around, you’re going to see the functions are pretty much the same. It’s just how they they present it to you. First of all, you want to decide what you want to use it for. In my case, I’m riding trails. In this particular bike here, which like I said was given to me, I’m going to use this on an elk hunt. And the main reason I wanted it for the elk hunt is because it has a carrier on the back so I can strap on a backpack or supplies or whatever or maybe a piece of the elk to try to transport it out of the out of the mountains. So, that’s the reason I went with this. Plus, it has the 4-in wide tires. 4-in wide tires. they it is a little bit more comfortable to ride than your typical two and a half say your typical uh mountain bike tires. There’s something about these flat tire bikes. They you got to have them aired up to a nice pressure when you’re on the road. Otherwise, the sidewalls are kind of squirly and it feels like you’re going to crash at every turn. But when you get off roads, you got to take some air out of them because the rocks and the unevenness will just beat the snot out of you. So, I’ve taken mine down to 20 lbs when I’m off-road. I can feel the difference when I get on the concrete and drive on a flat surface. You know, it just it just doesn’t respond as well. From a beginner standpoint, from what I’ve read, there’s two different methods for motor placement. This has a hub motor. There’s one called a uh oh mid mid midtrain or mid power. I can’t words escape me now. But the motors basically in here. Those are the bikes that are you’re going to see a lot more price-wise. They’re going to be in the thousands like two to 15 to $20,000. The hubs are a lot more prevalent. And I think these are going to be better for general riding versus if you’re going to do hardcore mountain bike, you want the mid drive motor. And that one, it makes sense because it’s it’s going to give you the extra help it takes to crank those cranks to get your wheels actually going, whereas this one is almost like it’s pushing you. Um, this is just my interpretation on this, so just keep that in mind. Um, this particular bike has full suspension, which is very nice. I still find myself standing up over the rough stuff. And then front suspension, which is pretty basically a mustave these days. The the technology has been out for so long. The uh the front does feel a little goofy if you hit just the front brakes. It feels a little wonky. The back is spongy, but I find it comfortable enough to for just everyday riding on semi bumpy roads on this type of stuff that I’m riding here. This one, this section, this section here is really, really smooth. When it gets really rocky, you’ll want to stand up out of the saddle. Speaking of that, it does come with a a nice saddle on it. I found it was a little too wide for me for my butt. So, I wanted to go with a more traditional what I’m used to, you know, hardcore biking style. So, it’s very narrow. And then I went with a longer seat post. So, if you look at other people doing videos on this type of bike, they are their legs are not perfectly straight. So, they’re not getting the the the pressure, the the the power that they should be getting out of out of each crank, but they don’t need to. It’s an ebike, you know, they just have to crank the wheel and the motor does the rest. For me, I’m using pedal assist one most of the time just to get a little bit of oomph, but I need my seat up so I can get maximum stroke on my legs. So, I needed a longer seat post. So, I went with a little bit longer seat post. I’m just under 6 ft tall, so about 5’11. And this bike is big. I multiple times I went to throw my leg over it and caught the caught the rack on the back. The step through one. There’s another one. It may be the M1. This is the M2 Pro. I don’t believe it has that crossbar. That may be a better choice actually. So, you can just step through it. But so far with that modification of the B with the seat and shifting it back and forward, forward and backwards until I found the right geometries for me is what I was looking for. It does come with some aggressive looking pedals. I do SPD pedals, the uh old school Shimano style. These are normal pedals on one side and then it has the SBD on the other side. Those are not too much. So if you want to have the option of both, go for it. Okay, when it comes to brakes, there’s a few different brake sizes out there. I’m not going to talk about old school V- brakes and cantalvers or all that stuff because pretty much everybody does disc brakes these days. Um, in my readings, there’s 140 mm, 160, 180, and 205. And that means the diameter of the actual disc itself. This is a big bike. 90 lb. It’s freaking heavy. If you’re going to put it on a bike rack, you’re going to need a buddy to do it. I’m just saying. Plus, with all that weight comes, you need to be able to stop it. This has 180 discs on it. It could probably use 205s. Uh, it is a mechanical brake. You can tell by looking at the cable right here. If it was u hydraulic, it wouldn’t have that cable, but hydraulics might help it stop a little faster. But I think just a bigger disc in itself would help. But they’re pretty close. I mean 180s, 205s, that that extra centimeter or so may actually do it. But I think it does need u stronger brakes for the weight of this bike. The um this one here came with the rack on the back. There is another option where you can actually get a rack for the front. The headlight is pretty big, but I will say this, I’ve used it one night in the dark, and it provides ample ample light for riding down the trails in the evening. It does have a brake light. You can disconnect that if you don’t want it. It’s there’s a cable right here. Basically, when you use either one of the levers, it’ll light up and kind of flicker. Walk around this side. I like the derailer protector right here in case your bike falls over. You’ve got a little protection as far as bending that drop out there where your derailer is. With these battery enclosed bikes, there’s no method for mounting a water bottle that I could figure out. So, I got one that mounts to the uh the seat post. Now, typically I’m when I mount bike like this, I’m all in, right? So, I have tools, patch kit, tire tools, all this stuff. There’s no place to put all this and I’m not wanting to carry any more junk than I already do. So, I got this little bag right here that just carries some wrenches. The wrenches are going to fit every nut on here. As far as tires going flat, this is advertised as some strong tires if you will. I ran over some stickers, your typical sand bars, and got two flats. So, they didn’t hold up very well. There is a there is tubes in these things. and I used flat out and aired them up. After putting the flat out in, I have not had a problem yet. I’m putting that in all my bikes at this point in my life. I do not want to deal with changing the flats on these things because it takes a nut, a hex wrench or a wrench to get the wheel off. Is they’re not quick release. Same with the front. There’s no quick release on your like your typical bicycle. But then again, it’s all this weight. I have to assume they’re doing that just to keep that, you know, you keep that wheel on because if you don’t get that quick release on there tight, it’s gonna have you a problem. We do have fenders, which I do appreciate that so it doesn’t throw stuff up on you. They’re plastic front and rear. The one of the gripes I do have is the battery compartment. Here is the switch so you can turn it off and on the battery and then a power jack right there. You can take the battery out. Uh, it’s right here in front. Let me back up a little bit. It’s right here in front. There’s a key on the other side so no one will steal your battery. Stick the key in, turn it, the battery comes down, and then you turn this lever right here to release it. It’s pretty heavy, too. I didn’t weigh it, but for this bike riding these trails, bumpy as they are, this thing rattles. And I’ve put in some rubber tape up in here to try to cushion it. In fact, some of the video you’ll hear it rattling around before. I think I’ve recorded some of the video before, but I’ve put as much rubber up here as I can to try to catch that rattle and make it stop doing that. Going over to the handlebars, they’ve got a nice little can to it. For me, uh, the bend in these handlebars like this is more of a upright riding, cruising style and not the performance mountain bike style that I’m used to. Um, I find it very comfortable though, however, to ride. They do come with these handles, grips for resting your palms on, which are nice. I wish there was a way to put well there is a way but I just don’t want to do it to put bar ends on here to give yourself another location to put your hand when you’re riding but it does both those sides. We do have a seven-speed transmission with thumb shifting only. So we’ll press this here with your thumb and you press that here with your thumb and that’s how you change gears. I’m used to the index shifters, you know, thumb and index finger. I will uh point you away from grip shifting. I find grip shifts very uh uh difficult to use, especially if you’re trying to switch gears really fast while standing up in the saddle pedaling. Oh, going back to the P uh saddle, the end thing today is a drop post where you have a button, a hydraulic button or something up on your handlebar and you can press your button and your seat drops. So that’s when you’re doing downhill hardcore stuff and you need to get down lower back behind your seat, back back behind your front wheel or your rear wheel to balance yourself out so you don’t go do an endo over the handlebars. For me, with a skinny seat like this, I can just slide my butt over the back. In fact, there’s been some times on some of my rides back when I was younger and more stupid. I’d gone down some stuff where my chest was basically on the seat itself and holding on for dear life. I would not do that today. I’m older, wiser, or just maybe we break easier now. Now, I will say this. If you’re on the fence about buying an ebike and you like to bicycle anyway, or you have liked to bike and you just go, I just cannot do this. It doesn’t make sense to pedal, you know, or to not pedal. I like my workouts and all that stuff. I was kind of thinking the same thing when I first started my hunt, but after seeing ebikes everywhere in Europe, I thought maybe I need there’s something into this. I need to look into this. And now that I have one, it uh it’s opening a whole new door of riding because, you know, I’m older now, not as good as shape as I used to as in my 20s, but now I can get out and I can ride longer. I can ride the same trails if I want to that I used to when I was 20 years old, but I now have a little bit more longevity in my rides. So, you get a lot more enjoyment out of it. And one thing I discovered the other day was on the straightaways, instead of putting it in a high gear and hauling ass to get that bunny hop over that next tree, you just hit the throttle effortlessly and you speed up to however fast you want to go and with and you can get a little breather in at the same time. It’s pretty cool. All right. So, my thoughts on this on ebikes and such. The battery weighs a ton. All of these ebikes weigh a lot. 60 lb probably is what you’re looking at. So, you’re going to have to deal with that. I’m thinking, and like I said, this is coming from the standpoint of what if you didn’t need this much range. They claim up to 85 miles. I believe it’ll be in the specs down below, but you don’t really need that much range, especially if you’re doing this type of riding, which I described here, where it’s just trail ride, where you hit 20 mi at the most in an afternoon. Um, now, if you’re commuting, this has nothing to do with commuting, right? This is that’s completely different from what I’m talking about here. But, uh, a lighter battery makes maybe a lighter bicycle. Do you need that much torque in there? Maybe, maybe not. There’s also is there something in the computer that allows you to turn that torque down? Like I said, it’s it power assist one takes you to the maximum speed. I can’t remember what it is. I’ll put it in here. Power assist 2, power assist 3, power assist 4, they all take you to the max speed regardless of what you’re doing. So, you can just gingerly pedal that thing and it’s going to take you to that max speed. The other bike that I’ve ridden does not do that. It basically you can feel it pushing you. In fact, when you turn the power assist off when you’re pedaling on that bike, no matter what gear you’re in, it’s almost like someone’s you’re towing something all of a sudden. You can feel the weight of the bike. That one weighs around 60 lb, 50 60 lb, something like that. It’s more of a traditional mountain bike. So, I I’m liking it a lot more. That one I went out and bought on my own. But, uh, this one here, like I said, appeased to me because of the, uh, the potential for the elk hunt to bring out the meat. I think it has a 500 lb capacity, too. I don’t weigh 500 lb, but if I can get some some elk on there, maybe. So, speaking of that, this, if we are able to get an elk or we I am able to get some footage, depends on how the hunt goes, that’ll be posted on my other channel, Texas Native here on YouTube. And uh this will also be posted on Rumble and Gun streamer. YouTube is not so friendly anymore. I can probably get by with posting this because I’m talking about a bicycle. But all my other content, there’s not a day that goes by that they don’t tell me I’ve I’ve violated some terms and they’ve removed my content. Even content that’s been there for 12, 15 years, it’s gone because if somebody got offended for something because I showed you how to change a spring on a pistol. Anyways, I digress. I’m not going to go off on that. Anyways, that is all I can think of at the moment for uh your first ebike looking to buy an ebike. I hope this helps. Like I said, most of the videos I looked at were people that you already knew everything and there were going over this new spec that did this instead of this thrust and all this stuff. But I hope this helps a couple of people out there. If you have questions, put them in the comments below. I’ll try to answer them. And like I said below, there’ll there’ll be a couple of links in there that I’ll probably get kickbacks if you end up using the links to buy. But uh looking for a commuter bike that’s comfortable to ride, this is the one. If you’re going to stick it on a bike carrier and take it somewhere on vacation, this is not the one. Not unless you can do it by yourself. And 90 lb is very awkward to roll up out of there. All right. Well, thanks for watching and please don’t forget to subscribe, like, and share the video. And don’t forget, go out to Rumble and Gun streamer. I will put links down there below on those. Hopefully YouTube won’t take me off for putting that in there, too. All right, guys. Next time [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat.
As mentioned in the video I typically do not accept any kind of compensation for products used in my videos. All of my videos feature products that were either borrowed from a friend or purchased by me. However when Aipas offered the chance to review one of their e-bikes it fit my current situation. In this video I attempt to address subjects that I find useful in my search for purchasing an E-Bike. At the time of making of this video, the Aipas M2 Pro and the M1 Pro E-bikes are just under $1k online. For all around E-Bike for street, hike and bike tails and some beginner single track, this bike would be ideal for anyone looking to step into the E-Bike world. If you are focused mainly on single track riding/racing style, you may want to look at a non fat tire bike. From my research they are more traditional is style and handling and lighter in weight. However, they will come at a much higher price.
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E-Bike Specs:
1800W Peak Rear Hub Motor with 110Nm torque
30 Degree climbing power
48V 17.5Ah Ip65 UL2271 Certified Internal Battery – Can be removed or remain mounted for charging (9 pounds)
2A Smart Charger, UL/FCC Dual Certified
36MPH Top Speed (if you alter the settings)
36-85 miles per charge (Pedal Assist Range 85 miles, Throttle only Range 36 miles)
48V LCD Display with USB charging port
Half-Twist Grip Throttle for Electric Only mode
Shimano 7-Speed Rear Hub
Shimano Rear Derailleur
Shimano 7-Speed Thumb Shifter
170mm Crank Arms, 48t Chainring
Full Suspension Frame (Front and rear) with 100mm front fork travel
26″ x 4″ All-Terrain Tires
26″ x 4″ Inner Tube with Schrader Valve
Front and Rear Brake Levers
Front and Rear Mechanical Disc Brakes with 180mm Rotors
Heavy-Duty Aluminum Kickstand
500 Pound Capacity
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