Smooth Riding on the HillMiles MilePort 1 folding Electric bike
[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey everybody, welcome back to EBike Random Adventures. Today we’re going to be taking a look at the Hill Miles Mileport One folding electric bike. The bike does have a 700 watt peak motor in the rear, a 13 amp hour battery that’s supposed to give you up to 65 miles on pedal assist and up to 38 miles on electric only. The bike does have a claim top speed of 20 mph. It does have a cadence sensor to power the bike through the pedal assist. And you also do get a throttle over here on the right side. The bike has a height limit of 5’1 all the way up to 6’1 and a maximum weight limit is 265 lbs. The bike is made out of steel and it does weigh in at 62 lbs. Pretty light for an ebike. That’s the seat on minimum. The handlebars can drop down also. So, some pretty small riders could definitely ride this bike. I am 6 foot tall with 32 inch inseams. Let me show you how I fit on the bike with the seat on minimum. Easy to step over. It does have the step through frame here if you don’t want to put your leg up too high. Uh, I do have a couple inches below me with the seat on minimum. Yeah, take advantage of that step through frame. Let’s put the handlebars all the way up. That’s about as far as the wiring will let them go up. Let’s see how long the seat post is. Got a pretty long seat post. 28.6 millimeters if you want a suspension seat post. That’s the seat on maximum height. Let me see if I can get on it now, just barely. So, some pretty tall riders can ride this bike. The bike does come with some mechanical disc brakes. I don’t see any branding on them, but they do have60 mm rotors. Since this is a folding bike, let me fold it up, show you how it looks. Lower the handlebars down. Unlock the handlebar mechanism. Unlatch the latch here in the middle. Swing the bike around. Actually, if you get the pedal in the right position, you don’t need to remove the pedal. Once it swung down, I was able to fold the bike all the way. That’s how the bike looks folded up. You can take the seat off, of course. You can take the battery out if you want to lighten up the bike. You do get a nice carrying handle welded into the frame right here to pick the bike up with. That makes it a little bit convenient. All right, let’s get this thing unfolded. Pretty quick and easy, guys. Let me bring you in here. take a closer look at the bike. All right, guys. Starting up here in the front, you do get 20 x3 in fat tires on this bike. They are branded WD. You do get mag wheels, so you don’t have any spokes to mess with. These are easy to clean up. You do get some plastic fenders here. Bike does have a basic headlight. Front suspension, no adjustments on top. Does say hill miles down the side. The front suspension is pretty soft. There’s a look at your green paint job, guys. This also comes in black. I’m kind of partial to this green paint job, though. I think this looks pretty cool. This is where your folding handlebar mechanism is. You just open this latch, bring this down, push it over to the side, then you can fold the handlebars. Kind of takes two hands. This is the quick release for your handlebars. Here in the center of the frame is the folding mechanism for the bike. Open the latch. Swing this out. Put your thumb right here. And you do have to pick up on it just a little bit like that to release it. Easy to do. Here’s a look at your 13 amp hour battery. This can be removed using the key. does have a little power level indication on top. If you press the button, it lights up. This is the charging port underneath this plastic. This is a 5mm style charger. Pretty common. This battery does have a replaceable fuse. This is your key to turn the power on and off. Push it in and turn it all the way. And you can release the battery to remove the battery with the handle. The seat does fold out of the way so you can remove the battery. Here’s a look at the crank set, guys. This one does have the double-sided plastic chain guard, some medium length crank arms, and some solid plastic pedals. Back in the back, you do get the Shimano Turney TZ derailure. You do get a seven gear cassette. And there’s a look at the numbers on the motor. The rear rack on this bike is welded in place, and you do get the seat pad on the back. No tail light in the rear, but you do get a large reflector. Here’s a look at your mechanical disc brakes. You do get 160 mm rotors. You get the same setup in the rear. There’s your rear brakes and your kickstand. does say mileport one right there. All right, up on the handlebars, you do get some rubber hand grips. These are your mechanical brake levers. You can adjust the cables right here. This is your little control panel. Let’s fire this thing up. Press and hold the power button. This is your pedal assist level over here on the right side. You do get the plus and minus. This does have five levels of pedal assist. There is a little headlight indicator there. Press and hold the plus button to turn the headlight on. And that does light up. Pretty cool. If you press and hold the minus button, the bike does have a walk feature. This bike does have a phone holder installed. It looks like there was a charging port down here, but it’s not installed on this bike. Over on the right side, you do get a Shimano gear shifter, and the bike does have a thumb throttle. All right, let’s take this hill milesport one out for a ride. All right, guys, let’s go over these pedal assist levels here. Uh, from what I can tell from riding the bike a little bit already, uh, the pedal assist levels don’t lock you into certain speeds. They’re just locking you into a certain amount of power. So, uh, but some of the lower power settings can’t get all the way up to 20 miles an hour. We will test out the lower ones, but I feel like from like three on, they’re all going to take you up to the top speed of 20 mph. They’re just going to give you a little bit more acceleration for each pedal assist level. So, let’s see if we can turn this all the way off. Yes, you can. Let me put this in a a lower gear here. Let’s get in gear two here. See if we can pedal the bike with no power at all. You can. It’s a pretty light bike for an ebike, 62 lbs. Uh, if your battery died on you for some reason, you could pedal this home. All right, guys. Let’s try this pedal assist one here. Uh, there is no speedometer on this bike, so I do have the GPS open. We’ll see what kind of speed we get here. [Music] Right now, we’re at 5 miles an hour, but I can still feel it slowly accelerating. I am already in gear three though. 7 miles an hour. 8 miles an hour. All right. So, this pedal assist one kind of cuts you off right here at around eight. Like I said, I don’t think it’s a hard cut off. It’s more like that’s all the power it’s giving us. Let’s turn it around. Try two. Let’s see how fast the power comes on. Start rotating my legs. There’s a slight delay before the power comes on. All right. Feels like quite a bit of an increase there. Pedal assist two. I’m already in gear five. Gear six. We’re running 13 mph here. That’s where it kind of runs out of steam. 13 14 mph. Let’s try three. Didn’t feel much of a change for pedal assist three. Still giving us around the same speed. Let’s turn around and try four. Pedal assist four. 17 18 miles an hour. I am in top gear. Let’s just go for five. Let’s see. The top speed is supposed to be 20. There you go. 19 20 mph. That’s your top speed on this bike. You can keep up pedaling. It’s a little bit of a fast cadence at 20. Uh it feels a little bit more comfortable down around 17 mph. Pedal assist four. All right, let’s turn around here, guys, and do the hill climb. Start right here. I’m just going to spin my legs. Let the bike do all the work. [Music] Pedal assist five. [Music] 700 watts peak on this motor. I am 220 lbs today. See if we make it up this hill. I’m not really helping the bike any. I’m just rotating my legs. About 10 miles an hour up the hill at the top. Seems about right for the power level. All right, guys. Let’s check out our throttle here. I’m going to put it all the way down to pedal assist one. See if we get full throttle. [Music] Yes, you do. So, the throttle is not tied to the pedal assist level. You get full throttle at any time. I know a lot of people are going to like that. Let’s see about nohanding it. Folding bikes are usually a little bit harder to no hand. Uh, this one is not. This is rather easy, actually. Very nice. and the lightness of the bike. You can actually turn and steer even with no hands. It’s a stable bike, guys. A lot of these folding bikes, you take your hands off the handlebars and the bike just dives one way or the other right away. This one is not like that. So, if you want to take a break, you can sit upright and pedal a little bit. and the uh power level. It’s not gonna toss you off the back of the bike or anything like that. It comes on nice and smoothly. Other than that, guys, the bike feels pretty nimble. It does have the 20x 3 in fat tires. My pedal stroke feels pretty good. I probably need to raise my seat up a hair, but I can pedal the bike pretty well. If my if I had my seat up just a couple more inches, it would be perfect. This is a bike that you’re going to like to pedal. You will get your workout on this bike. But if you get tired of pedaling, you got your throttle over here. You can just chill and throttle along. I’m going to get up to top speed here using the throttle. Then we’re going to try our brakes out right here at the end of this pavement. Uh, not bad, guys. This bike is super light. Actually stopped us pretty well. My back brake needs a little bit of adjustment on the cable. I’m getting a lot of pull on it. So, the back brakes needs adjusted. So, most of that stopping right now was on the front brake. So, uh, get that back brake dialed in. it’ll be stopping even better. Plenty sufficient brakes for a bike of this size and the speed this bike goes. We do have a front suspension. Let’s take this thing and do a a little bit of light off-roading here. Gear down a bit. No problem, guys. You can do some some grass riding. It’s on pedal assist 3. I could bump it up, but there’s not really any need. It’s doing just fine. Pedal assist 3. Obviously, this is not a big off-roader. This is going to be a bike for the street, but if you do need to take it out on the golf course or something, it can ride on this type of grass. I’ll go run this this little part of the course here. Little hill here. [Music] I helped it along just a just a tiny bit there, guys, but it did just fine. Back on the tarmac. The bike does have a pedal assist range of they say 100 kil 100 100 km 65 miles. Uh that’s going to be down on that lowest pedal assist level, guys, down here in low gear. And uh you’re going to be the one pedaling for 65 miles with just a little bit of assistance from the bike if you want to get any type of range like that. I don’t mind pedaling, but I like to have a little bit more assist. So, there’s no way I’m getting 65 miles of range on it. 13 amp hour battery. They usually do pretty good, though. I usually get at least like 20 to between 20 and 30 mi of range. I’m a little bit heavy, 220 lbs. So, load these bikes up. You know, this one does have a 264 lb weight limit though. And I do think it can pull a person that that heavy. I don’t think it would have much trouble out on the road pulling a 265lb person. Uh, do I think this is the bike that you should be looking for if you’re 265 lbs? I will say no. You should be looking for something with a little bit more power than this. Probably double this, 1500 watts or so. This is a 700 W peak bike, but it’s doing just fine with a 220 lb man on it right now. No complaints at all. But this is a nice little cruiser here. I’m enjoying the ride. That front suspension is helping out on the bumps. It’s not a long travel suspension or anything, but it is soft enough. Run up this little hill here. Made it up here with a little bit of speed run on. I’m going go back the way I was riding. Not bad. Not bad. Pretty soft over those bumps. [Music] Got this bamboo over here. All right, guys. Uh let’s see. Uh, my opinion, pedal assist two or three gives you the most comfortable pedaling speeds for kind of a medium speed level. If you want to go a little bit faster, pedal assist 4 really works for you. Uh, pedal assist 5, you kind of run out of you run out of gearing up towards the top. You can keep up, but it’s a fast cadence. So, I feel like pedal assist two and three is really good for pedaling. Yeah, pedal assist 4, gear 7 is still comfortable to pedal. It’s not too fast of a cadence. It’s just when you get up to five, you start to run out of gear. If you’re going to be using five, maybe you just run with the throttle, use the thumb throttle. Let me see if you can do part throttle here while I’m at it. Let’s see here. Slow down a bit. What if you just want to use just a tiny bit of throttle? Let’s see. Yes, you can. You can roll your thumb right into that corner of that throttle there and maintain a walking speed if you just want to walk and talk to somebody while you’re riding. No problem at all. Pretty cool. 20 m an hour is a good speed. If you want to put your uh little Bluetooth speaker on the handlebars, you can still hear your music while you’re riding at 20. Once you get past 20 mph, you you can’t hear your music anymore because the the wind noise unless you got your headphones in or something. All right, guys. It is getting dark out here. I’m going to put a few more miles on this bike. I will come back, give you my final thoughts on the Hill Miles, Mileport One. This is what your headlight looks like at night time, guys. Not too bad, actually. Just don’t forget you don’t have a tail light. I have my uh flashing red light on the back of my helmet on right now. There is a reflector on the back of the bike, but you probably want to put one of those flashing lights on your seat post or something like that if you’re going to be riding at night. The final range on the GPS app is showing 12.73 miles. I actually rode the bike a couple miles before I started this GPS app, guys. So, we are closer to about 15 miles on this ride. All right, guys. I’m back in the house. It did get dark outside. We did put 15 miles on this ride. Uh we’re still sitting at three battery bars. So, this thing’s going to get pretty good range. That 30 mi of electric only range that they claim is uh pretty believable after taking this out for a ride. Uh nice little pedaler, guys. This thing is a lightweight bike, very efficient. It’s not a speed demon. It goes 20 m an hour, but you can fold this thing up, put it in the back of your trunk, take it with you. Uh let me show you something I did discover here. I was thinking that this little padding right here might be kind of useless for a lot of people. So, you can take this off pretty easily. And, uh it does have mounting holes and stuff like that. So, you can put a different style rack on here if you want to, or you can keep the pad on there. Up to you. Bottom line, this bike is a good pedal. Lightweight, foldable, portable. Comes in at a budget price. Right now, it’s priced on their website at just 458. So, if you want to get on an ebike without breaking the bank, get out riding. You might want to check out this Hill Miles Mileport One. Go to their website. They do have some other bikes to check out also. All right, guys. 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Link to the MilePort 1 Ebike : https://us.hillmiles.com/products/mileport-1-electric-bike
Ebike Review of the HillMiles MilePort 1 Folding Electric bike.
The bike has a smooth ride is light weight and nimble. It’s a
quick and easy to fold bike. And as far as Ebikes are concerned this is
a very simple to operate bike.
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