looks like a pretty tough bike! nice scenes from the trail, you sure gave us a beautiful backdrop for the test rides! looks like it did pretty well over the rocky road, great bike thanks for sharing
Pretty fun bike but I have some bad news folks. I bought an Obsidian, put it together and had a complete awesome time on it for a month straight! Awesome timezone! Rode it everyday for hours after work. I put at least 3 to 4 hundred miles on it in that time. Road, trails, everywhere. Guess what 1 month into it, rear hub started knocking, and bike power shut off and hasn't work since. Been on line with their customer service, they're in no hurry to help. They said they're sending me a new rear wheel with the motor but they're really backlogged on rear wheel replacements. Weird. I paid $2300 to ride a bike for a month.
I have the Basalt and I feel like you. Love Getting outside and Really experience the natural world. At my age I am able to enjoy going places that I had trouble doing in my 20's. I'm 65 now 😅❤
I had the same thoughts and definitely plan to use good judgement. I don't plan to take it anywhere where it might be unreasonable to recover it. Stay tuned for updates!
That bike will last a few years at the most because of battery longevity and the motor itself will fail. The technology of ebikes is advancing so fast that in 5yrs, bikes will go twice aa far in half the motor size and at least 1/8 less weight. Todays ebike motors and batteries are very problematic and fail a lot more than the public realizes unless you've owned one or work in a bike shop like me. $2500 makes that bike a cheaply made bike with barely entry level components that will fail under moderate usage. That bike will end up in the garbage within 4 years like most cheaply made bikes.
looks like a pretty tough bike! nice scenes from the trail, you sure gave us a beautiful backdrop for the test rides! looks like it did pretty well over the rocky road, great bike thanks for sharing
Thanks! Hard to go wrong with a nice backdrop.
These things are kinda cool I've thought about getting one
Pretty fun bike but I have some bad news folks. I bought an Obsidian, put it together and had a complete awesome time on it for a month straight! Awesome timezone! Rode it everyday for hours after work. I put at least 3 to 4 hundred miles on it in that time. Road, trails, everywhere. Guess what 1 month into it, rear hub started knocking, and bike power shut off and hasn't work since. Been on line with their customer service, they're in no hurry to help. They said they're sending me a new rear wheel with the motor but they're really backlogged on rear wheel replacements. Weird. I paid $2300 to ride a bike for a month.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I hope you'll consider sharing the resolution.
I have the Basalt and I feel like you. Love Getting outside and Really experience the natural world. At my age I am able to enjoy going places that I had trouble doing in my 20's. I'm 65 now 😅❤
Beautiful country~ good ad!
Amazing review and footage. Whats the location of that lake/mountains? Would love to ride around there someday
First time I've ever heard of the motor cutting out on that bike at 28mph. Plenty of others have reached 30 mph easily with no motor cut off.
80 POUNDS?? Let me know how much fun that bike is to pedal/push out of a trail after it breaks down or the battery takes a dump in the cold.
I had the same thoughts and definitely plan to use good judgement. I don't plan to take it anywhere where it might be unreasonable to recover it.
Stay tuned for updates!
@@HomeInWildSpaces 👍🏼 yeah that’s a lot of weight. I rode some trails in Wyoming that I had a tough time pushing even my 32 pound bike up.
Many fat tire ebikes are in the 80lb range. Some weigh bit less, some weigh even more.
Assembly seems like a pain. They even give you tools for it?
What city are you overlooking at 4:56?
It's a Hard Tail no back shock 😮
Full suspension front and rear.
That bike will last a few years at the most because of battery longevity and the motor itself will fail. The technology of ebikes is advancing so fast that in 5yrs, bikes will go twice aa far in half the motor size and at least 1/8 less weight. Todays ebike motors and batteries are very problematic and fail a lot more than the public realizes unless you've owned one or work in a bike shop like me. $2500 makes that bike a cheaply made bike with barely entry level components that will fail under moderate usage. That bike will end up in the garbage within 4 years like most cheaply made bikes.