FreeGo Eagle

Well I went for a test ride this morning and first impressions were stunning. Beautiful looking bike (MTB version) and very powerful. Rode up the steepest hill out of Ramsey effortlessly in top gear, not sure of the gradient but a reasonable test. Three power modes, which will enable me to continue my fitness drive, but can't see anything defeating mode 3.

Some nice touches, including an in-line connector, enabling easy rear wheel removal.

In my view at less than a grand, this is serious competition to the more expensive bikes listed on this forum. Dealer network seems to be growing, but much to early to judge after sales service.

 

Needless to say, I bought it.

Can you post some pictures please. how much for a replacement/extra battery?

Will be delivered tomorrow, so will try and post some piccy's. He wasn't sure on replacement battery cost, about £300 he said. I will find out and post. Battery warranty is two years, so they must have some faith in it!

Not going to get much chance to do a thorough test, I go back to China on Tuesday.

Siounds good. It will be interesting to get your feedback after all your experience with the Giant Suede, but I'm not surprised you found it much more powerful after the Suede.

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Hi Flecc,

 

You might be thinking of Bikerbob, I currently have the Powacycle Salisbury. Your comment however remains, as this is a major step up in power for me.

Hi Flecc,

 

You might be thinking of Bikerbob, I currently have the Powacycle Salisbury. Your comment however remains, as this is a major step up in power for me.

 

Oh yes, I was, and forgot your Salisbury too, same applies though as you say.

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However, my Ebike in China is a 68v 12a with a 400watt motor. So I am very familiar with low powered and high powered bikes. Believe me, from my limited test this morning, the Eagle appears to fall into the high power category.

Yes, these SB type hub motors typically have gross "peak" powers that they can in fact sustain of between about 500 and 700 watts. The "legal" one on my bike is 720 watts gross continuous and has been measured at over 1000 watts peak. That's probably a peak of about 750 watts net.

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Replacement / extra battery (36v 17ah), confirmed at £300.

Edited May 1, 201015 yr by IOM

Hi, I'm sure this bike is reviewed favourably in the current issue of A to B? I'll try and dig my copy out to double check

Impressive. The white Kingfisher MTB looks very nice. Interesting range and spec not to mention price.

Are these Freego bikes the same as the Bearprint bikes that were the subject of some heated debate a while age?

Are these Freego bikes the same as the Bearprint bikes that were the subject of some heated debate a while age?

 

I have already asked this and I think they are as they look identical. if the warranty and claims hold good, and parts remain available...with a battery at £300 even if it lasts they may be OK but who knows. But we need more choice and better value bikes so fingers crossed:)

Went for a long ride today and first impression is excellent. The hill climbing ability is awesome, I have no idea of gradients, but will post some pictures later to give you an idea.

Initially I rode my normal 20 mile circuit, which after 16 months on the Powacycle Salisbury, I average around 15.8mph, this has contributed greatly to a weight loss from 97kilos to 81 over the same period. Apart from a couple of steep climbs, the FreeGo will do this on throttle only, which I used for half the distance in an attempt to flatten the battery for conditioning.

The bike feels really solid when riding, most noticeable on fast hill descents, were I just let the bike run at what must have been close to or higher than 40mph (waiting for the computer to be fitted). The disk brakes are very good.

 

Todays task was to flatten the battery, not easy on this bike. I have no idea on initial charge as I rode it as delivered from the UK dealer. After my 20 mile ride, all lights were still lit, so I continued to Peel, a further 14 mile round trip. First light went out. I then hit the mountain climb to really draw the amps. This is a second gear hill in my 2.1 litre car. Up to this point I was wondering why they needed gears on this at all, as I had remained in top gear for the whole of my run, up some quite decent gradients, although some of them required moderate effort.

The mountain climb had me dropping down the gears from 6 to 3, but at that gear it was still relatively effortless, unbelievable, this thing will climb a tree. Obviously I was now drawing the amps, but still couldn't get the second light out. I repeated this one and a half mile climb three times and then it dropped to two lights. Cutting a long story short, for the next hour I rode up and down a number of hills and eventually I got the last light to flicker and returned home.

God help me tomorrow, when I will definitely be on a full charge for the second conditioning.

 

Only negatives are a squeaking noise at the rear, I think its the disc brake, and poor waterproofing. The controller is en-cased in an alluminium box, but the cabling lacks a grommet. On the other hand, the in-line connector is very well sealed with a rubber shroud.

 

So first impression .... excellent

Edited May 2, 201015 yr by IOM

How do I post multiple pictures in one posting?

I think the total size of the images have to be within the size restriction, 97.7 kB in the case of *.jpg.

 

Otherwise you can get just the first photo showing for example and the rest shown as links. Then resizing is necessary.

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Thanks Flecc,

 

Sorry for my ignorance, but how do I attach links? I have tried drag and drop without success.

Secondly, I wont get chance to do a second conditioning. Therefore, how best to store the bike for the next 4 weeks. The battery is now fully charged.

 

Appreciate your help.

I use "Tinypic" to load pictures. just save pic to desktop, open tiny pic and upload, cut and paste to thread post...and there you go:)

 

 

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Thanks Flecc,

 

Sorry for my ignorance, but how do I attach links? I have tried drag and drop without success.

Secondly, I wont get chance to do a second conditioning. Therefore, how best to store the bike for the next 4 weeks. The battery is now fully charged.

 

Appreciate your help.

 

When at the reply box, highlight the word or phrase you want to be a link and then click the blue globe icon above that's just below the white smiley. In the box that appears, paste in the link and click OK. Your chosen word or phrase will now be an active link when you complete the reply.

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Thanks, I will give it a go shortly. Many last minute jobs to do before I leave. Looks like I wont get out on the bike today, do I leave it fully charged? I always leave the Salisbury fully charged and there doesn't appear to have been any loss in performance. Is it therefore the same for Li Ion?

Yes, fully charged. Only if long term stored for months is is best to have a lower storage charge, and then only is it's in cold storage as near to zero degrees C as possible.

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Some pictures of my new purchase:

 

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Who makes those batteries fo FreeGo bikes, is this a decent manufacturer or not? Bikes looks nice, like decent off roader

Back from China and back on the Eagle. Since I got back a few days ago, I have been out at every opportunity. The more I ride this bike, the more impressed I am with it.

The power is very good, in fact for me it is too good. After 18 months on the Powacycle Salisbury, I am now a reasonable cyclist and find the high power mode on this bike requires very little rider input even on many of the climbs. I did 30 miles today mainly on the middle power mode and still hardly broke sweat. Obviously the motor was kicking in on the climbs and keeping me easily around the 15mph mark, allowing me to do the rest.

You engage mode 3 and the power increase is very noticeable.

The bike also freewheels very well, as good as a none motor bike in my opinion.

Build quality is also very good.

Not been able to test the range yet, but after 30miles all lights are still lit. Isle of Man TT next week, so will be using it to visit different parts of the course and also check the range.

 

At a price of just under a grand, this bike is well worth checking out.

Used the Eagle every day last week, visiting different parts of the TT course. Range is excellent, easily covering 50 miles with two out of four battery lights still lit.

From my testing, this battery cerainly performs to the manufacturers claims.

Edited June 14, 201015 yr by IOM