This Electric Rickshaw Bike CHANGED these SENIORS Lives! E Bike Rickshaw First Ride is Mind Blowing

Speaker 1: All right. I'm here with Johnny and Saul, and they're about to take their first-ever ride here on the electric rickshaw from sixthreezero. And now, they've both ridden e-bikes before. Saul has minimal experience on an e-trike, which he just had over here, but not the rickshaw. So we can hold up to 300 pounds on the back. Johnny, how much do you weigh?

Johnny: 175.

Speaker 1: 175. And Saul, how much are you?

Saul: 185.

Speaker 1: 18 ... So we're 350-ish pounds, basically between the two of them. So I'll walk you guys through it. Same as a regular e-bike. You're going to push your power button right here, and your display is going to come on. You have five levels of pedal assist. Now with the weight on the back, you may need to be in second or third it depends, but just ... I would say we'll keep it in one as you get going and just get comfortable with it.

Saul: Okay.

Speaker 1: Now there's one difference, we do have the throttle, and it's on the right-hand side. I think it was on the left-hand side of the other one.

Saul: Yes. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1: And then you have a shifter as well, so you have seven speeds as well like on a normal bike. This is a trigger shifter though. So you push in to go up-

Saul: Oh got it.

Speaker 1: And you push up to go down. So up, down.

Saul: Yep.

Speaker 1: And that's about it. We've got a front suspension fork here. We do have our little storage compartment underneath the seat here that opens up. There you go. Yep.

Saul: Very cool.

Johnny: Okay.

Speaker 1: And then slip that into the Yep. Perfect.

Johnny: What is the green button?

Speaker 1: Horn? You can push that if you want.

Johnny: Oh, really?

Speaker 1: Yep. You're going to want to let people know you're coming on this thing. And you got a light up here too, which we don't need right now. And your seatbelt and your step-up. So if you want to go get buckled in, Johnny and Saul hop on.

Saul: All right.

Speaker 1: Now again, driving a trike is different from an e-bike. So whenever you're ready.

Saul: You're a trustworthy fellow back there.

Speaker 1: And there's a parking brake here I put on as well. So you pull it in

Saul: It releases? Yep.

Speaker 1: Yep, exactly.

Saul: Okay. Start pedaling with a little assist, huh?

Speaker 1: And then get ready on the brakes if you need them.

Saul: Oh, yeah. Going all the way?

Speaker 1: You can make a small loop. And if you need more power, put it into level two. Why don't you try this too, just go cut through the grass?

Saul: Cut through the grass?

Speaker 1: And up the power. And turn right. Yeah, put it in three or four. And you could try the throttle. Yeah, there you go.

Johnny: go over here and then turn back onto the sidewalk. Just take your-

Saul: Pedal real fast and then turn.

Speaker 1: And if you want, just The trail?

Speaker 1: Yeah, back on the sidewalk. Just take your time turning it back on.

Saul: Okay. Figured it out.

Speaker 1: What do you think? Not too bad, right?

Saul: No. No. Once you realize how deliberate you need to be with the steering wheel, you realize, "Oh, okay." I mean, you just need to move it where you want to go, unlike a bicycle where the leaning does it.

Speaker 1: Yep.

Saul: Yeah. But yeah, once you do.

Johnny: What were you in? Three or four?

Saul: Three.

Johnny: Three?

Saul: Yep.

Speaker 1: And I would say when you get back to the sidewalk and you take the turns if you want, you could kick it a little lower.

Saul: Yep.

Speaker 1: You just don't want to be as aggressive on a trike as you do on a two-wheel, especially with a guy on the back.

Saul: Sure. Yep.

Speaker 1: If you want to switch now, Johnny, you want to steer and give it a shot?

Johnny: Okay.

Saul: You had faith in me, so it's only fair.

Johnny: Yeah okay.

Speaker 1: Pretty comfortable in the back though, right?

Johnny: It was. It was nice actually. Yeah. You could probably still put one more lightweight child there.

Speaker 1: Yep.

Johnny: Okay, so I should start with one?

Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, maybe angle off into the grass, and then you can loop around back to the sidewalk.

Johnny: What is this again? What is this one?

Speaker 1: Those are gears, just like a normal bike.

Johnny: Oh okay, like the one we did that way?

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Johnny: Okay.

Speaker 1: Yep. But I mean, I don't know if ... You can't push those until you're moving. You may be okay leaving it.

Saul: I got up to three on that with full throttle, and it was moving pretty aggressively.

Johnny: And then what makes it go? I wasn't paying ... 'Cause it ...

Speaker 1: It's all the same as the other ones. So if you pedal, it's going to move.

Johnny: Right? And then how do I get this going? How do I get it to move? Where's the button-

Speaker 1: There's a throttle right there. Don't-

Johnny: Oh, right here. Okay. There we go.

Speaker 1: If you have the brakes in, it won't work. There you go. Yep. And just slow down into the turns.

Johnny: Oh wow.

Saul: Right?

Johnny: Yeah.

Saul: It's pretty good.

Johnny: Can I go around again?

Speaker 1: Sure. Different from a two-wheel bike, right?

Johnny: Oh yeah.

Saul: Learn deliberate steering.

Speaker 1: Why don't you make a big lap?

Johnny: Okay.

Saul: More speed, more speed! [inaudible 00:06:27]

Johnny: Oh my gosh. This is uh ... You got to use ... Oh, maybe on the turn you slow and use the pedals then.

Saul: Yep. Or you just brake a bit.

Johnny: Right. Right okay, I see.

Saul: Yeah.

Johnny: Oh, wow. Wow. That's different from the other bike for sure.

Saul: Yeah-

Speaker 1: Try-

Johnny: You fast on the straightaways, but when you know a turn's coming up, you better start gearing down.

Saul: Yeah, you have to prepare for it.

Speaker 1: Definitely.

Johnny: And maybe use the pedals a little bit because it was kind of like, "Ah!"

Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to break into- It's like a car.

Johnny: Yeah.

Speaker 1: It's like a car. You have to brake into the turns, take the turn, and accelerate out of the turn.

Saul: Exactly.

Johnny: Yeah.

Speaker 1: But what did you think of the handling overall? I mean, considering there's a passenger back there, you had the power, right?

Johnny: Well, yeah I felt responsible. Like if he wasn't in there, I probably would've been a little more daring.

Saul: I was about to open and jump.

Johnny: But it took me a minute to figure out the turn because you can't just lean on that bike there and overcompensate. You have to let the bike ... The bike's going to control you instead of you controlling the bike like on that one, I think.

Speaker 1: Well, you control this one actually, but differently.

Johnny: Yeah. Yeah. I think the only thing was the turn.

Speaker 1: Yep, yep.

Johnny: So you had to slow on the turn, but then on the turn, there were options. I was like, "Oh, should I go down?" But then when I started doing the pedals, that was the trick, to get control over it. You can't keep doing the electric and turning at the same time because it's too much. So I backed off that and then did the pedals and then it was a lot easier.

Speaker 1: Cool. But both, either of you- Or Saul too, you had enough power, right? To bring him.

Saul: Sure. And I did the turns very differently than he did, and yet they're both effective. So you know.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Saul: I hit the brakes and still hit the power.

Johnny: Right. And we never got over three. We didn't do the four or five.

Speaker 1: Yep.

Johnny: I could see that more if you're going on a longer distance on a straightaway and you need more power. But if you're going to be doing the turns, I would recommend three and under.

Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, yeah usually I don't even ... I use the throttle through the turns too. Slow down and then just ease back into the throttle. As you're coming out. With trikes, even a passenger or no passenger, you've got two wheels. So you want to make sure you keep the weight distribution back there. On a bike you're not worried about it because there's only one wheel back there, so as you lean, it's staying with it.

Johnny: Yeah. That was only two minutes or three minutes. I can imagine if I had 30 minutes with it, then I'd be an expert.

Speaker 1: Yep, exactly.

Johnny: I think I did okay for just a couple of minutes.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Saul: And the power on the grass with the two of us on here is pretty amazing.

Johnny: Yeah.

Speaker 1: But you didn't feel struggling at all, right?

Saul: No.

Johnny: On the grass. I was shocked. Because even if you have a bicycle, the grass is hard.

Speaker 1: Right.

Johnny: And this is kind of, okay. Just do the electric.

Speaker 1: Cool.

Saul: Yeah, I like it.

Speaker 1: All right, well Johnny and Saul's first experience on the rickshaw, check it out on sixthreezero.com. And if you guys just want to keep riding together all day, feel free.

Johnny: Okay, bye.

Speaker 1: And yeah, see you next time.