The Vanmof is definitely a bike for the more tech-centric and design-focused rider, but its premium price comes with it. The hub motor housed in the front wheel is a 250-watt reworked motor, which is a Class 1 bike without a throttle. However, Vanmof has always found ways to get around this by adding a boost button that gives the pedal assist a much bigger push for a limited time. This feature allows riders to experience a higher level of assistance than the four levels available, but only for short bursts.

One notable difference between the S5 and A5 models is the new torque sensor used for the gears. This makes shifting gears less jarring as it takes into account how hard you're pushing, allowing riders to change gear or not based on their effort level. For example, if you're pedaling hard, it will wait until you back off before changing gears in the middle of that hard push.

The Vanmof also has a pretty aggressive anti-theft system. The bike has an alarm that can be enabled by tapping the kick lock on the back wheel with your toe. It also features cellular and Bluetooth tracking capabilities, as well as Apple Find My built-in, which will notify you if your bike is stolen. Additionally, Vanmof offers a service for $395 for three years that includes bike hunters who will track down and retrieve your stolen bike or replace it for free.

In contrast to the Vanmof, the Go Cycle G4 is a light folding bike that feels like a full-size bike. It weighs 38.8 pounds, making it very lightweight considering how many extra components are needed to make a bike fold and lock into place securely. The bike features a 500-watt front hub motor integrated into a single-side carbon fiber fork, paired with a 40-mile listed range and 300-watt hour removable battery. To fold the bike, you need to undo two latches and then fold it in half.

Riding the Go Cycle G4, you'll have access to a three-speed transmission that can be shifted through mechanically on the right handlebar. The bike also features pedal assist from the motor throughout your ride, but the amount of assistance isn't directly controllable on the bike. However, using the Go Cycle Connect app, riders can decide which levels of assist they want to use and even customize their bike experience.

One notable feature of the Go Cycle G4 is its smooth power delivery thanks to a torque sensor that makes shifting gears less jarring. The bike just feels well-made, with a much smoother ride than any other folding bike used by the author. Considering it snaps in half solidly, this bike's design and build quality are truly impressive.

The author concludes the video with an anecdote about filming on location, mentioning a range of unusual sounds, including a symphony of noise from pedaling, a dirt bike, a headlight automatically turning on, a maglev train sound, and even a wave.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthank you in just the last year since I made one of these e-bike Roundup videos electric bike Imports in the US have gone from an already crazy 880 000 in 2021 up from 437 000 the year before to 1.1 million in 2022. with the amount of e-bikes increasing year over year it begs the question if you're in the market for one which do you buy in my last video like this I tested a ton of e-bikes to figure out four that I thought were the best across a broad spectrum of different types of bikes for various Riders you can check that out at the link below but since then I've gotten a lot of questions about which are the best e-bikes within certain subsets of criteria so I figured I would do a few best of e-bike videos on those different sub-genres we'll call them starting with a variety of the best lightweight electric bikes these four are all bikes you can pick up and carry if you need feel and look more like their normal bike counterparts and can all be used pretty well as a normal bike without any electric assist if you know you want to get exercise or something ridiculous a quick refresher if you don't know the rules here in the US very slightly by state but usually bikes are broken down into three categories with the majority of e-bikes that you'll buy falling into class 1 and class 2. with the major difference being that class 1 is pedal assist only and Class 2 has pedal assist but also a throttle that you can use without pedal both of these classes must have pedals on them they must be limited to 20 miles per hour when using the electric motor they do not require helmets here in New York City at least but of course they're recommended you don't need a driver's license and they can be ridden where bicycles are normally ridden and are just the most popular e-bikes by far if you want more information on the rules or regulations around e-bikes or just things you need to know before you buy an e-bike I'll leave a link below to that decoder episode I mentioned thank you okay first up for our lightweight electric bikes we have the velotrick Thunder one this is a new bike from velotrick a company founded by some of lime's original Hardware team you know the super popular e-scooter and e-bike Company now honestly this is probably the bike that provides the most value per dollar as it has a decent amount of features but is the most affordable bike on this list now full disclosure Velo trick and all the other companies on this list sent me their bikes when I requested them for review for this video so the Thunder one is the first attempt from velotrick at what they call a smart Urban e-bike it weighs 36 pounds which makes it very light for an electric bike actually and I had no issue carrying it up and down a few flights of stairs now The Styling is very much like any normal street bike with thin tires hydraulic disc brakes a headlamp that is connected to the internal battery and turned on by pushing this button on the handlebars and a rear light that is battery powered and turned on by pushing a button on the back light now it comes in two colors this Frozen blue I have here and a crystal black it also comes in two sizes a media that is meant for Riders five foot six to six foot and a large for five foot ten to six foot five now I'm five foot ten ish but I have the medium as I like to just have a lower stance personally we have an unremovable battery located in the frame and we have a 350 watt Hub motor in the back wheel that can produce 45 nanometers or so of torque now since this is a Class one bike there is no throttle so instead you can choose from various levels of pedal assist to do that on this bike we have up and down arrows here on the left handlebar that you can tap to switch from zero with no assist to one through five for various levels of assist and these are indicated by the colors here on the frame we also have a Shimano eight speed gear system which is important for when you again might want to just ride the bike normally and you'd be surprised how many bikes actually in price range is well above this one don't have gears which makes it pretty useless as soon as you don't use the electric motor the battery is supposed to give you up to 70 miles of range but as with all of the ranges on any electric bike that's usually on the lowest power setting there's a ton of other factors that could change that range so just take that with a grain of salt now some of these smart features of the smart Urban e-bike firstly there's an app because of course there is in that app we can lock and unlock the bike as well as turn on theft alert which notifies you if the bike is moved while it's locked and not connected to your phone's Bluetooth we can change riding modes to adjust how the bike's motor reacts to our pedaling we can register our fingerprint to use to unlock the bike instead of the app we have an option for that headlight to automatically turn on at night and more the bike also has GPS to help you track if it's lost or stolen and again it has all of these things at a much lower price than most I'll leave links to all the bikes in this video below and I'll regularly update those links with the best prices that I can find next up we have the specialized turbo Creo SL comp E5 which isn't a great name and I actually have the specialized turbo Creo SL Comp Carbon but they also have the turbo Creo SL expert the s-works turbo Creo SL the s-works turbo Creo SL Evo and well 66 other electric bike models and these are broken down into multiple product families and some have very slight differences between them the point being that specialized bikes are oddly specialized I could actually probably do an entire video on just the specialized lineup of e-bikes but for this video we want to talk about the comp E5 and the comp carbon so if you can't tell right off the bat just by looking at this bike this is my choice for bikers who are serious about biking and want to step up to a serious bike that also has an electric motor like if you sometimes put on a specific outfit to ride your bike in this is your e-bike so again what I have here is the turbo Creo SL Comp Carbon but the turbo Creo SL comp E5 I also recommend and they're both very similar there are some small differences here and there but the main difference being that the carbon's frame is made out of carbon fiber instead of the e5's aluminum so so it's lighter regardless looking at the bike you'd have a hard time telling it's not a regular hardcore cycling road bike and coming from a company that has made High performing normal road bikes for a long time you'd expect nothing less the bike features an adjustable suspension front fork on the carbon you can do that by hand on the E5 you actually need a tool a sunrise 11 speed gear cassette as well as Shimano hydraulic brakes slightly higher models on the carbon versus the E5 and Shimano mechanical shifters to change the gears now something I don't particularly like but again the demographic for this bike does is the drop bars that are used on them these are meant to be used in a tuck position or leaning forward and generally help with a rider having a reduced profile to the wind as well as greater leverage against the pedals especially when combined with a raised seat like this bypass for the electric part of this bike we have a 240 watt motor with 35 nanometers of torque this motor is a mid-drive motor and so it's actually here in between the pedals again I have more information in my e-bike explainer video but suffice it to say for this that mid-drive Motors are just generally smoother and help with keeping the weight centered in an e-bike when are more expensive than a hub motor the motor in one of the wheels now this is paired with a non-removable battery housed inside the frame and has acclaimed 80 miles of range since again this is a Class 1 e-bike we have pedal assist that is indicated by LEDs here on the frame we have off or no assist and then we have three levels of assist after that you adjust these Levels by tapping one of the Hidden buttons on either side of the handles one for up and one for down and while the motor doesn't put out a ton of power it is very smooth and again is there to supplement you pedaling when you really need it more so than shoot you down the road we also have an app that allows you to customize some of the bike's features like fine tune the bike's ride and Power Band and some other minor tweaks as well as a map to track your rides now all of this hardcore cycling Tech as it does in the non-electrified world comes with a premium price tag so keep that in mind as always though again I will leave a link below to the best price that I can find and here we have the vanmof S5 the successor to the S3 that was in my last best e-bike video now if you're not familiar with vanmof they are a very minimalistic looking amsterdam-based e-bike company that has become very popular over the years and is often compared to apple and if we're honest it's not quite a light bike in fact it's the heaviest bike on this list but it's not quite as heavy as some others that I've tested I found that writers that are just Ultra tech savvy and want a minimalistic bike are still going to choose this over a lighter bike regardless so we're putting on the list but just know it's not that light anyway the S5 and A5 are essentially the same bike but just with different frames and wheel sizes the S5 being bigger with a higher crossbar and 27 inch wheels is meant for Riders between the heights of five foot four and six foot nine while the A5 has a lower crossbar to make it easier to step over 24 inch wheels and it's for Riders between five foot one and six foot five they both also come in two colors dark gray and gray not as fun as the baby blue S3 and X3 but what can you do we have a very slick looking built-in headlight and tail light as well as front and rear fenders the battery is built into the frame and is non-removable except for servicing an event move store according to Van mode they also say that the battery will do 37 miles on full assist mode and 93 on the lowest level of assist and honestly I appreciate that they actually give a range you can check the battery level using the new Halo ring interface as they call it instead of the Matrix display that they used to have this brings information closer to your eye line instead of having to look down at the frame for information so we have battery level on the left Halo ring and your speed indicator as well as what power assist level you are currently on on the right one you also have a few buttons here as well on the right we have our boost button which we'll talk about a bit later and a button to cycle through the pedal assist levels on the left a button to flash the headlight to get people's attention if needed and a decently loud electronic Bell button The Hub motor housed in the front wheel is a 250 watt apparently reworked motor and again because this is a Class 1 bike there is no throttle but vanmof has always kind of gotten around this by adding a boost button that when you hold it down it gives the pedal assist a much bigger push for a limited time think of it like a higher level than the four you get but only for short bursts I personally love holding it down all of the time now something is worth noting that's different between the S5 and A5 versus the S3 and X3 is the new torque sensor used for the gears which makes the changing of Gears a lot less jarring as it can Now understand how hard you're pushing and use that as a factor to change gear or not a good example of this is if you're pedaling hard it now knows that you probably need a new gear change but it'll wait until you back off to avoid changing gears in the middle of that hard push Now sort of famously this bike also has a pretty aggressive anti-theft situation going on thank you firstly the bike has an alarm that you can enable by tapping the kick lock on the back wheel with your toe it also has cellular and Bluetooth tracking capabilities as well as Apple find my built in and will notify you of where the bike was last seen in the app if it's ever stolen van MILF also offers a service for 395 dollars for three years that gets you bike Hunters they call them if your bike is stolen they'll go out and find it for you or they'll replace it for free the app also allows you to unlock and lock the bike remotely track your rides book appointments for maintenance and even customize the bike levels of pedal assist Etc the van MILF is definitely for the more Tech Centric maybe even more design focused Rider but because of that the price comes at a bit of a premium again I'll leave the best price I can find at the link below all right next we have the light folding bike this is the go cycle G4 and it's one of the lightest folding bikes that feels like a full-size bike that you can get it weighs 38.8 pounds which is very light especially when you consider how many extra components are needed to make a bike fold and lock into place securely it also has a 500 watt front hub motor integrated into a single side carbon fiber fork and it's paired with a 40 mile listed range 300 watt hour removable battery you fold it by undoing this latch and folding it in half and then undoing this latch to fold down the handlebars and it's basically it making it great to carry or store in an apartment for example now while riding it you have a three-speed transmission that you can shift through mechanically here on the right handlebar and you'll get pedal assist from the motor throughout now the amount of assist isn't controllable directly on the bike but you can use the go cycle Connect app and then decide which levels of assist you want to use and you can even customize the bike also has a torque sensor like the others on this list so that means it has pretty smooth power delivery and the bike just feels well made and it just has a much smoother ride than any other folding bike I've used it just the whole bike itself just feels very solid and you know considering it snaps in half solid is a good thing there you go a bit of a different video for me to make I enjoyed it hope you guys did as well let me know in the comments below though what you thought of the video of the bikes anything else always appreciate hearing from you guys if you're not already subscribe ding the Bell so you notified when I do new videos and as much fun as it has been to film this it has been a very very long day I'm exhausted so good night produce 45 nanometers truck there it is tap to switch from zero with no assist cam there's a truck backing up and what sounds like a buzz saw happening at the same time it's like a symphony of noise pedaling can register dirt bike it's a dirt bike have the headlight automatically turn on jackhammer I don't know what that sound is like a maglev train going by it's a new sound and can all be used pretty well as a normal pick the worst spots to film this is my fault it's no one's else's fault but mine anyway the S5 and A5 are essentially the same what is that oh it's the ferry as it has a lower crossbar to make it easier to step over 24 inch wheels and is for Riders between it's a loud wave these are some loud waves all of a sudden that\n"