**The Angui X26: A Fat Tire Bike with a Surprising Climb**

As I put the Angui X26 fat tire bike through its paces, I was struck by its surprising ability to climb steep rocky terrain. The bike's hydraulic disc brakes and four-inch wide, big fat tires make it well-suited for rough off-road trails. The bike's design is clearly geared towards comfort and stability, with a focus on soaking up bumps and irregularities in the trail.

The Angui X26 features a unique blend of features that set it apart from other bikes. Its downhill-inspired design is evident in its suspension setup, which includes three inches of travel in the front and one inch in the rear. However, this suggests that the bike is more geared towards aesthetics than actual off-road capability. Despite this, the bike's tires do a surprisingly good job of soaking up rocks and bumps, making it feel very cruisy and comfortable to ride along.

One of the standout features of the Angui X26 is its ability to tackle steep, rocky terrain. I put the bike through a grueling test by riding down a steep trail and then back up again, and was impressed by its performance. The bike's motor proved to be more than capable of climbing the steep incline, and it was only when I lost momentum that it began to struggle.

Despite its impressive off-road capabilities, the Angui X26 does have some drawbacks. Its weight is a major issue, with a large 26-inch wheel size making it feel like a heavy bike. This put me off, as I struggled to carry it up steep inclines. Additionally, the frame itself has some rough patches and a finish that could be improved - it's clear that the manufacturer has taken some shortcuts in terms of quality control.

In terms of range, the Angui X26's 19-amp hour battery provided around 50-60 kilometers of riding time, depending on my weight and the terrain. This is respectable, but not excessive. The smaller 10-amp hour pack, which comes with a 20-kilometer range estimate, is similarly impressive. However, it's worth noting that these estimates are based on a rider weighing around 82 kilos - those who weigh less may be able to achieve longer ranges.

**Design and Features**

One of the most interesting aspects of the Angui X26 is its design choices. The bike's foldable frame is an attempt at innovation, but ultimately feels like a compromise in terms of strength and practicality. While it's good that the battery is removable, the latch mechanism is flimsy and could be improved. Additionally, the frame itself has some rough patches and a finish that could be improved.

Despite these issues, the Angui X26 is certainly an impressive bike. Its unique blend of features and capabilities make it well-suited to riders who need a bike that can handle off-road terrain with ease. However, its weight and lack of refinement may make it less appealing to those who prioritize agility and comfort.

**Climbing Performance**

One of the most surprising aspects of the Angui X26 is its ability to climb steep rocky terrain. The bike's motor proved to be more than capable of tackling even the steepest inclines, and it was only when I lost momentum that it began to struggle. This suggests that the bike has a surprisingly strong climbing capability, making it well-suited to riders who need to tackle challenging terrain.

**Range and Battery Life**

In terms of range, the Angui X26's 19-amp hour battery provided around 50-60 kilometers of riding time, depending on my weight and the terrain. This is respectable, but not excessive. The smaller 10-amp hour pack, which comes with a 20-kilometer range estimate, is similarly impressive. However, it's worth noting that these estimates are based on a rider weighing around 82 kilos - those who weigh less may be able to achieve longer ranges.

**Conclusion**

The Angui X26 is an impressive bike that offers a unique blend of features and capabilities. Its hydraulic disc brakes, four-inch wide tires, and climbing motor make it well-suited to off-road riding. However, its weight and lack of refinement may make it less appealing to those who prioritize agility and comfort. Despite these issues, the Angui X26 is certainly an impressive bike that deserves consideration from riders looking for a challenging and rewarding ride.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enSo I'm taking a look at a crazy kind of hybrid e-bike here that is the combination of a foldable  bike fat weld e-bike a downhill bike and something in between there so what we have with this is two  batteries that you don't normally see it's the first bike that I've covered has got two batteries  so the seat post is a very large 19 amp hour 48 volt pack and then we have in the frame rate here  where it folds in half a you could say auxiliary battery that is 10 amp hours so you can't use  both of them at the same time there is this cable here that you swap between them so that is how you  control which battery you're going to use because it's got the two batteries the foldable design  and three suspension setup here so in the middle the rear and then the front shock it is extremely  heavy it is 40 kilos making it well quite a hard to push a belt but luckily it's got a walk mode so  the suspension looks like it can take some huge hits right it looks almost like a downhill kind  of setup but a little bit of a spoiler here it's more for show with a bike like this so  we do have a powerful 1200 watt rear hub motor eight-speed Shimano gears and a maximum speed of  if it's limited 25 kilometers per hour if not it can get up to 45 plus with its peak 1200 watts but  it's normally around 750 this rear hub motor the 116 millimeter brakes are hydraulic and they're  from a brand called Logan braking performance is decent and you'll see later on in my braking test  where I test them out they're definitely a lot better than mechanical disc brakes and I'm glad  that they did not go with mechanical disc brakes there are three shocks in total with this bike now  it looks like it's going to have a lot of travel right it looks like a downhill bike a dirt bike  it really the rear shock only has literally about an inch of travel if that and our metal  shock is even worse it's really just there for Aesthetics because the trouble you get out of it  is next to nothing I'm talking on about five to ten millimeters so it is really just therefore  I feel Aesthetics so when you first take a look at this bike you think with that front shock that  oh this must be a downhill bike that it's got a lot of travel on that front shock especially  this style of shock well you'd be wrong there because it's only approximately three inches of  travel so again it's kind of more for Aesthetics just like that metal shock and the rear shock you  don't get a lot of travel now on the rear we have this saddle so someone could sit on this  but there are no foot pegs unfortunately and here we have an LED brake light so it's got two lights  that are on either side all the time and when you apply the brakes they are a little bit brighter  the front light is another LED light that's wired into the main battery and it's bright enough it  lights up The Path ahead of you but I wish it was a little brighter for safety nighttime riding it  does have a reflector below it which is good and speaking of reflectors there is one with each of  the rooms so they're 26 inch rims with those four inch wide fat tires now if you've never ridden fat  tires before they are quite fun they run a low PSI normally I put about 15 in them only so they  soak up a lot of bumps and smooth out the ride and give you a bit more extra Traction in conditions  like this off-road the x26 seat is quite wide it is comfortable and so far no problems with  it at all now it is height adjustable and because that seat post is actually our battery it's 19 amp  hours it's a very large battery it's lockable too so they give you a little key here you can  lock that in place so no one can just walk off and steal your battery now just below here there  is actually an LED light that when you turn the battery on so this is the battery power button  at the top there that light is on the whole time and then we have this removable cable so this is  the cable you use to swap between the batteries you can pull it out and then plug it into our  secondary backup reserve battery that's in the frame in order to access that battery  you need to fold the bike in half so here's our folding latch and it's quite strong around here  there's no cracks I can see in the frame I've been throwing it down some big drops around here going  and riding along some really rough road so simply just push the little button here pull that back  and then you can proceed to flip it around but it's quite hard to do so because it's a very  heavy 40 Kilo bike this battery capacity is 10 amp hours and the crazy thing about the design  of it that there is no hole for the charge port once it's in the frame so you need to charge it  you have to remove the battery every single time you need to unfold the bike slide out the battery  then you can charge it because the charging port is located on the side of the battery  then this is what it looks like when it is fully folded up so it's still a huge heavy  bike you don't really want to be folding this and lifting it into a car and you're going to need an  exceptionally large boot or trunk of course to fit this in now I think why they made it a  foldable is so we could have the removable battery I think that is really the only reason behind this  so at least both of the batteries are removable now plugging it in when you swap over from the  main battery to this auxiliary battery is quite simple you just need to push in the cable without  having the bike fall over here push that end it goes click and it's locked into place but it means  you have now this annoying cable that's on the side that you sometimes here banging and rattling  around the charge time on this main battery is approximately eight hours the auxiliary battery is  around about four and a half and they charge off a 48 volt system you can see at least with this main  battery the charging port is just above the plug right here for it so it's easy to get to in order  to charge this one you don't need to remove the battery this handlebar can be brought forward be  brought down we do have a brake levers that feel pretty good here being Hydraulics so there is an  accelerator here if you are in one of the three different modes if you're just in the power mode  that is then you can use this you have to be very careful with this because it will just launch off  so it is a little bit dangerous just below the accelerator we have our horn which is quite loud  and we've got a large AMOLED color screen which I do like so this screen is very clear we've got our  speed the different levels so using the controls if you hit the little I button and hold that down  you go to the normal mode from assist so that doesn't give you any pedal assist then you've got  the sport mode where you can use the accelerator now stepping it you can go through our trip time  you can see the max speed there so 47.7 kilometers per hour average speed of 20 that I've done total  distance right now is 30 kilometers this is by the way the second charge I'm on and my trip distance  can't all be seen this is my favorite one though the power because I sometimes see this peaking at  the 1200 watts so it's a bright clear screen we do have a cruise control mode that works with the  accelerator and you can clearly see the battery life with a percent there at the top so we have  the eye button that I talked about just before this is the power on and off plus and minus our  pedal assist levels and this is for the light now it does have a built-in ambient light sensor  so the light can come on automatically or you can just force it on manually now if you do hold this  plus button up that turns on or off the cruise control function and holding this down it can  then go into a walk mode that's very handy when you need to push such a heavy bike up a hill on  the right we have our gear selector so this is to go down the gears the trigger here to go up them  and you can clearly see here which gear you're in so one up to eight different gears with this model  the shift is a Shimano Altus very common super entry level it's right at the bottom bracket  when it comes to Shimano gears but hey at least it does have Shimano the chain is a DG brand  chain and it is painted silver as you can see which should help against rust the pedals are  well go pedals so that is a known brand it's got reflectors in it and they are metal but this could  vary from bike to bike depending on what they use so the cable routing is external it looks  quite messy like spaghetti here underneath I wish it was internal would look a lot cleaner  so what can I say about the paint job here well the paint job the finish this matte gray is  all right but I do see a lot of rough areas in the frame where you can see that where they've  just been grinding down where the welds are and things does look a little uneven a little bit  rough so I'd have to rate the frame quality and the just the finish of it to be averagefinally how's that kickstand well it seems sturdy enough it doesn't rattle but it's dropped down  already on me it's struggling with the heavy 40 kilos weight of this bike so it's a bit of  a concern I can see this bike easily dropping over if you're not careful because of how heavy it is  and the style of kickstand so let's have a look now at what it is like to ride so it is a large  heavy bike as I pointed out at the beginning there that it's got a lot of weight to it because of the  extra components the extra battery the suspension and everything and it is quite a large frame here  too now I've got the seat position up just a couple of notches you can actually put that  up quite a bit higher now I'm 184 centimeters tall but it will cater for people right up to  190 possibly even higher there and The Handlebar distance from the seat is quite a long way how  I've got it at the moment with these handlebars so the handlebars you can adjust them you can bring  them a little bit closer you can even push them out a little bit if you needed to do so so you can  see where my knees are and in the handlebars there's there's no way that they're going  to strike the handlebars there so I've got it currently in the sport mode and the sport mode is  not using pedal assist at all so just to hold down the I button I put it on to assist now and then  when I start to Pedal straight away it kicks in it only needs about two kilometers before the speed  sensor then does kick in and Away you go so this will take me up to 25 kilometers per hour which is  the legal limit here but this model that I do have is a pre-release version that is actually unlocked  from them but I will end up locking it later on so it's comfortable riding along like this  no problem and the motor's got a lot of power a lot of torque up to 1200 watts Peak power  which is a lot but it is a heavy bike and you definitely notice that in the frame the way it  is suspension gives us a little bit of travel so I can easily go up like a little curve here ride  straight straight up that suspension soaking that up not a problem another little bump here  that's easy and I will take it off-road later on too and see how it does perform  now up ahead I have a little bit of a rough patch here and I'm in pedal assist level five so there  are up to the five levels as I pointed out when we looked at the screen we're just going over this  absolutely no problem but I can hear the battery that's  located in the front is rattling about a little bit in the frameanyway you can get it up to around about 45 50 kilometers per hour if you do have  it unlocked and I love the noise of these fat tires they've got really bad rolling resistance  here on the road of course but I love how loud they are people can hear you coming  so in a way it's kind of like a safety feature now for my climb test so if you haven't seen my  other videos where I test out e-bikes and these scooters this is approximately 25 in parts and  about 30 degree gradient here the climb so it is reasonably Steep and we'll see how it  feels but I'm thinking it's going to be quite good here because I've got a full battery and  it does have a peak 1200 watt motor so I'm just going to push off and see if the pedal assist  will kick in straight away when I need it it oh it hasn't there we go okay that wasn't too bad  only a couple of turns of the crank and then it did detect that I needed the pedal assistant  assistance there so it's pulling about 700 Watts at the moment I can even go up gears if I wanted  to I will second gear now and the third so it is climbing really without a problem and I have seen  yes on the screen it's showing the 1200 watts that it can peek at so it does have plenty of  power but what happens if I turned it all off just put it into first gear no pedal assist now  oh boy this is impossible oh even standing ah this bike is too heavy and with the fat Wheels  wow you can't climb without that motor now for my braking test I'll get up to 30 kilometers by the  time I hit this post here so 30 31 32 oh because it's such a large heavy bike I find the distance  to brake is quite a bit more than others however the braking performance itself on those hydraulic  disc brakes 160 millimeters is good you can stop safely when you need to plenty of braking pressure  and you can lock up the rear tire if you wanted to do so it's that powerful the hydraulic disc brakes  and just how does it handle the rough Rocky stuff so the four inch Fat ties do soak up a lot the  suspension one it looks like a downhill bike is actually pretty useless very little travel to it  and let's see if I can just go down this steep bit hereoff-road ahead tothat's it so it's doing a lot better than other bikes here because again are those tires  and the power of this motor oh just able to get up this  so it actually is climbing pretty well up against all of this Rocky stuff if you just keep powering  through it and have good momentum you can climb quite well this is really surprising meI'm running back down that same Trail going right but I can hear  that battery is clanking around and they're making quite a bit of noise  but these tires are soaking up all of these rocks and bumps really welland then what about our range so with the 19 amp hour battery let's work on this one first I lose  approximately 10 for every five to six kilometers that I ride which isn't too bad so we're looking  around 50 to 60 kilometers with some large climbs and bear in mind that I weigh 82 kilos so I'm not  the latest Rider out there so that's good around 60 and then we have the 10 amp hour pack which I'm  looking at approximately 25 kilometers maybe even less around 20 out of it so you're looking about  80 kilometers for the total range it's a little shy of the 100 kilometer claim that they do say  but I can see if you don't have as many climbs that I've been going around here or you weigh a  little bit less and you pedal maybe a little bit more that it's probably possible to be able to get  that really good range thanks to the large 26 inch size wheels of course they're so much better than  the 20 inch size or the 16 those smaller folder bikes this is where this bike comes into a bit  of a gray area I mean what is it is it a downhill bike well definitely not with the shocks on them  with only about three inches of travel basically no travel from the middle one and maybe about an  inch on the rear shock it really is mostly for Aesthetics but with those nice spongy  four inch wide big fat Wheels it does soak up a lot of bumps it's very cruisy and Nice To Ride  Along on however why did they make it a foldable there's some really weird design choices I would  not have made it a foldable because that could be later on a bit of a compromise in the design for  strength although it does seem very strong the latch mechanism is good it is reinforced around  here but it's because the removable battery I mean it's great don't get me wrong they're both  removable batteries it's located here in the frame so you need to fold the bike or at least  split it in half a little bit to be able to pull the battery out to charge it is really poor it's  such a poor design choice I think to do that or at least make it a fixed battery or if you're going  to make it removable have a different style but I guess for the strength of the frame they had  to do it this way they had to make it foldable but it is Pleasant to ride it's just that weight  the big one for me the weight really puts me off there are some rough patches with the frame it's  not exactly super high quality the finish of the frame you can see that they're basically  just been grinding away at it to make it look okay and then just simply paint over the top  of it so plenty of power too it climbs well and that is the full story of the angui x26\n"