hey everybody eric here from nomadic fanatic hope you guys are doing well coming to you from the
the desert of arizona here in the southwest and uh very excited today is the last day i have to wear
the cover on my new tattoo i'll update you on that here at the end of the video uh first of all let's
uh get into this a lot of people noticed this or saw this in a few clips of my vegas video why does
nomadic fanatic have another e-bike on the back of his rv we're gonna delve into that right now
yep thanks for joining me guys i will be uploading this video with some nomad internet there is a
link below in the video description in case you're looking for some mobile unlimited internet i have
an e-bike on the back of my rv once again this will be my third e-bike here on the channel and
i know you're probably asking yourself those long time viewers why would you try this again eric
well at the end of this vid please stick around to the end of this video because
this is a very special video with a very happy ending first of all this is a brand new bike from
a company called fido which has been around for a while but this is their new bike f-i-d-o they
did send this bike to me they reached out to me uh through my business account and then said nomadic
fanatic we love your videos we would love for you to review this video and keep it and enjoy it
i wrote back to him and i said i really appreciate that offer uh right now i'm not in the market for
an e-bike right now but i understand you guys want some exposure i actually have
a really good friend who not only needs an e-bike right now but he has a very different
kind of a youtube channel who reaches a different target audience than mine and he would love to
work with you guys here is his contact information and i felt like i did my good deed i heard back
from the company uh the very next day and they said actually we're not interested in working
with anyone else but but you right now and i went i struggled moment no i i actually started typing
and then i hit delete and then i said okay i'll go ahead and work with you guys
which again stay till the end of the video this is the fido t1 cargo bike
which is a um you call it i think you call it the pass-through model it doesn't have the
bar up here let's go over some specs really really quick and you know this is what you get
none of this stuff i'm going to talk about is like an extra add-on or something there will be a link
in the video description if you are interested in this e-bike it comes with a monster headlight here
that has high beam and low beam it does have mud flaps on both the front and the back tire there
it comes with the rear rack with this really nice wood finish up here also you get this really beefy
front basket here for hauling more groceries or putting a blanket in there and carrying your pet
a monster battery here shocks we've got front fork shocks that are adjustable right here as
well as the seat is a shock seat to remove the battery there's a key for the battery right there
you just pop the seat up like that turn this to the unlocked position
which i think is right there i can't do it one-handed but you can pull the battery out
and store that inside or charge it inside so that the battery is not there all the time
so that makes that pretty easy what else seven speed adjustable gear ratio up there it's got
mechanical brakes not hydraulic brakes so i feel like that's a good thing and i've got it on a
vibrelli e-bike carrier right now on the back of the rv i feel like the target audience of
this bike is the crowd out here in the desert you can take this bike to the store you can put
a milk crate back here with a bungee you can put groceries up here or bring your pet for a shorter
rider like me you can simply walk onto the bike there's no bar here so that when you come to a
stop sign it's awkward and stuff so yeah you can probably see it's pretty dirty because i have been
using it i have been letting some other people use it out here i've put 13 miles on this e-bike this
has a 750 watt motor here and a very high capacity battery out of the box it goes 31 miles an hour
actually let me take this off the rack and then we'll take a closer look all right it is a little
windy here in the desert so we got four inch fat tires on there so you know combined with
the front suspension the seat suspension and the fat tires you really have a really nice
smooth ride on this and again without a bar right here it's really easy to get on the bike
this is an honest review so here in a moment i'm going to tell you the a couple things that i don't
like about it but that's minimal we're going to turn it on by holding that down and as you
can see you probably can't see a darn thing it does have so this headlight right here there we
go it's daytime so you probably can't see that but the headlights on and when i was talking
about the switch right here you have a high beam switch so now we have high beams at night also
this is an integrated amplified horn there's a green button and it's actually pretty loud
it's a cool looking bike it currently only comes in green right now there are three levels of
pedal assist on here um except you you just can't see anything and it's almost impossible to see
what we're in i'll get this started and then i'll go grab my gopro and we'll go for a little
ride around camp here okay i switched over to the gopro now the seat is fully adjustable i've got
it to the lowest setting because i'm five foot five and a half so um i have tucked in here and
confirmed that we are on pedal assist one there's a number one right there and if you just hit this
button again it goes to two and then three and then again it goes back to one but i understand
you guys probably can't see anything in there it is a really hard to see screen so we're in
pedal assist one which means i can start pedaling and it's going to help me right now or up here
there's a thumb throttle right there you can just push your thumb and go without pedaling so i'm
gonna hold the camera over here in my other hand like this and try to get started okay here we go
all right pedal assist one i am cruising right along it's comfortable it's smooth
the shocks feel awesome let me try to show you one more time what it's like when you just start
pedaling so if i'm at a stop light or something and i'm sitting on the bike carefully and i just
sorry for the shake of the camera start pedaling in a minute
oh geez just takes off that's one of the things i don't like however you can see that the basket
just kind of stays still on the front while you're turning the handlebars and it's deceptive but
it's really bumpy out here like really bumpy out here in the desert and it feels pretty smooth i
think the easier way to do it is to use the thumb throttle to get started so you're like comfortably
you know going and then you can start pedaling i feel like that that works a little better
but oh it's windy too the company is claiming to have 70 mile range on the battery with
pedal assist that's a crazy number 70 miles i don't know because i've only charged the bike
once and put 13 14 miles on it and we're still at fully full battery life so
let's head back to camp i want to talk about a few more things about this and then we'll uh
get into the exciting stuff oh my gosh it's fun though a couple things i forgot to mention cruise
control so the thumb throttle right here whatever speed you're going anywhere from 10 to 31 miles
an hour if you're just cruising and holding it down at that if you leave it there for three
to four seconds you can release it and it'll just stay going that speed so if you're on the highway
out here going into town or something you don't have to keep your thumb and and keep
you know working it it'll just stay that speed and you can just go no hands if you
want to what i don't like about the bike and these are these are very very minor things
wherever this bike comes from the other country it ships here in the united states for free by
the way but uh stock brakes are backwards to us americans okay okay most bikes here in america
when you hit the left brake here that's going to be your front brakes when you hit this one
over here it should be your rear brakes on this particular bike it's backwards it's the opposite
i guess if you wanted to it wouldn't be that difficult to just swap these out because these are
just cable cable breaks so pull this one out put it over here and then readjust if you wanted to
or if this is your only bicycle maybe you can just somehow trick your mind into remembering that this
is always your rear so apply 80 percent here 20 percent over there and you should be good that's
again that's kind of a minor thing i think the bigger issue
is the lcd screen indicator which is completely on at its highest level and you probably still
can't see anything i'll let you know there is a battery meter on top right here that i can
paintly see because i know it's there there's your speed and your power assist is over here
and it's really impossible to see i feel like this is useless unless you stop the bike get
down cup your hand like this and really look in there and find out plus the it's uh yeah it and
anyway i think that's a bigger complaint than the brakes being backwards is the screen brightness
and lastly it's a weird one for me but the pedal assist level when it's in one meaning
it's giving you the lowest amount of help to pedal assist i personally feel like it's still too fast
i feel like in an area like this or even if you're at a campground or something you start
pedaling in first level pedal assist and it takes off on you at 11 miles an hour it's just too fast
i mean most campgrounds have a speed limit of 10 anyway and you are you are flying so i really
can't even use pedal assist in some areas and when i reached out to the company about that because
i asked them if there's any way to adjust it i know on some e-bikes you might have five levels
or eight levels and then you can even adjust those levels and i asked them if i could adjust that and
tone down pedal assist one and she told me that um that i should simply use thumb throttle only
in the campgrounds instead because there's no way to adjust it so that that is a bummer um if there
were going to be a future update to this bike i think it would be really helpful if you were able
to change the amount of assist here like maybe right now it's set to 30 60 100 i would change
it to like 15 percent then 50 then and then 100 and obviously brighten up the screen a little bit
and um yeah but other than that i mean it's a great fun little bike it's just uh it's not for me
um i have enjoyed my time greatly out here i am getting ready to leave the state of arizona
again um we're gonna go talk to a good friend of mine over here randy the mobile traveler
on youtube has opened up the dead end camp here to so many friends and we're gonna go
we're gonna go talk to him right now actually of course randy's off helping somebody else
with a solar problem right now when he gets back we'll go talk to him he has no idea that this is
coming by the way all right randy just got back so we're gonna go talk to him over here
randy you're back
just finished my video review video so i can i can edit this tonight and get this video
uploaded tomorrow turned out pretty good what do we know today before i go you want to free plug
your uh channel i'm going to first say randy has uh been a huge help here in the community
he opens up his shelter for poker at night cards he cooks for everybody here and he's
welcome to everyone here tell them what your channel is my channel is the mobile
traveler and what do you do what's it about what you know what i do is a lot of builds
for people i do a lot of solar i show people how they can live on the road cheaply um just just
i i show a lot of how-to videos it is really helpful you have helped a lot of people here
you are constantly going to help people and not even charging them and stuff so i'm going to put
a link to randy's channel in the video description below so you can you can check that out and also
you have a like a pedal bicycle that you've been pedaling around right man this sucker's got me
i don't know how many miles yeah i know yeah the knees get old and everything well randy yeah this
e-bike is yours no this e-bike i'm done reviewing this e-bike and uh i think that you need this
and you can use it more than i can and more than any and if there's anybody here who deserves it
it's yours i'm gonna go get the battery charger and the carrier and uh buddy thank you so much
for everything you do to the nomads around here you are awesome thank you merry late christmas
oh yeah great early birthday happy hanukkah yeah i'll show you how to ride it later all
right bud thank you guys have a good one uh tara and opie and i will see in the next one bye-bye
you