Engwe L20 2.0 Review | What Ebike Style?

What ebike style suits you best? Stop trusting ebike reviews … influencers and the big release of Engwe’s L20, the 2.0.

So I’ve haven’t been out on an ebike for about 3 weeks and it’s mainly down to the weather but it’s not too bad today it’s a a bit slippy and I’ve been dealing with that trck that I’ve got as well so I’ve been filming stuff for

That and I’ve had a new seat come for the truck which is a comfort seat which I’m looking forward to fitting in doing an out2 next week I’m hopefully finally going to get this extra battery on here but at the moment I am so backwards with

Work that I don’t had time to do Anything so today we’re going to be talking about ebikes and what ebikes suit you and what frames you should go for so I’m going to start with these Cafe style racer ebikes like the M20 and the s73 and all those and if you do decide to go for

One what you need to be careful of is the fact that these frames you’ll have to fit to you so if you’re when’re in a certain height range you’re not going to be too compromised but if you’re sort of 6t and above or 5T tall these frames across the board don’t

Seem to they’re a compromise across the board but when you look at the M20 its biggest compromise was that seat you weren’t able to shuffle backwards and like you can on the s73 and that comes in a couple of sizes with the M20 you haven’t got that choice so it’s you’re

Sort of compromised when you’re sitting on the seat and there’s not a lot you can do about it unless like with the M20 you increase the height of the seat um there was a mod where you could actually put yourself you know make yourself a little printable seat riser

Which again is another compromise so and then you get into folding frame ebikes so whilst you can fit most of these around you instead of you around them they also have their negatives which is essentially the fact that it’s a folding frame and it’s weakened at that

Point um as I found with the angu and it’s not just angu out there that has this problem that these frames aren’t the most sturdy and I after to watching the L2 2.0 review yesterday thinking well that’s even less sturdy than the prev previous one I do like the fact that it’s

Got lighter Wheels I do like the fact that the L2 2.0 as you know a 52 amp battery uh 52 volt battery but what I don’t like about it is again it’s all the same problems enway builds into their bikes that suspension seat looks crap it’s the same crap Forks that they

Use on all their 20in bikes it’s mechanical brakes anything over 30 kilos needs Hydraulics and there’s a lot of people out there that tell you oh well that the these mechanical brakes are fine they’re not they’re not especially if you’re in heavyweight and you’re riding along

250 and you then got a you know 6 60 lb bike well it’s actually 70 with the battery wouldn’t it that’s a lot of weight to try stopping its speed with crappy mechanical brakes So within that you you’re looking at a compromis there with these these foldable

Bikes but I still prefer the original l20 obviously because I’m not a big fan of that goose neck we’ve seen no snap before and they’re not much fun obviously when you’re riding along in that snaps and then you’re into fixed step throughs or fixed bikes well let’s start with fixed step throughs

Fixed step throughs are a compromise if you want a fold in bike but they’re sturdier they’re more solid this the frame on this is solid it’s just that the comp components on it aren’t as good as I thought they were going to be but this Frame is absolutely

Solid um and enway has its own you know step through systems that it uses like on the R20 and and for me they’re they’re my they’re my preferred bike you can’t beat a step through and then you’re into the 26 in frames and the foldable ones I actually

Watched a review you might be well I’ve actually posted it on my Facebook page that somebody did about the x26 in the in the UK and it’s laughable because he said he’s an able to ride it for legal reasons and he’s right and just watching him trying to

Get that battery out to charge it it was just it was just awkward and it had no you have no reason to need a 26 in folding ebike why would you need that you’re getting a 26 in bike you don’t need you don’t need it to

Be able to fold because that’s not what you bought B it for but then you’ve also got this thing with all the 20in foldables out there do the job better than anything that a 26 in bike would do it it’s almost laughable so if you’re in the in the

Market place for a nice 26 in Fat Tire Bike the sky a limit you’ve got a lot of choices out there um I don’t know which one I’d go for it won’t be anything by angue with srer letting me down whereas I might have looked at the ranger which

I was looking at for my aleros run later in the year until they called me a liar and a few other things which was a bit Rich coming from them Um yeah I I wouldn’t buy it not knowing now what I know about the their customer service just being as bad as engs because you’re looking at a 3,000 ebike um and to to spend £3,000 on an ebike you want some a little bit decent and it

A as decent as we thought it was and with the lack of customer service service you’re pretty much getting bent over again by another Chinese ebik company so which then brings me on to my next Point these Chinese eite companies they they don’t see customer services being a priority I think enu is

Trying to up its game which fair play to him as much as I can’t stand enway they are making efforts here and there but after seeing that reply yesterday about again on my Facebook Channel about the fact that the guy that was meant to be reviewing it said it was illegal and

There it’s there reply was well you can ride ride it on private land but who’s got private land you can’t even ride it in Parks because that’s not private land so it’s finding somewhere you can ride it it’s illegal whichever way you look at it and that was the x26 that was such

A funny video I’ve actually put a link to that video in my comments cuz you’ve got to watch it it’s brilliant and it’s just nice to see once now and again that somebody’s being honest about these bikes because most of the time nobody’s being honest with they’re getting free E

Bikes and like you’ve seen all before I’ve showed you before you can just see this this framework that they all sit within this pattern of how these these reviews have to go you know it starts off with you know all this has come in the post blah blah blah blah and then

You do an unboxing and then you show the specs of the bike and then you take it for a ride but my argument with these reviews is how can you review a bike properly in a day maybe two days tops how do you know what the pitfalls of

This bike are going to be in 2 days you can’t do that and nobody’s actually going back well I’ve actually seen a few go back but on the majority they’re not going back sort of 6 months later 1,000 miles later 1500 mil later and showing you the pitfalls of owning one of these

Bikes and there’s going to be pitfalls especially if it’s Chinese so you’re not learning about let’s say you’re not learning about customer service you’re not learning about things that you’re seeing on the forums go wrong with them I mean initially with enu they were having a problem with Fender

Failure and nobody was going to find that out straight away but it was a few months into the bike being released that people were saying their fenders were breaking off and you know causing the wheel to jam and then you’ve got things like you got things like controller failure

You know the brakes being crapped the frame snapping you know the goose neck snapping the headset failing we never saw you can never get that in and nobody’s going to put that in a in a two-day video they’re not going to come across any of these problems so how are these reviews any

Good to anybody they’re the same old crap and I it’s just cheating marketing it’s it’s a it’s a way of cheating it’s a way and they’re going to it’s going to come AC proper for most of these these companies using these influencers because eventually people are going to start seeing through influencer videos

And this is what I tried to get across on my YouTube channel that this isn’t what you think it is this is a guy that’s been sent an E Bike in some cases being paid to review the bike I doubt Matt on TAA TV gives a good review to that l20 for free

Because normally he’ll pick up on mechanical brakes and say oh they’re not not good enough you can watch some of his videos but in the new l20 2.0 video he’s been going about oh these are good enough and it’s like they’re not good enough you know they’re not good enough

You’ve been paid to say they’re not they’re good enough they’re not it’s the cheapest option and that aggravates me as much as I like his videos as a whole crap like that just got I see straight through it and you should too when you’re looking in buying an ebook

Bike this is what you should be looking for when you see a review on of an ebike it needs to be genuine the ones that I’ve put on mine are genuine so I’m going to go back and re-review this in a few weeks time um and show the pitfalls of it and

That’ll go up on my channel saying like the things that I need to get out there which their customer services um some of the parts that they’ve got on here as good as they look they fail to um anything goes wrong with your bike wooding whatever you’re going to

Struggle to get any money out of them and now they’re denying actually posted on my on my YouTube channel that um they’re looking into the fire thing and I should be posting this this and this about it well you can’t stop me you had a fire with one of your bikes

So as far as I’m concerned until you prove it wasn’t caused by your battery it’s fair game you need to look at me as being a journalist because I’m allowed to write what I want say what I want I’m not in China nobody’s going to put me in

Prison so you’re going to have to put up with me Annoying ain’t it so to all my S Russia followers out there they follow me just to see what I’m up to and what I’m doing to slag you off you brought this on yourself you brought this on yourself because you

Called me a liar just out to get free ebikes well I often do a lot of work for you for a free ebike and for what I earn an hour and this was all for charity so I’m not putting up with the fact that it was miscommunication because of the language barrier that’s

Not my problem bugs me sometimes bugs me that I’m trying to you know do a good thing but people are making me out to be one thing and another to a guys of well that’s not what we said it’s exactly what you said this new motor feels a lot better it’s

Not it’s not as noisy as the old one I knew the even when I fixed it on you the all sensors were going to fail again I mean to a certain degree you can’t really blame Syer for that as a component f failure and it’s pretty much W down to beang

But I look at it this way at least this motor is better than the subo motors that angu use they’re pretty crap so today we’re riding around beautiful weight field that was a genuine cough honestly in fact there’s some parts of Whitefield that are genuinely stunning um we’re just coming past

Pinderfields hospital at the moment so this week I’m going to finally get round to putting the second battery on my E Bike um I haven’t had time to do anything recently because I’m still stoked out with work doing this video channel that I’m doing with some Partners uh um doing website work

Just doing updates and then I’m prepping for billing which starts in a couple of months well month’s time now so I need to get billing pre for 600 clients and get on with that bring some money in so that comes before my YouTube channel I’m afraid cuz this don’t pay me anything

This is just this is just half an Hobby so yeah once I get this new battery on I’ll give it a range test when it warms up a bit but at the moment it’s still only 8° here it’s like my fingers are freezing again I didn’t think it was that cold out

Today but they’re freezing as usual so and the other thing is getting out and I’m to do these videos every 5 minutes I’m not enjoying my bikes as much as I should be so I need to be able to get out and ride these and have some fun with them again rather

Than just doing videos for a video channel it’s nice occasionally just to get out on this thing and just enjoy riding it although I am enjoying getting out on that trike that yric 300 thing the range on that is unlimited obviously un likee this as long as you put Petrol in it and

I am enjoying it it’s just an heavy Beast with me on it’s over quarter of a ton and you can feel that weight when you’re at traffic it does have a stabilization button that you can push and keep your feet down on on the footrest without actually

Putting your feet down but every time I pull away from traffic after using that it seems to get a bit squirly maybe it’s something I just need to get used to but other people mention it on the forums and I’m sort of like I think it’s just something that I need to

Get used to but it is an heavy Beast well it does you know it says hundreds of the gallon it certain speeds I’m I’m seem to be getting about 80s the gallon out of it which is great come summer I’m going to be using it a

Lot as well as this i’ ordered a trailer for this as well I’ve not ordered it from s Russia because at £550 that’s the biggest ripoff on the planet I know needs 20in wheels on a trail level I found one with 16 16in wheels on I think it is 4 in tires

So and it’s pretty much just over half the price so I’m waiting for that to turn up for the summer so I can carry all my photography kit around with me as I say I’ll be taking this channel into other areas as well as ebikes because the ebike thing’s pretty

Limited and my followers I don’t think understand what it takes to put together something like this it’s not something full time on not getting paid and i’ rather to do stuff that people are interested in so you know my channel is going to be devoted

To the Yamaha it’s going to be sort of partially devoted to another mop which is a 750 ATV that on the makes and it’s fabulous so that’s going to be my another bike I’m buying um I’m possibly going to be buying either an FJ to FJ thing they’re

Fabulous first time I ever saw one of them was in Dubai and that must have been about 20 years ago but they’re cracking things suicide doors go anywhere they they’re not exactly what people look at and go oh that’s a nice looking thing they’re a bit Mite but I

Like things that are a bit Mite so I’m either going to buy one of them I’m going to buy a proper camper on cuz I could do with one mainly for trailing the bikes around but that’ll be later this year when I get time to go looking at

Stuff but at the moment like I say I’m up to my eyeballs and work and you know it’s coming to being sort of third or fourth down the list of things that I’ve got on Plus in the summer I’m going to do a charity ride um jonal gr down to Land’s End on

An ebike looking for a sponsor for that if anybody wants to sponsor me not an ebike but anything you want sponsoring I can stick on the side of the trailer plus I’ll be videoing it from beginning to end and that’ll all be going up on my YouTube channel so

Something close to my art anyway something I’m going to enjoy doing so that’s it for this week um I’ll try and get something in next week when I do the S rushia extended battery video and then after that it’s going to be sort of like when I get time to do stuff but

Once I’ve got my building out the way there’s going to be more on the video channel concerning the EV stuff and the and the moped cuz I’m going to have more time to do it and I’m going to want to get out of the house over the summer

So have a nice weekend everyone bye a