Have you ever heard of the “e-grin”? It’s a stupidly large smile that people get the first time they try an e-bike and experience the thrill of a silent, electrically powered motorbike.Īs something of a professional e-bike rider, I’m on a new model seemingly every week, and it’s been a while since I’ve had a true ear-to-ear e-grin.

Make sure you check out my video below to see the ONYX RCR electric moped in action!

Extras: Large LED headlight and rear LED tail light, 3 drive modes, backlit LCD display panel, bench seat, wide range of accessories (also accepts many third-party aftermarket moped accessories).

Brakes: Front hydraulic disk brake, rear regenerative braking and hybrid hydraulic disc brakes.

Suspension: Front suspension fork, dual rear coilover suspension.

Battery: 72V 23Ah (1.66 kWh) removable battery.

Motor: 3kW continuous (5.4 kW peak) rear hub motor.

But before I jump into the review, let’s take a look at the bike’s tech specs so that we know what we’re working with here. Our pair of twin little electric hell-raisers tore it up all afternoon. Yet a chance to actually ride one had eluded me until now.Īnd so it was with a supreme sense of delayed gratification that I finally swung my leg over an ONYX RCR last week.Īnd the fact that the company’s own CEO James Khatiblou was leading me on my joy ride along with his own ONYX RCR made it that much more epic.

I’ve covered the development and rollout of the ONYX RCR since the very beginning, starting with the company’s crowdfunding in the summer of 2018. I’ve admired this bike for nearly two years now. An electric moped in the truest sense of the word “moped,” the ONYX RCR is a beast of an electric motorbike.

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