The Quick-E has a range of around 100km per charge. Of course, this can be extended or reduced according to the amount of effort you wish to apply. When riding to work, it is likely that you will wish to avoid perspiration, and that is easily achieved with an E-Bike. It is just so easy to regulate the amount of effort you apply. Alasdair is no member of the pedelecmonitor.I found his bike review on an EBR-Forum-Thread.The header was „my biggest issue with the ebike reviews, is that I can’t find any reviews over long term use“ – he matched exactly my thoughts. So I was asking for reviews – positives and negatives. Here is Alasdairs statement about his Giant Quick-E+ with the Yamaha PW syncdrive.
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Review: 2017 (& 2018) Giant Quick E+
[Album] (http://imgur.com/a/dngFL)
[Bike] (https://www.giant-bicycles.com/us/quick-eplus)
Hi everyone, I spent a long time browsing this subreddit before I made the decision to buy a Giant Quick E+, I'm writing this review in hopes that someone will find it useful.
Background: I recently moved to San Francisco. I love driving and previously owned two cars, but parking here is a nightmare so I decided to sell my cars and get a bicycle. My apartment is on Mount Sutro, which is a hill. I'm def not in the greatest shape at 5'5 200lbs. I knew I wouldn't be able to make it up the hill on a regular bicycle, so I started looking into e-bikes.
Very early in the search it became obvious that I needed a mid drive. I test rode powerful hub motors against weaker mid drives and for climbing at least the mid drives always had the advantage. On flat ground I could not really feel a difference. I wanted a prebuilt bike, but most of them had pretty small batterys and I was concerned they would deplete quickly on this hilly terrain. Furthermore I was concerned most bikes didn't have the range of gears to tackle serious hills. I ended up choosing the Quick E over other bikes for these two main reasons : Above average battery, and Two Front Chainrings.
Now onto the Review
Looks: 10/10, this bike is beautiful. Battery is very neatly integrated into the downtube, wires are hidden, and the motor is even protected with a plastic skid cover. Has integrated lights, a fender, and a rack.
![2018 2018](/uploads/1/2/3/7/123750521/865851112.png)
Battery Life: 7/10, Battery life is almost exactly what I expected. If I'm only going up and down the hill for errands I can get roughly 20 miles. If I spend some time at the bottom riding on flats I can probably get around 35-50. I'll tell you guys one thing: If this bike had a throttle, I would definitely use it (the hills test your resilience), and I'm sure battery life would dip significantly. I'm glad it doesn't give me the option.
Ride Feel 9/10: To me this feels as close as possible to a normal bicycle. The motor kicks in almost immediately and scales with the amount of torque you're applying into the pedals. There's been times where I've been tired and shifted to a lower gear expecting the motor to save me. With high cadence if the bike doesn't feel a good amount of torque it will not help you. The more work you're doing as a rider the more work the motor will do to help you. It's a very honest setup. Took a point off because it doesn't have suspension. This only slightly bothers me, but the SF traffic/lights/pedestrians means you never get up to very high speeds. I'm sure at 28 mph hitting a bump would feel terrible.
Weight: 10/10 This bike feels light as a feather. I'm guessing it weighs around 45 lbs but the weight distribution is fantastic. I regularly carry it up and down a flight of stairs.
Hill Climbing: 8/10, This bike climbs hills fairly well. On normal hills (~5% grade) I regularly pass other riders, especially if I'm well rested and have a lot of energy. San Fran is full of these smaller hills and this bike can handle them just fine if you put in some effort. That steepest part of the road up to my apartment is a .6 mile stretch where the average grade is 9% but there are small sections that go as high as 15%-17%. This last half a mile stretch is still very hard for me, but I can do it and am definitely getting better at it. Without a load I can get up at around 10 mph, with any kind of load at all I have to shift to the lowest gear and average 7mph. Takes me 4-6 mins to get up the hill. I want to highlight this because it's the main reason I love the bike: it takes me around 25 mins to walk, and feels equally brutal. In the album I've attached some Strava data on this climb.
Overall I'm really happy with the bike. It gives me the freedom to move around without feeling discouraged about the big climb that awaits me at the end of my adventures.
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