Ride1Up Revv1 DRT unveiled as high performance off-road electric bike
Ride1Up announced the launch of its original Revv1 electric moped-style bike back in early 2023, spearheading the brand’s expansion into a wider range of e-bike models. The powerful bike was a shot across the bow of major brands like SUPER73, offering high-performance riding and moto-inspired styling for a more affordable price. Now the company is back with the first major redesign to the bike, offering the Revv1 DRT for off-road adventures.
Moped-style electric bikes are incredibly popular with younger and more adventurous riders, and so it should come as no surprise that one of the most popular modifications made by Revv1 owners was to optimize it for off-road riding.
The bike was already most of the way there, offering high power, fast speeds, and a full-suspension design. But now Ride1Up has embraced those desires among much of its ridership, offering a factory-ready scrambler based on the Revv1’s bones.
The new Revv1 DRT features several modifications designed for the trails, including updated suspension, tires, spoke wheels, off-road fenders, modified lighting, and updated frame geometry.
The most visually obvious update appears to be the chunkier off-road tires and the new longer travel DNM coilover shock in the rear, complete with piggyback reservoir. A Molle panel is also available to fill the front triangle (trapezoid?) of the frame, offering riders the utility of standard Molle attaching accessories that can be sourced from just about anywhere.
The Revv1 features a 1,000-watt continuous-rated rear hub motor offering 95 Nm of torque, making it one of the most powerful stock e-bike motors on the market today.
The bike ships with a 20 mph (32 km/h) speed limit, but can be opened up to Class 3 operation with pedal assist taking the bike up to 28 mph (45 km/h).
Further unlocking of the bike is possible, though requires jumping through several hoops including contacting the company directly. Once unlocked fully, even more speed is possible on throttle-only. In my original test of the street version of the Ride1Up Revv1 last year, I topped out at around 37 mph (59.5 km/h).
As an important reminder to readers: such speeds are not legal for electric bicycles on public roads in most areas, and would push the vehicle into motorcycle designation for public road use in some jurisdictions. Electric bike makers usually describe fully-unlocked power and speeds as intended only for off-road and private property use.
Since the Ride1Up Revv1 DRT is explicitly designed for off-road use though, it makes sense to be able to take advantage of all that the powerful motor has to offer.
Many of the bike’s other components remain the same as the original Ride1Up Revv1. Riders will find the same large 52V 20Ah (1,040 Wh) battery pack with Samsung 50E 21700 battery cells, the same 3.5″ center mount display, and the same 4-piston 203mm hydraulic disc brakes.
The DRT does manage to shave a couple pounds off of the full-suspension street-version of the Revv1, dropping to a mere 91 lb (41 kg). That’s still a portly e-bike, but it likely won’t stop the kind of riders who gravitate to these types of bikes from bunnyhopping it all over the place.
Just launched today, the Ride1Up Revv1 DRT carries a promotional pre-order price of US $2,495. Deliveries are expected to begin in early June, and there’s no guarantee the promotional price will stick around.
However, Ride1Up is known for offering great pricing compared to much of the industry and recently announced that sale prices on other models would remain throughout the year instead of rollercoasting prices up and down during seasonal sales like many other companies.
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If you’ve ever wondered what happens when you combine a fruit cart, a cargo bike, and a Piaggio Ape all in one vehicle, now you’ve got your answer. I submit, for your approval, this week’s feature for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column – and it’s a beautiful doozie.
Feast your eyes on this salad slinging, coleslaw cruising, tuber taxiing produce chariot!
I think this electric vegetable trike might finally scratch the itch long felt by many of my readers. It seems every time I cover an electric trike, even the really cool ones, I always get commenters poo-poo-ing it for having two wheels in the rear instead of two wheels in the front. Well, here you go, folks!
Designed with two front wheels for maximum stability, this trike keeps your cucumbers in check through every corner. Because trust me, you don’t want to hit a pothole and suddenly be juggling peaches like you’re in Cirque du Soleil: Farmers Market Edition.
To avoid the extra cost of designing a linked steering system for a pair of front wheels, the engineers who brought this salad shuttle to life simply side-stepped that complexity altogether by steering the entire fixed front end. I’ve got articulating electric tractors that steer like this, and so if it works for a several-ton work machine, it should work for a couple hundred pounds of cargo bike.
Featuring a giant cargo bed up front with four cascading fruit baskets set up for roadside sales, this cargo bike is something of a blank slate. Sure, you could monetize grandma’s vegetable garden, or you could fill it with your own ideas and concoctions. Our exceedingly talented graphics wizard sees it as the perfect coffee and pastry e-bike for my new startup, The Handlebarista, and I’m not one to argue. Basically, the sky is the limit with a blank slate bike like this!
Sure, the quality doesn’t quite match something like a fancy Tern cargo bike. The rim brakes aren’t exactly confidence-inspiring, but at least there are three of them. And if they should all give out, or just not quite slow you down enough to avoid that quickly approaching brick wall, then at least you’ve got a couple hundred pounds of tomatoes as a tasty crumple zone.
The electrical system does seem a bit underpowered. With a 36V battery and a 250W motor, I don’t know if one-third of a horsepower is enough to haul a full load to the local farmer’s market. But I guess if the weight is a bit much for the little motor, you could always do some snacking along the way. On the other hand, all the pictures seem to show a non-electric version. So if this cart is presumably mobile on pedal power alone, then that extra motor assist, however small, is going to feel like a very welcome guest.
The $950 price is presumably for the electric version, since that’s what’s in the title of the listing, though I wouldn’t get too excited just yet. I’ve bought a LOT of stuff on Alibaba, including many electric vehicles, and the too-good-to-be-true price is always exactly that. In my experience, you can multiply the Alibaba price by 3-4x to get the actual landed price for things like these. Even so, $3,000-$4,000 wouldn’t be a terrible price, considering a lot of electric trikes stateside already cost that much and don’t even come with a quad-set of vegetable baskets on board!
I should also put my normal caveat in here about not actually buying one of these. Please, please don’t try to buy one of these awesome cargo e-trikes. This is a silly, tongue-in-cheek weekend column where I scour the ever-entertaining underbelly of China’s massive e-commerce site Alibaba in search of fun, quirky, and just plain awesomely weird electric vehicles. While I’ve successfully bought several fun things on the platform, I’ve also gotten scammed more than once, so this is not for the timid or the tight-budgeted among us.
That isn’t to say that some of my more stubborn readers haven’t followed in my footsteps before, ignoring my advice and setting out on their own wild journey. But please don’t be the one who risks it all and gets nothing in return. Don’t say I didn’t warn you; this is the warning.
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