Today I went for a ride with the red hill riders 8am hardcore crew. This ride had some of the tightest, steepest, most intense tracks I have ever experienced. The eGlory performed flawlessly.
We rode everything from fast flowing tracks along the top of the mountain, to downhill jump tracks, and tight vicious rock gardens, and hills that were steep and gnarly and packed with huge tree roots and holes. There were rock ledge drop offs, logs galore, and even a river crossing. It was AWESOME.
The ride was only 28.9km, but had 911 metres (2988ft) of climbing! and the em3ev battery only dropped off full as I hammered off up the last hill!
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Because I was in a group of normal bikes (albeit with some very fit and fast riders) I stuck to slow speeds (with the group) up the hills, and the motor and controller never got past slightly warm.
This motor is incredible. There was one spot where you had to slip and slide down a hill, stright into a river at the bottom, and then straight up the other side. This hill is "impossible" to ride up normally, and I got a few comment like "Don't think ya motor will get you up
this one!", but I had a crack anyway, and got up it with only a little wheelspin and some sweet wheelie action! There were several other spots where a few of the riders egged me on to attempt some crazy stuff while we were waiting for the rest of the group to catch up, including a hill with about a metre vertical rock step-up halfway up it (it was clearly meant to be ridden
down ). I hit it with some pace and launched it up and over and made it look easy (I spent ten years riding 250cc enduro bikes in the bush, and raced motocross before that). They pretty much shut up after that
I managed to smoosh a few of the cooling fins on the motor heatsink on a sharp rock, and the bashplate copped some huge smacks into rocks and logs and held up with only a few scratches. The drive chain needs a slight tighten again, but appears to have stopped stretching pretty much. The gear cover and kicked up controller guard protected the drivetrain and vitals from 99% of the mud.
Overall a 100% successful test of this bike in the hardest conditions I'll ever likely put it through. It truly is awesome.