2023 Polygon Kalosi Lanes Evo High - Step - Urban eBike For $2539 saving $460 off rrp.
IMO a better bike overall than the Mercedes formula E-bike including SHIMANO E-5000 MOTOR mid drive and SHIMANO BT-E8010, 504WH BATTERY
2023 Polygon Kalosi Lanes Evo E-Bike $2539 (Was $2999) + Delivery @ BikesOnline
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Wonder if the vote downs are from people who don’t get it, or people don’t think it’s funny. 🤔
Wow <20kg is fantastic. Weird that there's no water bottle mount on the frame though, but you can use up some handlebar/ front basket real-estate for that. Shimano's electronics a bit dated but super reliable.
From the pic there clearly are mount points
Oops… trusted a reviewer more than my own eyes on that assessment.
Thats the problem with the youngsters these day and their interweb 🤣
Some good specs here for the price point. Mid drive, 15AH battery , super light .
Does it have a torque or cadence sensor?
In my opinion, the mercedes one is better because it is just a better build and also can be converted to a normal bike if required. Also the brand tag is better as you are riding a Mercedes
I was very keen to pull the trigger on the Merc branded bike but the comments about delivery times really put me off and didn't end up going down that path. What sort of wait time would this be?
Appears delivery is within a week Australia wide
I've ordered a polygon path E5 previously, basically a more city oriented form of this bike with mudguards and a bike rack included, and a rigid carbon fork instead of suspension.
Great quality bike, super smooth to ride, the Shimano e5000 is super natural feeling so you barely notice it working.
Ultimately returned it though because the 40Nm of torque wasn't sufficient for me (I wanted to cruise up some steep hills on my commute easily, with this I had to work a decent amount still). The return process with these guys is very easy though, have done it twice already.
Recommend giving this a go if you're keen.
What did you end up replacing it with? And do you have any recco for cargo e-bikes? Been wanting something that can carry heaps
We use a Riese and Mueller multicharger mixte for our r cargo bike. Very strong motor, uphills, off-road. It is a total pleasure to ride up to 50kmph downhill. (Limited to 25 with motor).
It costs 9k though but I have zero regret. It's worth more than our car.
Another bonus is it fits me 5'11 and my wife 5' comfortably.Daang
I ended up with a Cube Nuride Hybrid, has been fantastic. Easily does like 60-70k or more on max assistance, though that's with me pedalling with reasonable effort. Mostly have it so I don't have to put much energy into getting up to speed and don't slow down on inclines.
The Bosch Performance CX in my bike is one of the best legal motors you can get, they do have a Cargo version of the motor though. You can also get more cargo-oriented ebikes, e.g. this one: https://www.99bikes.com.au/pedal23-pedal-packer-black
How would you say the Nuride compares to the Momentum’s on sale for 2000?
@ShrewdBargin: I've ridden the momentum (the ones with the internally geared hub yeah?), my dad got one on my recommendation.
The momentum is a comfortable ride, but motor is a bit weaker. Range isn't great on the hub gearing so struggles a little on the hills, I also don't like the quirk of the hubs where you can only change gears by releasing force on the pedals or reverse pedalling slightly, makes quick shifting going uphill difficult.
For flatter paths and social riding is great though, and dad is really enjoying it.
You've really piqued my interest with the Cube Hybrid. I was wondering what it's like to handle as I've noticed it weighs just over 24kgs compared with OP's Polygon with 19.6kgs. I imagine the extra torque in the motor would make a lot of difference shifting that weight when starting up.
I've been looking into ebikes for a work commute for a while now and just haven't found the right one for me yet. I didn't realise 99Bikes had some quality mid-drive bikes!
@sal_chi_cha: It handles the weight just fine, no issues riding. It is very stable at speed, have done 70km/h down a steep hill without issues. It is heavy ish though and a little difficult to handle/lift when not riding it, so putting it on a rack is basically ruled out (especially after adding a basket).
@Alzori: Sounds good, thanks @Alzori. Looks like they're on special order now, so probably don't be able to have a demo ride. Might just bite the bullet anyway considering how many boxes it ticks. Cheers!
That's pretty good. I bought a Cube Hybrid Nature ONE Trapeze around 2 yrs ago, that came with a Bosch ActiveLine which is a fair bit lower torque at 50Nm, it was $2.8K at the time.
By comparison, I rode a friends Canyon eMTB with a 80Nm Shimano motor and it was like night and day.
I find that with Cube they release a lot of bikes (esp hybrids) based on similar frames but vary a lot by model names, motor spec and battery combinations, so it makes it hard to compare between years. But to answer the above comments, my Cube is a 24kg bike with only 50Nm. I can get around 70km range (with mixed hills), with usually Tour~Sport assistance ( levels 2~3 of 4). Some hills of around 7% gradient I can get it to go up around ~17km/h with relative ease and in a higher gear.
Luggage capacity of the Cube is not great. Suspension forks makes it hard to mount front panniers, and there are no eyelets for rear panniers. The only option is a seat-tube cantilever style pannier rack. Added to reduced space is the fact that my frame is a trapeze (ie more step-thru) frame which makes mounting a water/tool bottle a tighter squeeze.
For a commuter if I were to buy again I'd lean more towards a cargo bike as @Alzori said.
@ShoeyAU: Yeah the lack of pannier rack mounts was a bit of an issue. For mine I bought some longer bolts and shared the lower mounts for the mudguard, and then bought a seat post clamp that has mounting holes on it, so now have a solidly mounted rack and basket.
@Alzori: nice setup! I didn't notice the eyelet there, will double check mine. I like how you mount your U lock on the pannier too. I have my U lock on the front fork.
@ShoeyAU: @ShoeyAU Thanks for that. I imagine the higher torque made a lot of difference.
I had no idea how many models they had until I went looking into the brand!
The cargo bike does look good, though my needs case is more getting to and from work at this stage. It's very tempting, though, for just-in-case! Like having ute!
Molly likes riding on this.