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Enjoy aerial 4K views of the most scenic areas around Missouri and Washington State. Iconic scenery and attractions are featured in stunning detail for your enjoyment. DJI Mavic Air 2 and iPhone 12 Pro used for image capture.
I was born in Kirkwood and moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma the next day. I have never spent a day there but would like to live out the second half of my life in Kirkwood. It's only an 18-minute drive to Busch Stadium as I understand.
Hello, thank you so much for uploading this video! Really incredible footage. I am a college student from Sammamish, and I am putting together a video to announce a new local soccer team I am starting. I was wondering if you would be okay with me using a few clips from your video here in my trailer? It won't be monetized. I am happy to send it to you if you'd like to review it. I am happy to give you credit as well. Please let me know! Have a great day!
Your video is more helpful to my life than all others. I'm on my third ebike, lastly a 1000w motor, advertised with 100nm torque. It's a huge disappointment, not much better than my 250w ebike. I'm going to take your advice and buy local if my wife ever let's me buy another one. 🥺
Thanks for watching. I ended up getting one online as I couldn't find one locally that I could see would meet my needs. If you can test one locally I really do still think that's the best way to go. I'm very happy with the one I have but it wasn't without its own pain dealing with adjustments needed by a local shop to make it shift correctly. I'm on a first name basis with a local shop. They don't sell eBikes but seem to be happy to work on the non-motor/electronics bits. Good luck!!!
I knew that Rad overstated their motor power. Didn't realize that Ride1Up did too. Just bought the Cafe Cruiser. Thought it was more powerful because of what they advertised. Haven't been able to test it on any hill yet. The Rad won, but the power differences weren't much. The Rad passed the others, but just barely. Thanks for performing and posting this test.
Thanks for watching. Yes the Rad did just barely make it up the hill. I ended up getting a mid-drive bike with a Bafang Ultra motor and it's great but nearly double the price. The hub motors just weren't able to handle the sizable hills and my weight.
You bet. A/C is acting up again but otherwise I love her. I thought I might regret getting the automagic but sport mode and auto-rev matching makes it a lot of fun. Thanks for watching!!!
@@Andrew-it7fb you can get a mid drive with a throttle as most come with it. And four cost I have a trek marlin seven that I put a mid drive kit on, even purchased new I think would be very close to the budget on one of these bikes. I also have an ecotric rocket which is the same as the leopard but with fat tires. While it is a lot of fun to ride, it’s not in the same category as the one I built. Take a look at the review on my trek bike and it does give the good and bad about mid drive.
@@southernebiking I've seen very few mid drives with a throttle and even the ones that don't have one tend to be more expensive. I don't have a bike worth putting a motor on and don't want to deal with the hassle of doing it myself. Also, a lot of bike shops wouldn't work on it. I have zero interest in an add on kit and buying a mid drive bike tends to be more expensive. It's not complicated.
@@Andrew-it7fb I ended up getting a mid-drive Biktrix (Ultra Duo 3) due to the hill climb needs I have. It has Bafang M620 Ultra mid-drive with throttle. So far it's working great (760mi). It was expensive though. Double the cost of the hub drive motor bikes. I still love my Ecotric 500W hub motor bike and use it in a different location where the hill climbing isn't as intense.
Thanks for a very honest review of each ebike company that few of them are consistent with there claim just because of the shrewd and sloppy China parts manufacturer. LOL ⚡ 1
I have my Rad City 5 Plus and have now put it though some tests of my own here in Asheville NC which is a mountain city with many hills. I can say safely that it climbs hills MUCH better than my old E-Bike. To be fair though, my old E-Bike is an obsolete E-Zip TrailZ that's at least 8 years old by now. It never could climb the toughest hills here even when it was new but I think it only has a 250w motor so that's to be expected. I'm still very surprised by the hill climbing ability of the Rad City 5 though. Not sure if this helps but on one of the tougher hills here, I thought the bike was going to stop climbing but surprisingly it seemed to bottom out at about 6mph and keep grinding up the hill despite having a while to go before I reached the top. It may have to do with how the motor is geared on this model that allows it to steadily climb at slow speeds on steeper hills, I'm not sure. Maybe I can find a hill somewhere in the city that it can't climb though, I'm sure it has its limits.
Glad you're digging the Rad bike. I did a bunch of research (months) before ordering, my Ride1Up, receiving it damaged, getting replacement parts and assembling. My wife walked into the RadPower store, rode two bikes and walked out with an assembled Rad City 5 Plus that exceeds mine in power. I don't dislike the Ride1Up but I'd probably choose differently if I did it over again.
@@gameofdronesvideo2254 Thanks! I will say that problems with shipping may be universal to some extent. I'd recommend if you ever decide to get a Rad bike for yourself that you get it fully assembled like your wife did. I don't live close enough to a rad store so I had to have mine delivered disassembled. Rad did a good job packaging it but it did have a couple of minor chips in the body, probably from the long shipping process. It was also difficult for me to assemble the bike and the breaks weren't fully aligned which required a lot of tweaking and a steep learning curve to get right. Granted I'm not a bike mechanic but regardless It's just better to be able to see your bike when buying I think. 👍
Good to know. Thanks for watching!!!! Costco website is showing a similar model for $949 so maybe it's a little less in store. I'm still happy with my purchase it's working fine.
Great test on different ebikes. I've found many large reviewers to seem biased and only show the positives of any bikes they're reviewing. I'm surprised everything but the rad was able to get to the top. I always thought that all these companies more or less use the same hub motors from China so performance should be similar.
A lot of the reviewers get the bikes from the manufacturers and I suspect might be biased but who knows. These were all bought with hard earned money. I did this review because I kind of thought the same thing about motors. Manufacturers providing confusing power specs (nominal, peak or sustained) and some stating torque while others don’t is of limited decision making help. Then of course the latest bike I bought came with a different motor mfr than advertised. All the bikes are fine I just prefer to make more informed decisions on such a big purchase.
I don't believe that is the case, for this hill climb test the bike was moving slowly up the hill for the majority of the test. The air drag wouldn't have had too much of an effect. Mainly motor power and hub motor gear ratio would have made the difference in the hill climbing performance.
Thanks! I did do an Ozarks video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-re8oK0ZA124.html awhile back but yours is much better. Love the music!!!
Yogi was made at international fiberglass my dad made a lot of iconic fiberglass statues which are in new Amazon short ebook called "The man behind the mufflerman "for 14.99.
Cool car, but I'd take a 1996-97 Ram Air Trans Am!😁 Love the 90's TA styling and the torque of the 350 LT1! As magazine articles said back then, you can pull a lot more power from a 350 LT1 than the factory 305 horsepower!😁
I apologize for the audio static. The dashcam mic isn't ideal. I tried to remove static sound (the exhaust sound is one of the best attributes of this car) but haven't figured out how to do that yet.
UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED, HA ! WHAT DID NADER KNOW ? NOTHING ! CORVAIR WAS SAME TYPE SUSPENSION AS THE VW BEETLE, IT WAS THE BEST SELLING CAR EVER ! NADER IS JUST A BULLY !
Great video, thanks for watching mine. I just uploaded a video of the flags of valor from the art museum. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hb5YxjA9Clg.html
I thoroughly enjoyed the Flags of Valor. Those flyovers just above the water made me nervous just watching :-). Good steady panning left->right and camera movement in flight. I'm having a hard time with that. Maybe too much caffeine. Thanks for sharing!!!!
Correct. The Nat'l parks dept is VERY sensitive about drones flying around the Arch. That plus as you say it's not really a sign. It IS absolutely THE symbol of STL. Thanks for watching!!!!
We live over by the high school and several big branches came down but not big trees, that I know of, were uprooted. We were without power for about 9 hours but I know others were impacted much longer.
Most of the uprooted trees were along Adams and Argonne east/west of Kirkwood Blvd. The wind in that area must have been stronger as it did seem concentrated in/around that area.
@@gameofdronesvideo2254 My church is in that area and we had large trees come down in our preschool’s playground. There was a nursing home across from the church that lost huge trees, thank goodness the residences were okay.
@@michellejacobcik4244 I think I have pictures of that. If you look at 1:07 - 1:24 in the video there's the tree in the tot lot of the pre-school and after that is the tree down at the Mary Culver Home across the street.
If you haven't yet. I'd recommend sealing your front diff actuator as they are proned to getting water in there as well as raising your rear differential breather.
