Himiway Cruiser Fat Tyre E Bike Making Narrowboat Living A Bit Easier For a Trip To The Shop 

Hi Mark & Debbie. Discovered your channel last night. Knew just a bit about the English canals, but had no idea the extent of narrowboat and mileage in and around your country. The T.W.A.T.S. episode was my first and I binge-watched several of your videos. Also got my wife enthused about your channel and hobby. The Wales aqueduct is amazing. We'd never seen that before. I constantly marvel at land area and square mileage of countries (i'm in California) and how their land is developed, managed, and treasured! Great channel. Thank you for wonderful content. You and your dogs are a joy to watch.

Met you both for the first time today at Crick.. you both look really well. Watched a lot of your blogs and feel you two are so sincere in your blogs.. have fun...

Hi this is Barry from Canada. I have an almost identical bike except the motor is 500. Mark, make sure you have a very very good devise to prevent theft. Most people spend 2,000 on the bike, and then 5 bob on a chain you could bite through. A friend of mine had 3 stolen before he wised up. A tip for you, if you are going into a major food store and you are going to be away for a while, 1. remove and take the battery with you. 2. Remove the seat etc etc. It has worked for me so far. After riding racing bikes for years, I found the E bike difficult at first, fell off twice, but getting better, good luck have fun.

I do believe you are the FIRST MAN I've ever seen who actually referred to an instruction manual. My previous experience (hubby and son) only looked at instructions "if all else failed". Good for you. lol

That was certainly different...A touch of a kid at Christmas about it. But at least you are enjoying yourself!.

Bravo..one of your best videos, The camera and music seemed perfect! What huge amount of camera positioning to get all those great shots. All the Best to you and Deb...........great job. Kirk and Jan...New Mexico

Hi Mark & Debbie, wonderful to see you both! Great bike review, you looked like a kid riding that bike, you can tell you enjoyed it! Alfie is doing a good job guarding the bike...please give him a pet for me. You are looking fit and healthy Mark. Also, the work you put into your videos doesn't go unnoticed...placing that camera must take you quite some time, great editing! Thank you for sharing, have a wonderful week. Take really good care of yourselves, stay well! Lots of love Kathy x 🌺🌺💖💖

Take care when charging it. Don't leave it unattended when charging ⚠️ and the most important thing. Have fun Mark 😆👍

We enjoy all of your vlogs.....We watch on our TV but will try to like as we go.....All the best, Tricia and Neil.....

Love your hat Debbie. Great to see you guys. Stay happy & healthy.❤

Super bike and accompanying music. Loved it. Great video. Thank you.

Hi guys, e bikes are great, we have had ours for a few years now and they fold up very small so great to take on trips, also now an expert on changing flat tyres...enjoy!!

I enjoy you guys mixing it up on occasion. It’s nice to see other things going on in your lives. Great video.

I just got a Carrara crossfire E bike I had mudguards and racks added to it, my wife got a Pendleton E bike we love them.

Congratulations on 23K subscribers.

Hello, Mark and Debbie! That was an informative E-bike vlog. Thank you!

Great choice! I have the same Himiway cruiser and I am happy to upgrade it with a trailer for this summer I love the scenery

Thanks for this great vlog and it's good to see that you are both doing well. The E'bike looks like a really good bit of kit that can take you along all terrains and easy to assemble from the box. Take care and all the best. Stevie

Congratulations 🎉. Enjoy. Good choice. I am looking at a step through with cruiser handle bars.

Thanks, Mark. Great review - best of luck with that monster. Best to Deb. 🙂

Grandkids are going to love the new bike

Grandkids are going to love the bike

Nice bike!

I just built a electric bike I got a 2kw rear back wheel with motor built in to the hub 52v 23ah battery with controller £450 quid off Ali express fitted it to my mountain bike didn’t think it would do over 30mph it does 45 flat out on the back lanes and get about 80miles on peddle assist or 30miles riding it full beans love it.get sum slime in the tyres mate

That was a perfect Vlog for us. We are deciding what bike /s to get for when we become CC early next year and want something that will tackle the towpaths. It is looking at sizes and if we can store them next. This bike looked great, thank you 👍👍

Hope you're doing well and having a good time. Miss your happy 😊.

Great looking bike and great for your use. You are like a big kid especially going through the puddles, your grandsons must really love you as you are one of them. I am not sure when you made this video because the last one was last year and have to say Mark you look like you have already lost a lot of weight. So not sure if that had been a diet or the bike. Can’t wait to see the dogs on the front basket when you get it. Will be great in the summer Debs can send you out for a take away and still be hot when you get back to the boat. Hope Debs you are well and keeping your big kid in check. I just hope the weather improves as it seems to be constantly raining. This time last year was hot and sunny! Anyway take care both of you and especially on that bike.

Love your videos, miss you guys though. ❤

Beautiful bike,very happy for you!!...I was really surprised Deb wasn't riding on the trolly when you went to get the bike ....lol

Cheers Mark love to Debs bless her. PS get a new wind sock😂🧦

Really nice E-bike. You will have to hook up a hitch for it to hook your little wagon to. That would help you out getting supplies.

Have fun on the bike. I ride an Aventon Aventure which is similar in concept to your Hemiway Cruiser (4" knobbies, 750W hub motor, big battery, fenders, rear rack, lighting, etc.). I'm in the US (California) but am planning on building a narrowboat in the UK on which to spend about half of my time when I retire (2-3 years). I think combining a stout ebike with a narrowboat is a great idea. Figure with moderate pedal assist you'll have 50-60 mile range per charge, which makes tow path jaunts to town and back from even rural moorings quite easy. Happy trails!

This ebike will surely be a boon to your day to day life.

Thats a monster bike Mark. I have an ebike which is heavy and has 7 gears and I tend to use level 4 & 5 most, if on off road area I do go up to 6 & 7. Mine is ladies model as I am an elderly female (76) and prefer step through type now. I do tend to use quick spurt on throttle to get me going. I also have pair of paniers on back, it did come with front basket but I found items tending to bounce out. My husband also has a lightweight ebike that has 21 gears although he rarely gets to go through them all as he will follow behind me. I have tried cycling with gears turned off and it is hard work but they are great. Soon get used to switching through the gears. Mine does not have powered cycle bell so I have a dinger type one to let folk know I am coming through especially on cycle paths. We have a caravan now as no longer boating and hope we can start taking bikes with us. Thank you for taking the time to demonstrate your bike

Hey guys...Long time no see...Hope all is well...Tod and MJ.

I am always happy to follow you two, because you are the most down to earth and fun loving people. I am about to get a mobility scooter ha race you. 🤣🤣

That multi-tool looks identical to mine. It's a bit flexible but pretty useful anyway. Both my recent bikes have had hybrid tyres with no more tread on them than a car. I had some _fun_ with my latest on mud the other day. :) One lot of mud was stiff enough to push me into the deep ruts; so deep that once or twice, my shoes were entirely submerged in the puddles! The next lot of mud was so soft and slippery that it was hard to move forward. Then there was a waterlogged field with all its exits either half-obstructed or turning into ponds. (Very pretty though.) I missed my last bike which was 2 wheel drive. The pedals drove the rear wheel and the motor drove the front wheel. That made such a difference, it was all right in any mud I took it through. That said, it had fairly wide hybrid tyres, nearly 2.5 inches, and I couldn't find replacements that wide. My new bike has 2" tyres, and the motor drives the rear wheel because I wanted it driving through the gears. (It's a crank motor.) It's not nearly so good in mud, though it's a better hill-climber and I live up a steep hill now. I could change the wheels and tyres, especially as it has far more range than I need 90% of the time. Or I could ride further on dryer paths. I'll have to have a think about which will be better. Oh hey, nice watch. Yours is a nice-looking bike, though I'll say I like my solid black and red Eco Voltz bike just as much. ;) My new one's a Gazelle which looks a little less stylish despite the integrated battery. I think it's the color: teal-tinted charcoal. It's smart enough, but I don't think I'll have an integrated battery again. It makes the battery harder to hold (and it's very heavy), and I suspect it adds unnecessarily to the weight of the frame. Oh disk brakes! The Gazelle has them and it took me a few weeks to get used to how powerful they are. :D I love 'em! So yeah... it's better both up and down the hill I now live on, which is so steep, you can top 30mph in a few seconds if you're not careful. The first few times I went down it on my new bike, I was afraid I'd go over the handlebars too! Oh look at that! The Gazelle has a USB point too. I never thought to look, or maybe I just looked in the wrong place. I'm sure the Eco Voltz (from 2017) doesn't have one. Both my e-bikes took some getting used to. :) The Eco Voltz has rotation-based assistance; when it detects you pedalling, it turned on. It sounds like your Himiway is the same. The Gazelle assists depending on the pressure you put on the pedals which makes it a little bit harder work, but gives you a lot more control. The greater control is good with a crank motor because it can put down maximum power with not just the pedals but the _motor_ in the lowest gear. It takes off pretty quick if you're not careful! :D It also means I'm having to learn to modify my pedaling for hills; pushing forward and back as well as down to keep the assistance up. The Gazelle's a monster with the power off too; it's not fun. The Eco Voltz is a heavy bike, but not monstrously heavy. Bluuues! 😎 16:26 Oh all right, the Himiway wins. Going through puddles, it kicks up a lot more water than either of my bikes! 🤣

We run fat tire bikes in Alaska, I've been told that they were developed here..

Hope you two are doing well miss seeing you

Ooh I love a good torque wrench! I have worked on bicycles a lot, in a past life. I generally did not pay a great deal of attention to torque measurements lol. Though with my car engines i have. I figure tapping a stripped bolt hole is a lot easier and cheaper on a bicycle than on a car engine ;)

A boy and his bicycle 😂. I just got a Lectric 3.0. Fun times ahead.

like the lazy way of cleaning the muck off the bike very sensible like it have fun

Great video. I've been considering getting an ebike. It looked like your chain may be a little loose when you were going through the puddle. It would be a terrible spot to have it fall off the sprocket.

We love your cruising music can you share who it is?😊

Great video! You're a natural on a bike. Do you have experience on off-road motorcycles? If you ever find yourself in the Pacific Northwest in the US, join us on a trail ride. All the best, Bill and Alice in Idaho USA

I hope you've got a good bike lock

Now you just need to figure how to rig solar to recharge as needed or a rack to carry that fancy charger you got. Maybe the pedal effort with a generator on the wheel. Make sure you lock it up tight when leaving it anywhere.

Hi guys, hope you’re both well.. missing your vlogs.. will you soon be back🍻

p.s Barry again, forgot to tell you, love your videos, realized that we are so alike, emotional (I cried with you at times) and DYI handy, but I will never be at your level. I am having a boat built at Liverpool and will be over late summer, hope we can meet.

Its always good to see you guys but this was a bit different but still worth a" right nice pint" I'd say.I had a Mountain bike at ther cottage for years as there are miles of tracks through the forests gong back to the days when the British Navy employed" "Timber Cruisers" to blaze the big tall Spruce trees with a" Broad Arrow" for masts for the Royal Navy. I'm not sure whether youve bough this bike bu"t Ken's Karpentry " has recently been reviewing various about 5 or 6 E bikes from assembly to testing his channel is on you tube. His main business is building garages in Vermont but he's excellent on construction and also the very nice local geography. Now the big question is are we going to see Deb on an E bike too *grin* Take care guys good pedalling and cruising.

Very smart looking bike. Looks as if you peddling most of the time, but it was pretty impressive. If I ever went back to cycling , I would consider one of those. You didn't mention the price unfortunately.

My tyres work fine but I have got three,though a trike would be more stable on some of the towpaths

Brilliant vlog the bike looks amazing i was just wondering how much it weighed in total as it looks pretty hefty

Great vlogs guys............. just a thought have you ever thought of releasing this vlog.............. have you ever thought of releasing to you Patreon before it goes to utube?......... just like Floating our boat does,,,,

Been missing you guys hope things are ok.

i hope you guys are doing ok miss your vlogs

When you went through that puddle it looked like you chain was a bit slack

You guys look amazing!! Lost so much weight ❤ I have a question. I noticed that you went through water. Are you worried about the battery pack getting wet? Or is there a protective coating around it, that I couldn't see?

I’ve been considering an e bike but storage on my boat would be the issue

Where have u been ? I miss seeing you !

ONLY if all else fails consult the manual

Great review. I’m definitely interested in buying one. The only question I have is where do you store it? I’m just buying a 55ft and wonder if I’ll have enough space…Ray

hay bud put a gps on it. be careful charging if they catch fire you can not get near them.

Is any of the pedal assist benefit offset by trying to move the added weight of the bike? It the exertion of pedaling less because of the power assist? Are you getting any workout? Is the center of gravity changing the way you ride the bike? I have more questions, but let's leave it at that. It looks fun.

Saw that the boys at Foxes Afloat invested in a couple of Cruisers. Did they copy you? or vice versa. It seems perfect for the Highlands!!

When's is Debs going to ride croggy style ?

Was just wondering, where would you store it on the Narrowboat ? As it does look heavy, thinking it might be a pain keeping it on the Roof most of the time. Henry

As someone who is disabled, I have a couple of mobility scooters of different makes and the one thing I've noticed is their different torque going uphill, whats the torque like on your bike?

where will you store that bad boy ?

Because of the weight of the bike, I guess it would be harder to steal. Can you buy insurance for theft?❤️🇨🇦

Where is Alfie"s basket? I heard that he wanted one like Toto's basket in the Wizard of Oz from our family terrio-ist, opps I mean terrier.

My biggest question with any new ebike is quality. I've had 3 ebikes at around the £1000 price point over the last 3 years living aboard, and they all had major expensive failures. I honestly don't think the quality of components or build is there with most ebikes under£1500. If I was buying another one I'd up my budget to at least 2k and get the Etna Legend, or a proper named brand, because at 1k you're buying something that has too high a chance of failing, and costing you several hundred to fix. Sorry to sound a negative note but I don't want more people throwing their money at something that won't last more than 2 years at most.

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Hey! Are you still with us? I post a link to your vlog on my website. Where are u? Having problems? Please let us help, if it's emotional help or anything else. But please let us know. Don't just walk out the door and say nothing, ok?

Pedal assist? 👎🏼 that stinks that they don’t allow full speed. I bet that thing weighs a ton. Hella workout without the pedal assist.

Doesn't fold

Prefer your proper vlogs, not keen on product endorsement, it damages your authenticity in my opinion. Looking forward to more of YOUR vlogs.

Just like most males - don read the instructions first - we know better lol

Debs & Mark is there an email address to contact you. Would like to donate to you both but I do not have PayPal or Facebook or Twitter. Just let me know please. Regards Sue