Review: Stealth Bomber electric bike packs a serious punch 

Made of pure unaffordium.

I just clocked a little over 2k miles on mine #145. Personal speed record was 57mph on a downhill paved road with knobby tires on. Sold my car and truck. Didn't really need them anymore after getting the bomber. It's just too fun to make trips around town to get the things I need with a backpack.

It's not a good moutain bike and it's not a good dirt bike and it cost 10k.

'More dampening on the landings' YOU ARE LANDING ON A HORIZONTALLY FLAT SURFACE.

$10,000? Wow. I bought my Kawasaki KLR650 for $5,300 brand new and it can do 300 miles on a tank of gas.

"carbon handle bar to keep the weight down and seat post" - haha saved a lot, not

"you can always tell who's had their first ride on a stealth bike" * show guy who looks like he tried LSD for the first time* 1:38

Wait, wait, wait... so it weighs 50+ kilos with this unnecessarily massive, fat, probably not well engineered frame, and they just threw a 2012ish Marzocchi 888 RCV "bomber" (from which they got the name for the monstrosity, they even used MZ's original decals and transferred them on the damn chainstay!), a massively faulty low-tier rear shock that is most likely a couple of rides from exploding, especially with all the extra weight on it, an insanely narrow handlebar... what is that.. a 660mm? Is this the 2000's? Crazy.. ... how does this thing even handle... wow, never mind back to note --, and a bunch of other mid-tier junk in there, and they ask for 10 grand? I'm literally speechless! I'm lost for words! First off these 888's are well known to be flimsy on their own on a proper low-weight downhill bike used for its purposes, as it develops play in the stanchions easily, let alone being ridden in such conditions with so much unsprung and combined weight.. it's ridiculous.. I mean the guy designing this shit obviously doesn't know a dime about what he is doing when he just chooses these components for the respective purpose. I am just amazed. Secondly, and this is major... those are NOT Magura brakes (what the actual ****, who told you to say that?!), those are Gatorbrake brakes, which 1) are terrible, have terrible power, and even worse modulation on the lever for a TWO piston brake, let alone for an 8 piston which they are; 2) weighs something like a kilo each, probably without the hardware and rotors (ok, maybe with), which would be almost 4 sets of MAGURA MT7's, which greatly outperform these, and probably like two and a half sets of MAGURA GUSTAV M's which insanely outperform these (if u would like to overkill it, and still save weight);... And they threw in a "carbon handlebar and seatpost to save weight"... ... bummer; Suspension was probably just fitted with up-rated springs front and back and they called it done... custom valving, dialing-in and fine-tuning the adjustments for the application... never heard of that! You can see the thing bottom out madly from these little bump-jumps, with the fork hitting hard as if you just landed a 20 footer to flat.. come on; Just insane! This thing will not hold up to aggressive riding for more than 20 rides, and I'm not even kidding. Handlebar needs replacement right off the bat, since it's so narrow you can't control this (heavy-ass) thing, which can be seen on the not-that tight corners in the forest. Guy is literally fighting to flick the tail in the corner so badly, thing just looks heavy and unbalanced as hell... combined with a narrow handlebar. Just. Wow. MINIMUM an 800mm bar for this thing. Minimum. With a lot less rise, even flat would be good here, to help with that awful geometry a bit. ..... ..... I don't know, I just felt pissed off after watching this joke. And this company consciously takes money from people for this. Wow. Wow. Mad stuff. I'm out.

Can you turn off the electric motor so you can use it as a regular bike to get to the mountains? Premium or not, 10 grand is too much IMO. You can have yourself TWO KTM 390's for that.

That's so out there it's amazing. Electric is looking more and more interesting.

HPC 'Revolution' has just kicked your ass! 6kw, 104v battery, 100 mile range, 60mph & phenomenal braking & suspension technology, @ US $8995!

$2000 just for an extra battery?? fuck that!

i would sneak around town at night on that thing

The Cyclone 3000W continuous motor is only $389. You can put that on any bike. $10K, uh, no thanks.

Can't wait for mine to arrive!

I love it.I have been converting bikes for a long time,and thought of a top HQ electric.The thing is better battery tech for the future has lots of probability in today`s ever changing world...I love it

US 10K, ..WTF? ....can buy a fuck of a lot of (proper) motorcycle for that, ..and be legal. ....I'm out.

dear santa...

i met the inventor's father in italy just an year ago...i saw the bike as well into his garage close to the como lake...great bike..go guys go!!

That bike jumps like a heavy rock. Good luck on that one

lol for the entire video it looked like they were just seconds away from crashing

At 85kmph I would probably wear full MC gear.

I regard my Mondraker Summum 2013 as a pretty heavy bike at 17.5kg. The weight effects its handling abilities compared to a lighter mountain bike. The Stealth Bomber H-52 weighs 48 kg! No wonder the landings were a bit rough!

That looks so much fun 😊

Tenthousand dollars way too much I’d rather buy a 2018 yz 125

10k for this bike and 2k for a battery? Thats just ludicrous!

trekking trails will love this bike garanteed

mate... very very cool... thanks for the upload

I feel like I would wash out in every loose corner

I would wrap myself round tree in no time.

Very good bikes! Wish you lots of success! :)

Perfect entry level bike for anyone starting mountain biking!

Jizzmag - not sure why you showed on my recommends. Front suspension bottoms out easier than a spanky new bike from Walmart, so how much hammering you going to do? $10k large to look like a poseur.

I can't even afford a $200 bike xD

Just brought the Stealth Bomber B52. It is the best electric bike out there period. So much low end torque makes this amazing machine accelerated so quickly. Excellent handling on top of that too. Everything about this bike is so good that there is a lot of copycat version of this bike. Is it worth 10K? Yes, best of everything (look, craftsmanship, and incredible performance). Love this bike so so much.

Finally an electric bike I can get behind.

Great video. Really. But what about the disadvantages? Like, how the huge unsprung weight (look it up) of the hub motor handles really rough terrain like big rocks, roots and jumps. There's a reason wheels are as light as possible in all other vehicles (cars and bikes). I've heard from Stealth Bomber owners that this is quite a limitation, it's also clearly visible in the video that it adversely affects handling and jump-ability. It also needs to rotate the weight of the motor which costs efficiency. And, how's the center of gravity? Seems off. I'm not being a negative nelly, it's just that for that price-tag, one at least has the right to ask these questions.

I can get a used 125 for the price of a battery and it comes with suspention.

what a bike I wish I had one.I'm going to start saving .wow

Tested one and loved it

800 cycles/recharges.. they gotta work on that for 10k, maybe have some kind of trade-in scheme on batteries close to the end of their recharge cycle so as it only costs $500 NOT 2k.

$12K + $ electric bike. Wow, you can buy a bungalow for that.

would like to see a comparison between this and the Greyp G12S, they seem to be pretty Close in Performance.

Looks fun riding the Ballarat-Skipton Rail Trail in Victoria with some power assist.

Lunacyle sells their 72 volt packs for under $1000 US. You can build a similar bike for $3000, why $10,000?

800 Cycles on the Bat and then 2k for a new one xD

These things are seriously cool.

I am so getting one of these when im older

bruuuh what are those bars ^^ ??? super small

those handlebars make me cringe theyre so narrow :/

Those narrow handle bars look so retro.

I have a chopper trike with a 1300 watt geared hub motor in front running on a 48 volt 20ah lithium battery. It's lots of fun and the tool I am using to lose weight.

10k and get a dnm rear shock

2016 Yamaha FZ 09 for $8,190.00 👌👌👌

Amazing that it was 6y ago and is very very relevant today

Thanks so much God bless

"On steroids... and amphetamines." Sold. GIMME!!!!!!

10 grand lol, you can get a legit brand new dirt bike for that kind of money, even a street legal one, which is a lot better then this

That is pure gold! I need that in my bike collection!!! But 10 g's?

I LOVE this cycle

had this for a week untill the wife backed over it,

why would they limit the power on the road?

Dunno if it does this but use the spinning of the pedalsto charge the battery? Would be cool to see

Very nice cool ebike!

And then a 50cc motoped eats this thing for breakfast while costing 1/4 of the money... Overpriced junk for wealthy yuppies and hipster children of wealthy yuppies.

Lol wtf? Is this a joke? For only 10 grand you can buy a really heavy bicycle that you still mostly have to peddle! Or you can spend like a 3rd of that and buy an actual motorcycle or a couple hundred bucks and just put a motor on any bike you'd like.

Would love to own one of those.

Stealth bomber sounds crazy fun. I ride downhill. The battery worries me at only 800 cycles and a $2000 replacement cost. When they offer a battery exchange then maybe. Remember pedalling= excercise

TAKE MY MONEY

Or you know... Just buy a dirtbike.

Looked a little bit tail heavy for jumps, due to the big rear hub motor.

unfortunately I can only afford to get three of them. with a price tag like that I'm just glad that they made it affordable for everyone. my sarcasm precedes me.

Really there are no reason to use this instead of a dirtbike...

$10 000 lol?? i could buy a downhill specialized demo bike for about 4 grand and an ebike conversion kit and strap it to the damn frame instead of buying this giant rip off LMAO plus it would be lighter and not look nearly as stupid

It is Awesome, but the price is way out of my range. I know I'd have loved one when I was younger. Peace and thanks for the upload.

i wanna know the quality of the chassis that can it jump and land with a rider weighting about 86 kg...

I builded something similar for 3k USD

A Powered bicycle is a "motor-cycle" Dont confuse the two

Question, can you buy this in the UK! ? , and how much will it be too buy here? .

My dream bicycle

110 lbs mountain bike… Ill pass.

800 cycles hahahahahahhahahahahahh

Pls review sv650. I want to see it from your point of view :)

I want one! This thing look fuckin' AWESOME!

Just get on it and feel the power!

I ridden these, there ok but not really for hard core off road use,due to all the unsprung weight in the back wheel and the hub motor kinda wants to straighten you up in a corner,a 140cc pitbike will out perform it in all offroad situations,but they are pretty sweet for urban riding at night.If they could run that motor as a midrive with the same gearbox it would be a totally different animal and well worth the price tag.

are there plans for india launch for this or similar bikes?

they sure know their market. there's no way im gonna be paying more for this bicycle than i did for my 600rr

what is a Name from the brakes ?!! looks niceee

I wonder how this compares to the Bultaco Brinco?

Delfast Prime. Electric Enduro eBike with range up to 234 mi goes as a Class3 (according to US rules). Motor 750W. Max speed 28 mph Price 4 499€. Or you can build your own as I did, frames are cheap from China obviously, big ass battery for lots of range and 3kw motor which is more than enough to reach speeds up to 45mph. it only cost me 1.500€

on my wish list

en donde se pude conseguir información de compra?

Wow I remember watching Steve peat on a ridged mountain bike winning downhill races now look at the world 20 year on

Not sure why people are complaining about the price. A regular DH mountain bike can easily cost you in the 6k to 10k range already. DH bikes aren't mass produced like dirt bikes so they'll always demand a premium.

@gizmag the brakes are not Magura, they are from a company called Gator Brake and are an 8 pot caliper.

Would love to buy one in the $1000- $500 range ..

Three words wow incredible machine

I love this electric bycicle

"Yeah Baby"