Trial Tube - Ultimate E- Bike test! - Mecatecno Dragonfly 2023 

Couldn't agree more!

Thanks again man, what an incredible experience!

Thank you guys! Back at ya!

Trials really is the best medicine!! Thank you so much for the comment!

It was incredible!

Thanks man! Sharing is caring 🤘

Thanks bud and I have been back on the bicycle, it’s show season for me!

Thank you kindly

You should!

Wow!! Amazing it’s great to e-meet another Dan Butler!! Thank you for the compliment and support bro. Also these bikes are super interesting and very different to ride. Having the support from across the water is awesome also. Please keep supporting the channel however you can and comments like these inspire me to keep making the effort! Promoting trials right will make it a bigger sport! 🤘🙏

Haha it’s the Supercross hat I just like it lol

Tell me about it, super steep

It’s different, but good, in a weird way…

It’s true they have done a mega job! The bike I rode also had the “anti- rollbacks” and “inertia” maps activated!!!

I might need to see if they can add that to mine

In the case of the conditions that we rode the trial in the smaller of the two battery sizes lasted to the fuel stops on the lap. Which matched the length of a full fuel tank on a normal "gas" powered bike. But that was using the most powerful mode and using MAX power a lot of the time.

It really is!! They have done a mega job!

That’s it! They have made it even better again btw

Do your forks work well? My brother just bought one, and the forks are so stiff it isn't even fun to ride!

@@bundletesla5882 weird the one I rode had great forks but a little soft for my liking we had to stiffen them up!

i adjusted mine to be softer @@bundletesla5882

@@bundletesla5882 Are they air forks?

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It’s lighter, a lot lighter and I am gonna be honest it’s caught up rapidly and May even have surpassed it??

great to hear it!@@TrialTube

Thanks for the comment bud! I know the EM is the original and I am always intrigued to make the comparison. I wonder if those brands would be up for it?!

Have you ridden one of these? I rode one yesterday for the first time and was blown away by its capabilities, balance and light weight. It’s lighter than the EM . The grip it gets in muddy sections is incredible. I was so impressed, I’m buying one

Thank man we do our best! It’s high pitch sure but it’s a lot quieter than a normal combustion bike

When I got back I actually ended up with exhaustion, but worth it!

@@TrialTube mate you need to rest up!!!! I was goosed after riding 6 hours with Stu at trials day!!! 😂😂 then again am nowhere near your skill

Hey man!! I am working on it!!

Awesome, looking forward

I have never been allowed to create a proper Vs video as I am sure EM uk wouldn’t be on board..

Love cyberpunk

M4 and R16v

It’s an Ole

That’s why they built a seat pod!

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The wheels are all the same size and it’s a full size bike and I am 6’2 so I think you will be very safe!

@@TrialTubeI really appreciate the reply! I’ll pick one up here in San Diego. By the way I gave you a follow on insta just now, you need to post more 😮😅

Yeah just in the results of the trial: Day one I was like 17th on 29 marks and day two I was 4th and dropped 6 marks! Massive improvement!

I believe so, the spec hasn’t changed really, they have made all the improvements in the mapping!

It was fine on the Mecatecno and it is light so easy to compress and move also!

i couldn't do it on my em but it is much easier on the dragonfly - it's so light

Yes, we changed them at the fuel stops. The only electric bike to make the fuel stop distance. (It’s a long way)

Just to say. All current owners, it seems are getting a trials worth and then some out of their battery.

It's good, it runs at the same length as a tank of fuel on the most powerful map…At its longest length..

No problems at all the electric bikes don’t work like that.

I was wondering if there was no minimum weight limit, is the Dragonfly capable of riding the red line at WTC? EM and TY-E have proven it at the national level.@@TrialTube

@@davidige276 I am sure it can in the hands of ORIOL Neguerra

All electric bikes are clubman friendly and have multiple “modes” to keep them calm!

I haven’t been riding trials for around 15 years. I’m 60 years old and I went out yesterday to have a go on one of these. I was truly amazed at its capabilities. I could ride everything I would have done on my old bike in the second to lowest settings. But the lower weight (60kgs) and smoothness of the power delivery, made an old git like me look like I hadn’t been off a bike at all. 😂 I cleaned a steep bank muddy/tree root climb I wouldn’t have been able to on my old bike ( not skilled enough in clutch control). I had a go on the higher settings and they were too powerful for me. I was so impressed , I’m buying one 👍

Hey Danny, another Q sorry. Do the mecatecno have a retard type braking like the EM regen? Thinking of getting one or the other but I'm only 57kg dressed in my trials gear and I'm 63. Thought some "engine braking " might be a good thing. Cheers Steve

​@@ianbeardsall4633 just wondering if you have your mecatecno yet. I have a question I'd like to ask. Cheers

I had tried both. But the standard are better 👍👍

​@@TrialTube Bike looks great, I'll be getting mine in January with the higher capacity battery 4.0. Hopefully the squeaky bum moments are few and far between. So which fork exactly do you prefer? Is the spring fork the standard?

Pretty much, it was about what the bike was going to go through

That’s a compliment!!

All of those bikes you mentioned are not trials bikes. They are like hybrid electric mountain bike / Moto x bikes. Would rather not pass judgment although I have rode a Surron and I nah e to be honest. What a terrible thing….

I was thinking of converting my Sur Ron to trials. You can put a large sprocket on the rear, 18" wheel and regular trials tire. Bars can be rotated forward/ swapped out. I would want to remove the rear seat/ part of the rear subframe to make it as good as possible. It could work!

Some of us owners sure think so

It’s getting closer all the time!

@@richy84What’s the top speed on your dragonfly? Just curious how they have it geared.

@@James-sf1ci I don’t know honestly. It’s fast enough for standing up off road that’s for sure.

I will get them added apologies!!

Haha honest man I weighed myself, I must have dense bones…it’s a bad dooo

Everyone’s a critic…

Nah lol but tHank you

That’s fair, I just review them!

I thought the same until I spent some hours on one, I’ll be selling my montesa and getting an electric bike.

I get that and we are still very lucky to have all the gasoline bikes but this gives people options of course!

The electric bikes are an acquired taste but this one did me proud over a very long distance!!

The Mecatecno weights less than a normal trial bike. It has 60 kg and is so powerful like a 300 ccm

@@colinmueller_trial trust me they don’t have the same amount of power on take off. Electric bikes aren’t there yet. But this did me proud!

@@TrialTube I ride a Mecatecno and the power is an other , but you can compare it more to a 300ccm than a 125 ccm. 125 rider who ride my bike says it has so much torque like a 300ccm

@@colinmueller_trial if they are a 125 rider it would always feel more powerful. I rode a FACTORY bike in Andorra and I know it was down on power. The factory said this. The power has a different delivery but they still don’t have the same output as combustion still