FREY CC fat tire e-bike unveiled as 1,500W full-suspension electric comfort bike

FREY Bike, the Jinhua, China-based high-end electrical bicycle manufacturer, has conscionable released a abdominous tyre mentation of the company’s fashionable CC full-suspension electrical comfortableness bike. The caller FREY CC Fat takes the laidback and relaxed riding benignant of the archetypal CC and opens the doorway to much off-road way rides and divers terrain with its monolithic tires.

FREY Bike is known for gathering high-quality and high-powered electrical upland bikes that vie with $6-$8K European models, yet astatine astir fractional the price. Unlike astir of the company’s mountain-oriented e-bikes though, the CC exemplary is each astir comfy cruising.

The archetypal FREY CC electrical bike, which was released each the mode backmost successful 2019, became 1 of the astir fashionable high-end full-suspension electrical comfortableness bikes successful the marketplace – though the dearth of competitors surely helped.

Sure, electrical comfortableness bikes are a dime a dozen. But astir each usage lower-tier components to execute fund prices. That’s due to the fact that astir comfortableness e-bike shoppers aren’t looking for components designed for ruggedized downhill bikes.

But overbuilt high-end electrical upland bikes and downhill bikes are exactly the benignant of two-wheelers that FREY Bike specializes in, and truthful the institution applied their unsocial instrumentality connected full-suspension e-bikes to a comfort-oriented model. The extremity effect was the commuter-friendly FREY CC.

Now the institution has returned with an updated exemplary that doesn’t conscionable teardrop up the streets, but is acceptable to instrumentality connected the trails too. The caller FREY CC swaps the thoroughfare rubber for assertive Maxxis 4″ abdominous tires that are designed to grip conscionable astir immoderate terrain.

The comfortableness framework and relaxed geometry stay though, offering a mid-step full-suspension framework with high-quality suspension. The beforehand aerial fork features 140 mm of travel, portion the rear gets a RockShox Monarch RL shock. Braking is accomplished via 4-piston Magura MT5e stoppers – immoderate of the highest-quality and highest-power brakes successful the e-bike industry. And a Shimano Alivio 9-speed drivetrain brings a mid-tier transmission to the motorcycle with a steadfast offering of cogwheel ratios to assistance commuters and leisure riders alike find the close cogwheel for each hill.

But the existent prize present is the Bafang Ultra M620 mid-drive motor, which is wide known to beryllium highest powerfulness retail mid-drive e-bike centrifugal connected the market. Some specialty mid-drives are successful the works that could instrumentality its crown, but until they scope production, the M620 is the king of the elevation for precocious power. It peaks astatine 1,500W connected the FREY CC Fat, though comes with a much humble 1,000W continuous powerfulness rating.

To provender that energy-hungry centrifugal is simply a frame-integrated 1,000Wh artillery rated astatine 48V and 21Ah. A elephantine artillery similar that is the lone mode to get decent scope retired of specified a almighty motor, unless riders tin defy temptation and support it successful a little powerfulness setting. If so, ranges of up 100 miles (160 km) tin beryllium imaginable connected pedal assist. If tapping into max powerfulness connected throttle though, adjacent 30 miles (51 km) tin beryllium reasonably obtained – which is inactive rather a feat for specified an energy-guzzling motor.

FREY hasn’t published a apical velocity for the CC Fat, though galore of the company’s e-bikes utilizing this centrifugal handily transcend 30 mph (51 km/h). I’ve personally deed implicit 35 mph (56 km/h) connected FREY bikes before, though the CC’s abdominous tires mightiness marque the debased 30s of miles per hr much likely.

The FREY CC Fat is present taking pre-orders up of accumulation commencing this July, but it doesn’t travel cheap. The MSRP of $4,980 is knocked to conscionable $4,480 for the archetypal 50 bikes and $4,680 for the adjacent 50.

While that terms is surely overmuch higher than astir mean budget-level comfortableness e-bikes, the CC Fat is thing but ordinary. This centrifugal combined with the higher-end suspension, brakes, battery, and different components outgo importantly much than galore different brands, not to notation the wave of terms increases we’ve seen precocious around the manufacture owed to pricing pressures successful the e-bike market.

Hopefully we’ll get to trial 1 of these beasts astatine immoderate point. In the meantime though, you tin cheque retired my reappraisal of the modular FREY CC beneath to get a consciousness of what specified a high-powered full-suspension comfortableness e-bike tin do.

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