A new kind of Dirt bike
Video by Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek
Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek
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This video provides a detailed review of the EGO POWER+ Mini Bike MB1005-2, showcasing its all-electric, battery-powered features, performance across various terrains, ease of use with no clutch or gears, and low maintenance. The reviewer demonstrates its portability, maneuverability, durability, and highlights the pros and cons for potential buyers, including battery life expectations and its suitability for different rider skill levels.
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(17,400 characters)[Music] oh she's angry she wants to [Music] go some of you guys are genuinely interested in this egod mini bike and is it a good option for mini bikes for maybe yourself or your family well I think this is the review you're going to want to know we've put hundreds and hundreds of miles on this bike onroad off-road we've crashed it we've buried it we've flipped it we've had it upside down we've done just about everything you can possibly imagine to this dirt bike and decided to put it all together for you in one spot one video so you could decide whether this thing was right for you or not now one of the things about this bike it's electric it's battery powered it runs off from all of the same batteries that powers everything made by eagle that means that you never have to worry about oil or gas or even keeping it upright cuz you can just toss it in the back of your truck and forget about it but our video isn't going to take place here we're going to head north and show you some of the stuff that we've been doing with this thing for the entire season so let's go there now [Music] all right guys this mini bike raises a lot of very valid questions people are really interested in knowing how well this thing performs what's the quality like will it actually do what a real mini bike should do and a lot more than that so today I'm going to judge this bike on a scale of 1 to 10 with a number of different factors one is the build of this bike is it actually a really good mini bike will it perform will it last out in the trails number two how well does it actually live up to the minibike standards you know what is it is it going to be able to compete with a gas powerered mini bike how fitting is it going to be for an adult how fitting is it for kids is it just made for adults is it just made for kids I'm going to go over a lot of these questions and try to get them answered because there's you know this bike this is an investment and it's not like a normal minibike it's different in a number of ways so hopefully by the time we're done with this video we answer a lot of those questions for you so I'm not one of them guys that likes to beat around the bush I like to get right to it right out of the gate it doesn't have a clutch and it doesn't have gears there's nothing to shift so theyve Eagle guys have taken all of the work out of driving a minibike and all of the thought out of trying to figure out what gear you're in let me let me take it a little bit further it's it's not a one gear wonder it goes top speed of 28 mph and to get to 28 mph all you have to do is turn the throttle and then you can start doing things like Chase wild turkeys I didn't even see those guys here I'm glad I'd rather run into a pack of wild turkeys than some of the other stuff we've had out here and that's a pro and a con because there's no noise I'm recording this a lot of the dialogue while I'm actually driving the minibike meaning you're going to sneak up on stuff that you may not want to sneak up on there's nothing bad with having a little bra bra bra bra to scare away the Bears the coyotes the wolves and everything else that you all of a sudden find and they jump out of the Bush and they take off cuz I'll tell you straight up if you scare a bear out of the Bush it can turn your blue jeans Brown pretty dang quick now you're seeing a split screen because we're going to be testing this in the city as well as the country but let's get back to this right the size is another one of those things that I want to be critical of size and power with this mini bike sometimes I absolutely love the size of this mini bike and there's other times where I'm not quite as in love with the size of it so is this bike perfect for a full-grown adult well the thing is is yes a full-grown adult can ride this minibike with no problems whatsoever and get comfortable that's the problem with this mini bike is you are comfortable the quality of this mini bike is absolutely outstanding meaning that you start to fall in love with this bike and you want more and more and more not realizing hey maybe this isn't maybe this isn't exactly what I was looking for in a mini bike I thought this was going to be more like a a kids bike no absolutely not this bike performs every but as good as any other kind of a bike that I've ever been on but the thing is these engineers at ego when they built this thing they didn't think of it as a battery powered mini biker as a toy they actually built this thing the quality in this minibike is unreal it's and this is where situations like this is where the size is really not nice because you're not lugging something so big so big that you can't go Offroad and go wherever you want with it but it's not a joke either it'll take you through some of the most demanding terrain another thing is is the kickstand is optional because you can just drop it wherever you want to cuz there's no oil there's no gas I don't not saying you should I'm just saying that's not going to hurt it you know the thing that I think when I think of this mini bike is it's almost like it's all of the fun but none of the work and the size comes in real nice when you want to go trail riding but there isn't much of a trail to ride on now one of the things I was pretty skeptical about is riding this in the city cuz there's nothing about this that looks like a trail bike I mean nothing about this that looks like a a regular standard electric bike but it does match some of those criteria it's got a top speed of 28 mph and how it handles and I said it earlier how it handles Offroad Road and how it handles onroad are kind of two different animals so this is a great tool to learn how to initially start to ride a minibike without oh look at here otter or Beaver let's go see what we got cooking huh that's the slide they come up here they come that way they come this way I have come across more animals on this bike because it's silent but deadly right it makes no sound they don't hear you coming and you can sneak right up on them that I don't see a whole lot of trees drug oh here we go yep Beaver that's a beaver slide right there you can tell that one's a beaver slide one of the things that makes riding this thing so enjoyable it's so quiet there's no smell there's nothing I mean not only can you go out in nature and not disturb nature but you can go out in the city and not disturb your neighbors you just go riding anybody that gets pissed off at you because you're riding a mini bike well what are they getting pissed off at you about getting pissed off cuz you're out enjoying yourself cuz you're not polluting you're not you're not putting two stroke smoke into the air which I don't consider polluting but some people do you're not putting noise out there you're just out having fun another thing that I do like about the size of this mini bike is it's not intimidating so a full-size dude I mean you can't be a 300 lb Hulk Hogan and on this and think you're going to get comfortable but my son he's 250 lb 6'4 he rides this thing and loves it he absolutely loves this bike and he's got a motorcycle but he'll ride this mini bike as much as he rides his motorcycle there's some things about this minibike that you can do that you can't do on a motorcycle like where you can go not just off trails but oh here we go scaring up some sneaking up on Mother Nature right there that's a baby turkey Mama turkeyy ahead of it that's what I'm saying you're so quiet with this thing that you can just sneak right up that's not that's not always good you guys i' I've snuck up on some stuff that I didn't want to sneak up on I'd rather have it know I was coming and get the heck out of my way but it is also it's also just a these are just a blast to run let's talk about the quality of the bike itself you know it's a mini bike it's you would think that it's kind of made to substandard qualities it's a battery power minibike so almost like a toy or a joke but there's nothing nothing about this that it says hey this is they they treated it like it was anything less than what the best that they could put forward this is a well-built machine and just like that I go from off trail to the road and I'm at 28 miles an hour and that's where I maxed out at here's the thing if this could go faster I absolutely would if this machine was just a little bit bigger and had was powered off from four batteries that would be absolutely phenomenal everything about this bike screams make it bigger don't change anything give us just more of it give us more size give us more distance give us more speed [Music] see [Music] so here's where things get a little bit confusing on this mini bike this dirt bike your front brake is your front brake but there is no back brake down by your foot so you're nor you're used to normally having a back brake there and this which is normally your clutch so you can shift with is now your back good now the this is what I call it's not a one gear wonder the throttle there's no shifting on this machine so this is great for people that may not be so familiar with or accustomed to dirt bikes or riding a dirt bike this takes that fear out of it because it's just turn the throttle and boom you're going it's as simple and straightforward as that you don't have to clutch you don't have to shift you don't have to do a lot of the things you normally would do on a regular dirt bike but it doesn't mean that it's a a joke it just means that it's a little different than what you may normally be used to in a regular bike so although there's some things that I really love about this bike and some things that I really don't love about this bike I would say at lot as far as just build quality of the unit itself on a scale of 1 to 10 I'm going high on this I'm going to give it a 9 to a 9 and a half I'm not joking there's no parts about this bike that scream this is a pil of junk or they cut corners or they could have done better this is heavy duty everything that they did with this thing is it's just topnotch how about performance though I mean you know when you hop on a mini bike you have certain expectations certain things that you think this a mini bike should be able to do this Nails all of them this does everything that you want a mini bike to do but not smell and not make noise so if you really want that well you're going to have to put a speaker on and make that sound yourself cuz this bike isn't going to do that but she's going to get up and go now she's not going to burn out she's not going to keep up with a two-stroke she's also not going to disappoint you she's going to perform and I'm looking for another fence one of the things to notice is that I'm actually taking this minibike in places where it's plain and simple just difficult to walk just navigating through this stuff if I was walking it would be treacherous because it's so rough and the minibike suspension system just compensates for it it's it just [Music] goes oh smell a skunk oh yeah I smell a skunk oh big [Music] turn now let's talk about how far it will go before you need a new set of batteries well that depends on whether you're onroad or Offroad Road there is a huge per effect in performance for distance when you go off-road to onroad now they claim you can go 20 M on a single charge onroad you can go further than that off-road there's not a chance you're going to go 20 mi [Music] so she's a little Ripper she gets up she scoots she goes but the size could be a little bit bigger because it just performs so well and it's a little heavy but that's comes down to that quality that we were talking about she's not light she's not flimsy if you thinking this is going to be like electric bike then you can take out and maneuver around there is a lot more beef a lot more bulk to this thing than there is with any electric bike out [Music] there what the heck something big just went under there like I said on this bike you could sneak up on Mother Nature pretty fast and easy [Music] and it's easy and convenient this this thing is so sweet to uh just get get about on here's here's the deal it runs off from two main batteries but it has storage for a third battery on board and what I started to do was I've been using these batteries right here the 12 amp hour battery this is the most bang for the buck that you're going to get on a battery right here and it's going to make this bike go a lot further than you would on any other set of batteries when you start to hop on this thing You' be surprised at just how fast time goes by meaning you you'll run out of juice before you decide it's time to to quit riding the batteries themselves just slips two batteries just slip straight in and then there is Storage for a third battery on the side right here so she runs off from two but there's storage for a third and don't worry if you do get your bike into a spot where maybe you need to back it up and you don't want to lift it or maybe you're just not capable of lifting it it has a reverse so without doing anything special hob on got to put up your kickstand to activate your bike turn your key on and it's going to be hard to see into the Sun but we're going to pop her in Reverse right now and I'm not doing this the bike is doing it all for me look M no hands but it's also pretty it's not so heavy that you can't just manhandle it around wherever you want to go [Music] works oh yeah she's angry she wants to go [Music] it does Nothing Stops this machine it just dug its own hole I love this bike dude this bike yeah okay so you wipe out on the bike but it's not like it's so big heavy and intimidating that you're like oh my God now what do I do no you just lift the frecker up and dust yourself off and you keep [Music] going now we talked about it for an adult but how would it be for a kid let's wrap your head around it there's a lot of power there's a lot of weight to this machine so is this ideal for a kid well you can flip the switch you can flip the seat up and there's a switch under the seat that takes it from adult mode to kid mode so you can tune this down instantly by the flick of a switch also it has three modes it has it has eco mode normal mode and sport mode and all three of those are kind of like a speed limiter as well so there's different ways that you can set this up for the skill level of somebody that may not have skill in the beginning but they want the experience of riding but then as they get that experience they want a little bit more performance out of their machine well this actually they kind of have it dialed in for [Music] you okay so I guess one of the big things that is a real indicator of hey how good is something is would you ever buy it again this 100% in a heartbeat if they made a bigger version I'd buy that too if they made one that ran off from four batteries so it could go further I'd buy that if it went faster I'd probably kill myself on it but I would buy it all right let's talk about some of the things that you are not going to experience with this bike 20 M single charge can you get that on this absolutely in the city Only soon as you start to go off Trail it takes up a lot more power and you're not going to get anywhere close to 20 mies at least I haven't gotten close to 20 mi on a single charge with this bike Offroad when I'm in the city oh for sure what I found out is that at least in our neck of the woods this mini bike right here electric battery powered is considered to be the same as these guys right here for where you can travel now you better check your own neck of the woods to make sure that it's all good for you but that's the rules as I understand them at least in my area and from what I have personally experienced so the startup procedure is pretty straightforward turn your key on hit your go business all right guys we just took her for about a 10 milei J through the city I got three out of five bars left my batteries you can also do an indicator visual indicator that coincides with what they're saying on it so if we went 10 mil and we've got more than half the battery left she will go 20 mi but that's it for this review we put uh got a total of 353 miles on this motorcycle we've dropped it flopped it crashed it bashed it smashed it done everything you can possibly think of with this thing and would I buy it again that's the main indicator really the key to success is would you recommend this to someone and would you buy it again and my two answers are yes and yes I would buy this again and I would feel comfortable recommending this to someone and one of the things I did forget to say about this is Pop the seat off there's a little tiny switch in it and now you're in kid mode so if you want to use this as a starter training bike for little ones you absolutely can it doesn't have to go 28 M hour and in fact the switch right here indicates just to how fast you will go so you got e economy mode normal mode and then sport mode and that coincides with what you're seeing on the screen right there uh that also Co coincides with how fast this uh mini bike could go but that's it for this one hope you guys enjoyed going along for the ride I love making videos like this for you guys just let me know what you think of it in the comments down below God bless and go get him you guys we'll see you on another one
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