The 14IN Hyper E-Ride compact electric bike is a versatile and convenient option for navigating city streets and sidewalks. With its compact size and high-rise frame, it offers a comfortable riding position while still being maneuverable in tight spaces. The rear hub electric motor and lithium-ion battery provide a smooth and efficient ride, and the LED display and power indicator offer hyper bicycles valuable information at a glance. Additionally, the foldable handlebar and pedal make it easy to store or transport when not in use. With disc brakes, the bike ensures excellent stopping power and safety. While the battery range may not be sufficient for longer rides or commutes, overall, the 14IN Hyper E-Ride offers a reliable and efficient means of transportation for urban dwellers.
These e-bikes are meant to replace cars, and they do just that for many riders. With a huge list of accessories, you can outfit a Quick Haul for just about any job. There’s a single battery option that starts at $2,299, but the dual battery option doubles the range up to a maximum of 100 miles. The real treat though is getting to select the custom paint on every surface of the bike, plus your own rim colors, trim colors, and tire options. It’s incredibly customizable to the point where you’re virtually guaranteed to be able to create a truly one-of-a-kind electric bike if you wish.
I’m not sure I know any cyclists or even bike people who could reasonably ride the SRD without having fun. In practice, that translated to the bars feeling significantly stiff. Regrettably ill-equipped for the scientific process, I’d estimate deflection over their ample span to be within the acceptable deflection tolerance over the same span for a rolled steel joist designated for constructing a skyscraper. In this way, the bars don’t move, even with less-than-the-ideal torque, and won’t get crushed with more, so the risk of crush-based failure is mitigated. The handlebars and rims were made by BEAST Components, which is also based in Dresden.
The sporty tires and two choices of frame style (step over or step through) give riders plenty of options to use this bike on the trails or the streets. I love that it includes full metal fenders as well so you don’t have to spend extra on those. I’d definitely recommend spending an extra $50 for the rear rack though if you plan to use the bike as a commuter, since you never know when you’ll need to toss something on the back. With the exception of the Rock Lobster (a superb bike in its own right), they all made fantastic touring bikes, and I put in many off-road miles on each over the years. But, by modern mountain biking standards, they’re all on the gravel end of the spectrum.
My SRD’s life began as a pile of mitered tubes destined to be an iteration of the forthcoming enduro-focused Sour Double Choc during the middle stage of Sour’s onshoring process when tubes were still mitered in Taiwan and welded in Germany. Due to some mis-mitering, the tubeset couldn’t accommodate the tire clearance required by the Double Choc as well as the Horst link, so whatever it is that I’m riding was born. Elegant, lightweight, and aerodynamic design with a top opening design for easy access without dismounting. With cutting-edge inverted forks designed and manufactured in Taiwan, riding the E-Clipse 2.0 off road or on road can easily be adapted by the fork settings.
Given my non-mountain biking background, there may have been some mixup before I took the bike about what a trail bike is for. Contrary to my belief that it’s a bike for riding trails, I found out later that it’s instead a bike for riding at trail centers, which I guess is proper mountain biking. Chris took one of ten tubesets that didn’t work out as an opportunity to redesign the swing arm to accommodate a simplified single-pivot suspension design with just enough room for a 29×2.5″ tire and some mud clearance. As a result, the mis-mitered tubes could be used to build a fun bike to be given to friends, and after some happy accident, I ended up with one—a steel, single-pivot, long-travel trail bike or, perhaps, a slightly sketchy enduro bike. It was built under the ambiguous and slightly tongue-in-cheek Sour SRD umbrella (more on that below). It’s neither an enduro bike nor their new race-proven ultra-distance/XC prototype we saw at last year’s Bespoked.