This electric bike features a 750W hub drive motor, RSX hydraulic brakes, a 7-speed Shimano shifter, and turn signals. Overall, I was impressed with the bike’s power output, smooth power delivery, and its ability to handle a 20% grade hill.

Click here to see HeyBike Horizon current price

The maximum speeds and acceleration are on par with a typical 750w ebike, you can see the official results in my Heybike Horizon video review, as well as its off-road capabilities on sand and uneven surfaces. The bike performs well overall, but the MSRP is a bit expensive, although the discounted price linked below reasonable.

• Some notable things about the Heybike Horizon folding fat tire electric bike is it’s a full suspension ebike with Horst-Link suspension on the rear.
• The ebike claims to have a range of 55 miles on a single charge, and comes with a fast charger that can fully charge the battery in 3 hours.
• The ebike features a 750W hub drive motor on a 24-inch wheel, which is a unique size compared to other e-bikes with either 20-inch or 26-inch wheels.
• The bike also includes RSX hydraulic brakes, a 7-speed Shimano shifter, and turn signals.

Heybike Horizon Performance

• 20% grade on throttle only: Yes
• 0-20 MPH acceleration time: 9.25
• Top Speed: 27 MPH
• California Incline speed: 20 MPH
• Brakes: Hydraulic RSX with 180mm rotors work well and are sufficient for a bike of this weight and wheel size.
• Range Results: After completing the 18 mile TailHappy Circuit the voltage was 46.4v which is about 45% remaining on the battery. This was using heavy throttle and riding fast with a 200 lb rider. The claimed 55 miles range can likely be achieved with more effort from the rider in less extreme riding circumstances.
• “Ride it like you stole it” range estimate : you could run this battery to 0% in about 25-30 miles if you ride it like you’re running from the police and you don’t pedal at all.

The MSRP of $2,000 is too expensive in my opinion, but the discounted price here is reasonable. If you want to grab one, please click the link here on this webpage and then complete your checkout to help support my genuine and detailed ebike reviews.

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In order for you to want to actually get on and ride, you’re going to want one that’s comfortable and feels good to ride, and pairs well with a class and instructor you personally enjoy.

HIIT, also known as High Intensity Interval Training is a great workout style for fat loss. There are many HIIT workouts available on Peloton Digital App as well as Echelon, iFit, Stryde, and even free workouts from instructors on YouTube. Bikes that can adjust resistance quickly will be the best for HIIT workouts. The Schwinn IC4 is a great example of a HIIT compatible bike because it adjusts from minimum to maximum resistance in only 4 turns.

Tabata classes on the Peloton Digital App are great for fat loss, and are typically even more intense then a general HIIT class. If you are starting as a beginner, it is best to get a base cardiovascular system built up before you jump into HIIT or Tabata style rides for maximum fat loss.

Hill climbs are also great way to burn fat and boost your endurance as a rider so you can do harder resistance levels. A great hill climbing bike needs to have a strong maximum resistance, such as the Sunny SF-B1805 or Sunny SF-B1002 (see price here).

Weight training accompanied with the biking will expedite fat loss because of the after-burn effect of breaking down and rebuilding muscle fibers.

Sometimes the “ease” of which it is to get on the bike and join an instructor led class can be a barrier. In many DIY Peloton Hack setups you need to bring your own tablet, and cellphone, etc, which can be an excuse to not get on the bike and ride.

If you want a Peloton bike alternative with a tablet attached to the bike the Stryde bike is a great option to meet the “accessibility” needs for individuals who want convenience.

Browse the TailHappyTV YouTube channel to learn more about the Pros and Cons of many popular exercise bikes to see which bike suits your particular needs best.

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I have a review coming on the GT+ coming here in a few days. The Echelon GT is actually just about $100 more than the Echelon Ex15 that you can buy on Amazon. So both the Echelon Es15 and the Echelon GT are both significantly less expensive than the Echelon Connect Ex7s also available to buy on Amazon.

I’m noticing the similarities and differences between the Echelon and the cheaper Echelon Ex 15. Echelon GT’s flywheel is on the front and enclosed similar to the Ex 15. This one just has a colored housing. Also, we can see on the Echelon, the frame arm curves a little bit there, whereas on the EX 15 is more straight up and down. Additionally, there is a little cutout here that makes it look a little bit prettier than the Ex 15, and on the Echelon EX15 we can see there is a little bit of a Gray color, whereas on the GT it’s flat black.

On the Echelon GT, you get a SPD style pedal option on one side. This is very similar to the big brother of the Echelon GT, the Connect Ex7S where you get a SPD clip-in on one side and a cage on the other side.

On the Echelon Ex 15 you get a cage style pedal and on the other side there’s a spot to put an SPD clip in, but it doesn’t come on the Ex 15 out of the box. Another notable difference on the Echelon GT is the handlebar and water bottle and tablet holder is different compared to the handlebars and the tablet holder over here on the Ex 15. Comparatively, the Echelon GT has handlebars that are more similar to what you find on the Echelon Ex7S. Additionally, the Ex 15 comes with a single water bottle holder, whereas the Echelon comes with a dual water bottle holder that will be mounted up here similar to the Ex7S, and it appears the saddle that comes on each of these bikes is the exact same.

The Echelon GT comes with a Gray resistance knob and as comparison, the Ex15 has a red resistance knob just like the Echelon Ex7S. The adjustment knobs on them also appear to be a softer touch compared to the plastic material on the cheaper Echelon Ex 15. So now I’m going to put the Echelon together. If you do need help building this bike, I do have a separate video on how to build the Echelon Ex15, and it appears the assembly process for both these bikes is basically identical. If you already built your Echelon bike and you’re having problems with the flywheel not moving, don’t forget you have to remove this insert as well as remove the stop down here on the bottom. It appears that about 13 inches is as big as you can fit for a table in the Echelon GT. This model right here is the ipad Pro 12.9 inch, and as you can see, it fits right in there nicely.

The Echelon GT or the Echelon Ex 15 do not come with a tablet, but they do have that Bluetooth connectivity. Therefore, you don’t necessarily have to commit to any one particular platform. So unlike on the Echelon Connect EX7S or the models of the Echelon bikes that come with a tablet on them, these models like the Ex 15 and the Echelon GT can run whichever platform you would like. You get a 30 day free trial of the Echelon app out of the box. But as you may already know, what a lot of people choose to do with the Ex 15 and probably will be happening with the GT as well is you can pull up the Peloton App or Stryde. If you want to do Stryde classes on here, you can do that too.

You just have to download these apps on your own device. And then what you would do on your second device, and partly of the good old Peloton hack is to download the Echelon app on a second device like your cell phone, for example. And you can get all your metrics right up on here like your cadence and your resistance and all of the output via this device here, the Bluetooth will send it to your phone and you could do like I mentioned, any class you would like up here, Peloton or Stryde or whatever you want. The Echelon App is very easy to use and navigate. At the bottom, you have the featured tab on Demand, live your progress and more. After you go through the settings and put in the serial number, you can connect your ipad up to the bike, and from here you can start an Echelon class. Also, what you can do is click on Freestyle Ride, and it will pull up all of your metrics right down here. And as you may have seen in my previous videos, right down here, you get your resistance number right up on the screen from a scale of one to 32, as well as your cadence, which is just how fast the powers are turning over and your power output in Watts. And these will be your three main metrics for doing rides on this bike, whether you’re doing the Echelon app or the Stryde app or the Peloton app or whatever you choose to do. So if for whatever reason, you decided you didn’t want to do the Echelon classes and you wanted to use a different platform, you would need two devices.

So if you haven’t seen how this works by now, basically, what you do is get a second device like your cell phone, for example, pull up the Echelon app on there, pull up the freestyle session and you can see your resistance, your power output and your cadence right here. So on the smaller device, you could get your metrics and then your bigger device like your ipad, you could pull up a different app like the Stryde app or the Peloton app here, for example. Of course, you do need to sign up for the Peloton Digital App membership, which is $12.99 a month at the time of this recording. But what you do if you haven’t seen it is you just start the course and you can do the Peloton class right here and get your metrics right here for following along. Of course, there is a conversion chart for the resistance, because Peloton measures the resistance on a scale of 0 to 100, where Echelon does 0 to 32.

So let’s talk about some of the specs of the Echelon. This is a belt driven bike with magnetic resistance and the flywheel mass is 7 kg, which is the exact same as the Echelon Ex 15 and that comes out to 15.4 pounds and the magnetic resistance is controlled by this physical resistance knob that takes twelve turns to get from minimum resistance of one up to maximum resistance of 32. And since the Echelon has a physical resistance knob to control that resistance, you will not be getting automatic adjusting resistance on this bike. The maximum user weight listed for the Echelon GT is 300 pounds and the actual mass of the bike is 100 pounds, compared to larger bikes like the Echelon Ex7S or the Peloton. Plus, the Echelon GT or Echelon Ex15 are relatively small bikes. I’m 6’5″ and I’m probably about the maximum height that can comfortably ride the Echelon GT. If you’re taller than 6’5″, you might find it a little bit difficult to fit on the Echelon GT.

So now let’s talk about the drivetrain feel of the Echelon. After spending some time on the hopping back and forth between this bike and the Ex 15, there’s absolutely no difference between the drivetrain feel in either of these two bikes. So if you’ve had a chance to watch my Echelon Ex 15 review, which I have linked below this video, you’ll get a pretty good idea about the drivetrain feel of the Echelon, even though the flywheel mass of the Echelon and the Echelon Ex 15 is 15.4 pounds, which ranked on the lower end of flywheel masses compared to other bikes. These bikes feel great to ride the belt drive system in combination with that magnetic resistance creates a smooth feeling drivetrain feel riding these Bikes.

One of the downsides of the Echelon is the maximum resistance of this bike isn’t the strongest of the bunch. When you have the resistance cranked up all the way to the maximum of 32, you’re definitely going to be getting a hard workout in and it will be a struggle for most people to maintain riding on that maximum resistance. But if you are a particularly strong rider, the Echelon may leave a little bit more to be desired in terms of maximum resistance.

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To be 100% clear the PooBoo bike I’m commenting on in this post is the most popular model on Amazon, the FRICTION resistance model which is also the least expensive PooBoo bike in the lineup. PooBoo does offer a magnetic variation of this bike along with several other models.

From the looks of it the PooBoo seems VERY similar to the Yosuda bike which I did do several videos on, including a full Yosuda bike review with TailHappy Score. In relation to the Yosuda:

• The handlebars appear to be very similar, same “cheap” grip material, unconventional shape, shape flimsy piece of plastic to hold your iPhone or tablet which works, but I found it to stab my hands on the Yosuda.
• One key DIFFERENCE is the PooBoo has a Pulse Sensor to in theory show your heart rate. Is it accurate? I don’t know for sure, but the more expensive Sunny SF-B1709 bike I bought and tested which came equipped with this same style pulse sensor did not give me Heart Rate read outs that aligned with my trusty ol’ Scosche Rhythm+
• The resistance knob and friction resistance pad also APPEAR to be very similar to the Yosuda bike, which I was not impressed with, however they do get the job done – and after all the PooBoo and the Yosuda are very low budget exercise bikes.

and note I did say FRICTION resistance… which means you will not be getting that buttery smooth magnetic resistance feel on the PooBoo bike. Is that important to you?

Most notably on these friction resistance bikes with “relatively light flywheels” (for a frictions bike) is at the top end of the resistance range it starts to feel really “choppy”. If you watch my Yosuda review you will see the bike does fine at medium and low resistance, but as you turn that red resistance knob towards max resistance the pad pushes hard against the flywheel and the mass of the flywheel simply is not heavy enough to keep the motion fluid.

The max resistance of the PooBoo bike is probably just as good as the Cyclace bike I reviewed as well as the Yosuda bike, and the PooBoo probably suffers in the same ways these other two bikes do as a result of their wool pad friction resistance and 35 lbs (ish) flywheel. The PooBoo claims to have a 30 lb flywheel while other bikes similar to it claim to have a 35 lbs flywheel and the Cyclace bike ups the ante to beat out the competition with a claimed flywheel mass of 36 lbs. Are any of these listed flywheel weights accurate? I don’t know for sure because I didn’t take any of these machines apart to weight them, but I will say the drive train feel on these inexpensive bikes doesn’t compare to higher end machines.

An example of a friction resistance exercise bike that creates a smooth feeling drive train at low resistance and also HIGH resistance is the Sunny SF-B1002 I reviewed. This sunny bike has a super heavy flywheel compared to most indoor cycling bikes, and also it uses a leather resistance pad. I really like the drive train feel on the Sunny SF-B1002 and it performs well at high resistance as well as low resistance. I’ve made several videos with that bike.

Another strange thing the PooBoo bike has in common with the Yosuda bike is the handlebars up/down adjustment has TWO knobs you must tighten to keep that handlebars stable and not wobble. It’s cool that Yosuda and PooBoo added the second adjustment knob to help stabilize the handlebars – and to say it nicely, it’s also an indication of the low price point.

Let’s talk about the LCD display on the PooBoo bike – it’s basic, really basic. No cadence, no resistance number, but it does give you “Pulse” which is heart rate – in theory. These pulse sensors will only work if you have both hands on the sensors, and it also does not track or record your heart rate the same way a Scosche Rhythm+ does with you connect it up with an app such as Peloton Digital App. I would not consider any display of this caliper to be scientifically accurate on any of the metrics, but what this display can help you do is track your progress over time in relation to your own effort, which is truthfully the only thing that matters. Sure the speed read out, distance, and calories may not be 100% accurate but at least it’s a gauge to help you see how you’re doing compared to last time and come up with some measurable goals to your next ride.

If you want to know your cadence you can simply add a Wahoo cadence sensor to the crank arm like many people choose to do. On a friction resistance bike you simply will not get a quantifiable number metric however, so you need to ask yourself if this metric is important to you before you buy a bike.

The pedals that come on the PooBoo bike are as basic as I’d expect at this price point, there is not clip in option but you can always buy your own pedals and put them on if you’re ready to clip in and take your riding experience to the next level. Clip in pedals and shoes truely are a game changer and I’d highly recommend them to any one serious about getting the most out of there time invested into indoor cycling.

The seat looks wide and comfy, I can’t tell from the pictures but I hope it doesn’t have the same springs on the bottom side of the saddle that came on the Yosuda because that just makes the seat less stable in my opinion. I don’t think you need suspension on a bike that isn’t riding over bumps in the road, but hey, what do I know?

So here’s my bottom line…

The PooBoo bike is a $330-ish Peloton bike alternative that’ll probably get the job done for most people. If you like it and want to buy it the goods news is it’s usually in stock, ships quick from Amazon, it’s easy to build, and you won’t be locked into any particular platform that required a monthly fee. It’s a basic bike you can get on and start burning some calories and with consistent effort you’ll improve your overall health.

Considering the price point I’d at least consider watching a few video reviews I made on similarly priced bikes I linked above such as the Yosuda, the Sunny SF-B1002, and the Joroto X1s. If you can stretch your budget just a little bit more I do think there are definitely better options out there which don’t cost much more.

If you’ve decided this is the max end of your budget for a beginner indoor cycling bike and you want to help support TailHappyTV you can click the link here in this post and if you buy through this link I will get a small commission which will help fuel my indoor cycling bike review addiction so I can buy new bikes to review.

Thanks for reading, see you in my next post

-Matt

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