This video sold me. I live in the hills of South Bay LA and i'm stoked. Thanks for this review!

Cool video man! Thanks for the tips and advice on what do/not do for hills! Cheers

Thanks for showing, i was looking for one but there are many hills where i live 👍🏻

Those motors are geared for top end. I hear people talk about a software update, but I can't see that during anyting for climbing.

This has to be the best SUPER73 video bc it confirms SUPER73uk about getting momentum. I wonder how the OG will do on these same hills since it has more torque in the beginning than top end.

Thank you for doing this video! I live in an area with many hills and this is very good to know!

Another great video and very well explained! 👌👌 We have never seen so many hills in one video but you proved the point perfectly This should help a lot of riders understand what is going on and how to try and get up hills. 28-30Mph (flat level surface, no tail wind, average weight rider, fully charged battery, etc, etc) has always been the "norm" for the top speed on a bike with a geared hub motor running at only 48v. To get a 48v geared hub motor to go 32Mph on a bike that only has 20 inch wheels usually means you have to put less windings on the motor BUT the downside of putting less windings on the motor is that you reduce the torque of the motor. Having watched & listened to the new R, RX & S2 owners including yourself (excluding all of those who are telling BS about how their bike can go almost 40Mph and is faster than a rocket when pulling away!) we now suspect that less windings is exactly what has been done to the new motors. This would explain why people are saying that the bike is not rapid at pulling away but once it gets up to around 8 or 10Mph (after it gets some momentum) it then starts to pull. With regards to the motor, because Super73 will not say what the motor spec actually is or tell us who makes the motor (750w? 1000w? 1,200w? How much torque it has? etc) then it's difficult to be sure but our guess is that the torque of the motor is going to be around 85 Newton-Metres at best. A carrot has been dangled saying that the motor torque can be improved by some "magical" ota firmware upgrade - unless we are proved wrong then we really don't think so! We believe that if you are looking for more speed & acceleration then you will need to increase the voltage for sure and if you want more torque then you will have to replace the motor for one with more windings and you would most likely also have to fit a new controller & display as well. Please don't misunderstand us, we think they have done an amazing job on the new bikes but there are limits as to what can be done when you are only running at 48v and have 20 inch wheels so it is always going to be a trade off between speed & torque and it looks like they have edged towards speed. Have you tried the bike on sand yet (wet & dry sand) as that would be a really good test to see how much torque the bike has? Thank you for sharing this video because we are looking to get the RX so for us we are really interested in what the bike is really like. Do you think having the 10 speed gears would make much difference going up hills on the R or is the single gear low enough already? (We are not an official UK dealer & have no affiliation in any way to "Super73" the bike company)

Thanks for the honest review

Glad you showed me this. No way it will handle the hills in my area everyday commute

Nice video man! Waiting on a rx. a little disappointing these bikes don't take hills too well. I honestly expected more. Hopefully an update can improve that.

Sweet videos man - nice job. Curious what you use for your camera setup? They're smooth and great quality. Do you use an external mic?

Man that sucks about the bike cutting out. I got the S2 and I’m really only planning on throttle only

Thanks for the great video. its good to know the limitations with hills for the R series. I'm using your videos to prep me for my RX. I hope a future firmware update will help with these minor issues. Also, have you thought about aftermarket tires or the all terrain tires from Super73?

So I'm thinking of buying one of these because I'm legally-blind and had to stop driving a few years back, but I can see okay to ride a bike. Getting tired of having to walk everywhere because I live in a remote area. If you took yours to Castaic Lake and started at the stop sign at the intersection of Lake Hughes Rd and Ridge Route Rd, could you actually make it the 24 miles to Lake Hughes from there, just going one-way? Not at top speed or anything, just... will it make it? I'd really love to know. If it can do that I'd probably buy one tomorrow.

Thx for the video! These bikes are for pedeling also. If you only use throtlle you will break rhe motor. Its not an electric motorbike like the zero or supersocco.

On my Rx I only use throttle with over 1,400mi no problem with hills and no problem with throttle only 😎✊

the mid-drive motor would have got you up there but when the super73 first came out it had the mid-drive why did the stop was it the price of the better motor

So not a great hill bike . It looks 😎 cool

Did the torque update make a difference?

Can you throttle and peddle at the same time to go up the hill?

Bro I gotta get up a steeper hill to work it's 5 minute drive by car. If this thing can't get up a hill then idk

What’s the point buying this if it don’t go uphill

Would you still recommend this bike in march 2022? gonna pull the trugger on this

I recently ordered an R but don’t live in an area with hills. If I did though I would probably buy an Ariel Rider Grizzly. Ariel Riders offer so much more but they’re so ugly looking haha.

You've got some STEEP hills! They built the motor more for top end speed, so torque will suffer a little. I have a RadMini and it climbs like a tractor, but top speed is only 27mph.

Seems kinda frickin mediocre bud

You call that a hill ?? Lmfao, this is laughable 🤣🤣