![]() ![]() I guess I got pretty good at it because before long the guys wanted me to fix there arrows and tie D loops on there bows and so on. ![]() I read books on tuning and shooting and making my own arrows. It wasn’t long before my urge to be able to stretch the distance and be more accurate led to me tuning my own bow. I still can drive you straight to our favorite stumps. Finally one of the guys attached a piece of wire that hung down from the sight scope with whiteout marks on it so he could have a pin for longer distances. We all knew how far the top of the bubble level on the sight was, but it still wasn’t getting you far enough so you’d just hold the bubble above the targeta little….sometimes an awful lot. Of course none of us had a pin for that, so it was good ol Kentucky elevation. It wasn’t long and the stumps went from 50 or 60 yards to 120 yards. Then we would pick a small spot to aim for and see who could get closest. Everyone would guess how far and then we would range it to see who was the closest. We would get out of the truck and spot a target. We hardly covered any ground scouting because we were always playing “the game”. Friends and I would go out scouting and the bows always went with us. I bought cheap Cabela’s arrows and borrowed a release. Meaning it came with everything you needed to shoot except arrows and a release. Shoot it was early season and we were seeing 15+ bucks per day and never saw another hunter. My buddies were bowhunting and I started going with them. I can see a community being built around it.I started bow hunting like many of you. It’s also a very simple and powerful design that I believe will find a lot of fans with tinkerers who will enjoy modding this machine. It’s the first electric bike that I think will make an important impact in the market for 50cc off-road bikes. That said, it is very much an off-road vehicle as you would have issues making it road legal as a moped – though it wouldn’t be impossible in some markets. I bought the bike myself so I am going to do tougher off-road riding and come back with a more thorough long-term review in the future.īut for now, I am really impressed by the Sur Ron. I have so far mostly ridden the Sur Ron on dirt roads (see video below), but I have also briefly taken it on rougher off-road terrain up hills and I have yet to run into a situation where it had difficulties handling. If you want something more relaxed, you can put the bike in ‘eco mode’, which limits the power output to 3 kW, and you are able to handle most terrain without worrying about the bike getting away from you.īut if you are looking to have some excitement, I recommend keeping the bike on sports mode, which takes full advantage of the 6 kW electric motor and launches you forward aggressively. The throttle response is on point and you can feel all that instant torque pushing you forward with that futuristic electric motor whining sound, which makes the ride extremely exciting. You add to that to the full-size motorbike tire and the result is a very solid vehicle that connects you to the road off-road. I found the bike to be especially well-designed around the battery pack and the electric motor: They didn’t use any body panel on the actual frame and instead, the entire powertrain is exposed and makes the bike look like a more rugged vehicle. It is quite heavy for an electric bike – but fairly light for a dirt bike. The Sur-Ron is built on a custom aluminum dirt bike frame that weighs in at about 110 lbs (50 kg). Therefore, the vehicle is sold as an off-road ebike and a crazy one at that. ![]() You would also need some mods, like brake lights and mirrors, to make it legal. It is also not really a motorcycle in terms of performance with about 50 miles (80 km) of range and a top speed of about 50 mph (80 km/h). Officially, you couldn’t really pass it as an electric bike in most markets with power limitations since the electric motor of the Sur Ron is rated at about 6 kW. The Sur-Ron lives in between those segments as a monster ebike with 50 miles of range and an insane 50 mph top speed.Ĭalling the Sur Ron an “electric bike” is pushing it, you could call it an electric motorbike or at the very least, an electric dirt bike or moped. Electric bikes are not here just to help you get up some steep hills anymore. Electric motors are making their way in all segments of bicycles, scooters, and motorcycles. ![]()
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