The ONYX RCR is a blast and half, offering a motorcycle-level ride with the approachability of an electric bicycle. So while the specifics of vehicle classification are still a bit of a riddle, there’s no doubt about the ride. There are mounts to add your own mirrors, and ONYX is working on adding turn signals as an optional or standard feature, but they aren’t quite there yet. And while I have a motorcycle license, I don’t even know how I’d begin to register the RCR at the DMV, since the RCR lacks homologation parts like turn signals, mirrors, etc. With a published top speed of 60 mph, you’re almost certainly in electric motorcycle territory in nearly any US state. But good luck explaining this concept to a police officer on the side of the road while jabbing at a print-out of this page.Īt higher speeds, forget about it. Thus, as long as you keep it at electric bicycle speeds (alternatively 20 mph, 28 mph or 30 mph, depending on where you live) and keep it in the 750W power limited mode, it’s theoretically a compliant electric bicycle. But I wouldn’t want to pedal it very far. But on the other hand, it’s a 60 mph motorcycle with a couple of pedals stuck on it. It’s got two wheels, pedals, handle bars, and an electric motor. On the one hand, it’s an electric bicycle in every way. That’s probably the only sticky part about the whole vehicle. Which I’m not sure if we actually did, but hell, we were there. The fire road ended in a dirt bowl, and we got the chance to play around with little jumps and hops over the rim, rocks skipping and dust flying.Īt the end of the joy ride we headed back on city streets, blending into traffic like we belonged. James took me down a fire road at speeds that I probably wouldn’t have selected if I had taken point, but that the ONYX RCR ate up like Skittles. I was having so much fun that I had to remember to focus on my lines as I entered turns at speeds I would have never even considered attempting on an electric bicycle.Īnd with sufficiently long travel suspension, off-road riding is a blast, too. The strong steel frame and motorcycle-style 17-inch wheels give a strong, rigid feel, while the overall size and wheelbase makes carving up a canyon road effortless. The coolest thing about riding such a powerful, lightweight electric moped is how nimble it is. While I never saw the promised 60 mph figure, I got close enough that I can’t complain. I felt this weird, child-like glee as I whizzed off at admittedly dangerous speeds on a vehicle that felt no larger than a standard bicycle, yet rocketed me up to 59 mph.
#ONYX MOTORBIKES PROFESSIONAL#
Have you ever heard of the “e-grin”? It’s a stupidly large smile that people get the first time they try an e-bike and experience the thrill of a silent, electrically powered motorbike.Īs something of a professional e-bike rider, I’m on a new model seemingly every week, and it’s been a while since I’ve had a true ear-to-ear e-grin. Make sure you check out my video below to see the ONYX RCR electric moped in action! Extras: Large LED headlight and rear LED tail light, 3 drive modes, backlit LCD display panel, bench seat, wide range of accessories (also accepts many third-party aftermarket moped accessories).
Brakes: Front hydraulic disk brake, rear regenerative braking and hybrid hydraulic disc brakes.Suspension: Front suspension fork, dual rear coilover suspension.Battery: 72V 23Ah (1.66 kWh) removable battery.Motor: 3kW continuous (5.4 kW peak) rear hub motor.But before I jump into the review, let’s take a look at the bike’s tech specs so that we know what we’re working with here. Our pair of twin little electric hell-raisers tore it up all afternoon. Yet a chance to actually ride one had eluded me until now.Īnd so it was with a supreme sense of delayed gratification that I finally swung my leg over an ONYX RCR last week.Īnd the fact that the company’s own CEO James Khatiblou was leading me on my joy ride along with his own ONYX RCR made it that much more epic.
I’ve covered the development and rollout of the ONYX RCR since the very beginning, starting with the company’s crowdfunding in the summer of 2018. I’ve admired this bike for nearly two years now. An electric moped in the truest sense of the word “moped,” the ONYX RCR is a beast of an electric motorbike.
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