How Does a Parking Brake on an Electric Tricycle Work? Can it Stop an ETrike from Rolling on a Hill?

Showing you a parking brake on a three-wheel e-bike.

Hey everyone, I'm Dustin. I have nearly 20 years of experience in the bike and e-bike industry and today I'm going to demonstrate to you the parking brake on a three-wheel e-bike. All right, I have got the EZ Transit 750-watt foldable e-trike here, and this has an awesome parking brake feature, which I have engaged right now. You can see we're pointed down a hill right here. The parking brake feature can come in usually a couple of different ways.

This one has a, on the top lever here, have you pull the lever and you see this right here, you click that in place and the brake will stay. Some options have a little push button, when you pull it back you push the button in and it locks the brake. It's essentially like what you see on a gas pump, how you pull the gas pump, you click something in and it keeps the lever engaged. So basically what you're just doing here is you're keeping the lever engaged to make sure the calipers or the brake pads are clamping down on the rotors in this situation. So, you want the pads. So, what I want to show you is if I let go of the brakes, I just want to demonstrate, that the bike's going to roll away, okay?

There we go. So, we are on and hill right now, and if I did not have these parking brakes engaged, our trike would have rolled away. So, cool thing right here, again, just pull that. I've got it on both sides. One of the brakes is usually enough, but I can engage both, and then from there, the trike's not going anywhere this trike right now weighs about 70 pounds so you can see that on this decline here it holds no problem so that's also a cool feature just to have even on flat ground as you're mounting or dismounting your trike if you want to engage the brakes so the bike doesn't go anywhere and you don't have to worry about pulling them yourself that's also kind of nice and like on a hill as an example I can just get on right now and I don't have to pull the brakes at all. And I can sit here and don't have to worry about rolling away or anything. So makes mounting and dismounting so much easier and safer. Safety is the keyword.

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