My Ride to the Store on Electric Rickshaw Bike! POV Ride on Perfect Electric Trike for Passengers

Hey everyone, I'm Dustin. Today, I'm with my e-bike Rickshaw from Sixthreezero. If you want to take a look, we've got the back passenger seat. We've got Lisa on the camera. We're going to go to the grocery store together and run some errands. If you haven't seen the electric rickshaw before, you can check out our YouTube channel. We've got other videos about it. But you can take passengers on the back here, up to two adults and three kids. It's a 750-watt e-bike with a pedal assist and a throttle. 

And yeah, we're just going to go run some errands. We're going to show you how it works. Going to come along with us. Lisa's got a little purse and some water, so we're going to throw these down here in the basket right here. Oh, there we go. So we'll just put those in there. We got a little more room for our groceries as well. Go ahead and tuck those in. Okay. Alrighty. And Lisa's going to get on the seat here. We'll go ahead and show you. So we got the seatbelt back here, and she'll film as we ride along. She's all in. And there we have it. So she's going to keep it going. I'm going to get on, if you can see here on the front display, I've got my battery life and my pedal assist level. This is my phone mount. This is something we sell extra at Sixthreezero. And I got my horn here, so it'll be nice and safe. So let's do this.

And I have a throttle too, so I don't even need to pedal actually. The grocery store is about two miles away. We do have to go down a pretty big hill. The cool thing about the e Rickshaw is we can park it in the bike rack. All right, I'll do a little pedaling while we're on the straightaway here. And I have gears here too. So I'm going to shift up. It's a trigger shifter. Now I'm in seventh. So the gears are not correlated to the electric, but when you have the pedal assist going, you want to try to match the gears of the bike to how much assistance you're getting.

And I don't know if you can see here, but we're going about 14, now we're slowing down as I come to the stop here. All right, we've got a car, so we'll go ahead and stop and we can fit right in the bike lane. I know people have been concerned about that, but I'll just keep us in the bike lane here. And I'm going to stay with the brakes engaged the whole way down. That's one important thing while you're riding the Rickshaw is if you're going down big hills, you don't want to wait till the last minute to pull the brakes. You want to be easing the brakes the entire way down the hill. All right, we've got a little flat here.

Going to reduce the pedal assist. So you can see here, I'm at five. I'm going to take it down to three as we have some good flat ground. Lisa's about 140 pounds, and honestly, it has zero effect on the feel of the bike for me. The steering, the braking, basically no difference between having a passenger or not. 

Lisa: 140 or [inaudible 00:04:17].

Dustin: So we're going to have to come back up this hill too. So I'm going to get out of the road. Well, we got a green light, which is nice. So we're going to go through this. And across the way here, we got a sidewalk, which I'm going to jump onto. So, I think we have a path right here. Let's take the path. Let's at least see if we have a path. Well, we do. We just can't get in there. No problem. There is a path down here. Oh, a little off-roading. Okay.

So we can fit on the sidewalk too. Now we do have a bike lane here, but just for simplicity, take the sidewalk. Found a nice path here. Go ahead and shift to level five. Okay. All right, we'll go this way. You can see how easily I can turn and navigate. All right, we're going to try plan B. All right, well we got to Pavilions here. Lisa's going to run in and grab a few snacks. I'll stay out here with the bike. The cool thing is we're just parked right up here by the carts. Here I'll show you, Lisa. So here's where she rode. And we're just in the parking lot here. All right. So I will wait for her while she runs in and then we'll be on our way. Good luck.

Lisa: All right. I'll be back. 

Dustin: All right. Lisa's got the goods. Going to load them up here. All good?

Lisa: Okay.

Dustin: Okay. Oh, I turned it off to save power. Let's get that back on. I am going to make a quick little run to the bank too. Everyone is enjoying their lunch out here. All right, we're going to pull up to the ATM here. Do a little banking. Okay, easier on the Rickshaw than in a car to reach the screen. Okay. More transactions. Let's keep going. And I'm even steering with one hand right now. I mean, not recommended, but this is how easy it is to turn. Just make sure you obey all traffic laws. All right. Here we go. 

I'm going to get away from these cars. Alrighty. Just operated a U-turn with one hand. Pulling up to the gas station. Oh wait, we don't need gas. All these people do. We're fully electric here. Yeah. Any of that rattling you hear is Lisa's water bottle. I mean, it is pretty amazing, it's not very difficult for me to steer this thing at all. Now granted, hills will be a little more challenging, but... All right, so we're about to embark on a pretty steep hill. Shouldn't be a problem, but you guys can ride along and see how we do.

All right, so in preparation, I'm going to downshift first, and I'm going to leave it in pedal-assist five to get up the hill. Keeping in mind, I'm 225 pounds myself. Oh, there we go. Now we're in pedal assist five. Okay, now if you can see how big this hill is, but it's not little. Watch out for the bushes. Take it slow through these bushes here. Oh, my gosh. Wow. We made it. We made it. Are you alright back there?

Lisa: No worries.

Dustin: All right. Got a little flat ground and one more minor incline, and then we're good to go. All right. Got another little but fairly steep incline here. So I'm going to go ahead and shift into first, keep it on pedal assist five, and hope we don't get any more bushes coming out at us. We did it. Crushed the pine cone. All right. I'm going to go up to the sidewalk now and give my legs a little rest after the pedal assist up the hill. We'll just cruise home with the throttle. Now, we have a little parking brake up here too, so I can just go ahead and engage that so Lisa won't roll away. 

All right, nice ride to the grocery store on the e-bike Rickshaw. I don't know if I should have tracked the miles, but I didn't. Probably about four miles, five miles. We started with three-fourths of a battery we're down to, well, it was about half a battery, so we lost about half because when we started riding, we were at three-fourths. About two minutes in it dropped to a half battery. So I haven't charged this in several rides. So we still got some juice. There's about 370 pounds combined coming up a pretty big hill on the way back. So the bigger the hills and the more load, the faster you will drain the battery. 

Just remember to keep it charged when you go out for a ride so you can have the juice to go wherever you need to go. So yeah, it was a lot of fun. And if you want, check it out on sixthreezero.com. Any questions or anything, comment below, or you can reach out to us at theteam@sixthreezero.com or call us at (310) 982-2877. So thanks for riding along and don't forget, it's your journey, your experience. Enjoy the ride.