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what's up guys we're on pretty here back with cool tech but today cool Tech is gonna be a little bit different we're doing a transportation edition over the last couple of months I'm sure you guys have noticed there's been a lot of sort of alternative electric transport from hoverboards boosted boards all that kind of stuff is cropping up I wanted to pick two of my favorites recently that have not been covered there Irby as well as the specialized electric bike give my two cents and get your guys feedback as well let's go ahead and get started so first we have the specialized turbo s the way this works is essentially it's like a normal bike and you can definitely pedal it in a normal bike format but if you would like you can have it in electric mode where when you pedal it engages a 500 watt electric motor to power you on forward so it helps you get up to speeds up to supposedly thirty miles an hour we maxed out at 27 but it's still plenty fast the feeling is very unnerving it's kind of strained you pedal and you go way faster than you should be going but after riding around for a little bit you definitely get used to it and it's a very feasible form of transport other than it's $7,000 so quite expensive but I will say if this is your primary form of transport it's kind of worth the money you get regen braking you get really really good range specialized claims between 35 to 60 miles so it's a pretty broad spectrum but if you want to go an eco mode I'm sure you can get closer to that 60 range which is crazy far I don't know who's gonna be riding a bike those kind of distances but if you are props to you and your quads if you do somehow manage to run out of power it takes about three and a half hours to charge up to full-on a hundred and ten volt wall outlet something of note is that the bike actually comes with an app which gives you tons of extra information like what the battery life is how fast you're going where you're going how long you've been riding for how many miles you've covered all that good stuff and I could go on and on and on with specs so I'm gonna cut it short here because this is not a review but the point is that this bike is very practical very fast and very expensive so lots of all those things its biggest strengths is that unlike other electric forms of transport when you run out of juice you can still ride it like a regular bike and get to where you're going so that sort of eliminates rain xiety moving on to the Irby which they are calling is the first electric foldable scooter I'd immediately like to sort of debunk this whole foldable thing it is foldable but by no means is it portable it's just too heavy it's awkwardly shaped and and that might be the only negative thing I say about the Arabi other than it's expensive not quite as expensive as the specialized bike but it's still expensive it's about $1,700 for the Irby Black Label which is the one we test and then it starts it in about $1500 so I know a lot of you guys asked us to do cheaper stuff in cool tech so of course I did the sensible thing and went for much more expensive stuff apologies in terms of specs to get those out of the way the Irby charges from zero to full in about four hours which is not bad at all it weighs about 35 pounds which again doesn't lend itself to be the most portable device but it's not terrible and has a top speed of 15 miles an hour and can go up to 20 miles in range which is good for a practicality standpoint but where the Irby really wins is in its personality the best comparison I can make to it is it's like a Fiat or like the original Mini Coopers it is so small and it looks like a bit of a joke to be honest but it doesn't take itself as a joke it takes itself very seriously whereas the specialized bike you can launch it up to 27 miles an hour which is really fast there's no drama about it it just does it you get on the Irby you twist the throttle it's front-wheel drive and you'll get crazy amounts of wheel spin you'll get smoke from the tire and it'll take off at 10 miles an hour yeah it doesn't actually go that fast but it takes itself so seriously that it's kind of endearing you just love it right off the gate after using it it has a little spring under the seat which is a very comfortable seat by the way so to push this to the limit we took it off road and it did pretty well this is again part of the spirit that the Irby has is a product it just thinks it can do so much more than it should be able to do add that size and it did find again you don't look or feel cool until you realize that the Irby thinks it's really cool and that makes you feel really cool it's infectious and so that's it for this video guys let me know what you thought of this version of cool tech and what you think of the Irby and the specialized turbo as some very curious to hear your thoughts leave us a comment below this video is not easy to make we almost lost a drone in the making of it so give us a thumbs up if you 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