2024 Himiway D5 Professional Mid-Drive Assessment

Himiway has turn into one of the profitable direct-to-consumer electrical bike manufacturers in North America, promoting tens of 1000’s of ebikes yearly. Over the previous a number of years, they’ve constantly refined their lineup, added new fashions, and expanded their focus. I’ve reviewed practically each Himiway mannequin thus far, and with every iteration, their competence and confidence proceed to develop. 

The D5 Professional, previously generally known as the Zebra Professional, is the massive brother to the hub motor D5 I reviewed final 12 months, which I gave prime marks for its spectacular efficiency and options (apart from its uncommon saddle design).

With the mid-drive improve, the D5 Professional is one in all Himiway’s most compelling merchandise: a fat-tire, mid-drive class-3 ebike with an enormous 20 Ah / 960 Wh battery and a Shimano Altus 9-speed groupset that helps you set that mid-drive energy down. The D5 Professional rides on Kenda Krusade fats tires; Stopping this heavyweight are 2-piston Tektro hydraulic brakes paired with 180 mm rotors.

I’ve had the D5 Professional in my possession since Might 2024, however because of the causes defined beneath, I couldn’t conduct severe testing till Might of this 12 months. Fortuitously, this additionally implies that I’ve examined the D5 Professional in all 4 seasons (though all of the images on this evaluate are from late fall 2024 and mid-summer 2025).

In case you’re contemplating investing within the Himiway D5 Professional, here’s what it’s worthwhile to know:

• The D5 Professional is able to dealing with most terrain, together with sand and snow. I’ve ridden the D5 Professional on reasonably aggressive downhills, technical singletracks, and overland by way of 4 ft of excessive prairie grass. I’ve crossed shallow streams, navigated muddy trails, and despatched the D5 Professional down aggressive trails that it had no enterprise being on. It isn’t at all times clean, but it surely handles it.
• The claimed 80-mile / 128 km vary isn’t that far off my real-world expertise – Throughout “typical” using, I used to be astonished to see the odometer nearing 90 km with 15% life on the battery. Nonetheless, after I let the motor actually flex and began carving up native hills, my vary plummeted to only 28 miles / 45 km on a full cost.
• The D5 Professional is as a lot a monster truck as it’s an ebike – It’s huge, heavy, overpowered, and unafraid. Then again, whereas it’s able to rolling over nearly all the pieces, it additionally by no means feels nimble or spry. It’s a monster truck, not a sports activities automotive.
• Brake fade is actual and occurs prior to you’d anticipate – Two journeys down one in all my favourite ridge trails was all it took for the Tektro hydraulic setup to begin to battle. I didn’t encounter brake fade throughout on a regular basis using.
• The inventory saddle is horrible. In case you intend to journey the D5 Professional like a motorbike and pedal alongside, you’ll wish to swap the saddle out for one thing else—anything—ASAP.
• The D5 Professional can deal with nuanced using and mild inputs. The torque-sensing drivetrain is well-configured, offering predictable inputs. As a bonus, you possibly can modify the pedal-assist settings (PAS) from the inventory 0-5 to 0-9, permitting you to fine-tune motor efficiency even additional. It feels comparatively pure, a lot better than any cadence sensor I’ve ridden, and really controllable.
• The suspension fork is the weak hyperlink within the package deal. It gives some cushioning, but it surely has restricted adjustment and appears to battle with the heft of the bike. An improve right here would remodel how this bike handles.
• The customer support expertise is mid – I’m reviewing their bike and needed to leap by way of hoops to get a small alternative half, together with coping with two sellers that supplied incorrect steerage and a gradual service desk at Himiway. 

Having simply printed my Heybike Alpha evaluate, which is a direct mid-drive fat-tire competitor that rings in about $700 cheaper than the D5 Professional, I’ve spent a whole lot of time currently within the saddle of those fat-tire monster ebikes whereas being given a wonderful side-by-side, apples-by-apples comparability between what the additional funding buys you.

So, does the D5 Professional dwell as much as its potential as a monster truck? Is it pretty much as good in apply as it’s compelling on paper?

I had a good time discovering out.

Phrases & Pictures: Cameron Martel 

Himiway supplied a 2024 D5 Professional ST at no cost for this evaluate. webBikeWorld doesn’t have a monetary relationship with Himiway. I’ve reviewed over 30 e-bikes and am an avid path and downhill bike owner. My “acoustic” path bike is a 2024 Orbea Occam H30, and my ebike secure is a revolving door (I at the moment have 7 in my storage). 

With because of Brayden at Chaos Inc. for posing in a few of my images (together with the quilt) and offering his perspective on the Alpha. For reference, Brayden is 5’9” and 175 lbs.

2024 Himiway D5 Professional Mid-Drive Specs

2024 Himiway D5 Professional Aesthetics & Design

The D5 Professional ST (step-thru) is a muscular-looking bike, however I’m unsure if it’s a well-proportioned one; It’s one of many greater step-thru hardtails I’ve come throughout. With its cumbersome seat and motorcycle-esque consolation grips, the D5 Professional appears to encourage you to make use of the throttle greater than it needs you to make use of the pedal help.

It doesn’t look as refined as its leaner cousin, the Himiway A7 Professional, a mid-drive full-suspension step-thru commuter, nor does it look as athletic because the Heybike Alpha I lately reviewed. There’s a layer of implied athleticism to how these bikes look that the D5 Professional doesn’t have.

Each the step-over and step-thru variations can be found in three colorways: House Gray, White, and Inexperienced. Of the three, the inexperienced model is my favourite.

Lots of the visible weight that the D5 presents is because of the rear rack and fenders, that are detachable for those who’re cool with dropping your brake mild, and the thick downtube that homes the detachable 20 Ah battery. In case you take away the fenders to scrub up the look, you lose the mandatory safety that you simply want with a motorbike sporting 4” large tires that throw up a whole lot of dust.

Whereas the D5 Professional is chonky, it’s additionally moderately sensible: a bottle cage mount is situated on the highest tube, and the rear rack is giant sufficient to strap down a basket, crate, or bag comfortably. Sadly, you possibly can’t mount a entrance basket on this bike.

The Kenda Krusade 26”x4” tires have a extra off-road profile than on-road, and that’s to the D5 Professional’s benefit. Himiway markets the D5 Professional as an all-terrain bike, and it very a lot seems to be the half. Fields just like the above are the place the chonk-factor pays off and the D5 Professional feels at house.

The D5 Professional seems to be sort of like a bodybuilder, and as a former bodybuilder myself, I can’t say that prefer it’s a foul factor 😉

The Elephant in my Storage: A Much less-Than-Stellar Service Expertise

Throughout meeting of the D5 Professional I used to be both lacking or misplaced a small bearing cap for the entrance wheel. With out the cap, the wheel moved barely back and forth. Each wheels have thru-axles, so this was much less of a direct security concern and extra of an issue concerning untimely put on and bearing failure.

So, for practically 5 months after receiving the bike, it sat in my storage assembled and awaiting the half.

Why 5 months? That’s as a result of it took that lengthy to acquire the proper data from Himiway and the appropriate half to get the bike ride-worthy. I acquired this D5 Professional Might 2024, and it wasn’t till October 2024 that it was repaired and able to journey.

Once I realized the problem, I reached out to my contact at Himiway, their help workforce, in addition to two native Himiway sellers, offering them with images and movies of the issue I used to be dealing with. It was in the end a profitable endeavor – the help workforce obtained me sorted ultimately – however the sellers had been no assist, and the method took for much longer than I anticipated.

Each sellers informed me that I needed to exchange the whole fork, which might have been a number of hundred {dollars} and a few wrench time that I knew was pointless; Moreover, neither supplier had a alternative fork in inventory! Following that suggestion, I opted to exclude the sellers from the dialog and work immediately with the help workforce at Himiway. 

Lastly, in late October 2024, practically 5 months after the bike arrived for evaluate, the appropriate half was delivered, and 45 seconds later, the D5 Professional was path worthy as soon as once more.

As a product reviewer, I make some extent of not commenting on the customer support expertise, as I don’t have a good evaluation of it, particularly when a model gives a product for testing by way of their media workforce. I sometimes have entry {that a} common buyer wouldn’t. 

I’m involved that if this had been my expertise, what would the everyday buyer’s expertise be like in the event that they encountered an identical problem? 

What this expertise has demonstrated is the significance of getting a superb native bike store/mechanic who is aware of ebikes. Massive because of Steve Tunes Bikes for his assist diagnosing the problem and getting the D5 Professional again on the highway, in addition to the workforce at EBikes Calgary for serving to me troubleshoot the issue.

What’s the Himiway D5 Professional Wish to Experience?

I’ve already described the D5 Professional as a monster truck, and for those who’re picturing a 79 lb ebike steamrolling over obstacles whereas taking part in by way of the dust, nicely… you’d be fairly bang on. Sure, the D5 Professional is succesful, but it surely additionally comes with some limitations inherent in its body type and weight that grew to become obvious the extra aggressively I rode it.

The Riverstone Take a look at Loop (Modified Version)

Each ebike I’ve ever examined has ridden a 14.5 mile / 23.5 km loop, which winds by way of Calgary’s Fish Creek Park, that I’ve dubbed “The Riverstone Take a look at Loop”. 

The Riverstone Take a look at Loop is a pleasant mixture of paved trails, dust singletracks, grassland, climbs (each paved and off-road), technical descents, and brief however aggressive downhill sections. It winds alongside a ridge and river valley, and takes riders up and down the ridge a number of occasions all through its route. In keeping with Strava, there’s a complete of 850 ft / 260 meters of elevation achieve. 

Nonetheless, I used to be introduced with a fortuitous alternative: it rained 240 mm (about 9.5”) in an 8 day interval, that means that a lot of the take a look at loop was water logged, washed out, and overgrown. Naturally, with 4” large tires and 130 Nm of torque available, this was the right excuse to change my common path to see how the D5 Professional handles sub-optimal terrain.

The revised route is nearly totally singletrack, overlanding, and trails with reasonable downhill sections; Snaking alongside each the highest and backside of the ridge, the modified Loop was moist, muddy, and slick besides: the right atmosphere to check a mid-drive monster truck, don’t you suppose?

As soon as I had 24 hours of clear climate, I made a decision to run the D5 Professional as aggressively as I might in conditions the place it was protected to take action. I needed to see simply how off-road succesful the D5 Professional’s TRAMA coil fork and hardtail step-thru body actually was, and whether or not or not it might match the flexibility implied by Himiway’s advertising and marketing.

After quite a few laps over a number of days, I pushed the D5 Professional’s limits when it comes to vary, climbing potential, and sturdiness. Here’s what I discovered:

The D5 Professional’s Strengths

• Regardless of having ample energy from the mid-drive, Himiway has configured the D5 Professional in order that it by no means feels overwhelming. Energy cuts out momentarily throughout shifts or when the throttle is first engaged, and efficiency of each the PAS and throttle is linear and predictable. When you’re used to how the motor responds, you possibly can confidently belief that it’s going to do it again and again. You may as well modify voltage ranges for every PAS degree through the show menu for those who actually wish to superb tune efficiency.
• The massive battery gives plenty of pedal-assisted vary. I adjusted the PAS ranges to go from 1-9, and pedaling at PAS 2 appears to be a really perfect mix of energy and vary, with PAS 5/6 appropriate for the massive hills I opted to climb with the D5 Professional.
• The D5 Professional feels balanced and simple to regulate regardless of its heft. The battery within the thick downtube retains it out of the best way, and the mid-drive/battery placement appears to be an efficient counter to the heavy wheels and tires. 
• The comparatively giant chainring is paired with a midway respectable cassette, serving to the D5 Professional hit good speeds at snug cadences.
• Overlanding over grassland, dust, gravel, or sand is a cinch; the D5 Professional instills a whole lot of confidence because it maintains its composure in sub-optimal terrain.
• Experience high quality on most terrain is sort of good, particularly for those who run the fats tires at a low strain.
• The D5 Professional not often breaks traction, even when standing on the pedals (and transferring weight off the rear tires).

The place it May Enhance

• The 79 lb curb weight can be higher served by four-piston brake calipers paired with 203 mm rotors. The inventory 180 mm rotors and two-piston calipers do a superb job on paved or groomed trails, however present their limitations when confronted with repeated bouts of aggressive braking – like when navigating a posh downhill singletrack – or lengthy bouts of steady braking, similar to if you’re descending a protracted reasonable grade.
• The TRAMA coil fork specs 100 mm of journey, however in apply, it doesn’t really feel plush or significantly proud of technical terrain. I’m torn: I just like the adjustable fork, but in addition, transport a set fork might cut back each weight and the value tag.
• The entrance tire pops off the bottom when you’re climbing steep hills and hit bumps resulting from its spring-like fork and torquey motor.
• Altering the inventory grips and saddle is a should for those who intend on technical using.
• The big chainring is best suited to the next prime velocity than it’s for climbing, which is at odds with the truth that the D5 Professional will simply hit its restricted prime velocity (28 mph / 45 kph) in most gears; give me a chainring and groupset that may higher deal with climbing, please!

Driving Dynamics in Element

This has been Calgary’s coolest and wettest summer time in 10 years (possibly extra), and it’s raining on my using parade. However, when you may have a fat-tire ebike with an excessive amount of energy and fenders, the mud turns into a possibility.

After the primary 160 km (100 miles) hit the odometer, I felt I understood the bike sufficient to get a way of the place its limits had been. What may be very clear is that mild using – the place the paths are clean and the terrain is light – is a non-challenge for this bike, and it’ll deal with that using comfortably all day lengthy.

However after flogging it alongside 19.5 km (12 miles) of ridge using within the mud, I’ve a newfound respect for precisely what this bike can do… which is rather a lot.

One significantly memorable second is the time I didn’t go down within the mud.

With the tires at 12 psi, hitting speeds close to 32 kph / 20 mph on a water-logged path in a few inches of mud, the rear tire felt floaty because it fought for traction. However discover traction it did, and most significantly for me, I didn’t go down into the mud (which was a real shock as I used to be fairly satisfied I used to be going to eat it greater than as soon as).

My different mid-drive hardtail, a customized Floor 604 Shred with 2.8” tires and a Bafang 750-watt mid-drive, wouldn’t have dealt with that slickuation with practically as a lot poise. 

I’m pleased to say that the fenders, regardless of being flimsy plastic bits, did a rattling good job maintaining me cleanish regardless of my greatest efforts to perform the other. 

By the point I obtained again to dry floor, I used to be astonished at my luck. By all rights, I ought to have eaten it… and on every other bike I in all probability would have.

The place the D5 Professional began to speak again was after I determined to ship it down the ridgeside on trails that had been overgrown with prairie grass and wildflowers. The slippery terrain was additionally hilly, with plenty of small climbs/descents. The steeper the drop, and the bumpier the terrain, and the extra nervous the D5 Professional felt.

The D5 Professional performs greatest on flowy, easy singletracks that don’t problem its suspension an excessive amount of. This describes most inner-city trails that you simply’ll discover in North America. 

It might probably additionally deal with some reasonable downs and reasonable climbs with relative ease, but it surely’s throughout these conditions that its structural weaknesses turn into very apparent.

Deciding to climb the hill above was a frightening selection, as I knew that the chances had been 50/50 that the D5 Professional would make it. Nonetheless, having been stunned already by how succesful the D5 Professional was proving itself at dealing with the ridgeside trails I had already traversed, I felt bullish sufficient to try.

Notably, the Heybike Alpha I simply reviewed didn’t make it up this hill with out my middle-aged ass getting off the saddle to stroll it up.

From the highest of the hill, the view is a bit underwhelming. But additionally, from the highest of the hill is the vital a part of the story. I wouldn’t say it was easy, however I in all probability might have made that very same climb 5 extra occasions earlier than I obtained drained (and 10 extra earlier than the bike obtained drained).

This can be a very spectacular end result contemplating how hamstrung the drivetrain is in relation to climbing and the way targeted it’s on prime velocity. 

Nonetheless, whereas the D5 Professional would fortunately have climbed that hill a number of extra occasions with out criticism, it completely didn’t wish to descend that hill a number of extra occasions with out criticism. It was on the second downhill stretch the place I seen the brake fade, and after my third decline, I opted to let the bike take a breather.

The 2-piston Tektro HD-E3520 brakes mounted on each wheels are superb brakes in most circumstances, however you possibly can really feel them battle to regulate a 79 lb ebike down steep hills. The 180 mm rotors merely aren’t sufficient, and the 2-piston calipers don’t have sufficient drive to regulate the sheer heft of the bike on some of these trails.

This isn’t essentially a disappointing end result, because the take a look at trails I’m throwing the D5 Professional down weren’t those I anticipate Himiway had in thoughts when designing the bike (they’d in all probability rightly counsel you rock the Cobra Professional for such a using). Nonetheless, it’s additionally an vital one to understand and internalize the learnings of. 

Between the highly effective motor, intuitive pedal help, and thumb throttle alongside the strong body and large tires, it’s straightforward to be lulled right into a false sense of functionality, and which may get you in hassle. This isn’t the bike’s fault, both; it’s your fault for getting enthusiastic about what else the D5 Professional can do.

The ultimate section of the revised take a look at loop begins with a brief however aggressive downhill part that options no fewer than eight totally different jumps. This section of path clearly confirmed the boundaries of how nicely the TRAMA fork and hardtail geometry can cushion your journey. 

It was bumpy and uncomfortable, albeit nonetheless a blast, and no, I didn’t hit the jumps.

After that, the remainder of the journey was primarily flat, save for the lengthy 1.6-kilometer / 1-mile gradual uphill path. By the point I obtained it house in my storage, filthy and lined in mud, grass, wildflowers, and far more, I had developed a correct appreciation for the D5 Professional and the kinds of experiences it may possibly empower:

• The D5 Professional will sort out sophisticated trails, however not shortly.
• It can sort out aggressive downhill stretches, however not repeatedly.
• It can deal with mud, tall grass, sand, and extra with out criticism.
• And it’ll allow you to do that for ~70 kilometers / 43.5 miles or so earlier than its cost runs empty.
• Or, for those who journey it on pavement, groomed trails, and metropolis paths, you’ll get nearer to 90 km / 65 miles of vary, assuming you’re utilizing PAS 1, which is a reasonably spectacular real-world end result.

Regardless of its limitations, the D5 Professional does a lot greater than I anticipated of it. I’m completely impressed.

2024 Himiway D5 Professional Construct High quality & Elements

Himiway has combined some OEM elements (bearings, hubs, and so forth.) with brand-name parts. The brakes, groupset, and tires are all respectable high quality entry-level parts appropriate for the value level, as is the Bafang M600 mid-drive motor.

Brakes

With 79 lbs to regulate, the Tektro HD-E3520 2-piston hydraulic brakes and 180 mm rotors have their work minimize out for them. Certainly not are these dangerous brakes, however for those who journey the D5 Professional like I do, you’ll want the rotors had been greater to handle warmth higher, and the calipers had been 4-piston to offer sharper and extra constant stopping energy.

You might attempt to improve the brakes, however you’d additionally must improve the fork. Sadly, there are nonetheless few cheap choices for 26×4 forks, because the aftermarket hasn’t fairly caught up with the ecosystem that’s forming.

The Tektros have held up nicely throughout a dozen or extra periods up and down the ridge, however a bit of additional oomph wouldn’t be unwelcome. These are huge bikes in spite of everything.

Motor, Drivetrain, & Groupset

Himiway doesn’t particularly establish which Bafang mid-drive the D5 Professional is provided with, however I believe it’s the M600. This 500-watt unit can attain a peak output of 1,000 watts and is extraordinarily able to dealing with the D5 Professional. It’s tuned nicely, and when you get a really feel for the throttle enter/shift lag, you possibly can management its energy simply.

The Altus groupset is ok, and you may roll by way of its 9-speed effectively since you possibly can downshift as much as 3 gears at a time. Nonetheless, a small and cheap improve to a Deore groupset and a 42-tooth climbing gear would flip the D5 Professional right into a ridge rocket. Ah, one can dream…

Shifting efficiency is sweet, and I haven’t dropped many chains regardless of persistently bumpy and aggressive rides.

Suspension Fork

The fork is well the least succesful a part of the bike. It’s not frequent for fats tire bikes to come back with suspension forks, primarily as a result of you need to use the tires themselves to handle journey high quality, however direct-to-consumer ebikes problem that conference for the reason that motor permits the bike to compensate for the added weight of the fork.

Whereas decidedly higher than the fork on the Heybike Alpha, the TRAMA fork isn’t as much as the extent of using the remainder of the bike is able to. It’s gradual to reply at occasions, particularly when the entrance tire leaves the bottom, and it feels springy most of the time.

With an air fork that had 120 mm or extra of journey, the D5 Professional can be remodeled from one thing that feels clunky to one thing that feels assured. This isn’t an affordable improve, nonetheless.

The left fork includes a preload adjustment knob, whereas the appropriate fork has a lockout. I discovered that working the preload a little bit lighter and the lockout a bit tighter was the perfect mixture for mixed-use using, however your outcomes might range.

Wheels & Tires

The Kenda Krusades are strong tires for a fatbike at this value level, and their tread sample is appropriate for many using conditions. Nonetheless, the Krusades aren’t your best option for winter using as they don’t take to studs nicely (the most typical criticism is that the tread is simply too shallow and the lugs don’t get deep sufficient).

I did journey the D5 Professional in a number of inches of contemporary snow on a couple of event (10 – 12 psi), however I can’t converse to on-ice efficiency as I opted to not go there with out studs.

Efficiency within the dust and grass is sort of good, and on pavement, my solely criticism is that they’re noisy.

A alternative set will value you round $150 USD / $250 CAD.

Cockpit

The Bafang coloration show is straightforward to learn in most conditions, save for vibrant, direct daylight. Utilizing the management pad on the left bars, you possibly can flip the headlight on/off, modify the PAS settings, or enter the show menu.

Within the menu (maintain the “i” button to entry it), you possibly can:

• Regulate the highest velocity of the bike
• Regulate the variety of PAS ranges (1-5, 0-5, 0-9)
• Regulate the voltage per PAS degree
• Regulate journey odometer, show brightness, and different secondary settings

The thumb throttle is straightforward to make use of and modulate, and the shifter on the appropriate bars is straightforward to entry, use, and skim. Total, no actual complaints right here.

I’d advocate altering the consolation grips to extra conventional grips for those who plan on using the D5 Professional onerous, because the consolation grips really cut back superb management considerably (however they’re nice for cruising with).

Saddle and Equipment

The one factor you’ll wish to add to the D5 Professional that it doesn’t include out of the field is a bottle cage, cellphone holder, and a bell. In any other case, the D5 Professional comes outfitted with all the pieces it’s worthwhile to get pleasure from it each day.

Notice that the D5 Professional doesn’t include a mount for a entrance basket.

One accent the D5 Professional ships with that I respect is the adjustable stem, which is ideal for fine-tuning your using place. This enhances the general consolation and accessibility of the bike, permitting it to accommodate varied wants and positions with ease. This can be a considerate inclusion for a motorbike designed for each day using.

Opponents

Sitting in my storage subsequent to the D5 Professional is the Heybike Alpha, which is almost identically spec’d when it comes to options however provided at a sub-$1,500 MSRP. On the opposite finish of the spectrum are bikes just like the Frey CC or Biktrix Juggernaut, each of which value twice or thrice what the D5 Professional does.

2024 Himiway D5 Professional ST

2025 Heybike Alpha

While you journey the D5 Professional and the Alpha again to again, you possibly can simply see the place your additional funding goes.

In comparison with the Alpha, the D5 Professional is best capable of climb hills, is extra snug in dust and gravel because of its Kenda Krusade tires (vs. the Alpha’s no-name tires), and has a a lot better throttle (which works such as you need it to, not like the Alpha’s). The D5 Professional is, usually, additionally much more enjoyable.

Nonetheless, the Alpha has narrower handlebars and a decrease profile. It feels extra nimble than the D5 Professional, however don’t take that as a assure that it’s really nimble. It can outperform the D5 Professional on move trails with out a lot free terrain, and I’ve to confess that the Galaxy motor on the Alpha feels extra intuitive with the way it delivers energy down.

Between the 2, the D5 Professional is the one I’d purchase if I might afford it, however the Alpha is the one I’d fortunately hire for a day to throw round.

The D5 Professional is the Reasonably priced Mid-Drive Monster Truck You’re Wanting For, & the Greatest One at This Worth Level

The D5 Professional just isn’t the one mid-drive fattie on the market, but it surely is without doubt one of the most reasonably priced and possibly the perfect worth given its mixture of parts, battery, and drivetrain.

I’m impressed by the efficiency of its Bafang mid-drive and the way nicely Himiway has it configured. Whereas I want it had a greater fork, I additionally respect that it’s $2,000+ cheaper than better-equipped options from Biktrix, Frey, and so forth.

Nonetheless, there’s additionally the truth that you’re shopping for from a a largely direct-to-consumer model, albeit with a rising supplier community, and repair is likely to be a problem. My expertise is an effective instance of the place this D2C mannequin falls brief. There’s no motive it ought to have taken so long as it did for Himiway to resolve the problem with my evaluate bike, particularly contemplating I supplied them with images/movies of the issue.

My challenges with customer support apart, there’s no denying that the D5 Professional is a rock-solid bike for the cash and an outperformer within the reasonably priced fat-tire section.

I’ve ridden the snot out of this bike and brought it locations that it actually wasn’t designed to go. I’ve ridden it into tree stumps, by way of 5” of water, and thru miles and miles of mud. I’ve a blast each time I take it out, and by the point I get again house, my smile is from ear to ear.

In case you’re wanting a strong, big-batteried fat-tire bike to each day journey, and also you don’t wish to spend greater than $2,500 USD / $3,500 CAD, the D5 Professional must be in your checklist – particularly for those who can service it your self or have a relationship with a neighborhood bike store.