Lectric’s pure commuter e-bike maintains the brand’s hallmark value by equipping uncommon features on an affordable, fun, and speedy ride.
Lectric finally made the bike I’d been waiting for them to make—or rather, they finally came back to it. The brand’s humble origins of its first product—a commuter e-bike called the LX—sold just 45 units. After the megahit that was the foldable XP series and the brand’s following success of some 400,000+ e-bikes sold, they were able to roll their experience and R&D into the XPress 750, an affordable commuter model that holds mass appeal.
The XPress 750 high-step we reviewed is a classic commuter bike with a diamond frame and full size 27.5” tires. It is powered by a custom hub motor that had a great showing in our performance tests, but more importantly it passed the “vibe check” of being plain fun and fast.
Lectric’s calling card will always be the value they pack into their models, and the XPress is no different. The XPress 750’s little brother will likely garner more headlines (the smaller motor and battery XPress 500) with its $999 price tag, but this model is worthy of the extra cost with 50% more power which climbs hills with no trouble and hits higher speeds easily even with heavier payloads.
Lectric is debuting new tech on this model with a custom-built torque sensor and what they call PWR+ programming. It’s a torque sensor that helps the motor sense the pressure you apply to the pedals and then magnifies the effort, but it also can still allow the bike to carry the load in higher PAS with just a soft-pedal effort like cadence sensors are known for. It felt like a split between a natural ride, and an easy one – it just depends on the gear I was in and the PAS level.
The bike handles well under nearly any sense of the definition: it has responsive steering, appropriate gearing, and can stop confidently with a nice brake system. Lectric also developed the front fork which nicely smoothed out rough roads without feeling too floppy or divy into corners like some budget-priced bikes are know for.
There are still a few add-ons required to make this a quintessential commuter, but this bike is one heck of a starting place out of the box. For full details, see how the XPress 750 did in our review down below.
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