Wallke H6 review: A fast and massive folding electric bike

Wallke H6 review: The fastest, most massive folding electric bike I’ve ever tested

Electrek.co by Micah Toll

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[{"selector":"#anim-e6bc29a7-55ad-4144-8245-eee0aaba436d","keyframes":{"opacity":[0,1]},"delay":500,"duration":600,"easing":"cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.4, 0.0, 1)","fill":"both"}] And that’s not hyperbole. This thing gets up to a claimed 32 mph (51.5 km/h) – though I clocked it with GPS at 31 mph (50 km/h). Either way you slice you slice it though, that’s pretty darn fast. And it doesn’t take very long to hit those speeds either.

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