Himiway D5 Zebra Review | A BIG E-Bike With BIG Test Results! – Electric Bike Report

What good is any bike if it doesn’t ride well? So, let’s talk about the components and features that make up how the Himiway D5 Zebra rides and feels.

First things first, we must discuss the elephant in the room, that big ol’ seat.

At first glance, this seat resembles more of a top-secret stealth bomber than it does a bicycle saddle. It’s longer, wider, and thicker than nearly any seat we have seen outside of beach cruisers and you could say, all of us here at the office already have a love/hate relationship with it. On one hand, the seat feels super-comfortable when you are cruising on throttle only. But, once you start pedaling, the wider front end of the seat edges start to rub your inner thighs and it’s not the best feeling, especially for a long ride. We think it’s one of those seats that folks will either love or hate depending on their personal riding style. And, on the bright side, contact points like seats, grips, and pedals are super easy (and inexpensive) to swap out for something that you like better.

Himiway offers the D5 Zebra in two frame options, a high step or a step though. The highstep is rated to fit riders ranging from 5’3″ ~ 6′ 5″ whereas the step-through version has a little more room as it fits riders ranging from 5 ‘1” to 6’ 5″.

Up in the cockpit, you have ergo faux leather grips, on the left you have the push throttle and PAS controls. In the center, you have a full-color display that we think is really nice looking and can even be seen well in direct sunlight. The handlebar has no adjustability in stem height or reach but at 5 ’11, it felt fine in all my riding and I never felt like it needed any adjustments.

The D5’s front suspension fork is a coil spring fork made by TRAMA and has 95mm of travel with a 9x135mm quick-release attachment. Overall the fork does a good job of eating up impacts on your ride and should do most folks pretty well.

Down below you have Kenda Krusade knobby tires that we have seen before in our testing and overall do a good job. Understandably, if you ride this bike on pavement, you will have road noise from the tires, but that’s to be expected.

The 750W motor is mounted in the rear wheel hub and overall is very quiet. As we have referenced a few times in areas like speed and range testing, we did find the torque sensor to be a bit picky on when it delivers power and generally has a hard time keeping up with our actual pedaling pressure with its power delivery. It’s certainly not a deal breaker for us as all torque sensors have a bit of their own ‘personality’ and that was just our thoughts on this one. Overall, if you put down the pressure, the motor kicks on and gives its pedaling assist, and if you need more, just bump up your effort.

For those of you who like to make your bike as versatile as your route, we think you will appreciate the added perks like front-to-back lighting and fenders as well as the rear rack. It just adds some practicality for folks who want to maximize the abilities of their ride.