Jackrabbit OG2 Pro and XG Pro Review (2025): Little and Peppy

Tiny, fun, lightweight. Convenient to stow beautiful overmuch anywhere. Strangers and children mightiness outcry compliments. Improved scope and power. Tons of accessories. Also, did I mention fun?

More costly than nan erstwhile generation. Accessories besides costs money. A spot slow to brake astatine apical speed. Payload and scope are still trade-offs. Not rather FAA-compliant.

I’ve go popular pinch children lately. It’s not intentional. It's conscionable because I've been riding astir municipality connected nan caller Pro bid JackRabbit OG2—a zippy, motorized electric bike truthful small, its elemental beingness tin make a gobsmacked tween thin retired of his mom’s car model each nan measurement down to his clavicles conscionable get a amended look.

“Eeeeeeeeeee-biiiiikke!” shouted different kid from a sidewalk arsenic I went by, earlier loudly declaring nan thrust “actually kinda cool.” Later that day, this was besides nan sentiment of a sleeve-tatted dude pinch a flat-brimmed chapeau hanging extracurricular a dive bar. “I for illustration your bike, bro!” he called out. A JackRabbit micro motorcycle brings each sorts of group retired of nan woodwork, everyone from skater dads to fittingness bikers who inquire acold excessively intensely really nan JackRabbit is “classified.”

Whether this mini motorized bicycle is, successful fact, truly an ebike, is nan root of somewhat nerdy contention. JackRabbits person footrests that look for illustration pedals. But they person nary existent pedals, chains, aliases gears. You thrust nan “bike,” instead, by utilizing a throttle connected its correct handlebar. It’s a wee scooter that looks for illustration a bicycle. And now, pinch nan Pro bid of Jackrabbit’s on-and-off-road variants, it's a spot much powerful.

Little Orange Ridin’

The OG2 Pro's 20-inch wheels, short wheelbase and angled geometry springiness it nan floor plan of an old-school BMX, nan standard-issue thrust for nan devil-may-care. The Pro exemplary weighs a specified 30 pounds, ray capable to one-hand it up a group of stairs. For a mini thing, it’s besides peppy; it zooms on astatine 20 miles an hr connected high, nan residential velocity limit wherever I live. From nan motorcycle lane, I person made weirdly prolonged oculus interaction pinch drivers, arsenic they gait maine almost precisely.

The motorcycle is, successful short, fun. The JackRabbit OG2 Pro and its much powerful off-road cousin, nan XG Pro, are some very, very fun. And yet depending connected really you usage a bike, these micro bikes’ compact, stowable frames tin besides make them rather useful if you unrecorded successful a city. In fact, nan OG2 Pro has go my favourite measurement to get astir my neighborhood.

The original JackRabbit has been WIRED’s favourite micro motorcycle since nan OG exemplary came retired successful 2021 (7/10, WIRED Recommends). The OG2 Pro and XG Pro look destined to double and triple down connected this distinction. When editor Adrienne So reviewed nan first procreation JackRabbit successful 2021 , she wondered whether nan JackRabbit heralded a caller micro-filled era for nan ebike, a genre past different amended known for bulkiness. This hasn’t rather happened. While galore ebikes person gotten lighter and sleeker, nan JackRabbit remains conscionable arsenic distinctive, quirky, and possibly moreover downright goofy arsenic ever—a hard-charging terrier successful a onshore of labradors.

The rated rider weight is 275 pounds, though JackRabbit reps opportunity this is simply a rather blimpish number successful lawsuit you scheme connected utilizing nan motorcycle aggressively. Handling connected its short wheelbase will return immoderate getting utilized to connected tight turns, and braking isn’t needfully accelerated if you’re shooting on astatine apical speed—especially connected nan OG2 Pro, which comes pinch only back-wheel brakes. You mightiness find yourself dropping a ft sometimes arsenic a supplement.

But nan JackRabbit handily fills a niche that's a hallmark of municipality living: nan thrust to and from a train, to your ain car, aliases possibly to location a fewer miles down nan roadworthy wherever you mightiness want to bring nan motorcycle inside, alternatively than woody pinch worries astir locking it up. A micro motorcycle specializes successful nan funny proscription gaps that infect life successful cities: first mile, past mile, funny miles successful between.

Bikes this mini are besides often invited wherever bulkier bikes would beryllium an inconvenience. Unlike galore bikes, you tin stash a JackRabbit wrong an flat without it taking complete nan decor. It is easy to rotation into an elevator aliases onto a train. Store owners hardly bat an eyelash if you rotation successful pinch it to bid a java aliases drawback a candy bar. (I did get kicked retired of a concatenation mini-mart pinch it, but nan cashier seemed sheepish astir this.)

If you push down its spot and move its handlebars sideways, nan OG2 Pro besides fits easy into nan trunk of a compact car. Not only tin you propulsion it into an Uber, you tin usage it to prevention yourself from needing one. On a caller Friday, I near my car parked wherever it was, aft an impulse bid of an other pint made maine reluctant to drive. The adjacent day, I conscionable sped nan JackRabbit to wherever my car was parked, threw nan motorcycle successful nan back, and drove off.

I Want a Range Life

The biggest waste for nan caller Pro statement is that nan bikes amp up some powerfulness and range. The OG JackRabbit offered conscionable 12 miles of artillery scope (as assessed for a 170-pound personification riding astatine 15 miles an hour, not afloat throttle), and a petite 300-watt centrifugal that made nan motorcycle slow to accelerate. The OG2 Pro doubles this scope pinch a larger RangeBuster battery that wraps astir nan frame, and juices nan centrifugal to 500 watts.

This intends nan OG2 will reliably return my 200-pound-plus assemblage to 20 miles an hr wrong a short metropolis block. The 24-mile scope besides puts overmuch of nan metropolis wrong round-trip reach. The geometry of nan OG2 has besides been altered to beryllium a spot much classically bikey, and possibly much ergonomic for gangly group (I'm 6'1").

The somewhat larger off-road XG Pro is moreover much powerful, astatine 750 watts, and packs 2 RangeBuster batteries for 48 miles of theoretical range. It besides comes equipped pinch off-road tires that tin nonstop you hauling tail done dirt, gravel, hills, and puckerbrush. I’ve buzzed disc golfers connected ungraded trails (sorry), and rode miles on nan broadside of a green-watered slough alive pinch geese and egrets.

JackRabbit batteries complaint up beautiful accelerated erstwhile they tally down, 3 hours for nan OG2 Pro and 5 hours for nan double-battery XG Pro, connected a basal 120-volt socket. But erstwhile you do tally retired of juice, you can’t pedal, and nan motorcycle is temporarily bricked. So scope matters. And nan bike's existent scope will dangle a batch connected who you are and really you ride. If, for illustration me, you are a hefty 6’1” and you for illustration to jam nan throttle each nan measurement down nan full clip while cresting ungraded hills and cackling for illustration a small kid, you mightiness only get half nan advertised range.

If you’re mini aliases judicious, you tin transcend it. JackRabbit CEO Jason Kenagy said that moreover riders connected nan ample broadside tin transcend nan bike’s advertised scope by cruising astatine 15 miles an hr connected nan bike's mean setting, and coasting connected downslopes. Still immoderate JackRabbit riders for illustration to battalion other batteries anyhow to switch them out, Kenagy said. (Extras costs $200 for mini batteries, and $400 for large ones.)

Note that nan XG Pro comes pinch 1 further feature. If you motion an statement saying you’re complete 18 and won’t thrust faster than 20 miles an hr connected metropolis streets, you tin return disconnected nan limiter connected your XG Pro and spell moreover faster connected a closed course. I haven’t done this. I besides haven’t felt nan need.

But speech from taking disconnected nan limiter, I’ll admit I’m not afloat buying nan “Pro” branding connected these bikes. Sure, nan XG Pro has capable pep connected precocious that you could startle yourself pinch nan acceleration from stationary. (Medium and debased settings, which apical retired astatine 7 and 15 miles an hour, require a rolling start.) But for nan astir part, nan other scope and powerfulness springiness nan “Pro” JackRabbits overmuch much quotidian virtues. They make nan bikes much dependable and springiness them broader utility.

Custom Concerns

One large waste for nan OG JackRabbit is that nan motorcycle and its artillery tin recreation pinch you connected an airplane to wherever you were going. But nan larger RangeBuster artillery that comes pinch each Pro exemplary is not afloat FAA-compliant, and mightiness require typical permissions. If you don't want to person annoying conversations pinch your carrier, you'd request to bargain a smaller $200 battery.

Note excessively that nan aggravated customization is some a characteristic and a bug. Headlights, rear lights, fenders, baskets, LED underlights, and variable-rise handlebars all are available, but travel astatine often three-figure pricing. On 1 hand, modularity is each successful bully fun. On nan other, each different electrical motorcycle now has included headlights. Headlights should beryllium a fixed erstwhile a motorcycle costs 4 figures.

But this customizability is besides apt portion of nan logic JackRabbits person developed specified an affectionate following. Amid online instrumentality groups, users delight successful showing disconnected their civilization builds. A JackRabbit intimately resembles an old-fashioned bicycle successful nan easiness pinch which moreover an amateur pinch a wrench tin make their ain decisions, their ain modifications, and their ain repairs.

Most of nan parts don't moreover request to travel from JackRabbit, which is sized to beryllium compatible pinch astir basal motorcycle parts. When I pinched a rear conduit connected nan OG2 Pro and caught a level tire, I didn’t person to bid a spare from JackRabbit. A section motorcycle shop was capable to switch it retired connected nan spot pinch a modular 20-inch BMX tube.

Anyway, nan added capabilities of nan OG2 Pro aliases XG Pro travel astatine a cost, astir $400 aliases $500 complete nan apical of nan non-Pro versions. But pinch this other scope and juice, nan Pro OG2 and XG clasp each nan virtues of a lightweight and stowable micro bike, but region astir of nan trade-off successful utility. JackRabbit's spokespeople committedness that JackRabbit's astir dedicated owners telephone themselves “Jackos,” a connection I won't ever usage to picture myself. But I'll happily telephone myself a fan.