Burchda HC26: 1,440 Watt-Hours, and a Class 3 Sticker at 32 mph

The Burchda HC26 is a dual-hub fat bike with a 48-volt 30-amp-hour pack. It is not a Class 3 bicycle. Burchda’s US product page, burchdabikes.com/products/hc26, read 21 October 2026, is in stock at $1,449, from $1,499. The specification block says Class 3, 32 mph, a half-twist throttle, and dual hub motors rated 750 watts in front and 1,000 watts in the rear, with a 3,000-watt peak. Forty-eight times 30 is 1,440 watt-hours, which is the watt-hour the block prints. Pedal-assist range is up to 80 miles. Throttle-only is up to 32 miles. The same company’s EU page prints a 2,500-watt peak and up to 170 newton-meters. This is a desk comparison of those cards. It is not a SickEBike ride.

What the US specification block prints

Sixty-five plus 85 is 150. The US torque split adds up. The EU “up to 170” does not. Leave 150 on the US block and 170 on the EU page. A UK card in the same day’s search said 170 newton-meters, four-piston brakes, and an 8-to-10-hour charge. This desk did not open that checkout. Do not move four pistons onto a US block that never prints a piston count. The brake guide is why 180 mm is a rotor size and a piston count is a different sentence.

Forty-eight times thirty is 1,440. Six hours is not.

Forty-eight times 30 is 1,440. The US block prints both the 48-volt 30-amp-hour line and the 1,440 watt-hour. Those agree. The charger is 48 volts at 3 amps. Forty-eight times 3 is 144 watts. One thousand four hundred forty divided by 144 is 10 hours, if the brick held 144 watts the whole way. A lithium charge does not. It tapers. Ten hours is the optimistic floor, not a ceiling. The page says 6 to 7 hours. One hundred forty-four times 6 is 864 watt-hours. One hundred forty-four times 7 is 1,008. Neither is 1,440. The printed charge time cannot refill the printed pack on the printed brick. The watt-hour page is the multiplication. The charging page is why a short clock on a small brick is the line to distrust. The battery page is the cell sentence. The US block says lithium-ion. The EU block says 21700. Neither names Samsung, LG, or Panasonic.

A 3-amp, 48-volt brick is 144 watts. A 1,440 watt-hour pack at 144 watts is a 10-hour charge before the taper. Six hours puts 864 watt-hours back. That is not the pack.

Class 3 is a sticker. Thirty-two is not 28.

The US block says Class 3 and 32 mph, and it says the throttle is a half-twist. 15 U.S.C. § 2085 is pedals, a motor of less than 750 watts, and motor-only speed under 20 mph. Seven hundred fifty plus one thousand is 1,750 watts rated, before anyone quotes the peak. One thousand seven hundred fifty is not less than 750. Thirty-two miles an hour is not the Class 3 assist cap of 28, and a throttle that can hold the bike at that speed is not a Class 2 throttle capped at 20. PAS 5 on the same page is “30+ mph.” Thirty-plus and 32 are not one sentence, and neither is 28. The US law pillar is the federal line and the state layer under it. Florida’s statute page is the state version of that test. A tile that says Class 3 does not shrink the motor. The motor page is rated versus peak. Three thousand is a peak. Two thousand five hundred, on the EU sheet, is a different peak. The rated pair is 1,750 on both.

The EU page is more careful than the US sticker, and it still does not make the fast bike a bicycle. It says a 250-watt version, limited to 25 km/h with the throttle removed, is what the EN 15194 certificate covers. It also says the high-power version carries an EN 15194 certificate for that same 250-watt, 25 km/h setup, and that above those limits registration and insurance depend on the country. The US block this desk read does not print a limiter, a 20 mph mode, or a throttle delete. Shop the button in front of you. Do not import the European legal paragraph onto a cart that says 32 mph.

Eighty miles is PAS 1. Forty is PAS 5.

The US page does publish a range table, which is more than a single “80 miles” tile. PAS 1 is 8.3 mph and up to 80 miles. PAS 2 is 10.4 mph and 70. PAS 3 is 15.3 mph and 60. PAS 4 is 25.2 mph and 50. PAS 5 is 30+ mph and 40. Throttle-only is 32 miles. One thousand four hundred forty divided by 80 is 18 watt-hours a mile. Divided by 40 it is 36. Divided by 32 it is 45. Eighteen watt-hours a mile, on a 106-pound dual-hub bike with 26-by-4.0 tires, is a gentle claim even at 8.3 mph. Forty-five on the throttle is the number that can sit next to a fat tire and two motors. The page does not say the rider’s weight, the wind, or the grade. The range page is why those three missing facts move the miles. The tire page is why a 4.0-inch knobby spends watt-hours a slick does not. The sensor is cadence, not torque, so assist follows how fast you turn the cranks, not how hard. The cadence page is that delay riders notice when the motor waits for a spin.

The EU “100 km” line is about 62 miles, and one sentence on that page calls it pure electric. Sixty-two miles of throttle is not the US throttle line of 32, and it is not the US pedal-assist headline of 80. One hundred forty-four divided into 1,440 is still 10 hours of ideal charging. None of these range lines is a GPS loop this desk rode.

Two hundred twenty millimeters is not the March fork

The US block now says a dual-crown fork with 220 mm of travel and a rear shock with 70 mm. FloridaBicycling’s HC26 note, 24 March 2026, printed 80 mm of double-crown travel, the same $1,449, the same 3,000-watt peak, and the same 150 newton-meters. Eighty is not 220. Either the fork changed or that sentence was wrong. This desk will not average them into 150 mm. Rear travel of 70 mm is a short shock on a bike whose front number, if you believe today’s block, is a dirt-bike fork. The electric mountain bike guide is the travel column. This frame is a hunting fat bike with a 500-pound US payload claim, not that trail bike. Five hundred pounds is the US payload. The EU page says about 200 kg, about 441 pounds. Use the number on the cart you pay.

One hundred six pounds is the US scale line. Forty-six kilograms on the EU dual-motor row is about 101 pounds. A Canada card in search printed 95 pounds, which is the EU single-motor row, 43 kg, written in pounds. Three weights, three pages. The bike you lift is the one in the box. One hundred six pounds with a 76.9-inch length is a truck-bed bike. It is not a stair bike. IPX4 on the US block is splash resistance. IP65 on the EU block is a different test. Do not ride either rating into a creek because a hunting photo looked wet.

The public films, and what one of them actually measured

The US store prints 4.9 from 181 reviews on the same crawl as the $1,449 price. That counter belongs to the store. It is not a sample this desk audited. A two-year warranty line on the page says frame, motor, battery, and key parts from the order date. A warranty sentence is not a shop visit this desk made. The button also carried a free-accessory bundle line. Bundle contents move. Read them on the day you pay.

Who it is for

Buy it only if the cart you can check out still says 48 volts, 30 amp-hours, 26-by-4.0, a dual hub, and a price you have read, and if you already know a 1,750-watt rated pair with a throttle and a 32 mph top line is not a bike-lane class machine. The rider window on the US block is 5 ft 6 in to 6 ft 5 in. One hundred six pounds is the lift. Skip it if you needed Class 3, a 6-hour fill of a 1,440 watt-hour pack, or 80 miles at the 30 mph end of the table. Eighty miles is the PAS 1 cell. Forty is PAS 5. Thirty-two is the throttle cell. Skip a 60Ah, 160-mile sentence until the specification block lists that pack. Skip 3,000 watts if the page in front of you is the EU sheet, which adds its peaks to 2,500 and prints 170 newton-meters instead of 150. And skip 220 mm of fork if the listing you are holding still says 80. Those are different bikes, or one bike with a spec block that moved. This desk did not ride either.