Ride1Up Portola: Everything You Need to Know
The Portola URL now opens a newer bike: 90 Nm, a torque-or-cadence switch, Class 2 as shipped, up to 60 miles. The first card is 65 Nm, a cadence sensor, and up to 40 miles, with a $995 clearance beside $1,095 and $1,195 labels.
By SickEBike desk
The short answer
The list says Portola. The old product path now opens a newer bike: 750W, 90 Nm, a torque-or-cadence switch, Class 2 as shipped, and up to 60 miles. The first card is a 65 Nm hub, a cadence sensor, and up to 40 miles. Its clearance banner says $995. Its pack labels say $1,095 and $1,195. Electrek’s floor for the newer bike is $895. Those are not one bike.
The list says Portola. The path ride1up.com/product/portola/ now opens the Portola 02. That page’s motor line is “750W | 90nm.” The sensor is Intui-Drive, and the FAQ says you can switch between torque sensing and the older R1CBC cadence system. It ships as Class 2 and can be set to Class 1, 2, or 3, at 28 mph. The range chip says up to 60 miles. The row on the list links here.
Sixty-five newton-metres is the first card. Ninety is the newer one.
The newer page, Electrek’s 18 August 2026 launch note, and the first Portola card still quoted by catalogs. Not averaged.
| What is printed | |
|---|---|
| 02 page | 90 Nm. Dual sensor. Ships Class 2. Up to 60 miles. Packs: 10Ah and 15Ah, UL 2271, and no watt-hour figure on the extract. Mass lines: 61 lb and 27.6 kg, 63 lb and 28.5 kg, plus Lite lines of 58 lb and 26.3 kg and 60 lb and 27.2 kg. Rack 150 lb. The FAQ calls 90 Nm and a 100 mm fork the upgrade over the original, and it does not print a bike price in the extract this desk got. |
| Electrek, 18 August 2026 | Lite 10Ah from $895. A 15Ah pack “only adds $100,” to $995. The racked bike with the 15Ah pack, $1,095. Weight in that note: a 15Ah bike is 59 lb (26.7 kg), and the Lite with 10Ah is 52 lb (23.6 kg). Autoevolution’s note the same week says it “still costs $995,” then prints 61 lb (27.6 kg) with the 10Ah pack and 63 lb (28.6 kg) for 15Ah, plus a 342 lb (155 kg) capacity. |
| Original card | A clearance banner: “Inventory selling out fast at $995.” Hero: 28 mph, up to 40 miles, 750W. Spec motor: “48V 750W… 65nm.” The $1,095 label is a 48V 10.4Ah pack written as 500Wh. The $1,195 label is a 48V 13.4Ah pack written as 643Wh. The sensor cell is “Current-Based-Cadence,” not a torque cell. Returns on new Portola sales are final after 4 May 2026. Forty-eight times 10.4 is 499.2. Forty-eight times 13.4 is 643.2. |
| Catalogs of the first card | 99 Spokes prints a manufacturer price of $1,095, 59.0 lb, 65 Nm, and 500Wh. Rider Guide’s 13.4Ah row, checked 23 September 2026, prints MSRP $995, 59 lb, 643 Wh, a peak of 812 W, 65 Nm, and a 300 lb payload. Velo Index prints $945 and $995 for those two packs. The newer page does not print 812 W or 65 Nm. |
The list’s “torque sensor under $1k” is not the first sensor cell. Torque shows up as a switch on the newer page. The $995 figure is a clearance banner, a Rider Guide tag, an Electrek 15Ah tag, and an Autoevolution headline. It is not the first spec labels at $1,095 and $1,195, and it is not Electrek’s $895 floor. Fifty-nine pounds, 52 pounds, 61 pounds, and 63 pounds are four masses in print. Twenty-eight point six kilograms in one launch note is not 28.5 on the product extract. Do not average a 40-mile chip into a 60-mile chip.
If the listing says 65 Nm and 40 miles, it is the first card. If it says 90 Nm and a sensor switch, it is the newer bike. The shared URL does not make them one bike.
Who it is for
It is the budget folder, not the RadExpand 5 Plus, and not the XP4. A display that can be set to Class 3 is a 28 mph assist mode. The class chart is why “ships as Class 2” is the setting, not a promise that the menu stays there. The watt-hour page is that earlier card, where 500Wh and 643Wh are printed and the products of the cells are 499.2 and 643.2. The newer extract did not print watt-hours at all.
Questions people ask
Did that earlier card have torque sensing?+
No. Its sensor cell says Current-Based-Cadence. Torque shows up as a switch on the newer page, and that FAQ calls the switch the upgrade. The list’s “torque sensor under $1k” is not that cell. A 65 Nm line and a 90 Nm line are the two motors. The newer extract does not print 65 Nm.
Which $995 belongs to which bike?+
The clearance banner says inventory is selling out at $995, beside spec labels of $1,095 for 500Wh and $1,195 for 643Wh. Rider Guide’s 13.4Ah row also says $995. Electrek, 18 August 2026, puts a Lite at $895, a 15Ah bike at $995, and the racked 15Ah bike at $1,095. A second headline says it still costs $995. Four uses, not one tag.
Why doesn’t 500Wh match the cell product?+
The $1,095 pack is 48V and 10.4Ah, written 500Wh. Forty-eight times 10.4 is 499.2. The $1,195 pack is 13.4Ah, written 643Wh. Forty-eight times 13.4 is 643.2. Rider Guide adds a peak of 812 W that the Ride1Up cells do not print. That extract prints 10Ah and 15Ah and no watt-hours.
Which weight is printed for that bike?+
The product extract prints 61 lb with 27.6 kg, 63 lb with 28.5 kg, and Lite lines of 58 lb and 60 lb. Electrek prints 59 lb (26.7 kg) for a 15Ah bike and 52 lb (23.6 kg) for a 10Ah Lite. Another note prints 63 lb and 28.6 kg for the larger pack, plus a 342 lb capacity. Catalogs of the earlier bike still say 59.0 lb.
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