The sixthreezero Relaxed Body E-Bike: A Comfort Cruiser That Lives Up to Its Name

Meet the Relaxed Body, the E-Bike That Earns Its Name

Some bikes ask you to earn your comfort. You fight the frame, hunch over the bars, and hope your lower back forgives you by the time you get home. The Relaxed Body electric bike takes the opposite approach. It is named for exactly what it does to your body when you climb on, which is to relax it. Shoulders drop. Arms loosen. Your spine stops bracing. That is the whole idea, and it is worth understanding why, because a bike built around comfort is a very different animal from one built around speed or sport.

To see how it holds up outside a showroom, we took one out for a real ride. Our tester this time was Diane, who spent a bright, clear afternoon rolling around the streets and parks near our San Clemente shop, close enough to the coast that she could catch the ocean between the rooftops. No closed course and no perfect conditions. Just a neighborhood with hills, crosswalks, curious dogs, a few kids, and the ordinary stop-and-go of everyday riding. That is the environment where a comfort e-bike either proves itself or falls apart, and it tells you far more than a spec sheet ever could.

Diane stands five foot four, which matters more than it might sound. A big chunk of what makes a bike feel comfortable or miserable comes down to whether it actually fits your body, and shorter riders in particular tend to get shortchanged by frames designed around a taller average. So handing this bike to someone on the smaller side tells you something useful about how forgiving the fit really is. Within the first minute, before she had even finished her first loop, she landed on why the thing is called what it is called. Her hands simply rested on the handlebars. She was not reaching, not stretching, not white-knuckling the grips to stay in control. The bars came back to her.

That upright, hands-come-to-you posture is the signature of a good comfort e-bike, and it is the first thing you notice on the Relaxed Body. Your back stays tall instead of folding forward. Your arms hang in a natural, slightly bent position rather than locking out to reach a distant grip. Over a ten-minute spin that feels pleasant. Over a ten-mile ride, it is the difference between arriving loose and arriving sore. If you have ever finished a ride rubbing your lower back or shaking out numb hands, you already understand why this geometry has such a devoted following, and why it runs through so much of our range of comfort-focused electric bikes.

The bike itself is a two-wheeler, and the headline feature is its forward-pedal design, which pushes the pedals out ahead of you rather than tucking them straight below the seat. Paired with that are the things you would expect from a modern e-bike and a few you would not: pedal assist, a thumb throttle, seven gears, a rear rack for hauling a bag or a basket, and a clear display mounted right in your line of sight. It is also, in Diane's words, a light bike, which shapes the entire character of the ride. It has kick when you ask for it, but it never feels like a heavy machine dragging you around.

What struck her early was how little the bike demanded. She started out in the lowest level of pedal assist, made a lazy U-turn to get going, and immediately described it as a nice, easy, light bike. That phrase, easy and light, came up again and again over the course of the ride, and it is the honest through-line of this whole review. Over the next several sections we will get specific: how the forward-pedal geometry changes the way you sit and stop, how the pedal assist and throttle actually behave on hills and from a standstill, how it handles a real street full of obstacles, and finally where it slots in if you are weighing it against the rest of what we build. If you would rather feel all of this for yourself, the fastest route is to come ride one in person, but stick around first, because the details are where this bike makes its case.

If you take one idea away from this bike, make it this one: the forward pedals are not a styling gimmick, they are the reason the Relaxed Body feels the way it does. On a conventional bike, the pedals sit more or less directly beneath the saddle, which forces the saddle up high so your legs can reach the bottom of the stroke. On the Relaxed Body, the pedals are pushed out in front of you. Diane put it plainly on the ride: her legs were extended forward, and that single change delivers two benefits that work together.

Benefit one: proper leg extension. Because the pedals are ahead of you rather than under you, you get a full, comfortable leg stroke without cramping your knees on the up-pedal. Diane called it optimum leg extension, and that is the right way to think about it. You are not folded up. Your legs get to work through their natural range, which is easier on the knees and simply feels better over distance. For anyone who has backed away from cycling because their knees complain, this geometry is worth taking seriously.

Benefit two: you sit lower to the ground. This is the one that shorter riders and anyone with a little hesitation about mounting and dismounting will care about most. Because the pedals are forward, the saddle can sit lower while your legs still get their full extension. That means you are closer to the ground. On the Relaxed Body, when Diane stopped pedaling and came to a halt, her foot simply touched the pavement. She did not have to hop off the saddle or tiptoe for the ground. As she put it, the forward-pedal system lets you keep your seat lower, so you never have to jump off the bike, and stepping off is genuinely easy.

That last point deserves a moment, because getting on and off is where a lot of riders quietly lose confidence. If a bike is tall enough that you have to slide off the nose of the saddle and reach for the ground at every stop sign, every intersection becomes a small negotiation. Do that a hundred times on a ride and it wears on you. The Relaxed Body removes that friction. Feet reach the ground, you stand up out of the saddle with almost no effort, and you are stable the whole time. For older riders, for anyone rebuilding confidence after an injury, or for shorter riders who have felt perched on other bikes, this is a big deal. It is the same thinking behind our whole collection of e-bikes sized for shorter riders.

The seat is adjustable, too, so the bike meets you rather than the other way around. Diane, at five foot four, mentioned she likes to run the seat a touch lower so standing up at a stop is effortless, and she could set it exactly where she wanted it. A taller rider can raise it and still keep the same relaxed, feet-forward relationship to the pedals. This is the part people underestimate when they shop online: a bike that fits is a bike you will actually ride, and a bike that does not fit becomes an expensive coat rack in the garage. Dialing in saddle height, and the way the whole cockpit relates to your body, is the single highest-value thing you can do before your first long ride.

Add the upright posture from the first section to the forward-pedal stance and you get the full picture of why this bike feels so unhurried. Your upper body is relaxed because the bars come to you. Your legs are relaxed because they extend naturally instead of pumping in a tight circle beneath you. And your mind is relaxed because you know that whenever you stop, your feet are right there under you. It is a coherent design, not a bag of features, and that coherence is what you feel in the first thirty seconds. If you are not sure whether a lower, feet-forward setup is right for your body and the riding you have in mind, that is exactly the kind of thing worth talking through before you buy. We built a personal fitting process for precisely this reason, so you land on the right size and setup the first time instead of guessing.

Comfort geometry gets you a relaxed place to sit. The motor is what turns that into a ride you can take for miles without dreading the way home. The Relaxed Body gives you three ways to move: your own legs, pedal assist, and a throttle, and the fun is in learning how to blend them. Diane rode most of the loop in the lowest levels of assist, and her running commentary is a pretty good tutorial in how these systems feel in practice.

Pedal assist is the everyday workhorse. With assist on, the motor adds a measured boost every time you pedal, and the harder you want it to work, the higher the level you choose. Diane spent most of her ride in pedal assist one on flat ground and bumped up to level two when the road tilted uphill. Her description of climbing was telling: with pedal assist, going up hills took minimal effort. She reached the top, clicked back down to level one, and carried on. That is the rhythm of riding an assisted bike well. You are still pedaling, still getting exercise and still in control, but the sting is taken out of the parts that would normally make you dread a route. A hill that might talk you out of a ride on a standard bike becomes a non-event.

The throttle is your launch button and your bail-out. A thumb throttle lets the bike move without any pedaling at all, and Diane used it exactly the way it is meant to be used. Coming out of a hard stop, she would tap the throttle just to get rolling, then settle back into pedaling. When a hill got a little rough, the throttle was there to carry her through. As she said, going from a dead stop to moving is her favorite moment to use it, because she does not have to pedal at all to get underway. That is the real value of a throttle on a comfort bike. It smooths out the two things that are hardest on your legs and your confidence, which are starting from a standstill and grinding up a steep pitch.

The seven gears still matter. It is easy to assume that once a bike has a motor the gears become decoration, but that is not how it works. The Relaxed Body has seven speeds, and matching the right gear to your terrain is what keeps your pedaling smooth and your motor efficient. Spin an easy gear up a hill, shift to a taller gear as you pick up speed on the flats, and the whole drivetrain feels natural rather than fighting you. The gears are how you fine-tune effort. The assist level is how you set the electric help. Used together, they let you tailor the ride to precisely how hard you feel like working on any given day.

Which brings up the single most practical tip from the entire ride, straight from Diane's mouth: if you optimize the right gear together with pedal assist, you get longer battery life. Leaning on the throttle for a whole ride is the quickest way to drain a battery, because the motor is doing all the work with no help from your legs. Blend pedaling, sensible gearing, and a modest level of assist, and that same battery carries you much further. So the throttle is best treated as a tool for specific moments, launches, tight spots, tough little climbs, rather than a substitute for pedaling. Get that balance right and your range opens up.

Tying it all together is the display, and Diane made a point of how much she values having it right there in front of her. At a glance she could see how much battery she had left, which level of pedal assist she was in, what gear she was riding, and how far she had gone. That might sound minor, but it is the information that lets you ride smart. Knowing your battery level shapes how freely you use the throttle. Seeing your assist level keeps you from accidentally burning power you do not need. It is a small screen doing a lot of quiet work, and it is a big part of why the bike feels approachable rather than mysterious. If reading all of this has you itching to feel how the assist and throttle behave under your own hands, the honest answer is that a real test ride will teach you more in ten minutes than any paragraph can.

A ride around a manicured parking lot proves nothing. What tells you about a bike is how it behaves when the world is messy, and Diane's loop around San Clemente was pleasantly messy in all the ordinary ways. There were hills to start on, a park to cut through, kids on the path, dogs to steer around, curbs to consider, and other people to yield to. The Relaxed Body handled all of it with the same unbothered ease it showed in the first minute.

She started, of all places, on a hill, which is the situation most riders quietly dread. A slight tilt at the moment you are trying to get moving is exactly where a standard bike feels heaviest. Here she simply shifted into pedal assist two, and the climb turned into minimal effort. At one point she rode straight up onto grass and up a small rise, and made a point that a lot of casual riders will appreciate: she got up that hill easily, something she said she would not have managed under her own power alone. Between the throttle for the initial push and the pedal assist for the climb, terrain that would normally end a ride early just did not register as a problem.

The bike's light weight is a running theme, and it pays off most in tight, low-speed situations. Diane described the Relaxed Body as having some kick to it while still being nice and light, and that combination is what makes it feel safe in a crowd. Threading past a family on a path, slowing for a dog, easing up to a crosswalk to wait for someone, none of it felt like wrestling a heavy machine. She noted that it is easy to navigate, so she felt safe even with little kids around, and that is not a throwaway line. A comfort e-bike lives most of its life at low speed in shared spaces, and confidence in those moments is worth more than any top-speed number.

She was also honest about matching her assist to her surroundings, which is a good habit worth stealing. Rolling through an area with kids and turns, she caught herself in pedal assist two and admitted she could just as easily be in level one, and probably should be. That is the right instinct. In open, flat, quiet stretches, a bit more assist is fine. In a busy park with unpredictable little humans and pets, dialing the power back down keeps everything smooth and controlled. The bike gives you that range of behavior. It is on the rider to use it thoughtfully, and the low, stable, feet-ready seating position makes riding conservatively feel natural rather than restrictive.

Not everything was flawless, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. Early in the ride Diane noted the brakes were a little squeaky. That is a common, minor break-in quirk on a new bike, the kind of thing that usually quiets down as the pads seat and often clears up with a simple adjustment, but she called it out and so will we. It did not affect how the bike stopped. She described the braking as a nice, easy braking system, and made a habit of checking over her shoulder for cars before every turn, which is exactly how you should ride any bike, electric or not. A squeak is a note for the setup checklist, not a knock against the ride.

The rear rack quietly earns its place here as well. It is the difference between a bike that is purely recreational and one you can actually run errands on, giving you somewhere to strap a bag, mount a basket, or carry the small stuff a real ride tends to accumulate. And the finish, the dismount, brought the whole thing full circle. When Diane rolled to her final stop, she stopped pedaling and her foot met the ground without drama. No jumping off, no reaching, just an easy step off the bike, thanks again to that lower, forward-pedal seating position. She summed the whole outing up simply: a great bike, comfortable and relaxed, and a lot of fun. Coming from a real ride on real streets, that is about as good a verdict as a comfort cruiser can hope for. If it is speaking to you, our team is easy to reach with any questions before you commit.

No single bike is right for everyone, and the smartest way to shop is to figure out which corner of the range matches how you actually plan to ride. The Relaxed Body sits firmly in the comfort camp, so if its upright posture and forward-pedal ease are the qualities pulling at you, it is worth seeing its neighbors before you decide. Here is how it relates to the rest of what we build, and which direction to look if one particular quality matters most to you. Think of these as neighbors on the same street rather than rivals, because they all share the same comfort-first DNA, just tuned for different bodies, budgets, and kinds of riding.

If comfort is your headline priority, the Relaxed Body lives alongside the rest of our comfort electric bikes, all of which share that same philosophy of keeping your back upright and your body relaxed. If your bigger concern is simply getting on and off without a high bar to swing your leg over, look closely at our step-through electric bikes, which drop the top tube low so mounting is a short, easy step. The forward-pedal Relaxed Body and a classic step-through solve overlapping problems from slightly different angles, and which one feels right often comes down to a test ride.

For riders shopping specifically with age or joint comfort in mind, our electric bikes for seniors collection gathers the models best suited to easy mounting, gentle power delivery, and stable, confidence-inspiring handling. The Relaxed Body's low seat height and feet-flat stops make it a natural fit for that conversation. If you love the idea of relaxed cruising but want the beachy, laid-back styling to match, our electric beach cruisers bring the same easygoing spirit with cruiser looks.

Terrain can push you toward a different branch of the family. If your routes include soft sand, gravel, or rougher ground, the fat, cushioned tires of our fat tire electric bikes add grip and float that a standard tire cannot match. If storage or transport is your constraint, whether you are tucking a bike into an apartment, a trunk, or an RV, our folding electric bikes collapse down to travel and stash far more easily.

And if two wheels are not quite the level of stability you are after, that is where three wheels come in. Some riders love everything about the Relaxed Body's relaxed, feet-forward feel but want to remove balance from the equation entirely. For them, our electric tricycles deliver that same comfort-first mindset on a planted three-wheel platform, and our recumbent electric trikes take the low, laid-back seating position even further, with a long, low frame that all but eliminates any worry about tipping. If the appeal of the Relaxed Body is the sense of security as much as the comfort, a trike is a natural next thing to look at.

The point of laying all of this out is not to talk you out of the Relaxed Body. It is to make sure that if you choose it, you are choosing it on purpose, because its particular blend of upright comfort, forward-pedal ease, light weight, and approachable power genuinely matches your life. That is a far better way to end up happy than picking the first bike with a nice photo. Browse the categories, notice which descriptions keep pulling you back, and pay attention to the ones that solve the specific problem you have, whether that is your knees, your balance, your storage space, or just wanting to enjoy a ride again. The right bike is the one that fits the way you live.

So who is the Relaxed Body really for? After a full ride on ordinary streets, the answer comes into focus. It is for the rider who wants comfort to be the point, not a compromise. It suits shorter riders and anyone who has felt perched or unstable on a taller bike, thanks to the low seat and feet-flat stops. It suits knees and lower backs that have grumbled on other bikes, thanks to the upright posture and forward-pedal leg extension. And it suits people who want the freedom of an e-bike, hills flattened by pedal assist, standstills eased by a throttle, without the machine feeling heavy or intimidating. If you mostly ride neighborhoods, parks, paths, and errands at a relaxed pace, this bike was designed with you in mind. It rewards the rider who values arriving relaxed over arriving fast, and who would rather look around at the scenery than stare at a speedometer.

It is honest to say what it is not, too. This is a comfort cruiser, not a sport machine built to chase top speed or attack technical trails. That is a feature, not a shortcoming, but it means the rider chasing maximum performance is shopping in the wrong aisle, and should look at a more aggressive category instead. Knowing that up front is how you avoid buyer's remorse.

The good news is that you do not have to settle this from behind a screen. The best possible way to know whether a comfort bike fits you is to sit on it and ride, because comfort is personal in a way no spec can capture. If you can get to us, come visit and ride one in person and feel the forward-pedal position for yourself. If you cannot, our 30-day test ride lets you put real miles on the bike from home and make sure it is right before you fully commit. And to take the guesswork out of sizing and setup, start with our personal fitting, so the bike that shows up is dialed in to your body from day one.

Every bike we sell is backed by our warranty coverage, and our support team is genuinely happy to help, whether you have a question before you buy or need a hand after. That squeaky brake Diane mentioned is exactly the kind of small setup item we can walk you through in a couple of minutes. If you have questions the moment they come up, our team is quick to reply, and a real person, not a bot, will get back to you.

Diane's closing line after her ride was simple, and it is a fitting place to end: comfortable, very relaxed, a great bike, and a lot of fun. That is the Relaxed Body in a sentence. It sets out to make riding easy on your body and easy on your nerves, and on a bright afternoon full of hills, grass, dogs, and crosswalks, it delivered. If any of that sounds like the ride you have been missing, come find out for yourself, and drop us any questions along the way. Thanks for reading, and we will see you out there.