{"id":350520,"date":"2026-03-25T17:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/heybike-villain-review-4-2kw-pit-bike-hits-45mph-for-1400\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:02:46","slug":"heybike-villain-review-4-2kw-pit-bike-hits-45mph-for-1400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/heybike-villain-review-4-2kw-pit-bike-hits-45mph-for-1400\/","title":{"rendered":"Heybike Villain review: 4.2kW pit bike hits 45+mph for $1400"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/03\/heybike-villain-review-4-2kw-pit-bike-hits-45mph-for-1400.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be honest with you: when Heybike first teased the Villain ($1399), my reaction was somewhere between amazed, intrigued and skeptical. Heybike makes fantastic commuter e-bikes and impressive folders: the kind of bike your unc (me) buys to ride to the farmer\u2019s market. So when they showed up at CES with a Sur-Ron-ish-style electric dirt bike claiming 45 mph and 190 Nm of torque, at less than half the price, I had serious questions. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/03\/25\/heybike-villain-review-4-2kw-pit-bike-hits-45mph-for-1400\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/heybike-villain-review-4-2kw-pit-bike-hits-45mph-for-1400\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":350521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}