Fiido Nomads Pro review: 100Nm mid-drive power at an impressive price

One of my highlights from last year – at least when it comes to electric bikes – was Fiido’s Nomads bike. It is an excellent touring bike with a solid build and plenty of features for the money. No wonder it won the T3 Awards 2026 in the best electric bike category.

The Nomdas Pro, a two-wheeler I’ve been testing for a few weeks, is very similar but comes with a mid-drive motor. It’s a big upgrade; mid-drive models are the cream of the crop of the e-bike world, and are priced accordingly.

Since it’s Fiido, I expected the Nomads Pro to be an excellent value bike with a long range and a decent feature and components list. And it’s exactly that. Should you get one? Read my full review below to find out.

Fiido Nomads Pro review

Price and availability

The Fiido Nomads Pro is available now directly from Fiido, with the standard single-battery model officially priced at €1,999 in Europe. In the UK, Fiido currently lists the bike at around £1,818. US and AU prices and availability TBC.

Design and build quality

The Fiido Nomads Pro is a substantially beefier machine than the standard Nomads. It still uses a 29-inch aluminium alloy frame and keeps the same touring-focused silhouette. However, the hardware has been upgraded with the aforementioned mid-drive motor, new front suspension and more.

Sadly, that extra hardware adds some heft. The Nomads was not a lightweight bike at about £24 kg, but the Nomads Pro tips the scales at 26.2kg, around 1.5kg more than its predecessor. The maximum payload remains 120kg.

As a result, the new bike is even more effort to move when the assist maxes out (more on this in the Performance section). This kind of heft isn’t unusual for a full-size trekking e-bike with suspension, a mid-drive motor, and a removable battery.

Up front, Fiido has swapped the standard Nomads’ oil-spring fork for a 120mm air-sprung suspension fork. A meaningful upgrade, especially if you plan to ride rougher tracks, as air suspension is lighter, more adjustable, and better suited to tuning than a basic coil setup.

The 29-inch tyres are more than suitable for the purpose, wrapped in 2.1-inch CST tyres, while the double-wall aluminium rims and stainless-steel spokes feel appropriate for a bike designed to carry luggage over longer distances.

The Nomads used a rear hub motor, but as I’ve already mentioned probably a 1,000 times in this review, the Nomads Pro gets a 250W mid-drive motor producing a claimed 100Nm of torque, which is a lot more than the Nomads’ 45Nm output (122% increase in quoted maximum torque, to be precise). Power delivery is managed by a Mivice X700 torque sensor.

It’s worth stopping here for a moment to explain why the motor's position matters more than torque. The regular Nomads’ motor drives the rear wheel directly, so its 45Nm doesn’t benefit from the bicycle’s gearing.

On the Nomads Pro, the motor drives through the chain and Shimano CUES drivetrain, meaning you can select a lower gear and let the motor operate more effectively when climbing. As a result, the bike feels dramatically stronger on steep hills even though both bikes say “250W” on the spec sheet.

Both bikes use the same 417.6Wh removable battery slots neatly into the downtube. Fiido’s approach of having to turn the battery on separately continues to trip me up, as it often makes me think – even just for a second – that the battery ran out. Then I remember that I forgot to press the button on the downtube before trying to turn the display on.

As I mentioned in the Nomads review, the larger frame doesn’t come with a larger battery, which means that the range is slightly less. Of course, the maximum range of the bike depends on a million factors, from rider weight to terrain and level of assist, but it’s true that the motor has to work harder on a larger frame carrying a (presumably) larger body.

As with the Nomads, Fiido also offers its expandable battery rack system, which can increase the claimed total range to 224.55km/139.53 miles with three batteries fitted. I wasn’t sent this, so I can’t comment on it. All I can say is that the system worked on the Nomads, so I can only assume it works here, too.

Fiido has stuck with a nine-speed Shimano drivetrain, although the Pro uses a CUES U3020 rear derailleur paired with an SL-M3100 shifter and 11-36T cassette. It’s not an exotic setup, but CUES is designed around durability and high-torque applications, so it makes plenty of sense on a comparatively heavy e-touring bike.

Braking hardware has also been beefed up, with HDM-5 four-piston hydraulic disc brakes replacing the Tektro setup used on the regular Nomads. Upgrades all around!

The seatpost is comparatively short, which means I ended up riding the bike in a suboptimal position, with my legs bent at the lowest point of the pedal stroke.

I would prefer a similar seat-adjustment setup to the Himiway A7 Pro or the Amflow PL Pro, where you can drop the seat using the lever on the handlebar. (Like on a mountain bike.) The fixed-angle, compact 1.47-inch screen is the same as on the Nomads, which works for me. It’s not the most amazing display but gets the job done.

The handlebar control unit, which lets you operate the assist, lights, horn, etc., is the same size as on the Nomads. The buttons are pretty small, and I doubt I could press them properly while wearing gloves. You can control the level assist using the larger buttons at the centre of the handlebar (under the screen), but that requires you to let go of the handlebar for a moment.

Ride characteristics and performance

The move from a rear hub motor to a 100Nm mid-drive fundamentally changes the character of the Nomads Pro compared with the regular Nomads. The motor feeds power through the drivetrain, making that torque especially useful when climbing.

Assistance responds to how hard you’re pushing, making the Nomads Pro feel more like an amplified bicycle than something dragging you along under electric power. Fiido says the delivery is “natural” and “responsive,” and I can’t disagree.

Given the size and heft of the Nomads Pro, you benefit the most from this new setup when you’re tackling uneven terrain relatively slowly, in the UK, anyway. I often hit the top limit of the assistance on tarmac, which almost feels like you cycled into a bog; switching the assist off suddenly drops the full weight of the bike on you to carry.

This is all fine if you’re just cycling gently along a dirt track, or if you’re not in a rush to get anywhere (which, I admit, is the point in touring). However, as someone who likes to travel at speed, I felt a bit restricted by the speed limit on the Nomads Pro and wished it was lighter instead of smoother than the Nomads.

Speaking of going off the beaten path, there’s certainly no shortage of hardware for dealing with less-than-perfect surfaces. The 29-inch wheels roll easily over gravel and other types of rougher terrain, while the 2.1-inch tyres strike a sensible middle ground between road-going efficiency and the extra cushioning and grip you want from a trekking bike.

The 120mm air fork is unusually generous for this category, too, giving the front end considerably more ability to absorb potholes, gravel and trail chatter than you’d expect from a conventional commuter e-bike. It doesn’t feel mushy, either.

The four-piston hydraulic brakes are another welcome addition given the weight and performance available. I weigh around 78 kg, so the bike and I are comfortably over 100 kg, but I never felt out of control.

On one of my range tests, I cycled around 40 km on a mix of country roads, cycle paths and dirt tracks, and often pulled over to let cars and agricultural machines pass. Not once did I have to emergency manoeuvre the bike – the brakes and smooth assist rally make the difference.

The wide, MTB-like handlebar also makes you feel at ease. I’m comparatively tall at 6’1” / 185 cm, but just like on the Nomads, it felt great riding the larger-framed Nomads Pro.

Range

Fiido claims up to 46.5 miles (74.9km) from the Nomads Pro’s 417.6Wh battery, and my real-world experience suggests that figure isn’t wildly optimistic. After 25.4 miles of riding, I still had 42% battery remaining, meaning I’d used 58% of the available charge.

Using that number, we can calculate that the maximum range should be around 43.8 miles (70.5km), which puts the real-world figure only about three miles short of Fiido’s maximum claim.

Not too shabby, considering the total weight and the mixed terrain I rode on. I also wanted to mention that my rides involved a mixture of assistance levels, including Sport mode, so around 40–45 miles per charge feels like a sensible expectation.

Verdict

The Fiido Nomads Pro's mid-drive motor is excellent, with smooth, natural assistance and plenty of torque for climbs, while the air fork, four-piston brakes, and Shimano CUES drivetrain make it a far more capable touring machine than its price suggests. If you want to experience the mid-drive touring e-bike life without splashing the cash, the Fiido Nomads Pro is an amazing choice. Just don't go too fast.