- What happens if you take the uro out of Eurobike?
You get E-bike.
I'm very pleased with that introduction.
Anyway, let's go and take a look at some P-E-T.
Performance Enhancing Technology.
This thing's amazing.
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This is about the closest we have seen an e-bike
look to a standard road bike.
It is the Focus Project Y.
They've managed to combine the motor and the battery here
in the down tube, which is what helps it to look so neat.
That will provide an extra 400 watts of power
at its maximum, but like a lot of e-bikes,
it does cut out, it doesn't help you anymore,
above 25 kilometres per hour.
This bike weighs in at 12 and a half kilogrammes,
including the four and a half kilogramme battery.
So that's pretty good as well.
And there's a Fazua gearbox in the bottom bracket there.
It does mean that the Q-factor is slightly wider,
but to accommodate and to keep the chain line fairly good,
they've also widened the rear dropout slightly as well.
That, I think, is a sign of things to come.
E-bikes are going to be like standard road bikes
in the not-too-distant future.
You have to love a concept bike, don't you?
We've got a couple here from car manufacturers.
This is the PG Bugatti, which they claim is the
lightest e-bike currently available in the world.
It was officially launched just a couple of weeks ago.
So you can buy this.
It's a production model.
It comes in at just 8.4 kilogrammes.
There's a lot of details on it
which bring it down to that weight.
It is a one piece carbon frame.
If you look at the rear here, there's just one
seat stay and one chain stay there as well.
It's a small mid-motor with a 55 kilometre range,
which has pedal-assist.
It's got attuned brakes, so at the front it's rim brakes,
and at the rear we have a disc.
As I said 8.4 kilogrammes.
It will set you back a pretty penny.
At the very least,
this bike will be 65,000 Euros.
Yes, you did hear that right.
And if you want the very top spec,
you can get one for 130,000 Euros.
So I think I might be just leaving this one for now.
Over here, we have a prototype, meanwhile,
from Maserati.
This is also a mid-motor from a company called Fazua,
which has a removable battery.
Comes in at just under 10,000 Euros,
9,999, and will be available
in spring of 2018 at some point.
It's slightly heavier than the Bugatti,
but still a very respectable 11 kilogrammes.
And it will be available as is it's specced here,
with the SRAM Force groupset and the Zipp wheels.
Orbea released three versions of the Gain e-bike.
The road bike here, the gravel bike in the background,
and also a city bike as well.
Now as you can see, this is a very sleek
and compact design.
They are working with Ebikemotion,
who have provided Orbea with the X35 system.
Now, they wanted to create a bike that was
for people that are pretty fit
and actually don't need much assistance
most of the time, just a little bit
perhaps on some of the climbs.
So the range of this bike is around about 70 kilometres,
but it will give you 2,000 metres of elevation gain
and up to 200 watts of power.
All of the bikes that you see here are Bluetooth compatible,
so they're running with a special Orbea version
of the Ebikemotion apps which give you navigation
and a whole host of other features as well.
And the settings, there are three on here,
in terms of how much assist you get,
are all controlled by one single button
up there on the top tube.
And the compact design of the system has meant that
there is really no difference in the transmission
here between this bike and a conventional road bike.
The weight is just 13 kilogrammes,
only a slight penalty on top end road bikes.
So for all intents and purposes, this thing is going to
feel very similar to a normal road bike
when you haven't got that assist on.
Now that is an e-bike!
One for the GMBN boys though, I think.
Bianchi are here with a brand new e-road-bike
which they are calling the e-road Impulso.
It's got a a 36 volt, 250 watt motor
which is made by Polini, who are designing
and manufacturing those motors in Italy,
in Bergamo, in fact, which is right next
to where Bianchi are themselves.
The integrated battery, which is here in the down tube,
looks pretty neat and gives a maximum range
of 200 kilometres.
So there's hope for me doing a long ride yet.
A lot of interest in this bike here at the show.
This is the latest offering from Stromer,
who have skipped a couple of beats and gone
straight from the ST2 to this, the ST5.
It won't be available I'm afraid until June of 2018,
but amongst other things, it has a
Shimano XTR Di2 groupset and also
Pirelli custom two and a half inch tyres.
Continental might well be better known for their tyres,
especially in the bicycle industry,
but they've also been making motors
for many, many years.
They recently developed a 48 volt hybrid motor
for the Renault Scenic, and they've used that
exact same technology for the development
of their e-bike motors, which feature fully automatic
and continuously variable transmission modes.
For some people, e-bikes are about going further
and faster, but for most people,
they are really about convenience.
And that is what Tern has turned their attention to
with this new model call the GSD,
which apparently stands for Get Stuff Done,
at least that's what I've been told to say.
They are deeming this
cargo capacity on a city footprint.
And that's why they've got the city bike behind.
Because despite all the storage that you can see
on this bike, the length of it is actually
exactly the same as a standard city bike.
They've got a dual battery in here which has
a range of up to 250 kilometres.
This thing is all about convenience, really.
So as you can see, plenty of storage room
on this thing for your weekly shop
or your weekly drinks there at the front.
You can also transport your kids on the back
to nursery or school.
And an adult, too, because there are some pegs
which come out here at the rear of the bike.
There is also a slight folding capability
here at the handlebars.
You can put the seat right down.
And that's for people who live in the city
who are gonna benefit the most really
from this type of bike, so that you can
get it inside a lift or elevator
if you live in a block of flats.
Check this out, mate.
I mean, check this out.
It is from Mate who are a startup company
from Denmark who began on Indiegogo
around about a year ago.
And they've already sold 6,000 of these folding e-bikes.
A couple of quirky things on here.
Firstly, they've got a proper throttle,
so even when you're not pedalling,
you can actually go faster.
I'm gonna give it a go in a few moments' time.
Easy USB charging, which you can access just here.
The range on this bike 55 to 60 kilometres,
even when you're not pedalling,
and up to 120 when you are.
And it sounds like they've a lot of interest in these.
It is of course, a folding bike.
And this is how small it will get down to.
Love them or hate them, there is no doubt
that e-bikes are here to stay.
And I think, to be honest, I love them.
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