Responsive, quiet and lightweight: that’s why hub motor and torque sensor are a perfect team

Wherever you look, almost every well-known manufacturer now offers e-bikes that use a hub motor in the rear wheel for the electric drive. No wonder, because this drive offers numerous advantages, especially for e-bikes for urban use, with which the typical mid-mounted motor can hardly keep up. The hub motor ensures a smooth ride Modern […]

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A Cannondale cargo bike? Even two of them: Cargowagen and Wonderwagen are the names of the new big haul bikes!

The fact that cargo bikes are a hot topic should have gotten around by now. And so it is hardly surprising that more and more manufacturers are adopting this practical bike genre, as also shown by the new Cannondale cargo bike. Where we must speak here in the plural, because Cannondale starts with two model

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Globe Haul LT: the compact cargo bike is now also available as a long tail variant

First the bad news: No, Specialized still does not offer the products of the sub-brand Globe here in Europe. We had already discussed the issue in detail at the launch of the Globe Haul ST in this article, where you can get all the info on the compact cargo bike. In short, the Haul is

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With or without motor? Your choice! The sporty-urban Rose Sneak is now also available as an analog bike

Mostly it was like this: a bike company had a popular bike and then additionally released this model as an e-bike as well. But Rose now shows that this also works in the other direction with the Sneak: Started as a slim and lightweight e-bike Rose Sneak Plus, the bike is now also available as

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Best-of: Minimalist singlespeed e-bikes with belt drive

The simplest and most puristic form of cycling is probably experienced with a singlespeed drive (we’ll deliberately leave out the fixie here): With just one gear, it’s entirely up to your own physical condition how you manage the ride from A to B. This is a topic for quite a small target group, actually, since

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Lemmo One Belt drive: first impression of the singelspeed e-bike with exciting new updates!

We have already reported on the Lemmo One here several times — including in our detailed test review of the smart e-bike. There, the bike was available to us with the derailleur, but now there is also a wide variant: the Lemmo ONE Beld drive is equipped with a belt drive and designed as a

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Innovative urban ebike from Decathlon: B’TWIN LD920 E automatic with a new motor with automatic transmission

Decathlon’s e-bikes — such as the Elops LD 500 E, which we had already tested extensively here — have been particularly convincing due to their attractive price-performance ratio. The technology of these bikes, on the other hand, was not very unusual and consisted of proven standard components. With its new B’TWIN LD920 e-bike, Decathlon is

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Urban Gravel bike with a steel frame: the new Rose HOBO seems to be a fun machine!

ROSE Bikes celebrates with their new Flatbar-Urban-Gravel Bike HOBO a comeback for the steel frame and gives the classic frame material a place in the ROSE Bike portfolio again. And this in an uber cool way! Because unlike many other new products, the HOBO was not about maximum performance, optimum weight and the latest technology

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Solid everyday bike at a fair price: the Vortrieb 1.2 with hub gears and full equipment

The new Vortrieb 1.2 can be described as a solid everyday bike in the best sense. No frills, no high-tech — just a everyday bike with reliable components. By the way, the mail-order company Bike Components is behind the Vortrieb brand and the new model is the second and somewhat revised edition of the previously

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Currently still available for less: the smart Cowboy Bike in its Performance version

Cowboy is currently a lot of movement in its lineup: just recently they introduced the new comfort variant with the addition Cruiser, which has an ergonomically shaped handlebar with a higher stem — and should thus provide a more upright and comfortable ride. Shortly thereafter, the new Cowboy Core was introduced as a lower-priced version

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