Lightweight commuter bike with powerful drive system: Rose Backroad+ Urban

A really exciting bike comes with the Backroad+ from Rose, which is offered in several variants: as a Gravel, Fitness, Randonneur and also as an urban bike. Common to all models is the comparatively low total weight — despite a very powerful mid-motor. Thus, the Backroad+ Urban weighs just 17 kg with full commuter equipment, […]

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Birthday discount: the Cowboy 3 is now available for under 2,000 euros

Cowboy, maker of the smart and connected design bike with electric drive system, is making the Cowboy 3, which was introduced a year ago, even more attractive for all e-bike enthusiasts. Thanks to the permanent and immediately valid price reduction of 200 euros, the connected bike including smart features such as accident detection as well

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Vekkit: compact e-bike conversion kit now available with GPS and LTE

Actually, Velotton from Poland makes attractive bicycle bags and backpacks, but for some time now they have also been offering a compact e-bike conversion kit called Vekkit. The set includes only a few parts: a wheel with hub motor, a bag with battery, a wireless pedal sensor and a wireless handlebar remote control. A smartphone

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Marin Larkspur and Muirwoods: retro bikes with steel frames

Slim and straight steel tubes are the basis for the current Larkspur and Muirwoods bikes from Marin. Stylistically, they have been inspired by classic mountain bikes, which were just as purist in their beginnings. The Muirwoods is the diamond frame model, which is somewhat sportier with straight handlebars and 28″ wheels with 45 mm wide

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In comparison: the smart e-bike trio VanMoof S3, Cowboy C4 and Veloretti Electric

They are only available online, attract with comparatively low prices and offer quite new features such as integrated GPS modules and extensive app connectivity: at first glance, the bikes from VanMoof, Cowboy and Veloretti appear to be quite similar. And yet they are quite different, as this comparison shows. For the 2021 model year, there

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These tires set accents: Panaracers Gravelking in 2021 limited colors

It has already become a tradition: For the fourth time in a row tire manufacturer Panaracer releases a limited edition of Gravelking Color tires. As always, with unusual colors that give the bike a personal flair and set a color accent. These colored Gravelking tires in limited edition are made with the same ZSG tire

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Vodafone Curve Bike: GPS tracker with a tail light designed for bikes

Whether Apple’s AirTags can be used to track a stolen bike was already discussed here recently. To cut a long story short: they can be quite helpful under certain circumstances and offer a long battery life – but a full-fledged GPS tracker will still be more reliable. Vodafone now presents such a tracker especially for

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Practical and stylish folding bike: Kruschhausen Cycles‘ Fiiz in the test

Typical folding bikes are a bit of a challenge: the compact bikes are undoubtedly practical, for example, if you have to travel part of the way by train or regularly transport the bike in the car. But folding bikes also have their very own look and ride characteristics, which usually have little in common with

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LIVALL EVO21: Affordable smart bike helmet with innovative safety features

LIVALL has already been around for 7 years and is now one of the leading companies in intelligent bicycle helmets. With more than 170 patents and 40 internationally recognized awards, LIVALL delivers 200,000 helmets a year all over the world — and soon a new and innovative model will be added! With the new EVO21

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Well equipped for micro-adventures with Ortlieb’s Handlebar Pack QR

Bikepacking and a new form of bike travel made its way over to Europe in 2016. This type of cycling originally comes from the US, where this trend experienced an unexpected boom with the emergence of a new type of bike: the gravel bike. The various expressions and interpretations of this bike and discipline are

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