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Gocycle: The fold-up electric bike fit for the 21st century

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One of the most compelling examples of urban transportation we’ve seen in recent times, the Gocycle is a lightweight electric bike developed with professionals and families in mind which brings a number of style and performance firsts to city-specific two-wheelers. Gocycle’s design engineer and founder of Karbon Kinetics Limited (KKL), Richard Thorpe, cut his teeth working in lightweight vehicle design for companies such as McLaren and turned his attention to bicycles in an attempt to break the mould of conventional design – and with its lightweight magnesium alloy construction, push-button access to electric propulsion and an innovative enclosed multi-speed chain-drive, the Gocycle does just that.

Functioning as a accustomed pedal powered bike, the Gocycle can about-face to burning electric ability at the blow of a button amid on the handlebars. Its entire frame and wheels are injection-moulded in light-weight magnesium alloy in a process called Thixomoulding – a type of injection moulding for metal, which is more durable than plastic and commonly used to create magnesium casings of products such as laptops, digital cameras and mobile phones. This delivers the smooth, seamless attending and achievement of carbon fiber, but at one-tenth of the amount and allows the Gocycle to be produced at a abundant cheaper amount than commensurable carbon cilia bikes according to Thorpe.

Gocycle’s electric bicycle motor and controller are packaged in the easily replaceable front motor fork assembly and the motor is hidden away in the cycle’s front hub. The addition can bound ability 15mph and a distinct charge, which takes about three hours, will accommodate a biking ambit of up to 20 afar depending on pedal ascribe and terrain. The Gocycle is also the world’s first production bicycle to feature a completely enclosed multi-speed chain-drive with side-mounted wheels. This patented 3-speed Cleandrive system means no grease and grime on your clothes, and the side-mounted and interchangeable PitstopWheel means fixing a flat tire is easy. The assemblage is additionally advised to be accessible to store, disassembling to a admeasurement of 65×54x26cm for packing abroad into a bendable bag or adamantine case.

In another first, Gocycle will be introducing a virtual business model to the cycling industry to cut out the middlemen and deliver the Gocycle directly to the customer. While specialist high-end retail partners will also deliver a traditional face-to-face consumer service for those that prefer to buy the old fashioned way, Thorpe says he wants to, ‘bring Apple design and Dell distribution to the current two-wheeler marketplace,’ so the Gocycle will be available online as well as through in-store displays at Gocycle Certified Dealers. KKL additionally offers absolute backup of genitalia beneath assurance and banal fulfilment of in-store purchases aural 24 hours to UK acreage and two to three canicule to Europe.

Electric bicycles are big business in Asia and parts of Europe, but as urban commuters contend with ever stagnating traffic in major cities and government attempts to reduce traffic congestion around the world, KKL research predicts that the electric two-wheeler market is expected to have double digit growth in the next decade. KKL’s attack to accouter this bazaar befalling with the Gocycle provides a city-specific carriage band-aid that is advised to be not alone amount effective, but additionally fun – and really, is there annihilation added fun than canoeing accomplished backed up cartage on a bike? I think not.


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Written by Truck Parts and Accessories

March 13th, 2010 at 7:04 am

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Tagged with electric bicycle, electric bicycles, electric bike, electric bikes, folding electric bike

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