E Bikes Reviewed

The Impulso E-Allroad is Bianchi’s electric commuter bike that’s built to carry you to work every day and get you out into the wilds too.

The Cairn BRAVe 1.0 is a mid-drive electric gravel bike that errs into electric mountain bike territory, offering a fun and well-controlled ride off-road, paired with a competitively priced build.

GoCycle is a genuine British success story. Its founder Richard Thorpe started out life as Formula 1 engineer for McLaren before designing the original G3 GoCycle a decade ago.

Canyon’s new Pathlite:ON 5 electric bike follows on from the superb Precede:ON, and not just in having an unusual name.

The slick design and smooth ride of the VanMoof S3 makes it one of the best electric hybrid bikes for urban riding, and the X3 looks set to build on that success with the attention to detail lavished on its new frame adding to the air of quality.

Halfords claims its new Carrera Crossroad is the cheapest electric road bike available, and the first to go sub-£1,000, if only by a penny. Scraping in under most employers’ Cycle to Work scheme limit, we got one in to see how it scored.

Cycling as transport and cycling as a sport/hobby are two different things and with more people looking to avoid public transport as much as possible this bike is firmly in the transport category.

The Canyon Grail:On is the German direct-to-market giant’s first exploration into the growing world of electric gravel bikes, two of the fastest-growing sectors in the bike market.