E Bikes Reviewed

British high-street mobility retailer Pure Electric stocks a huge range of electric bikes, along with scooters, cargo bikes and more and Pure has now launched its own range of ebikes, with its £999 Flux One among the least expensive ebikes you can buy today.

Yeti’s 2022 160E is the American brand’s first electric mountain bike and is intended to tackle the electric enduro race segment head-on, having been designed and developed specifically to handle the rigours of the world’s hardest eMTB races.

Genesis’ new Smithfield is a UK-designed electric bike that resembles a classic urban roadster, with an impressive spec list, a smooth ride and a claimed maximum range of up to 150km.

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.