marketmover - Gocycle
time for the Christmas 2012 season and beyond. The G2 has already won the prestigious iF Award for
design at the EUROBIKE 2012 cycle show in September and is arguably the lightest production electric bicycle available today. Its total weight of 15.6kg is made possible by the injection-moulded lightweight magnesium frame. The G2’s quiet and compact electric motor can boost you up those hills so that you’re not hot and sweaty when you get to work and will only cost you one penny for every 10- mile commute (based on 13p per KwH energy cost). “G1 offered ground-
Go Go Gadget Bike!
T
breaking value for money back in 2009, but our customers wanted more—specifically a lightweight and extended range lithium battery, torque-sensing pedal drive, and a quieter motor drive unit. We listened, and the
Want to negotiate the deadly rush hour traffic? There is an alternative to the Boris bike with the Gocycle G2…
he daily toil of the rush hour commute is enough to make even the hardiest of souls despair. For the manufacturers of Gocycle
however, the G2 is the perfect answer: a sleek, lightweight electric bicycle that combines power, portability and style to make commuting fun—yet keeps you fresh and clean and saves you time!
Gocycle G2 is the brainchild of ex-McLaren Cars engineer Richard Thorpe and is a second-generation
development of his G1 version which was launched in 2009 and sold out by 2011. “The Gocycle concept is the fusion of
my day-to-day experiences of living in London, my expertise in lightweight vehicle design and my insight into the market opportunity presented by electric
two wheelers,” explains Richard Thorpe. Following the success of Gocycle G1, Thorpe returned to the drawing board to improve on the award-winning design and is now launching the all-new Gocycle G2 just in
smartphone- enabled which allows fully customisable motor drive functions by the user and pin security
All G2s are
G2 has all of these new features plus an extended range of up to 40 miles and multiple user-defined assistance modes with speed, electric gear selection and battery state of charge displayed on the seamless handlebar dashboard display,” said Thorpe. “But we didn’t stop there. All G2s are smartphone- enabled which allows fully customisable motor drive functions by the user and pin security—no other production electric bicycle can link to your smart device. Retro aficionados can even enable a ‘Knightrider/Cylon from Battlestar Galactica’-style display on the dash,” he continued. Gocycle’s patented Cleandrive system is a three-
speed, fully-enclosed, maintenance-free chain drive that guarantees clean clothes—so there is no need to carry the office suit in a haversack—and now has proprietary electronic Predictive Shifting which senses and actively downshifts automatically. And when you have beaten the traffic the G2 folds
down into an easily portable travel case that you can stow in your office or your city living space eliminating the tedious security and storage worries of the traditional bike. SGB
SGB-SPORTS.COM | 09
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40