The e-bike festival in Dortmund has been the center of the pedelec world for two days. Everything that has status and name in the e-bike industry is on site. Sunday promises the best weather and is the perfect opportunity to find out more and take a test drive.
The festival is powered by Shimano and so the German general agency is on site with a large team and all products. In addition to the proven components, you can also examine saddles, tool accessories and clothing, for example.
The Velomotion team created the "E-Bike Festival Dortmund App" with which all visitors can find out about the program and the exhibitors on site and their location. It is available for free.
As the largest bike manufacturer in the world, Giant has a bike for every taste in its range. The Quick-E+45 is a speed pedelec with a 500 watt and 80 Nm strong Yamaha mid-motor.
Dennis Freiburg showed us the prototype of a self-built and self-programmed e-bike drive. The engine comes from a remote-controlled helicopter. The system should only weigh 1,6 kilos.
DT Swiss is also present with the E-MTB wheel range that has just been presented. To be seen at the Merida Centurion stand. There are a variety of interesting bikes for a wide variety of purposes.
Kalkhoff is a constant when it comes to solutions for electrified movement on two wheels. The brand is one of the few suppliers to have several drive concepts in its range.
Conway has the brand new E-WME with Shimano drive in its luggage. The bike is said to cost €2 with Rock Shox Yari and Monarch as well as a complete XT di4600. It complements the e-mountain bike range in the direction of enduro.
At the Bergamont stand, too, we talked shop in detail. E-bikes are products that require explanation and the exhibitors present have an answer ready for almost every question.
E-bike pioneer Haibike always has many visitors at its stand. The e-mountain bike pioneer also brought along many models for urban use.
At eFlow we looked at the very stylish UM2classic. It comes with a Conti mid-engine and a battery with over 600 watt hours. There will be 2 variants from €3999, which will be available in August.
Bosch hired trail building guru Diddie Schneider to build a course. Not only a night sprint race took place here. The route was used extensively for test drives.
In addition to around 400 different lamps for e-bikes, Busch und Müller now also has a light holder that enables the headlight to be attached to the display. The 470BH for Bosch costs €12,90, the 470 SH for Shimano €19,90.
Mathias shows us the Rose Elec Tec which is now available. In terms of equipment, the bike is consistently geared towards off-road use. A Bluetooth-capable display should, for example, allow information from a navigation system to be displayed. We ordered it for a detailed test.
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