THE BEAUTY

of this bicycle is its ability to do everything a conventional bicycle does with the option of comfort that does not accompany a pedal-powered machine. Feel like burning a few calories? Then set the PaS (Pedalassist System) to “0” and work through the gears until you run out of breath. If you have to reach your destination as fresh as a daisy, then rest your legs on the pedals and let the motor do all the work.

cycling through narrow, traffic-free lanes, PaS level one was enough to carry reasonable speed. level three offers the most motor input and proved to be useful when I had to maintain considerable speed on the main roads. The assistance from the motor comes in handy especially if you lose momentum when in a high gear. Instead of pedalling back up to speed or dropping a few gears, I simply used the motor to reclaim lost speed and pedalled away effortlessly.