Cyclescheme is an employee benefit that saves you 26–40% on a bike and accessories. You pay nothing upfront and the payments are taken tax efficiently from your salary by your employer.which has a battery that rather obviously sits on the front and makes the bike front heavy. The Efolding's frame integrated battery means a better balanced bike, even if it has a smaller capacity than the official Brompton Electric . The Efolding also has an LCD with power buttons which the Brompton lacks.
The most obvious omission is a side charging port for the battery. You have to break the mainframe, as you would when folding it, then plug in the charger to the end of the battery. It's all a bit ungainly and fiddly, especially if you're trying to charge in a restricted space. At higher levels it's got good hill climbing performance too. The torquey motor allied with the natural acceleration of small wheels meant it put in a decent uphill performance for the size of the motor, being only a few seconds off the pace of bigger e-bikes with more powerful mid-drives. It felt lively up the hills even in cold, fairly windy winter conditions. Up our ultra-steep hill climb it proved one the fastest e-bikes we've tested, limited only by the lack of a lower gear.
The five gears worked smoothly and are a big improvement on Brompton's own six-speed system which is fiddly by comparison with the changers themselves prone to sticking.
Noticeably a Brompton fold copy.
That looks er, familiar.
‘…notably the Brompton lacks disc brakes…”…. Er…no….”notably Brompton hasn’t wasted time on unnecessary and harder to maintain and adjust disc brakes and relied on their own excellent rims brakes. You really don’t need any more braking than they offer…”
Looks a bit like a BromptonBicycle clone!