It's been approximately a year since we've last heard from Harley-Davidson's nascent electric bicycle project, except based on what the visitor is ballyhooing today, it may have been well account the wait. Harley-Davidson unveiled a beauteous new electric bicycle that it says will go on unloading in Mugging 2021. And the motorcycle mason is also spinning out its e-bike one-fourth as a visionary visitor self-named Serial 1 Cycle.
First and foremost, this is unaffectedly a nostalgia play. The name Serial 1 is unaffectedly a stating to "Serial Ordinal One," the nickname for Harley-Davidson's oldest known motorcycle built in 1903. The bike's design, with its white tires, pelage saddle and handgrips, and sleek cloudiness frame, are meant to harken inadvertently to that original prototype.
Harley's new visitor sprung out of the company's skunk works Artefact Minutiae Center, where a small mass of "passionate motorcycle and bicycle enthusiasts" have been working on designing and developing an e-bike "worthy of the Harley-Davidson name," Harley says.
Harley-Davidson wouldn't offer up any specs, therefore we can only speculate on power levels, bombardment size, range, and price. Neutral based on the photos, Serial 1 has a mid-drive motor, a chugalug bulldoze system (possibly a Gates Reduplicate system that is known to be long lasting), a frame-integrated battery, frame-integrated headlight and taillights, and a pelage accents.
One thing's clear, though: this wasn't between between one of the three ancestor bikes that Harley showed at last year's EICMA Motorcycle Silkiness in Milan. Aaron Frank, colophon manager for Serial 1, wouldn't explication on future models except did note that the prototypes from EICMA are "indicative of what Serial 1 eBicycles may attending like."
"Great succeed are stuff taken to make the bikes as easy and intuitive to operate as possible, which includes key features like a mid-mounted motor with microchip battery, microchip lighting and internal cinchers curve and wiring," Frank said in an email to The Verge.
Also no chat from the visitor as to whether it plans to put its fun-looking electric moped into production, which we original saw in original 2019. (Given the popularity and hype surrounding similar models from Juiced, Rad Power Bikes, and Lithium Cycle, and the growing electric moped bazaar globally, it would be wise for Harley-Davidson to jump on the bandwagon and put these bad boys on the streets.)
Electric bicycle sales in the US have been exploding since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, whereas picked e-bikes are interloper from overseas. Last year, the US interloper approximately 270,000 e-bikes. This year, the totalistic is granted to end up somewheres between 500,000 and 600,000, according to Bloomberg citing data from the Mirrorlike Electric Viceroy Association.
Harley is approximately to entrance a actual huddled bazaar where plane huge bicycle manufacturers like Specialized, Trek, and Mammoth are competitive with fast growing e-bike companies like Rad Power Bikes, Pedego, and X-Treme Electric Bikes. It also won't be the original motorcycle colophon to make this shift: UK-based Celebration unveiled its own prototype, the Trekker GT, earlier this year. And Ducati launched its original e-bike last year.
Automotive brands are also having in on the action: BMW is organizational electric bikes and motorcycles, Audi is manufacturing electric mountain bikes, Mercedes-Benz unveiled an electric scooter, Ford acquired e-scooter startup Spin, and Jeep recurrently unveiled a activating electric mountain bike. Except it hasn't been without its potholes, too. Ariv, the e-bike colophon launched by Granted Motors, was restlessly shutdown in May, in the midst of the original days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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