Japanese part producer Shimano has launched two new electrical bike drive items within the form of the EP5 and EP5100. The model says the brand new drive items, “symbolize a big step into a brand new period of e-bikes, empowering riders to discover additional, join deeper, and expertise the pure pleasure of biking.”
The brand new EP5 and EP5100 techniques be part of Shimano’s present e-bike drive choices, the EP8 and EP6 geared toward mountain biking while the EP6100 and E5000 techniques are suited extra to city mobility and commuting.
E-bikes for commuting and concrete mobility are more and more phrases that go hand in hand with extra individuals turning to e-bikes as an answer for getting round city and commuting to work. It appears Shimano has angled its newest drive items particularly at this nook of the biking group.
We anticipate to see these techniques on hybrid and commuter e-bikes (Picture credit score: Shimano)
EP5: Energy balanced with vary
The EP5 system affords riders an excessive amount of customisation and the flexibility to tune the texture and traits of every of the three help modes, eco, path and enhance by way of Shimano’s E-Tube Venture Bike owner app. The three-kilogram EP5 system can ship as much as 60Nm of torque and is appropriate with disc, curler or coaster brake techniques.
Though vary is a difficult factor to precisely calculate for an e-bike system. Shimano is assured that the EP5, on a ‘largely flat commuting course’ can present help for as much as 270 kilometres on a single cost. If riders have no 270-kilometre rides in thoughts it does imply that the system may final per week or extra between prices.
One other characteristic of the EP5 is its compatibility with the Auto-Shift perform for bikes with inside hub gearing or a rear derailleur setup. Because the identify suggests this takes shifting out of the arms of the rider and lets the bike shift gears so that you can all the time maintain you in essentially the most appropriate gear based mostly in your cadence, rider enter and motor help.
In areas the place rules allow the EP5 drive unit is able to offering help as much as a most pace of 28 mph. Nevertheless, in areas similar to the UK and the EU, all e-bike courses are ruled by a 25 km/h (15 mph) most help pace.
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The EP5 offers a quoted 270km vary (Picture credit score: Shimano)
EP5100: Constructed for on a regular basis e-biking
Becoming a member of the EP5 is the EP5100 which the model says is a extra accessible drive unit. Tipping the scales at 2.4kg and delivering 50Nm of torque, the motor has rather less help than the EP5. Geared toward ‘commuting and on a regular basis adventures’ the EP5100 has been designed to bridge the hole between conventional biking and pedal-assisted biking.
The EP5100 has been designed to offer riders with a easy and pure help platform. Very like its extra premium brother the EP5100 can be customisable by way of the E-Tube Venture Bike owner app.
For riders wanting to utilize the model’s Auto Shift know-how the EP5100 is barely appropriate with inside hub gear drivetrains solely, reasonably than each inside hub gears and conventional exterior derailleurs the EP5 system can cope with. Just like the EP5 it is usually appropriate with disc, curler and coaster brakes.
Forward of its launch Shimano stated that the EP5100 was, “Impressed by greater than 100 years of biking historical past, the E5100 bridges the worlds of biking and e-biking, by providing a light-weight and responsive help system, whereas offering riders with a pure really feel and dependable efficiency with each stroke.”
We do not have pricing for the brand new items but however anticipate to see them being specced on commuter and hybrid e-bikes within the close to future.
The drive techniques are simply charged (Picture credit score: Shimano)
