Sports activities carmaker McLaren enters the efficiency e-bike market

McLaren is hardly the primary carmaker to enterprise into two-wheeled transport, however the Surrey-based supercar builder is pitching proper to the very top-end of contemporary biking with its new e-bike vary, McLaren Bikes, introduced this week.

McLaren Bikes debuts 4 electrical mountain bikes

The corporate is bringing 4 fashions to the market, the Excessive 600W and Excessive 250W, together with the Sport 600W and Sport 250W. The previous are billed as ‘hyperbikes’, machines that should have a lot in frequent with McLaren’s choose vary of bespoke hypercars, epitomised by fashions just like the Speedtail.

The Sport duo are supposed to have extra in frequent with the ‘on a regular basis’ McLaren vary, which incorporates vehicles just like the GT and 720S (since changed by the 750S) and the hybrid Artura.

So what do vehicles and bikes have in frequent? The obvious crossover is that McLaren’s design crew has had a hand in shaping these carbon fibre-framed mountain bikes. The design goes a lot additional than the easy utility of the corporate’s signature Papaya Orange, nonetheless. Carbon-fibre building is the obvious parallel, whereas the massing of the body emphasises the route taken by the dynamic forces generated by the experience, in addition to reduces the visible weight of the battery pack.

Sheer energy is one other defining high quality. The 600W mannequin (obtainable solely within the USA) is described as one of many ‘world’s most potent e-bikes’. That ought to be good for an (electrified) prime velocity of 20mph. All fashions characteristic 5 completely different energy settings, Off, Eco, Path, Sport, and Race, mimicking the driving force modes present in McLaren’s street vehicles. Data, together with velocity, battery life and vary, is proven on a handlebar-mounted color LCD panel.

The bikes can be found as each full-suspension Excessive fashions and as hardtail Sport fashions, and all choices use Pirelli tyres, McLaren Automotive’s long-standing associate. The corporate expects the supply of the brand new e-bikes to be strictly restricted, identical to with its most high-end vehicles. 

McLaren e-bikes, from £7,200 for Excessive 250 mannequin, McLarenBikes.com, @Mclaren_Bikes