Scott Addict eRide: our take on the lightest production electric road bike on the market

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Scott has launched a motor-assisted model of its Addict highway bike. The Scott Addict eRide is the lightest identified manufacturing e-bike, taking the mantle from the Ribble Endurance SL e.

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Scott’s creation, in its lightest ‘Premium’ construct is available in at 10.75 kg. We’ve acquired a measurement small on take a look at, and positioned it at 10.7kg (with bottle cages), although that is upped to 12.4kg with the added ‘booster’ battery’.

The Addict eRide makes use of a Mahle drive unit and battery, with the low torque motor hidden away within the rear hub.

With the booster and run at eco mode, the bike can present a 73kg rider with a claimed 120km of driving, overlaying 2,200 metres of climbing. As ever, the capability for the end-user might be impacted by a plethora of variables – from rider weight to wind route.

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As per all e-bikes, the Scott Addict eRide is restricted to 25kph within the UK and Europe, while within the US that’s boosted to 20mph.

The brand new Scott Addict eRide spares no expense, while the geometry has been toned right down to create a snug experience, it’s a efficiency targeted construct with costs beginning at £3,999 with the highest of the road mannequin coming in at £8,349.

Light-weight highway bike, with energy

The brand new Addict eRide appears to be like quite a bit like some other efficiency bike. Take away the booster battery, and except you take a look at the rear hub, you’d be forgiven for complicated it with its Tour de France racing brethren. The carbon body is available in at 1040g.

The geometry has been adjusted, to create a barely extra relaxed experience. A measurement 56 within the Addict eRide has a stack/attain of 593/384mm vs 568/395mm in the usual Addict, making a barely extra upright experience. This arrange will swimsuit these with out the energy or flexibility to carry an aggressive place without back pain.

In a standout transfer, the Addict eRide comes with fully inside cable routing. The high quality fashions include an impressively slick trying one piece Syncros Creston IC SL / Carbon bar and stem combo, with a two piece Syncros Creston IC 1.5 compact bar and stem decrease down the ladder.

The place the ability comes from

Scott has turned to Mahle to offer the drive unit. Like most up-to-date light-weight e-road bike creations, that is nestled within the rear hub and is a 36v/250w motor with a max torque of 40nm. A decrease torque motor supplies a extra pure really feel when put next with the excessive torque beasts you’d discover on the likes of e-mountain bikes. As enjoyable as it’s to surge off the lights, you don’t need to be jolting up the climbs.

The motor is supported by a 250Wh battery, that’s hidden within the downtube and charged up through a port slightly below the bottle cage. There’s then a ‘rage booster’ battery that provides an additional 208Wh, permitting you to experience additional if you want on one cost.

The system will be run in considered one of three modes, dictated by a color change on the management button positioned on the highest tube. Settings will be adjusted within the ‘Ebikemotion’ app, in addition to being related to a Garmin system.

The app itself supplies an enormous quantity of adjustability, with riders capable of tune the help given at every degree, even setting energy as much as kick in routinely at a set coronary heart price zone as famously utilized by Sean Yates to permit him to experience regardless of a coronary heart situation.

Who’s the Scott Addict eRide for?

While our muddy mountain biking brethren have embraced electrical bikes, the e-Highway market remains to be an rising one.

Scott’s personal advertising and marketing materials states “[making this bike] wasn’t to make issues simpler. No, we wished to make issues more durable, to make climbs increased, longer, steeper. To get you out the home earlier, and again house later.”

This very a lot speaks to the mountain bike world’s strategy to e-bikes: a motor means that you can experience for longer. Nonetheless, it doesn’t bear in mind the very actual variations between the motivations of mountain bikers and people of highway riders. The previous makes use of uplifts to cost again down the paths, while for almost all of highway riders, the achievement is in powering up the climbs – with out help.

Scott’s UK PR rep confirmed to us that the “increased, longer, steeper” description is a world strategy, and it would work for a rider residing in, say, the Dolomites. Within the UK, the Scott Addict eRide very a lot appears to be like to cater for the life lengthy bike owner, who needs to affix the membership run however doesn’t fairly have the health to match that of their driving buddies. The motor permits them to maintain tempo on the climbs, while on the flat, when the tempo is prone to exceed the 25kph/15mph max pace, it’s mild and aerodynamically unobtrusive permitting the rider to maintain up.

A motorcycle corresponding to this may be the lacking piece of the puzzle for a would-be rider who needs to take up biking however doesn’t imagine they’ve the health to get occurring the journey. Lastly, it might even exchange a automobile by taking the sting of an in any other case arduous commute (so long as you may lock it someplace secure).

The experience

Scott Addict e-ride, pictured right here with the vary extender fitted

I’ve had Scott’s Addict eRide as a part of my steady for a couple of weeks, giving me the chance to check it in a variety of circumstances.

There’s no query that the bike appears to be like nearly unrecognisable from the likes of the usual Addict. Lined up in my bike shed, it doesn’t increase any eyebrows.

The ending equipment on this mannequin is prime draw. I completely love the sweeping handlebar form and am trying ahead to making an attempt it on a typical Scott Addict. The 30mm Schwalbe Professional One TL tyres had been extraordinarily snug pumped as much as 70psi.

The Syncros Belcarra Common 1.0 saddle, comparatively, was not a match for me. I practically all the time change the saddle on any take a look at bike earlier than the primary experience, however the form of this one lulled me right into a false sense of safety. While bums are like snowflakes (distinctive) I’d counsel that any ladies trying to purchase this bike swap the saddle for one thing designed with a feminine (or unisex) rider at entrance of thoughts.

Charging the bike was simple, although in fact it did imply bringing it indoors and setting it up subsequent to a plug socket.

I used the bike to hold me out of Caterham Valley, the place I reside, to Reigate (the place my favorite bike store lives). I used to be eager to see if this bike might present a substitute for driving, for instance on a day the place I’d already accomplished a coaching session on a typical bike and easily need to get from A to B.

Hitting the highway, deciding on the best energy mode had me smiling immediately. While it’s true that the motor doesn’t ‘surge’ in eco mode, within the highest setting it does give a smile inducing jolt (you may flip it down should you don’t need that).

The hills en route had been rendered considerably simpler, however not with out effort. For example, Shepard’s Hill between Merstham and Caterham took me 3 minutes 10 to finish, with a mean coronary heart price of 159bpm. Comparatively, my greatest un-assisted effort is 3 minutes 30 at 180bpm. I didn’t equip the Addict eRide with an influence meter however hopefully it’s apparent that the decrease coronary heart price was a response to decrease energy required.

On commute fashion rides, my total experience time was truly little totally different to that on an unassisted bike. On flat sections when I discovered myself going over 15mph/25kph and dropping the motor help, I backed off.

The one challenge with the thought of utilizing this bike to commute is that it’s a excessive priced merchandise to depart locked up exterior, however should you’re going from house to a office with safe bike parking that challenge is much less urgent, supplied you don’t have to cease off and purchase dinner en route house.

Outdoors of commute duties, with a lot DNA of the Addict handed on, the Addict eRide would completely current a tantaslising possibility for a bike owner who needs to affix in on group rides with associates, however doesn’t share the identical health degree. With the booster battery fitted, it’s fairly a heavy machine, however take that off and also you’ve acquired a motorcycle that weighs about the identical as loads of un-assisted entry-level bikes.

The one space I see being a problem could be these arduous, quick energy climbs discovered on undulating roads – the place the pace is perhaps in extra of 15mph/25kph, particularly if preceded by a brief descent. On this kind of terrain, the load of the rear hub was noticeable. Nonetheless, in case your driving buddies are minded to, they might little doubt management the tempo right here and make sure the experience stayed collectively.

I used to be eager to see if e-bikes are actually the reply relating to permitting folks of various health ranges to experience collectively. So I lent the bike to a few I do know – George (a aggressive bike owner) and Lara (a novice bike owner). The pair accomplished a 40km route, with Lara commenting that although driving the bike was not with out effort, she discovered it extra pleasurable than the handful of rides they’ve achieved collectively while she’s been driving an unassisted bike – including that she’d be extra prone to be a part of George for rides sooner or later on a motorcycle like this.

The Mahle system pairs up with its eBikmotion app, this can be utilized to regulate the settings and likewise monitor rides should you use a phone mount on the bars. I as an alternative opted to pair the bike with my Garmin 1030 computer – and this allowed me to regulate the quantity of help used, and see the battery life.

Prime tube button turns the motor on and adjustments between modes

The help modes can be managed through the button on the highest tube. Nonetheless, communication is through a variety if flashing lights in several colors. It’s not immediately clear what every color refers to, and I discovered utilizing this technique meant taking my eyes off the highway for longer than I’d like – so the Garmin management would all the time be my choice. This remark was backed up by Lara, who additionally discovered the system troublesome to function while driving, and it’s a criticism we voiced of the Ribble Endurance SL e which additionally adopts this format.