Elmoto HR-2 – electric motorcycle put to the test

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Elmoto HR-2 - electric motorcycle put to the test
Bilski

Electric motorcycle

Already driven: Elmoto HR-2

Leave the car behind, put on your helmet and take the Elmoto into town. In the saddle of the e-bike you can look into the future: It’s light, quiet and casual.

What looks so cool as a two-wheeler can only emit a low whirring sound instead of a bassy engine sound. The E.lmoto HR-2 is such a two-wheeler. The cheeky vehicle effortlessly achieves podium places in terms of styling and conspicuousness, conversations with passers-by are guaranteed as if you were going for a walk with a baby elephant.

Visually it looks like a pimped up mountain bike, in terms of traffic law it looks like a 50s scooter. The e-bike can legally manage 45 km / h – you can go downhill more, uphill you get stuck with just over 30 things. The starting torque, however, is okay. 

Not only in terms of design, but also in terms of technology, the Elmoto designers had more of a bike than a motorcycle in mind. Magura, for example, supplies the braking system. The braking power may be sufficient for a normal bicycle, but on an electric two-wheeler you have to pull the lever quite a bit for adequate deceleration. The wooden Schwalbe tires give little feedback about the proximity to the blocking limit. The fork also plays its part: once the high breakout force has been overcome, it compresses gradually. In the absence of rebound damping, however, it then rebounds like a rubber ball. The strut duo at the rear lives up to its martial look with undue hardness.

After all, the Elmoto is child’s play to conduct and drives as if you had never driven anything else. The bicycle thinking comes through again on the handlebars: just a mirror, the brake levers are reversed, and the pilot has to give hand signals to turn – particularly annoying to turn to the right because you have to let go of the throttle. Every beginning is difficult. But rarely so personable.

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