Have you ever tried comparing road bikes from different manufacturers and found that they each provide different metrics to assess their bikes. You can spend hours trying to work out if brand x is better or worse than the opposition or meets your personal requirements.

It seems to be even worse with e-road bikes. The manufacturers seem to have made an art form of presenting their bike metrics so that it can seem almost impossible to compare one brand with another.

 

Some of the questions that potential owners will ask include how heavy is the bike in running form, how long will the battery last before needing to be recharged, how long does it take for a full recharge, where is the electric motor located, etc.

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I decided to put together a template  covering the data that I think needs to be available so that potential purchasers or hirers of e-road bikes can compare 'apples with apples'.  As I was getting close to publishing the latest available data in early 2025 I became aware of a significant e-touring bike from Germany and I am hoping that it will be the first of many impressive e-bikes to be added to this blog.

 

With the assistance of my tech savvy grand daughter, Charlotte, we have developed a template I am using for each bike featured in this section of the blog. To update the data on each bike took a considerable amount of work and unfortunately even after checking manufacturers' web pages, bike shop sites and cycle review websites there are still blanks against various headings.  I hope that you, the reader, will be able to help me fill in the blanks.  

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There are many e- bikes out there and seemingly more are entering, and occasionally departing (e.g. the Focus Paralane2 e-road bike is no longer being produced), the market each week. If you see an e-road bike not covered by my comparison chart please send me the details and I will try to find the specifications and add them to the chart. Likewise, if you find that the data I have provided is incorrect, please send me the correct data and I will fix the chart. While the site has an Australian bias when it comes to specification and price I am more than happy to add pages for bikes only available in other markets.  After riding the De Rosa E-DO last year inn Italy I have added as much information as I could find on the net including its price in euros.

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CAVEAT: The tables in the next tab has mostly been prepared using data provided for Australian e-bikes. It's my understanding that most of the specifications are consistent across Australasia, North America and Europe/the UK, with the exception of motor sizes and top speeds. The comparison data are metric rather than imperial, but this makes comparison easier and the reader can easily convert metrics to imperial if required. Likewise I have had regard to Australian Road Design Rules which limit electric bike motors to 250Kw and a top speed of 25 kph. The USA and NZ allow greater power and speeds but this is treated as a given rather than outlined in the chart.  

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