Urban Rush
Urban Rush is the project of the
designer Florian Mayer who imagined for the brand Canyon an ideal electric bike
for urban cyclists.
Starting from the fact that the urban
cyclist spends only 15% of the time to really ride, the rest being acceleration
and braking, or going in the traffic. The remaining 85% are considered as
negative / stressful experience in urban conditions with heavy traffic.
The intelligent "e-boost"
technology compensates in the
acceleration phase, also for safety matters in order to minimize the
difference of speeds between bike and car, called "flow" it smoothens
the efforts and contributes to enhance the experience.
The Urban Rush is designed as a hybrid
between city bike and mountain bike with a distribution of 60/40%.
The electric motor is placed at the
front with a micro-suspension fork that will absorb defects from the road. The
electric motor allows regenerative braking.
At the rear, an intelligent hub with
automatic transmission and a belt drive, even the brake is integrated into the
hub.
The battery is a supercapacitor that
stores energy and returns it very quickly (eg KERS technology in Formula 1)
built into the frame, the other benefit of this technology is the weight that
is limited to 900 grams.
