The Grace Pro Race electric bike is best described by the words of those who passed along the details of this new photoset to me.
Chuck Squatriglia of Wired.com's own Autopia blog asked "What would happen if you crossed an old-school Cannondale with a modern downhill mountain bike and then made it electric?"
The Cycle EXIF blog, which sent this to Chuck, calls it a "Teutonic behemoth." And Derp, a commenter on Cycle EXIF, calls it a "Stillborn Transformer."
The official line, though, from Grace, is that this is the "world's first street-legal e-motorbike." And it is. The bike can hit 45km/h (28mph) by spinning its rear-wheel brushless 1.3kW motor. It'll run for up to 50km (31-miles) and do it all off a one-hour charge, powered by the li-ion batteries hidden inside the frame. And as you can see from the photographs, it looks nasty
The frame and CNC-milled aluminum blocks that make up the bike and motor are made in the same factory in Berlin – somewhat appropriate as this looks more like an old East German moped than a push-bike. How much for this intimidating piece of machinery? The Grace Race is available built-to order only, and will cost you just 7,398 Euros, $9,944. For more on this Teutonic behemoth, check our previous coverage, with equally awesome photos (warning: silver jumpsuit).
Grace Pro product page [Grace via Bike EXIF. Thanks, Chris and Chuck!]
Photos: Gracebikes / Flickr
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