Electric Dreams
ORBEA GAIN E-ROAD
Electric assist road are officially here in Australia with a number of local distributors soft-launching various models over the past few months. With respect to the unique features of many of the models, they all typically look like e-bikes—yes … there’s an unmistakable battery unit fitted to the down tube and, in most cases, a control unit on the handlebars.
But this one is different. Bikebox, the distributors best known for Schwalbe tyres, have landed their first shipment of Orbea Gain e-road bikes—a frame easily mistaken for a standard road bike.
On display and available for demonstration at the Tour Down Under, Bicycling Australia enjoyed the opportunity to ride and review one of the first of these machines to arrive in
