Just remember there is no standard as to how these ranges are measured,I can now put that the range of my Kudos Rapide is 35-130 miles,obviously if I am in marketing mode I will select 'up to 130 miles'
The BS descriptions of these bikes is becoming ridiculous,trouble is customers who are not knowledgable believe them.
When I worked for Ford in the atmospheric cell,the urban cycle figures were strictly controlled and the driving route/throttle/gear selection etc were uniform and could be reliably compared (ignore VW).
We have no such standard on the ranges,performance of these bikes and therefore any range claims are meaningless.
Ok,here is how we achieved the 108 miles over 5 days.
The rider....my guy is a sports racing champion,he does 50 miles training on a mid week training session,he is racing cyclist fit.
The bike....the Kudos Rapide is the nearest bike we have to a vanilla sports racing bike,it has low rolling resistance tyres and 30 speed gears,it can be ridden quickly by a strong rider,keeping it above the cutoff speed....this is critical.
The route...it pretty much follows the sea all the way,only 1 short steep hill,it is as flat as it is possible to select a route.
He was told(by me) to ride the bike only on PAS setting 1,about 20% of the available power,1 of 5.
He was told to ride the bike as fast as possible so that the bike speed was mostly above the 15 mph cutoff speed,he managed to keep this speed above the cutoff speed even on an incline.
He was told to avoid using the brakes, as long as it was safe.
In fact he rode the bike just like his Carbon KTM vanilla bike,the electric power was pretty much superfluous to his speed,he finished the journey time within a few minutes of his Normal sports road bike.
Ok,it's all a bit of a tease but it blows out of the water all these BS claims of range put out by so many manufacturers.
Can I now legitimately claim my Kudos Rapide has a range of 130 miles?
KudosDave