New Lime Gen4 rental electric bike arrives in London

What is the Lime Gen4 e-bike like to ride?

Go Electric powered was given early accessibility to the Gen4 e-bicycle to set through its paces on Lime’s high quality control observe at its new Bermondsey Warehouse, which is the base of its London operations.

Now, total disclosure: the high quality control program is essentially an vacant section of the firm’s warehouse marked out by site visitors cones, so we weren’t equipped to find out a great deal about how the Gen4 bicycle will conduct on London’s pothole strewn roadways, its practicality for commuting or its comfort on prolonged visits.

Even now, even a shorter outing was sufficient to present the opportunity of this bicycle. Given a rental e-bicycle will largely be used as a resource for limited journeys, the essential demands are practicality, toughness and relieve of use – and on that count the Gen4 reveals promise.

It’s simple to inform apart from the current London bikes, and not just simply because the outdated red livery – the colors of outdated operator Jump – have been changed by Lime’s white and lime eco-friendly colors, including a refreshing zing to their seems to be.

The Gen4 seems smarter and additional modern-day than the previous a single, and when nonetheless chunky absolutely appears to be a contact extra refined and sophisticated. It retains the entrance storage basket, although the new cellular phone holder is a neat functional touch.