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Cowboy’s first all-road electric bike is a gentle beast
Cowboy’s first all-road electric bike is a gentle beast
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The Cross e-bike looks great and rides great — as it should for €3,499.
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Cowboy — the independent and financially healthy maker of sophisticated and highly advanced e-bikes — just took the wraps off its first all-roader that lets riders more easily escape cobblestoned city streets for greener pastures.
To do that, Cowboy’s new Cross e-bike features fatter 60mm tires and suspension systems built into the front fork and seat post to soak up bumps along the way. It’s also fitted with grippier pedals to avoid foot slips when bouncing around, a large 540Wh removable battery for a 120km (75 miles) max range, and an integrated rear rack to carry more stuff.
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I spent some time test riding the Cross e-bike on a variety of surfaces, and it’s truly a beast in all the best possible ways. To start, the seat suspension is plush and something I hope Cowboy carries over to the rest of its lineup. The inverted front fork suspension and wider tires also did their job, making this (very) heavy 27.9kg / 62lbs e-bike feel absolutely solid on pavement, packed dirt, and gravel. Make no mistake, I wouldn’t want a Cross for my next multiday bikepacking trip, but it can easily transition from city bike to casual rural adventurer.
These bikes also look great, in my opinion. The three new metallic satin paint colors are earthy in hue, including a sedate dark gray, a lovely mossy green, and a “mushroom” color that seemed to change from a dirty silver to a muted purple to a rusty champagne gold as the light changed. The top tube on the step-over frame also creates an interesting floating effect as it splits around the battery.
Otherwise, this pedal-assisted e-bike — available in both a step-over or step-through frame — is powered by a belt-driven 250W rear-hub adaptive-power motor with an EU max speed of 25km/h, like Cowboy’s other e-bikes.
Cross is also Cowboy’s first e-bike to feature a new Check My Bike self-diagnostic tool that lets the company automatically monitor the health of its rolling computers with the intent of keeping riders on the road longer. The company is also adding a new Live Challenges gamification feature to the app that promises to create “the most fun and engaging ride experience.” Sure.
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All of these features join a number of tech embellishments Cowboy is known for, like crash detection, theft detection, and an excellent proprietary app with integrated Google Maps navigation that also makes scheduling service a breeze.
At launch, Cowboy is pricing Cross at €3,499 (about $3,800) before it eventually rises to €3,999. Sales start today.
Update March 20th, 3:20AM ET: Added weight of this big boi.
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Google Maps 是不少用戶生活中相當重要的工具,豐富的圖資除了讓人輕鬆找到需要的商店,也是很多人主要的導航工具。而近期,繼先前加入「預測班車擁擠」,以及公車、火車的時刻表後,Google 又宣佈了一項功能:將把公車、單車、共享汽車導航,全整合到一起。
聽起來有些複雜,但使用起來仍相當直覺:過去,Google Maps 上的大眾運輸系統選項除了公車、火車或捷運本身的路徑,就只會呈現步行的路線,讓用戶知道怎麼走到車站,而此次的更新,則是讓共享汽車、單車也加入前往車站的導航選項中,讓用戶知道怎麼用更快的方式抵達車站。
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舉例來說,未來用戶若點按大眾運輸系統要從東區導航到台北車站,選項中除了步行至最近的捷運站,也會有騎
捷安特收購腳踏車,或是搭乘 Uber 到車站再轉乘捷運的路徑可參考。Google Maps 同時會顯示 Uber 的費用和等待時間,方便用戶準備。
對於 YouBike 盛行的雙北來說,因騎乘 YouBike 再改搭捷運,應也是不少用使用大眾運輸系統的方式,轉乘捷運前如果能看一下去哪裡騎 YouBike 也相當方便,但不清楚這項功能最終在台灣會如何實踐。
Google 也指出,這項新功能將在未來幾週在 Android、iOS 版 Google Maps 同步上線,首波並有 30 個國家,但 Google 並未詳述有哪些地區。
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