![]() ![]() Russell Burton / Immediate MediaĬontrolling the system is a single large button, which you can easily switch on and off with a quick dab. One large button controls the bike’s e-assist modes and lights. The battery shows charge level, and off the bike you simply shake the bottle to wake it up and it’ll indicate charge. The good looking fluted lithium battery for instance houses the brain of the system and its compact size and low weight (1.5kg) mean it’s easy to transport off the bike. This simplicity hides some very clever design, though. You replace the front wheel with the one equipped with the hub-motor, run cables to the bottle cage and rear sensor, plug in the smart bottle battery and your pretty much set – Searles claims the kit can be fitted in 30 minutes. The Cytronex kit is a very clever thing, and the latest generation setup looks better than ever, with founder Mark Searles taking on board some of our suggestions from when we tested the kit a few years ago, such as anodising the bottle cage mount and some of the fittings to clean up the looks of the kit.Īt first glance, it looks like a simple system. ![]() The front wheel of the Cannondale is replaced with one fitted with the Cytronex C1 conversion kit. The Quick offers everything I’d want from a commuter bike, and add in smart reflective paint highlights and mounts for mudguards and a rack, and you’ve got a great year round ride – and that’s before you add in the Cytronex system. It’s certainly not as slick as SRAM or as smooth as Shimano, but a few hundred miles of testing and it hasn’t faltered or misaligned. The shifting is accurate but the solid clunk as its changes between gears lets you know what’s going on. The Microshift drivetrain is a simple 1x system with a good gear range that’ll carry you up steep slopes. This makes it great for nipping through traffic and never nervous or twitchy. ![]() The clever thing, though, is its front-end, with a fairly relaxed 71-degree head angle that keeps the steering responses smooth and stable, a short stem and a wide riser bar the bike feels agile. The Quick 4 retails at £579.99 on its own and I’ve been impressed by just how well this entry-level sport hybrid rides.Ĭannondale has done a good job of shaping the ride position on the Quick, sitting you fairly upright, but still sporty enough to hustle the bike along at pace, so it feels like the best electric hybrid bikes. One of the cheapest options offered by Cytronex is a kit built onto Cannondale’s Quick 4 Disc Hybrid bikes. Russell Burton / Immediate Media Cannondale’s Quick 4 Disc Hybrid Cytronex’s C1 kit is fitted to the front wheel of a Cannondale Quick 4 Disc hybrid bike. ![]()
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