{"id":47957,"date":"2013-05-06T00:11:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T16:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=47957"},"modified":"2013-05-06T00:11:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T16:11:50","slug":"hands-on-on-gocycle-g2r-and-group-trial-ride-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/06\/hands-on-on-gocycle-g2r-and-group-trial-ride-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands-on on Gocycle G2R and Group Trial Ride (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I had a wonderful time with Charles Baey in Punggol. I came across the Gocycle during the OCBC Cycle carnival (aka Village). Gocycle is an electric portable bicycle designed by former F1 car designer for McClaren, Richard Thorpe. It is LTA-approved for Singapore road. After some discussion, we decided to test the Gocycle G2R in Punggol as the road to Punggol End has a lot of up and down slopes.<\/p>\n

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FYI, Charles Baey is the person that brought in the Gocyle bicycle. He is a distributor and a reseller for this Gocycle. More about Charles and how you could reach him later.<\/p>\n

About the Test Ride<\/h2>\n

After talking about the Gocycle on the Facebook<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>, it got me to think about the potential of such bicycles on the road. As cars are getting more expensive and our government is spending a lot on connecting those parks with PCN (Park Connector) in Singapore,\u00a0 I can see future commute in bicycles or public transport.<\/p>\n

However, it is never easy to get people to get off the car and to jostle with people on Public Transport. Cycling to work will be too tedious with many. But with an electric bicycle, it might be different. I have seen many of them (abet illegal ones) on the road. Many preferred those with throttle where you can just twist the handle bar to move the bicycle. However, to ride a electric bicycle in Singapore, it should get LTA seal of approval (see picture below).<\/p>\n

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To get this, it has a few criteria.<\/p>\n

Motorised bicycles that meet the following requirements will be treated like conventional bicycles and exempted from registration with LTA:<\/p>\n