Veloretti just made one of the best e-bikes lighter and cheaper

Ace Two Lite. | Image: Veloretti

Dutch bicycle marque Veloretti conscionable announced a slimmed-down mentation of its fantabulous Electric Two bid of electrical bikes for European commuters.

The step-over Ace Two Lite is simply a lighter and little costly mentation of the precise heavy Ace Two e-bike I reviewed back successful 2023, which ditches the sublime Enviolo automatic shifter successful favour of a simpler single-speed, belt-driven transmission. It’s being sold alongside the step-through Ivy Two Lite for €2,599. The archetypal Ace Two and Ivy Two e-bikes unrecorded on, lone present they transportation a Pro suffix and a caller little terms of €2,999. That gives Veloretti a postulation of e-bikes that straddle the €2,681 European average.

I should enactment that the Lite models aren’t precisely lightweight. They shave 3kg (6.61 pounds) disconnected the Pro frames, putting them astatine 27kg (59.5 pounds) alternatively of 30kg (66.1 pounds). That’s inactive heavy, but Veloretti e-bikes thrust ace sturdy erstwhile carrying astir groceries oregon kids arsenic Europeans are apt to bash — with hydraulic brakes that transportation implicit to the Lite models to bring everything to a controlled stop. 

The removable 540Wh artillery is inactive determination too, which contributes different 3kg (6.61 pounds) to the wide weight. That ample artillery is susceptible of providing betwixt 60-120km of range, which varies based upon the rider, chosen power-assist level, weather, and terrain. The Lite models inactive diagnostic integrated beforehand and rear lighting, but the brake-light diagnostic has been removed. I’d person preferred that Veloretti ditched its overwrought integrated display, but it lives to combat different day. 

The Ace Two Lite is disposable successful graphite oregon matte black, portion the Ivy Two Lite is lone disposable successful matte black. They’re disposable to bargain present with transportation successful 6 to 8 weeks.