Bosch is now available on Azub!

BOSCH is now available on Azub!

AZUB has been looking forward to this moment for several long months. It is with great pride and great pleasure that they now offer the latest generation of Bosch Performance CX engines as the best motorization for their recumbent bikes and trikes. This puts them alongside the world’s best electric bike manufacturers. Hostel Shoppe is proud to offer these as another great option in our electric assist lineup.

Why are we so excited about Bosch? Why should you even care?
• Bosch is the world’s best-known manufacturer of e-bike drives.
• The Performance CX is Bosch’s top model.
• Azub offers the latest 5th generation of motors, which was introduced just 14 days ago.
• The 800 Wh battery is standard with this system.
• The Purion 200 color display is mounted on the handlebars for ease of use.
• Get Bosch’s latest Smart System.
• Includes Bluetooth pairing with smartphone for lots of useful functions.
• Practical Range Control and Hill Start functions.
• Optional Dual Battery System by Bosch allowing for 1600Wh of power.
• Optional Rohloff E-14 with electronic shifting (not automatic, just electronic!)
• Exceptional system reliability.
• Low power consumption, almost no noise, and superior optimization of power delivery.
• 250W nominal / 600W maximum power – legal in the USA (Class 1)
• 85 Nm of torque.
• Azub's exceptional front boom design.
• New way of mounting the battery holder directly to the trike frame (TRIcon & Ti-FLY)
• Price increase over Shimano EP801 just by increasing battery capacity from 504 to 800 Wh
• Extensive Bosch Help Center with answers to (almost) every question
• And so much more...

Why did Azub choose Bosch?

Azub thinks the recumbent world deserves to have the best Bosch engines widely available. At the same time, Bosch offers fabulous customer service and, importantly for Azub, excellent communication with the bike manufacturers. Consumers are also delighted with the large number of working features and accessories. Azub also likes the Dual Battery option a lot as it gives you the ability to run up to 1600 Wh on their recumbents, giving you an almost infinite range of roughly 200 miles on ECO mode, or easily 60 miles with full BOOST.

The option of Rohloff’s electronic shifting, which is also available only for Bosch motors, eliminates the biggest drawback of the Rohloff gear hub, which is shifting via the grip, which requires a relatively large amount of force. You also have the ability to connect a phone and use the Bosch e-Bike Flow app, which offers a lot of clever features like Range Control, so you can adjust the level of assistance so that you arrive at your destination with your chosen remaining battery capacity.

But the main thing for Azub is the engine’s behavior combined with its reliability. The Azub Team has a lot of experience with the reliability of Bosch motors because many people at AZUB use Tern cargo bikes in everyday urban traffic for taking kids to school, commuting to work, etc. Their enthusiasm has been even more elevated by the experience they had over the last few weeks taking the AZUB Ti-FLY 26 with the Bosch Performance CX motor to the US and Canada. They tested climbing with the trike on Pikes Peak in Colorado, a 14,115-foot mountain known for its challenging car races. Their colleague, Jan, basically flew up and used just over half of both batteries. Yet he was running on BOOST the whole time and really giving the engine a hard time. A week later, they also tested the Bosch on the MTB trails in British Columbia, Canada, where they shook their heads and could hardly believe how exceptional this motor was.

     

For the record, please also note that Azub has also dropped the Shimano EP801 and Brose Smag motors from their lineup. However, they are still keeping the Shimano EP6 in the range as a basic motor for less demanding use.

     

Azub is currently taking orders for recumbent bikes and trikes with the Bosch system. However, the lead time is a bit longer than usual, and the first Bosch bikes and trikes will be delivered at the beginning of 2025 to our customers. To order a trike, contact a Hostel Shoppe sales representative at salesstaff@hostelshoppe.com, call us in the U.S.A. toll free at 800-233-4340 or configure your trike online at the Azub configurator and send Hostel Shoppe the configuration so we can assist you with an order. 

Find out more about the Bosch Performance CX motor in the following video:

Thanks to Azub for all of the content, which has been edited slightly by Jessie Bostic for the Hostel Shoppe blog.