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Where to go: Aviemore, Scotland
Where to stay: Ravenscraig Guest House
Who to book with: H&I Adventures run tours around the world, with the option to use e-bikes
Until I touched down in Aviemore, a town in the Cairngorms National Park in the Scottish Highlands, my brief experience of using an e-bike had been commuting on an electric folding Brompton. I loved the little bike, but its rapid acceleration in London traffic terrified me. As a complete mountain biking newbie, I didn’t know what to expect as I geared up to test a bike loaded with Shimano’s latest electric mountain bike motor, the EP8. Descending down a rocky mountain sounded complicated enough, without any extra speed.
