Avenrà EVO Race Edition: What Happens When You Turn the Wick Up?
- Paul Roberts
- 2 hours ago
- 4 min read
Avenrà has given its EVO the Race Edition treatment, and BCB got to play with it for the weekend.
We've already spent time with the EVO, so this isn't another first look at Avenrà's electric sportsbike. This time, we're finding out what happens when the small manufacturer turns its attention to performance.
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Taking the EVO Further
When we first covered Avenrà, one of the things that stood out was the way the small British manufacturer was approaching the electric motorcycle market. Since then, Avenrà has been building towards something that looks increasingly like a proper e-moto line-up.
So when CEO Paul Cummins called us to offer the Race Edition prototype for a few days, we were already wondering what the company had stuffed into the shell to give it some more track-day pedigree.
The standard EVO is due to land with buyers and dealers at the beginning of September, but rather than leave it alone, Avenrà has started turning the wick up, with a handful of changes aimed squarely at making it hit harder.
There's a big difference between making an electric motorcycle look more serious and actually making it better to ride. With the Race Edition, the question is whether those changes are something you'll actually feel once you're putting in some proper seat time. So that's what we did.
EVO Race Edition: What's Different?
The Race Edition doesn't get a snazzy livery yet. But Avenrà has already made a number of changes to the standard bike, including:
Active cooling: The Race Edition adds active air-cooling for the controller and BMS, backed up by upgraded heat sinks.
Brakes: Full HEL Performance brake kit and Race Edition brake discs, 300 mm x 5 mm.
Torque delivery: The acceleration step increases from 128 to 192, making maximum torque arrive more quickly. The delay to maximum output drops from 420 milliseconds to 240 milliseconds.
Throttle response: The Race Edition gets a sportier throttle map rather than the standard EVO's linear response.
Still to come before launch: Showa Big Piston Forks and Öhlins steering damper.
Launch date estimate: Q4 2026.
Avenrà has some ambitious targets. The aim is a 140 mph (225 km/h) top speed while still delivering around 80 miles of range during track-day riding. Paul reckons some of that extra performance will come through maximum field weakening in the motor map, squeezing more top-end speed out of the existing platform rather than simply throwing a bigger battery at it.
It's worth mentioning at this point that what arrived at BCB HQ was a prototype and not yet fully configured as the final Race Edition. The bike is still being tested, with Avenrà working out what works and what doesn't. We didn't get the Showa Big Piston Forks or Öhlins steering damper, both of which are still to come before launch. The company tells us it hopes to bring the acceleration step down to 175 ms. That's bound to get the front wheel up.
A prototype is a prototype, and ours had clearly lived a hard development life. Parts had been added, removed and bolted back together, exactly as you'd expect from a test mule. There's around 1kg of extra weight over the standard EVO at this stage, and Avenrà admits the distribution isn't quite right yet, with much of the cooling hardware currently sitting on the left side of the frame. That will change as the Race Edition moves beyond proof of concept.
So let's be straight. Was it faster? Yes. Was it more punchy? Yes. Did it scare us? Yes. Mode 3 on a bike targeting 140 mph (225 km/h) and 0-60 mph (0–97 km/h) in 2.8 seconds is no joke. And you'd better make sure you've got a nice surface to test it on. Nobody wants a tyre rut or pile of gravel when you're doing full-send down a quiet dual carriageway.
The BCB Take
The Race Edition isn't finished yet. What we rode was still a prototype, so we're not going to pretend every detail is nailed down. But the crucial bit is already there. The Race Edition hits harder.
The extra punch is obvious. The throttle response is more aggressive and, when you open it up, this thing doesn't exactly hang around. And that's what we wanted to see. Avenrà isn't just sticking a Race Edition badge on the side of the EVO and calling it done. It's taking the bike apart, changing things, testing them and finding out just how far it can push the platform.
We've had our weekend with it. Now it's over to Avenrà to finish the job.
Ride safe, folks.
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