One Chennai Family.
Two Bikes.
Zero Petrol Bills.
A father in Chennai converts the family's two bicycles with TAV Electric mid-drive kits. His daughter takes one for a spin on a completely ordinary Saturday morning. The petrol pump hasn't seen them since.
This is a father and his daughter on their family bicycle's that he converted to electric using the TAV mid-drive kit, on a Chennai street, on a completely ordinary morning.
Most families in Chennai have at least one bicycle sitting somewhere in the house, leaning against a wall, locked in the compound, half-used and quietly guilty about it. The roads feel too long. The flyovers feel too steep. The petrol bike is faster, so the cycle just waits.
This father decided to change that. Not for one bike. For two.
He converted both family Montra bicycles with TAV Electric mid-drive kits — one for himself, one for his daughter. And on the Saturday morning these photographs were taken, both of them were out on a Chennai street, on bikes they already owned, on a commute that no longer costs them anything at the pump.
Same bike. Different machine.
The TAV Electric mid-drive kit fits onto the bottom bracket of any standard bicycle, the exact same place your feet have always met the pedals. It does not change the geometry. It does not change the handling. It does not change anything about the bicycle your family already knows how to ride.
What it changes is what that bicycle can do. 80 Nm's of torque delivered through your existing gears, multiplied on every climb, turning Chennai flyovers into flat roads and 15-kilometre daily commutes into something you actually look forward to.
There is a particular look a parent gets when their child does something better than they ever did, not surprise exactly, more like quiet pride with a small amount of good-humoured defeat in it. That look is somewhere in this photograph. And it is entirely deserved.
At the TAV Electric factory, Chennai
The second photograph was taken at the TAV Electric factory in Chennai. Same bicycles. Same two people. Different feeling entirely.
This is what the TAV Electric conversion story looks like in practice, not a marketing scenario, not a stock photo. A real Chennai family, on bicycles they already owned, on a Saturday that turned into one of those days the family talks about for a while.
Both of them are smiling in the particular way people smile when something worked exactly as it was supposed to.
Why this matters for India right now
India has over 22 million bicycles sold every year. The vast majority of them sit in building compounds, half-used, because they were never quite capable enough for the roads, gradients, and distances that daily life actually requires.
A TAV Electric mid-drive kit converts the Hero, the Firefox, the Trek, the one collecting dust into something that can handle Chennai flyovers, Bengaluru gradients, and daily commutes of 15 kilometres each way. Without a licence. Without RTO registration. Without a fuel bill.
At ₹26,999 or ₹1,499 per month on EMI, it costs less than six months of petrol for a two-wheeler. And it fits the bike the family already has.
Your family's bikes are next
If your bicycle has a standard threaded bottom bracket — 68mm or 73mm — the TAV mid-drive kit fits.
That covers Hero, Atlas, Hercules, Trek, Giant, Firefox, Btwin, Montra, Kross, and 40+ other brands sold in India.
Not sure about your bike? WhatsApp us a photo of the bottom bracket area. We confirm compatibility in 15 minutes, before you buy.
Visit our product page for full kit details, or talk to our team if you are thinking about converting your child's bicycle too. We have done it before. We know exactly what it takes.