superlight

Finally, we're getting more bikes with the great Bosch Performance SX lightweight motor. Let me start with the name of the new bike. The entry-level version is looking very interesting, and it’s called the “Cube AMS Hybrid ONE44 C:68X SLX 400X 29”. Cube always had long and complicated names...

The last couple of months have been all about the lightweight emtbs. I haven’t been keeping count, but, it seems more lightweight emtbs have been released than full-fat emtbs. Looking back at the bikes I’ve reviewed, 5 out the last 6 bikes are lightweights. These bikes are called Superlight, or...

The Shimano EP8 is a 2.65kg and 85Nm motor that is used on many full power emtbs. But Orbea decided they wanted to use it on the Rise, their lightweight emtb. The Orbea Rise was released with a 360Wh battery. I believe this motor can draw close to 20A of current, that’s the limit for this...

The lightweight Pivot Shuttle SL is out, and we had a chance to ride it. The test bike is a Pivot Shuttle Pro X01 in size Medium. We did two videos of the bike, one review and one with riding footage only. Check them out or keep on reading below. The Pro X01 is the second cheapest model...