Just bought the above and had my first ride on it so thought I would give some feedback.
I am 6ft (183 cm) and I am about 70kg rider weight kitted up and the bike is size large.
Firstly in terms of aesthetics the bike is immaculate and very eye catching in a gloss aquamarine and black colour scheme. It has the latest Bosch CX motor and all the latest updates were installed....so 120nm/750w max.
My preparation work included fitting RRP Proguard mudguards, setting up the suspension, converting to tubeless, fitting my Ergon SME Mountain Sport saddle and using Flow to tune the modes.
Converting to tubeless was easy as the WTB wheels are ready taped and the Maxxis tyres easy to remove and refit.
In terms of tune I like to just use emtb for the majority of any ride offroad and tour for any road sections I have ride. That is how I set up my Whyte E160 RSX which has the gen 4 motor. So on the ELyte with the Gen 5 motor these are my current settings (assist/ dynamic/ nm/ watts)
Turbo 5/3 ,120nm/750w
EMTB 5/3, 95nm/ 600w
Tour 3/2 , 90nm / 450w
ECO 1/1 90nm/ 400w.
So to the ride review. This was a country ride so no drops or jumps but plenty of non technical climbs and fast twisty single track in the mix. Suspension was super plush ( the Lyric is a great fork) handling superb and DB8 brakes plenty powerful enough. The 2.5 Maxxis DHF/DHR combo set at 23f/25r) added to the comfort and performed predictably well. Manual T Type transmission was also good. I had both main battery and extender fully charged, covered 18.55 miles with 1350 ft of climbing and used EMTB for the majority of the ride with just one short climb against a stiff wind in turbo, and used 50% battery.
The only change I intend to make is to reduce the bars from 800 to 770.
A great bike in my opinion certainly as a trail bike and feels capable of handling more than this ride required........how much more is yet to be discovered!
I am 6ft (183 cm) and I am about 70kg rider weight kitted up and the bike is size large.
Firstly in terms of aesthetics the bike is immaculate and very eye catching in a gloss aquamarine and black colour scheme. It has the latest Bosch CX motor and all the latest updates were installed....so 120nm/750w max.
My preparation work included fitting RRP Proguard mudguards, setting up the suspension, converting to tubeless, fitting my Ergon SME Mountain Sport saddle and using Flow to tune the modes.
Converting to tubeless was easy as the WTB wheels are ready taped and the Maxxis tyres easy to remove and refit.
In terms of tune I like to just use emtb for the majority of any ride offroad and tour for any road sections I have ride. That is how I set up my Whyte E160 RSX which has the gen 4 motor. So on the ELyte with the Gen 5 motor these are my current settings (assist/ dynamic/ nm/ watts)
Turbo 5/3 ,120nm/750w
EMTB 5/3, 95nm/ 600w
Tour 3/2 , 90nm / 450w
ECO 1/1 90nm/ 400w.
So to the ride review. This was a country ride so no drops or jumps but plenty of non technical climbs and fast twisty single track in the mix. Suspension was super plush ( the Lyric is a great fork) handling superb and DB8 brakes plenty powerful enough. The 2.5 Maxxis DHF/DHR combo set at 23f/25r) added to the comfort and performed predictably well. Manual T Type transmission was also good. I had both main battery and extender fully charged, covered 18.55 miles with 1350 ft of climbing and used EMTB for the majority of the ride with just one short climb against a stiff wind in turbo, and used 50% battery.
The only change I intend to make is to reduce the bars from 800 to 770.
A great bike in my opinion certainly as a trail bike and feels capable of handling more than this ride required........how much more is yet to be discovered!
