New Nicolai with Pinion gearbox announced

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Nicolai Bikes

Saturn 16 MGU Reveal 🤯 Our new E-MTB has landed! The Saturn 16 MGU is being presented to the public for the very first time today at the Bike Festival in Riva. As a 29er E-Enduro with 160 mm travel,...

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[Pyr0]

10,999 euros with a raw frame and 720 battery

Nicolai Saturn 16 MGU, 10.999,00 €

Das neue Nicolai Saturn 16 MGU mit Pinion MGU Motor-Getriebe-Einheit jetzt konfigurieren

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[Ark]

does this one also so und like an old ribbon printer?

 

[Binhill1]

My last two non electric bikes were Nicolai great bikes I thought.

 

[Mrj35]

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Nicolai Bikes

Saturn 16 MGU Reveal 🤯 Our new E-MTB has landed! The Saturn 16 MGU is being presented to the public for the very first time today at the Bike Festival in Riva. As a 29er E-Enduro with 160 mm travel,...

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looks great, just needs 190-200mm front rear suspension, a 500wh battery range extender and we are good to go . Ill be switching to a gearbox bike in about 3 years, hopefully by then the moto brands have understood a bunch of us want dh ebikes lol. Husqvarna was actually on the right track with the 2021 extreme cross.

 

[AlumiPro]

looks great, just needs 190-200mm front rear suspension, a 500wh battery range extender and we are good to go . Ill be switching to a gearbox bike in about 3 years, hopefully by then the moto brands have understood a bunch of us want dh ebikes lol. Husqvarna was actually on the right track with the 2021 extreme cross.

Not bad looking aluminum MGU eBike.
I’m hoping to trade my current 180mm-190mm Crestline in for a MGU Crestline in the future!…..guessing it’ll be 2-3yrs from now

 

[Chairman]

Not bad looking aluminum MGU eBike.
I’m hoping to trade my current 180mm-190mm Crestline in for a MGU Crestline in the future!…..guessing it’ll be 2-3yrs from now

Same thoughts here. Current whip is a 200 185 bastardised Cannondale that goes pretty good but a 630 battery running heavy dh tyres restricts rides to a little over 2hrs and 1200 metres but I guess It will have to hang in there another couple of years. I want a gearbox so bad. I love my Zerode with a Pinion but I have lost my enjoyment of climbing on an acoustic.

 

[AlumiPro]

I hope future MGU’s are able to reduce the tensioner hanging down in the danger zone. Not ideal for the terrain I ride, which is the main reason I want a MGU…..My poor SRAM transmission gets so beat up.

 

[tooFATtoRIDE]

I hope future MGU’s are able to reduce the tensioner hanging down in the danger zone. Not ideal for the terrain I ride, which is the main reason I want a MGU…..My poor SRAM transmission gets so beat up.

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Maybe something like this?

 

[AlumiPro]

Maybe something like this?

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Yes…….just not attached to a Bankrupted bike brand with delaminating rear swing arms(very sad to see happen)……which I was so extremely close to purchasing before my Crestline. It would have been cool to see the Voima with an MGU for sure.
I have followed your progress with your single speed belt drive Voima, will you be adding an internal gear hub?

 

[kntr]

Id rather have the tensioner at the rear hub.

 

[AlumiPro]

Id rather have the tensioner at the rear hub.

Like the Rotwild? I’d smack that rear chain tensioner for sure.

 

[kntr]

Like the Rotwild? I’d smack that rear chain tensioner for sure.

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Yes like the Rotwild. Im in the USA and none of the pinion ebikes are available yet.

 

[slickrock]

Like the Rotwild? I’d smack that rear chain tensioner for sure.

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Yeah, but not with a chain. Must be belt drive.

 

[slickrock]

Maybe something like this?

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Dude, is this your bike? If so, since when did you move to away from Pinion tensioner to the Universal Transmission tensioner? As you know, this is exactly the tensioner I want to outfit my Sonni with. Both Poles have plenty of room for a transverse tensioner like the UT and also benefit from the suspension's nearly zero chain growth thru its entire travel.

The irony is this UT tensioner was designed by/with Nicolai (for their Bosch setups), but looks awkward on their new MGU bike because the bikes tight rear suspension clearance is cramped by the large MGU motor with nowhere for the tensioner to go but down into the bash zone. But on the Voima it looks great!

 

[Rob Rides EMTB]

I really like this bike

 

[tooFATtoRIDE]

@Rob Rides EMTB Awaiting the full in-depth review and some words of comparison to Pole Voima.

Dude, is this your bike? If so, since when did you move to away from Pinion tensioner to the Universal Transmission tensioner? As you know, this is exactly the tensioner I want to outfit my Sonni with. Both Poles have plenty of room for a transverse tensioner like the UT and also benefit from the suspension's nearly zero chain growth thru its entire travel.

The irony is this UT tensioner was designed by/with Nicolai (for their Bosch setups), but looks awkward on their new MGU bike because the bikes tight rear suspension clearance is cramped by the large MGU motor with nowhere for the tensioner to go but down into the bash zone. But on the Voima it looks great!

I switched as soon as I realized that the Pinion tensioner would not work/be placed as I wanted and that the Gates tensioner was the way forward.

 

[RustyMTB]

Tangential, couple of my mates have just bought Zerode Katipos. Couple of rides in, one's loving it, the other not so much, says the drag is noticeable & the weight a slight hindrance.