Other Too bad there's no SL new gen in the plan for 2025, I might go Yeti MTe

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Who said there'll be no new SL? I expect Specialized will have to offer something else alongside the Levo G4 as I think a lot of people are not exactly enamored by it. Specialized have a lot of bikes due refresh however so it's hard to know what order things are gonna come in. I feel the Demo and Enduro will probably come first.

I think there is still a market for mid power bikes although I think they need to be offering 60-70NM, 400 watts and 500-600WH batteries now (plus range extenders).
 
With them making the Gen 4 Levo so ungodly fat and heavy it pretty much requires them to keep an SL in the lineup. They could have possibly combined them with some better battery choices, but the path they took for the massive battery and ugly aesthetics on the G4 seems to boldly say that they will keep 2 models going forward.
 
DylanJM said:
Who said there'll be no new SL? I expect Specialized will have to offer something else alongside the Levo G4 as I think a lot of people are not exactly enamored by it. Specialized have a lot of bikes due refresh however so it's hard to know what order things are gonna come in. I feel the Demo and Enduro will probably come first.

I think there is still a market for mid power bikes although I think they need to be offering 60-70NM, 400 watts and 500-600WH batteries now (plus range extenders).
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I thought I had read somewhere that we would see one until Spring 2026.

I agree, there's a good market for mid power bike with 500-600 WH batteries, not everyone live in/near the mountains and need to shuttle up fire roads at 20mph. The Levo SL was a great product but needed more battery, the new modern SL e-bikes like the Yeti, the Pivot, the Rise have a good market.
I know Specialized will update the Levo SL, from interviews I saw (on emtb's YouTube channel) sounds like they went with the full fat first because they believe they have to be in the "max power" race, but sounds like they understand a more powerful, still light, SL is the bike they would like to develop.
 
Specialized almost invented the category by making it mainstream and now they're fully at bottom. I wonder if it's just because Mahle was poor bet in hindsight or they're really slow moving behemoth as company now. They don't really innovate elsewhere either, no new enduro in sight either. Just odd.
 
George_KSL said:
Specialized almost invented the category by making it mainstream and now they're fully at bottom. I wonder if it's just because Mahle was poor bet in hindsight or they're really slow moving behemoth as company now. They don't really innovate elsewhere either, no new enduro in sight either. Just odd.
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I don’t think you can even blame Mahle, the motor itself seems fine, it was the god awful choice of battery design that makes the bike so heavy and hideous. The only motor related complaint was also 100% their own greed of only unlocking full power on the S-Works version of the motor which literally nobody else out there is doing.
 
xtraman122 said:
I don’t think you can even blame Mahle, the motor itself seems fine, it was the god awful choice of battery design that makes the bike so heavy and hideous. The only motor related complaint was also 100% their own greed of only unlocking full power on the S-Works version of the motor which literally nobody else out there is doing.
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You know this is an SL chat right?
 
The Yeti looks like an amazing bike. I'd go that way over a Specialized anyway.
 
I feel Spesh deliberately went very FULL fat with the Levo G4 in order to leave them some room to come in with a very nice mid powered option to replace the Levo SL2.
 
DylanJM said:
I feel Spesh deliberately went very FULL fat with the Levo G4 in order to leave them some room to come in with a very nice mid powered option to replace the Levo SL2.
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If DJI came out with a 400Wh battery and just a new tune on the motor I bet you could have a pretty competitively light SL bike with their one motor system. Seems like we’re getting close, and will probably be there in the next generation of motors, to have a single motor serve both the light and full assist use cases with just different batteries and firmware for each, which should make things a heck of a lot easier for manufacturers to design frames for.
 
Yes, too bad Spesh didnt make a new SL (both levo SL and kenevo SL) with a maxon (the new one). Just cross fingers, for someone at spesh waking up and stop releasing out of topic bikes ? (rebrandring a cube frame with an outdated motor design, and calling it 'gen4' was a nice joke. Can we have the real levo gen4 now, please ?)
 
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