Mondraker – e-Prime Carbon

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Mondraker has embraced the top-drawer e-bike in a big way with the announcement of the e-Prime for 2017, and here it is:

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They’ve not gone in for half measures, it’s fair to say. It’s a 120mm hardtail, yes, but it’s available in carbon (and aluminium too), with a Bosch motor, and (it says here) “a wealth of details that make the e-Prime Carbon an icon and reference in the new e-MTB Trail category.” Pow. There are 4 spec. levels to choose from.

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So what do we have? Yep, carbon, Mondraker’s Forward Geometry (which give you an enoooormously long top tube and a very, very weeny stem), 27.5+ wheels for comfort and traction (and aesthetically in this scribe’s opinion e-bikes look a little less pot-bellied with chubby tyres) and Bosch Performance engines on the Aluminium and Performance CX engines on the Carbon bikes.

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The Prime and the Prime carbon joins the e-Vangate (140mm hardtail), e-crafty (140mm full-suss) and e-Panzer (fatbike) in Mondraker’s electric pantheon.

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Here are the main points from the press release:

  • New range of hardtail e-MTB Trail bikes with 120mm travel forks
  • 4 models: e-Prime Carbon RR+ / e-Prime Carbon R+ / e-Prime R+ / e-Prime+ • 4 sizes available: S (15.5 “), M (17”), L (19 “), XL (21”)
  • Stealth Carbon Drive Unit Interface frameset
  • Mondraker FlatStays Technology
  • Bosch Performance CX electric motor
  • 25km/h Pedelec Assist
  • 500W/h Bosch Powerpack battery
  • ntuvia Performance On-board Display
  • Bosch Drive Unit Integrated Protector
  • Boost 148×12 and 110x15mm hub spacing
  • Tapered head tube and Post Mount rear brake
  • Limited Lifetime Warranty

Weights: e-Prime Carbon RR+: 18.8kg (41.44lbs) e-Prime Carbon R+: 19.3kg (42.54lbs) e-Prime R+: 19.7kg (43.43lbs) e-Prime +: 20kg (44.09lbs)

For more details, click here… but if you’re impatient, here’s the geometry:

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Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 22 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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Comments (2)

    The horror! Nah just joking. When I am older and more decrepit there will be options. That said those weights
    Jaysus. When you run out of juice you would be in a world of pain.

    Whats the point in a “super light” carbon ebike that still weighs 41lb? Bonkers. Might as well get a lardy fat bike at 48lb.

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