Mondraker Launches The e-Crusher E-bike

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Mondraker isn’t shy when it comes to making bold bikes, and everything about the e-Crusher new e-bike carries on that tradition. It’s a 150mm rear travel, full carbon suspension bike with an integrated downtube battery.

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What? It’s no quirkier looking than Mondraker’s other models…
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The full carbon frame hides the battery
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With 160/150 travel, it’s going to be a pretty good go-anywhere machine
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Who forgot to engage the clutch on that rear mech?
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Fox 36 forks on an e-bike. Things just got serious! The lower model comes with a Yairi too.
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A familiar looking Mondraker front end

Mondraker asks “Is the e-Crusher the ultimate trail e-MTB, all-mountain bike and Enduro machine all in one?”

The machine is based around a Shimano Steps E-8000 motor, which is Shimano’s fully off road compatible, XT level motor. The bike has other contemporary fitments, like thru-axles front and rear, room for 27.5Plus tyres and a 160mm fork.

Of course the bike has Mondraker’s Forward Geometry, which was way ahead of its time when it came out, so we have no reason to doubt that the e-Crusher is going to be right up there with the other trail-capable, longer travel e-bikes that seem to have suddenly come of age.

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Di2 controls are all integrated into the e-8000 display (or is it vice versa?)
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Carbon back end too
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The Shimano motor is one of the smallest out there

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The crank placement allows for short chainstays too.

Two models of the 2018 e-Crusher will be released later this year both of which feature:

Shimano Steps E8000 MTB motor and LCD display screen
Stealth Carbon Technology frame
150mm Rear Travel / 160mm Fork
Forward Geometry
Zero Suspension System Technology
Integrated and detachable Shimano E8020 battery
HHG: Internal Hidden Housing Guide
Boost Axles
New pivot axles and oversized bearings
Integrated rear shock fender

Cue the inspirational video!

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With 23 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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