Now this is going to be one heck of a polarising pushbike. Kudos to Cotic for continuing to plough their own furrow. I, for one, am really pleased to see an external battery. I’ve been telling anyone who’ll listen this for the bulk of this…
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Vitus E-Mythique LT range starts at £3,299
The Vitus E-Mythique LT is a brand new entry-level full-power e-bike model with 160mm of rear travel, alloy frame, mixed wheel size and a 95Nm Bafang M510 motor. The ‘Mythique’ part of the ‘E-Mythique LT’ name may need a bit of explaining – or clarification…
WIN THIS BIKE! Is This The Best E-Bike Under £5k?
And you can win yourself one! The Saracen Ariel 50E is more than the sum of considerable parts. Great geometry, great suspension, great parts allied to a capable Shimano STEPS motor and capacious 720Wh battery from Darfon. This particular model is the Saracen Ariel 50E.…
Giant Trance X Advanced E+ Elite First Ride Impressions
This re-designed e-MTB was launched on the 21st March and you can read our launch story here with all the details on the range and specs. The Ride So, loads of new tech on board, but how did it translate to the very un-British like…
Bosch launches new Performance Line CX Race Motor (it’s rather exclusive)
The new motor is snappily called the Bosch Performance Line CX Race Limited Edition and long story short, it goes up to 11. Watch on YouTube Now the long story… The easiest way to explain the new motor is to compare it to the current…
Orbea Urrun – Shimano EP8 RS equipped hardtail for mile munching
Urrun means ‘far’ in Basque, which is where the Orbea company harks from and hints at what this bike is for. Following on from the success of their full suspended Rise eMTB with its ‘low fat’ battery capacity Orbea have now taken many, if not…
2022 Focus Jam² 7.0: first ride review
Just in time for the most miserable bit of the year, Focus has launched the new Focus Jam² ebike with the tagline “Happy Place”. Antony takes a first look at the top-of-the-range Jam² 7.0 and tries to identify where that place might be. Focus is…
Orbea Rise Hydro Launches Today With Alloy Frame And Bigger Battery
It’s no secret that I absolutely love the Orbea Rise Carbon that we tested in issue 139 of Singletrack. For me it’s the perfect combination of simplicity, weight and power. The Rise Carbon comes with a full carbon frame, big forks (Fox Factory Kashima 36),…
Giant Trance X Advanced E + – the new kid on the e bike block and First Ride Review
With the launch of the Trance X Advanced E bike range, have Giant finally hit it out the park?
First Look – Saracen Ariel 50E Elite, an eMTB that’s actually in stock!
Saracen’s latest Ariel eMTB range is a huge upgrade over its previous bike with new technology a new frame and what’s more it’s in stock! UK based Saracen isn’t a new name in the eMTB market, but the refreshed and electrical Ariel line-up of bikes…
First Look: Cairn BRAVE – a back road adventure vehicle
As you might have seen in Fresh Goods Friday, we recently took delivery of the new Cairn BRAVE, the latest bike offering from the Cairn branch of The Rider Firm family. It’s a drop bar bike with e-assist, but comes with much chunkier intentions that…
First Look: 2022 Specialized Kenevo SL is a 19kg 170mm eMTB!
What do you call a combination of the Levo SL and Enduro? Well, Specialized calls it the all-new 2022 Kenevo SL! Way way back in February 2020 (yeah it seems like a really long time ago doesn’t it?) Specialized stunned the cycling world with the…
Specialized Turbo Levo 3rd Generation Platform Launches: VIDEO
First thing.. We’ve only had this bike for a few days so the full review of how it actually performs will have to wait. At this point we are still learning about the bike, but here’ a first look and a run down of the…
Canyon Grand Canyon ON 9 | First Look
Just arrived at Singletrack Towers and taken straight out to play in the snow, it’s the Grand Canyon:ON 9 from Canyon, in a size Medium. Let’s take a closer look. The Grand Canyon:ON range consists of an alloy hardtail frame with 120mm travel fork. There’s…
Review: Santa Cruz Bullit returns as a Gloss Lavender eMTB and it RIPS!
Andi received one of the first 2021 Santa Cruz Bullit eMTB's to test ahead of launch and watching this review we think be might be in love. The last time I rode a Santa Cruz Bullit it was an alloy, single-pivot bike with 26in wheels.…
First Look | Mondraker Grommy 16 “my first eeb”
When Mondraker released the Grommy range of kids’ eBikes earlier in the year the comment section and most of the internet was set ablaze with angry comments upset with ‘lazy’ kids. Andi saw the Grommy as a thing for good, something that his daughter could…
First Look | 2021 Merida eONE SIXTY 9000 with Shimano EP8
Merida dropped off the 2021 eONE SIXTY 9000 for us to test the latest Shimano EP8 motor system on, here’s a first look along with riding video. Merida is one of the first bike brands to adopt the Shimano EP8 motor system, and it’s pretty…
Shimano EP8 launched | Here’s everything you need to know
Breaking news eMTB fans! Shimano has released its next-generation motor and it’s more powerful, lighter and more efficient. Meet the Shimano EP8. Shimano have done their best to keep the lid on the Shimano EP8 cookie jar, but now that it’s here and we have…
Video Bike Check: Andi’s Custom Patrol E-Six long-termer eMTB
Andi takes us for a look around his highly modified Patrol E-Six, a rare Indonesian eMTB that hopes to make it big in the U.S and Europe. Patrol isn’t a household name in the U.K, but that could be set to change as the Indonesian…
Canyon Neuron:ON Gets New Integrated Battery For 2020
Sanny takes a sneaky peeky look at the latest e-bike offering from Canyon Bikes in the shape of the Neuron:ON. Ah yes, the warming glow of sun on your face after a winter of rain, rain and more bloody rain. I was beginning to forget…
Bike Check: Andi’s Custom Patrol E-Six Longtermer
Andi has been made the new keeper of a 2020 Patrol E-Six eMTB and he has wasted no time customising this Indonesian eBike to make it his own. I can feel pretty confident in saying that it’s very unlikely that you’ll see another of these…
First look at the Italian designed Thok Mig R eMTB
First, look at the Shimano powered, Italian designed, Thok Mig R full-suspension e-MTB. If you know your e-MTBs then the Thok brand won’t be a new one to you. This Italian brand has been around since the start of the e-Bike revolution and specialises in…
YT Decoy CF Pro First Look: Does the stealthy YT still impress?
We take a first look at our YT Decoy CF Pro review bike to see if this stealth e-Bike is still as impressive as it was 6 months ago. Earlier in the year, I rode the YT Decoy during its launch, I was impressed then…
Kinesis Rise E-Trail Hardtail Eyes On At The Cycle Show
If you thought everything new was already seen at Eurobike, then think again! Kinesis has just launched a new e-MTB hardtail called the Rise at the NEC. Kinesis says that while there are plenty of aggressive full-suspension e-MTBs on sale, the aggressive e-hardtail market is…
2020 Kona Remote 160 |Exclusive First look
Kona has taken the big hit DNA of the Process, shaken it up with a little Remote CTRL and the finished article is this, the 2020 Kona Remote 160. We’ve been sitting on this blue beauty for a few weeks now, but today we can…
2020 Patrol E-Six first look at this Indonesian e-MTB
Indonesian mountain bike brand, Patrol, joins the e-MTB space race for 2020 with the new Patrol E-Six. An Enduro e-MTB with some serious power. There are a lot of mountain bike brands around the world but even so, it’s still pretty surprising when a brand…
Cairn E-Adventure Bike – A new concept with a strong pedigree
From Impact Sun Valley in Idaho, Hannah brings us a look at the prototype Cairn E-Adventure bike, hitting the trails near you soon. It might seem odd to go all the way to the USA to chat to some folks from England, but that’s often…
2020 Commencal Meta Power 29 Team first ride. This isn’t an update, it’s an evolution.
Commencal’s Meta Power range gets a new internal battery, new geometry, and even suspension redesign. This isn’t an update, it’s an evolution. Andorran mountain bike brand, Commencal is often one of the first names to adopt new technology and design. The brand was one of…
2020 Focus Jam² | Shimano or Bosch? You Decide
What I liked about the Jam² when it was launched in 2016 was the off trend, smaller battery pack. At 378wh it was considerably underpowered compared to the more common 500wh packs. But the principal was to give an assist where needed but keep the…
A Game Of Throns | Focus Introduce The Thron² – A Broad Spectrum e-MTB
It was way back in 2016 that Focus launched their first big eMTB, the Focus Jam². It was different to the other bikes out there in that it opted for a smaller 378wh battery to save weight rather than go with the more ubiquitous, at…
The Pivot Shuttle Gets Cheaper, Adds Bigger Fork & Wheels
Pivot updates the Shuttle e-MTB with a new 160mm travel fork and 29in wheels Pivot Cycles first leapt into the e-Bike game in 2018 with its very first electric mountain bike; the Shuttle. Equipped with a full carbon fibre frame and the Shimano STEPS E8000…
First Look: Orange Surge the latest E.P.O from Orange Bikes
Andi headed down to Orange Bikes HQ to snap a few photos of the newly announced and completely redesigned Orange Surge, Shimano Steps eMTB. Could it be eBike season? After all, we’ve seen teasers from Merida, upcoming bikes from Alutech and a BT-E8035 equipped bike…
2020 Merida eOne-Sixty gets a carbon overhaul & new Shimano battery
Long, low, slack goes the common parlance that describes modern bike geometry but with the Merida eOne-Sixty it’s a case of 2 out of 3. At 440mm reach on the medium we can rule out ‘long’ as a feature of this bike. But with a…
First Ride Review: Intense Tazer eMTB
A few years ago we wouldn’t have dreamt that Intense would build an eBike, but they have and judging by the fact that Intense’s head honcho, Jeff Steber managed to leak every stage of development on to his personal Instagram shows just how excited the…
Focus Jam² Carbon ALMOST Breaks 40lb FS eMTB Barrier But At What Price?
So while we were out riding the Focus SAM² in Malaga a few weeks ago they also showed us a carbon version of the Focus JAM² that trims the weight down to an electrically svelt 18.5kg. For us UK types that’s a whisker over 40lbs. If…
Focus Go Big With Their New Sam² e-MTB
Last week Mark took three days out of the office to swap the British cold winter for a the sunny, warm Spanish version. The weather, however, had quite different plans for him. It’s quite late in the year for press launches. They are usually all…