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Vitus has announced its range of 2020 e-MTB’s but hasn’t followed other brands down the internal battery route, instead focussing on price and specifications. Look around at any of the…

Today GT Bicycles announced the new Force GT-E and Pantera GT-E, part of the all-new GT Power Series lineup of electric pedal assist full suspension and hardtail bikes. Here’s the…

News just in. Get your shred and your goggles on, and get training to be the new EWS-E Champion! The Enduro World Series (EWS) is excited to announce it is…

Specialized unveils the 2nd generation Turbo Kenevo e-MTB for 2020 The original Kenevo debuted back in 2017 as a 180mm travel self-shuttling electric mountain bike. Specialized admits that the masses…

Trek has unveiled additions to its 29in wheeled, all-electric mountain bike line-up today, releasing the all-new Trek 2020 Rail – a “long-travel e-MTB for hard-charging trail riders” – along with…

The big bike of the Giant range becomes electrified for 2020 with the release of the new Giant Reign E+ e-MTB. Last week saw the launch of the new Giant…

Two new e-bikes from Cannondale revealed today! Cannondale’s new ebikes have landed! The completely revamped all-mountain Moterra and the more trail-focussed Habit Neo have been announced and they’re bikes that…

Bianchi might be better known for the type of bikes the lycra brigade likes to ride, but their new e-MTBs really mean business with decent geometry and a custom 630Wh…

Commencal revives the SX as the 2020 Commencal Meta Power SX e-MTB along with the 2020 Commencal Meta Power 29 both with internal battery, and new features. The following information…

It has taken us by as much surprise as you that this week 9 new e-MTB’s or e-Bike were announced! Here are the details of those 9 new bikes plus…

Commencal has today announced a new e-MTB but not one for you or I, but rather a Shimano STEPS powered hardtail for the young guns in our families. Riding with…

Take the Orange 5 and blend it with the Orange Surge and you get this, the 150mm travel Orange Charger eBike with Shimano Steps drive technology. Press release follows. Orange…

Orange Bikes hasn’t simply refreshed the Orange Alpine 6E for 2019, they’ve given it such an upgrade they felt a name change was in order! Meet the Orange Surge eMTB.…

Taiwan based Merida Bikes has recently updated it’s social media accounts to tease the upcoming launch of an all-new Merida eOne-Sixty eMTB. Merida Bikes, one of the largest bike manufacturers…

German bike brand, Alutech Cycles, is entering the e-MTB market with a the Alutech eFanes e-MTB. Alutech Cycles isn’t the most well-known bike manufacturer in this part of the world,…

Our Andi recently went on YT Industries‘ launch event for their new YT Decoy e-MTB, and came away impressed by both its looks and handling. Since the launch, YT has…

Propain Cycles has just announced the new Propain Ekano e-MTB and it’s the first bike to launch with the all-new Shimano BT-E8035 integrated battery! Well, we didn’t have to wait…

Shimano has quietly rolled out the new Shimano BT-E8035 integrated battery and it is set to disrupt e-Bike design for the better. While Shimano’s STEPS motor system is loved for…

Buy direct brand Propain Bicycles has just released a teaser for a new bike called the Propain Ekano, and we think it could be an e-Bike. Almost every manufacturer under…

Hidden (in plain sight) at the Marin booth at this year’s Sea Otter was a muddy-looking Marin adventure bike. Look closer though and it proved to be an e-bike hardtail.…

Cedric Gracia has turned up to Sea Otter with the latest version of his Forestal Bikes e-Bike prototype. Take a look! Chipps is out at Sea Otter this week where…

No this isn’t an early April fools joke, YT really has entered the e-MTB market with an all-new bike they’ve called the YT Decoy. The YT Decoy has come as…

Rocky Mountain’s full suspension e-Bike range is now joined by 2 new hardtail’s named the Growler. Back in 2017, Rocky Mountain unveiled its first e-MTB. The Rocky Mountain Altitude Powerplay…

Commencal finally updates its hardtail e-MTB range for 2019 with the introduction of the new Commencal Maxmax 27 running Shimano Steps E7000. Andorran bike maestros, Commencal, have just updated its…

Foes Racing is a prestigious name in the mountain bike world. The company started out back in 1992 after Brent Foes took a look at bike design and figured he could…

“in this country, there are many venomous spiky things” Momo of “Momo Vs Wild”. We get sent a lot of videos or as we like to call them “shredits” from bike brands.…

Here’s a little tip for you. If you ever want to learn what Intense is planning in the very near future the first thing that you need to do is…

The first month of 2019 is clean out of the way. You have just received your first paycheck and you’re struggling to decide what to do with all that leftover…

This morning BMC has revealed 2 new Shimano STEPS powered eBikes to join the Speedfox range. The new Speedfox AMP Alloy Four and Speedfox AMO Alloy Five feature an all-new…

So when we looked over the specs of the latest Mondraker e-MTB we instantly thought “surely this bike should be the Fox E 29er”. After all, it runs on 29er…

Ensuring that no one forgets that they have an e-Bike too, Kona has just released this short video of the Kona Remote CTRL e-Bike ridden by free-riding legend Graham Agassiz.…

The Orange Crush 29 isn’t the only new hardcore hardtail from the British bike maker at Eurobike, they also have this prototype Crush-E on display too. If you hadn’t already…

Brose, one of the lesser known brand names in the e-Bike motor market, has today launched its next generation of e-Bike motors. The brand doesn’t plaster its name all over…

Shimano’s STEPS range grows to 3 models with today’s announcement of the STEPS E7000; an ‘affordable’ drive system for the e-Bike and e-MTB markets. The new E7000 drive system sits…

If you’re not familiar with David Turner, then it would be worth reading Chipps’ interview with him from Issue 109 of Singletrack Magazine. He’s a guy that designs bikes that…

Today Orbea launches its new carbon fibre Gain – an e-road bike. Looking as close to a normal road bike as possible, it’s only the small button on the top…

Last month Mark was whisked off to the Swiss spa town of Bad Ragaz to get a first look at the 2019 Trek Powerfly LT 9 e-MTB. After a day…

With most e-bikes weighing in at the high 30lbs or mid 40lbs mark, saving weight is still a worthwhile exercise, yet most e-bikes run the stock forged alloy cranks that…

Like it or not, E-bikes are not going to go away. For those of you reading this, you’ll probably fall into one of the two, polarised, camps on this issue…

In standard trim, the SHIMANO STEPS E-8000 drive unit gives you a Boost, Trail and Eco modes, but with new firmware released today, riders get a higher degree of control…

After we first spotted the Commencal Meta Power e-MTB back in November last year, it looks like the Andorran brand is finally ready to take the covers off its first battery-powered…

E-Bikes. They’re a controversial topic, and especially when it comes to off-road e-bikes, or e-MTBs for short. It seems that some people love them, and some people love to hate…

Not really a surprise, given than Shimano already makes an urban e-bike pedal-assist system, but it’s interesting that Shimano is coming in, guns blazing with an XT-level electric motor system.…