£5k budget for an e-bike. These discounted now, or sit tight.

Figures wise, a typical route currently is 25km with 550/600m (1800ft) climbing.

My last “big ride” was the CVMBC, topped out at 47km with 1350m of climbing. So a “SL” may have struggled to see me round that on boost, but perhaps a gentle assist would have been enough just to help?  I don’t want to be Surroning around trails. Mate did it on his Rise with the rangey and was fresh at the end with plenty of battery.

I’ve a Kenevo SL, it’ll do your ‘long’ ride on just the internal battery – with plenty of spare and TBH it’d cover your typical route in Turbo no trouble.

From my experience of 2 years with the KSL, I can recommend it and Specialized (for warranty work).

That’s interesting, I’d assumed that the longer ride would be outside the reasonable range of a SL.

I do have a spesh dealer local and they have the gen2 levo SL as a demo so it might be worth a demo, and blast out a typical ride.

My Gen 1 Levo SL will go quite a big day without the range extender as long as if I’m having a reasonably strong day on the pedals. Its range is almost entirely down to how much work the rider does.

Where SL bikes lose out on range compared to full torque ones is when the rider eases right off and gets the bike to do a lot of the work, that eats the limited power and battery.

I do have a spesh dealer local and they have the gen2 levo SL as a demo so it might be worth a demo, and blast out a typical ride.

Trouble is though you will find it really good until you try a different bike with a better motor and battery. You need to try and test ride them all , which can be easier said than done !