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Following on from my other thread about which ebike. I am being drawn to the idea of the Specialized Turbo Tero. I won't be doing serious or extreme trails but will be wanting to do some trails - plus general use on road to and from a to b. It seems to me it is like a cross between a gravel bike and a hardtail. But the only real review I've read says it's not good off road due to the hard tail element. I just wonder if anyone else has one and what they think.
It's cheaper than a turbo levo (which would probably be overkill for me and too expensive - I have ridden one before). But seems more suited to off road than say a road bike with gravel tyres. I've tried a hybrid bike off road and didn't like it. I'd prefer the Tero 5 but am looking at the Tero 4 because there's a step through option.
I'm also wonderign what the difference between that and just any other Mtb hard tail is. The tero is not a lightweight bike and seems to be a similar weight to some hardtails. And heavier than some of the Levo's. I think I prefer the simplicity of a hardtail but would it really be too rough on trails like the one below?
As an example of the kind of trails I've done before - the Swaledale trail.
The other option I was considering was the ejanis road bike with gravel tyres. But I'm wondering if that is heavy duty enough for something like the Swaledale trail (and no front suspension).
I recently dun a fred about well, [url= https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/hardtail-ebikes/ ]Hardtail eBikes[/url]. Was a bit concerned about the unsuspended lump of the back end of them. I've not ridden my Rise pro much offroad as yet, but from what I have ridden can tell you need to ride differently to full sus, or even a proper hardtail MTB, there's a lot of unweighting the back end or you really feel it *clunk*. And the Rise is supposed to be lighter than full-fat ebikes like the Spesh.
My shortlist came down to the Rise Pro and the Whyte E-505, they just seemed more mountain bike oriented and better spec'ed than the Spesh and pretty much all the others I looked at.
As an example of the kind of trails I’ve done before – the Swaledale trail.
Not exactly sure which trail / combination of trails that is, but most of the trails in Swaledale are HT friendly - mainly gravelly BWs with the odd rough bit thrown in.
Thanks. Yes it's mainly gravelly, some steep bits and some quite rocky gravelly bits but all gravel paths.
Desperatebicycle - that's a good point and electric hard tail may not act the same as a standard hard tail. What did you get from your shortlist? Once it goes up to £4000 there are quite a lot of different options which makes it harder. I was hoping not to spend as much. But the fact I may want to do that trail sometimes, makes me think the road bike with gravel tyres won't be enough.
Desperatebicycle – What did you get from your shortlist?
https://www.upgradebikes.co.uk/Catalogue/Bikes/Kinesis/Rise-Pro-MTB