Originally Posted by
prj71
I'm not an e-bike person but have taken a spin a few. Specialized does OK on theirs. I think Orbea did it a little better in the fact that motor is barely noticeable. Took my friends Orbea for a spin a few months ago and it was OK, but not my thing. No work to get up any of the hills. Matter of fact no effort at all. Kind of defeats the purpose of why I ride.
https://www.orbea.com/us-en/ebikes/mountain/rise/
Big S makes a Lighter weight levo that is closer in marketing strategy to that Orbea. Weather in my area is still not allowed me to get this thing on the trails but I am looking forward to doing back to back laps on the same circuit with my yeti cross-country bike. The trails are very tight and technical and I’ve always thought that the limiting factor in the trees was not my motor but how fast I’m willing to push it before I start bouncing off of stuff
I don’t see that changing with an E bike but it would make shuttling up the hills in Bentonville quite a bit easier so I can enjoy a few more downhill runs during a day.