The bike gets up to speed quickly, holds it, and rails turns.Īt the end of our 20-mile ride, I had about 60% battery life left.
On a couple of hairier sections of the Rainbow trail with high-speed chunk and steep rock gardens, the SL charged ahead without flinching. For the most part, the SL carries itself like a non-motorized bike. The handling matches an analog bike, and the weight does too. The Pivot Shuttle SL has 132mm of rear travel and either a 140mm or 150mm fork.įor much of my time on the SL that day, it was easy to forget I was on an e-bike. They have sleeker, quieter motors, slimmer downtubes and batteries, great component specs, and are lighter than ever. What’s different about this new crop? The Rise, Fuel EXe, and now the Shuttle SL look very unassuming. Sure there’s the Specialized Turbo Levo SL, but that bike seemed to sit right in the middle, and its light weight was achieved partly through lighter components than it should have been specced with at the time. I’ve ridden a few hefty, long travel e-bikes, and I like the planted feel, long battery life, and power of the larger motors, but this Pivot Shuttle SL ride would be my first experience with anything in the same category as the Orbea Rise, or Trek Fuel EXe. The real question was, why not just opt for a full-powered and full-weighted eMTB, when the weight doesn’t really matter anymore?Īt a press event for Pivot where we were invited to experience their newest long travel Shuttle LT e-bike and mid-travel, lightweight Shuttle SL e-bike, I hoped to find out. What’s the point of lightweight eMTBs anyway, I wondered into text just six or seven months ago.
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