E-Mountain bikes are changing and you don't have to look too far back to these designs are pretty clunky
With motors of batteries literally chucked onto a normal mountain bike but now we're seeing ground up designs that much more integrated
the driving Force literally behind that a smaller more compact motor systems like this Shimano steps E-8,000
So first it's off to Doddie in the workshop. Give you the full tech lowdown on the Shimano system now
It's back to me on the trail. I'm gonna give it a ride and tell you I think
This is the Mondraker E-Crusher
It's 150 millimeter travel full Carbon fiber off-Road bike running the Shimano steps E-8,000 system
So the first thing you might notice about this is the size of the actual unit now
It's quite small compared to some of the other systems
we've seen on the market and
There's two main Advantages to that
The first is obviously can make the chainstays of the bike a lot of shorter
So the bike feels a lot more like the bikes where we're used to riding without electric assistance
And the second one is in fact the the q factor
And that's the distance between the pedals can be reduced so it feels much more like a normal bike to pedal
So with this Shimano electric system you get two different crank options you get the hollow tech system
Which we've seen the Shimano for years, and there's a slightly more robust fully solid unit
There's also two different timing options
34 and a 38 weight although might be more than you'd normally run a new existing trail bike you've got a bear in mind
You've got that electric assistance so you can maximise on all that stuff now interestingly
There's also an optional chain guide. Which is pretty suggestive or what Somalis think people who could be doing this?
So this Shimano system has got three different levels of pedal assist
You've got eco trail and then boost and to be honest in the past any ebike I've ridden
I'm just fuckin highest power and gone and hit the trails, but actually I found on this system
Trail is really good
So it's got a progressive output if you just spin generally doesn't give you much power
But if you start pushing hard, it will give you enough power to get the re speakers to the Hill
But boost is all about riot mode for me
Hüseyin is so much fun. You don't even really need big long sections of Trail
I find little trial things of fun popping wheelies trying to hit banks
Go up and turn around and come back down that is brilliant for it
Eco mode is probably just to be safe
We'll get a new home when you started running low on battery or maybe when you're riding with people that don't have a bikes
This bike also has the benefit of having the electronic co2 Shimano gears so a bit of a luxury, but also
I find it works really well with E-bikes there's often situations where you want to get through the gears really quickly so I can just
Leave my phone and I'll bang up or down a cassette as I need it the left-hand side the bar
I've got the mirror image of that shifter
I'm actually works the pedal assist mode so that easy just flick through the three and
I actually find that I'm using that on the trail a lot more than I thought I probably would
One of the Advantages of any bike system is being able to winch yourself up pretty much anything you dare climb and with 70
Newton Metres of torque the Shimano system is going to climb anything you dare point it up and just to put it into perspective
What our 70 Newton meters feels like it's significantly more than any of those twists and go scooters
You'll see around town or if one let's get another way about the same as a 1986 that's on a sunny
So it's climbing where you really notice the biggest difference on an E-bike to a normal bike off. So you've got all that extra power
Really just feels like you got a set of legs from an Olympic track Sprinter
This bike has got a really grippy big tire on the rear
So actually I'm not spinning up much tall just want it to wheelie a little bit
So it's got a really try and keep your weight on that front tire
Paraná Shimano system is a 504 what battery now
It's available in two styles is
Fully integrated like the one team on this bike or more
Conventional one it just sits on top of the top G bra in a bracket
Now the beauty of having this one fully integrated into the downtube here is the fact that is completely hidden
Waterproof and protected you never actually need to take this off the black for cleaning because of this
but
access is easy if you do need to get to it as
Of all the bikes you know you've got to keep these things charge the charge ports on this one
It's located on the down Tube here directly into the batteries now will reach 80 percent charge within two hours. Which is pretty amazing and
100% Within five hours, and that's about yourself will last a hundred thousand cycles
So it's on the flat sections of trail. We're much more likely
Flick that left paddle and get it into trail mode just to use that of mid power system with that progressive output
don't forget like all other E-bikes a
25-kilometer now this will stop assisting you
It's got me sad that every single different brand of motor has different sort of feel on the bike the way actually
cuts in and out of power
And this system is very smooth right when it does give you that pedal assist and also when it cuts off?
This is a business end of the Shimano system. So you've got your control to great display less
You know everything you need to know when you're on the trail
So you might notice it's the same
Displays you get on the di to system and even cycling through the gears you can see the display registering which gear you in
Don't fret though is compatible with mechanical gears 10 on level speeds. You don't have to have Vi2 integration
The display itself has got color-coordinated Eco
trails and boost setting so you know what you're in for easy reference out on the trail and
Display itself has got all the sort of range of controls and display that you need so that I have a domitor range trip distance
All that sort of stuff, so the whole system has three drive settings, but via the Ichi bap
There's actually dynamic explorer and a custom setting which enables you to buy the app itself
Control all of the parameters of the system. How you want it to feel much like Bi2
So for example in the trail setting you might want more assistance or less assistance
Where you want to boost out more of a feel compared to that fully customizable, and that's on the new Firmware update
That's about to drop
Especially on the downhills where the e battering the motor better you make that much difference?
Scott and said it doesn't feel like good Mountain bike 150 Miller travel
Actually feels like more than that honest and with the extra way to the body it makes the suspension really active
I don't really notice any difference on q-Factor
It feels like a good mountain bike with big tires big brakes and really good dying on characteristics
Okay, so there's a focus on the Shimano steps Ea thousand system. It's pretty created CFr
Emags bikes and their motors have come in the last couple of years and just what that means in the performance of the bike overall
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