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1 week ago | 
off.road.cc | Liam Mercer
[Sponsored by Trek (link is external)]With Summer just around the corner, Trek has kicked off another TrekFest - a month-long sale of its products from both ends of the off-road cycling spectrum. With discounts reaching all mountain biking and e-MTB genres, customers can expect to save up to £1,250 on select models. Here are some highlights.
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1 week ago | 
off.road.cc | Liam Mercer
The Santa Cruz Bullit is the brand's big travel e-mountain bike that's slated to be 'a downhill bike with a built-in chairlift'. For 2025, the brand takes that formula but has given it a serious shake up, ditching the VPP linkage in favourite of the four-bar platform as seen on the Vala, and gracing the bike with the very latest Bosch tech.
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2 weeks ago | 
off.road.cc | Liam Mercer
This week's five cool things and the best stories. More Features The world's largest bike show, Sea Otter is well underway, so we've been hot on the keys keeping on top of all of the releases being unveiled over in California.
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2 weeks ago | 
off.road.cc | Liam Mercer
The Decoy SN MX marked a new direction in YT Industries’ e-mountain bike story, but today, the brand has added a well-timed sequel, the Decoy SN 29. Despite using a similar moniker and the general aesthetic, the Decoy SN 29 gets a bunch of changes made to make it appeal to a wider, trail-going audience. The result is a bike that takes the same values as its bigger-travelled brethren but provides a tangibly different, more versatile, and more easily approached ride. Here are my early impressions.
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2 weeks ago | 
off.road.cc | Liam Mercer
And brings its Electric Red colourway to its whole fork range. More News RockShox has been busy. With the unveiling of the Charger 3.1 damper and updated shock last year, and the new Reverb AXS just last week, the brand has announced updates to its inline shock, the Deluxe. But that's not all, as RockShox has reintroduced its Electric Red colourway to the whole of its fork range.
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2 weeks ago | 
off.road.cc | Liam Mercer
With the introduction of the Decoy SN MX, YT Industries pointed its e-mountain bike lineup in a new, sleeker direction – the Decoy SN 29. Today, the brand has expanded on that lineup by taking that Super Natural brief and applying it to a trail-friendly e-MTB that boasts all of Fazua's very latest updates. Let's get into the details.
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2 weeks ago | 
off.road.cc | Liam Mercer
e-gravel gets powerful and even lighter. More News Kona's much loved Libre gets the e-bike treatment and we've got one on test When it was released at Eurobike 2024, DJI's Avinox drive system shook up the e-mountain bike space. The brand not only managed to package big power in a lightweight system but also brought serious integration. However, Paprika 53 shows that such power isn't reserved just for e-MTBs, as the brand has unveiled its DJI-powered Model 25 GT.
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2 weeks ago | 
off.road.cc | Liam Mercer
Three new tyres modernise Continental's XC offering. More News In 2022, Continental unveiled a new Gravity tyre range, which was received with great success. Now, the brand has overhauled its cross-country offering, bringing three new tyres into the mix to please both elite-level XC athletes and those who want to push their short-travel trail bikes harder.
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2 weeks ago | 
off.road.cc | Liam Mercer
With 111Nm of torque, are big power e-mountain bikes the new norm? More News Specialized's Levo has become a go-to e-mountain bike for riders across the globe, and now in its fourth iteration, it gets more powerful, boasts a more natural delivery of that power, more adjustability, and the brand has managed to squeeze down tube storage in with its 840Wh battery. Here are all of the details.
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2 weeks ago | 
off.road.cc | Liam Mercer
Thanks to the 100k euro prize purse promised to anyone who pilots a Gates belt-driven bike to a World Cup DH win, belt drives and gearboxes have been a hot topic throughout the winter. Although Carbon Wasp’s Carbon Gearbox Hardtail isn’t designed to perform such feats, the brand has built it to become the perfect hassle-free winter mountain bike. We got some time on the bike and here are some first impressions. Do electric mountain bikes have gears?
