News: Exposure Lights now Available in New Zealand
FE Sports are proud to announce Exposure lights to its portfolio of premium cycling brands as part of our exclusive offering to the New Zealand market.
"We at Exposure Lights have been looking for the perfect partner to distribute Exposure in New Zealand for a while and holding off until we found that in FE Sports. Firstly, they are riders that ride and not just talk about riding. Secondly, they know what the bike shops need in the way of business and product support.” said Mark Swift Marketing and Brand Manager Exposure Lights.
General Manager at FE Sports, Darren Harper added “It was a simple decision when we were offered the opportunity to represent Exposure lights and see this as a perfect alignment for FE Sports and the New Zealand cyclist looking for the best lighting solution on the market”.
We will continue to review our product and brands portfolio to deliver unique retail opportunities that will assist our partners to increase sales and drive new growth within their businesses.
DIABLO MK12
Exposure's best selling light with a slick new finish. Aero grade 6063 Aluminum coated using Physical Vapor Deposition. Triple LED's created a wide beam, combined with fast mode charging TAP technology, the Diablo's 1800 lumen output will enable you to pin most trails that are in front of the wheel. With a lightweight, CNC engineered aluminum body the Diablo gives you license to raise hell on the trail!
SIX PACK MK11
The Six Pack's deep reaching and open beam is our brightest for intense shreds and the highest capacity battery stores enough power to last the duration of the longest endurance events. Just use the OMS (Optimised Mode Selector) to choose the runtime for your needs from 2 to 36 hours. Together with the Reflex++, the six pack will automatically give you the perfect lumen level no matter the ride. The Smart Port utilises the large battery as a power bank for your other devices for an overnight bike packing adventure; there aren't many off road riders who couldn't benefit from a Six Pack.
STRADA MK10 SB
The Strada SB, Super Bright, with our Road Specific Beam Pattern and at 1500 lumens remains the best road light; with the specific bevels to allow side illumination, and reversible graphics to remind you that the Strada can be mounted either way up. The included remote switch allows for ease of use, keeping you in total control without taking your hands off the bars and with fast charging to ensure the lights are ready for the ride quicker.
FE Sports already has a range of Exposure products in stock and ready for immediate delivery. Please call (09) 88 44 882,mail info@fesports.co.nz or click here for further information and product support.
News: Wairoa Gorge MTB Park is Open for Business
The Wairoa Gorge Mountain Bike Park riding season grand opening is the 18th of September 2021.
After a very wet winter and lockdown, roads into the park are open and thanks to a large army of Nelson Mountain Bike Club volunteers and Gorge crew who have groomed and cleared the 70km of single-track, the trails are in mint condition.
Excitement is building amongst the riding community for a great season at The Gorge with new options for the 2021/22 season.
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First up is The Gorge express shuttle on our new Yamaha Viking 6-seater side x side that will be one of the hot tickets for the season - do as many shuttles as you can between 9am and 2pm.
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For E-Bike fans, The Gorge offers a single shuttle up where the e-biker can access some of the best grade 3-4 single track climbing and riding in New Zealand.
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Great new affordable pricing caters for non-NMTBC members and out of town visitors.
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Great discounts for NMTBC club members.
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New accommodation options at Barry’s Hut and Gibbs Lodge.
Booking is available via www.thegorge.nz
News: Crankworx South Island Summer Series
New Zealand, September 9, 2021: Crankworx has today announced the addition of a summer series festival in New Zealand. The multi-stop mountain biking festival will see international and local riders explore the varied terrain of Central Otago, Queenstown and Wānaka, known for epic vistas and world-class mountain biking tracks. The Crankworx Summer Series will see Crankworx-calibre racing come to local destinations outside the usual World Tour, giving up-and-coming riders and locals the chance to mix, mingle and drop in with some of the world’s best mountain bikers.
“I’m super stoked to be heading to these unique riding destinations,” said Keegan Wright who’s set to race alongside his international and local peers. “With each spot having totally different terrain to the other it’s gonna make for awesome racing. I’m looking forward to getting to share these times with all of the Crankworx family! Can’t wait to kick the New Zealand summer off in true style. STOKED.”
Riders and spectators alike will see the best of summer in one of the hottest parts of New Zealand this time of year. The Crankworx Summer Series makes for the ultimate roadie: sunshine, scenery, friends, bikes, and real fruit ice cream in the adventure capital of New Zealand. It’s an unfiltered, grassroots festival, with Crankworx-calibre racing, set to bring massive benefit for its destinations.
Crankworx Rotorua’s Event Director Ariki Tibble explains: “Crankworx has played a key role in raising the profile of Rotorua as a destination over the past 6 years. The mountain biking scene has taken off and seen us become a key destination on the list for riders, from families to avid riders and the world’s best. We know how powerful this has been for the region, and this is the first opportunity we’ve had to unlock some of these benefits for other regions in our country. The mountain biking in Central Otago, Queenstown and Wānaka region is out of this world, not to mention its world-renowned scenery and epic summers. It’s inspiring to see young people riding alongside their heroes and appreciating the trails we have in our own backyard. We can’t wait to bring a grassroots version of our Crankworx Festival to the South.”
“We are proud to have been able to support the Crankworx Summer Series, enabling it to take place in 4 locations throughout the region” adds Murray Strong, Southern Lakes Events Investment Panel Chair. “The region’s biking facilities have had significant investment put into them and the Crankworx Summer Series will be a fantastic way to showcase what the region truly has to offer for all levels of biking enthusiasts".
Darren Kinnaird, Managing Director of Crankworx, continues: “I’m thrilled to see how the Summer Series concept has taken flight in New Zealand. This idea of the ultimate mountain bike road trip was born in British Columbia last year. It created such a great opportunity to bring a taste of Crankworx to different locations and get athletes out racing in different places outside the Crankworx World Tour circuit. I can’t wait to hit the road after Rotorua and bring the action to these other iconic riding destinations and take the world along for the ride.”
The Crankworx Summer Series 2021 will kick off on November 27 and run through December 12.
Locations:
· November 27-28: Matangi Station Mountain Bike Park, Alexandra
· December 4: Skyline Queenstown
· December 4-5: Queenstown
· December 9: Cardrona Alpine Resort
· December 11-12: Bike Glendhu, Wānaka
Disciplines/events:
· Alexandra: Super D
· Queenstown: DH and Pump Track
· Cardrona: Air DH
· Wānaka: Dual Slalom
Two events (Queenstown Pump Track and Wānaka Dual Slalom) will be live broadcast on crankworx.com during the series, with photo and video highlights available of the other three events.
The all-stars on deck who’ll be all-in and ready throw down include:
· Georgia Astle (CAN)
· Danielle Beecroft (AUS)
· Casey Brown (CAN)
· Harriet Burbidge-Smith (AUS)
· Robin Goomes (NZL)
· Kialani Hines (USA)
· Bas van Steenbergen (CAN)
· Vaea Verbeeck (CAN)
· Keegan Wright (NZL)
More riders will be added to the roster in the coming weeks.
For those looking to get amongst, there will be race categories for Pros, Amateurs and CWNEXT racers. Details of registration will be released soon! Those keen should keep their eyes locked on @crankworxrotorua on Instagram or Facebook for details.
Prizing will be awarded for each event, with overall titles awarded at the end of the series.
For spectators who want to watch it all go down, the Crankworx Summer Series New Zealand will be free to attend.
Athletes can register from 20 September 2021.
For more information on the Crankworx Summer Series, visit www.crankworx.com.
Column: Mountain Biking is Dead
Mountain biking in 2020 certainly looks different to 30 years ago when I first started. What we were doing on our bicycles back then is now called gravel riding. Mountain biking today could be loosely defined more as downhill riding than the cross-country flavour it had when bikes were rigid and as difficult to ride on single-track as the bastard-child gravel bikes of today. Probably harder. No-one would dispute that mountain bikes bear more than a passing resemblance to motocross bikes than a bicycle in its traditional form - even more so now, with the emergence of the electric pedal-assist mountain bike. I can hear you shouting at the page already.
Back in 1990, combustion-powered dirt bikes were my ticket to high-speed, go-anywhere fun. Bicycles were what you rode to the pub, or school, or - if you were “into it” - jumping your BMX down at the local track was probably as far as you'd venture. Our two-wheeled crew were finding it hard to keep up with the increasingly advanced tech and cost of motos, and these mountain bikes were just big BMX bikes... right? That's what we thought - and every one of our moto crew soon realised that the places we rode under power were almost impossible to enjoy on these “all-terrain bicycles”. All but myself promptly moved back to 2-stroke power or gave the riding game away altogether. No-one wanted to pedal for two or three hours in the Aussie sun and not throw a roost or get even a modicum of air, but something about the athletic side struck me and I became an XC guy, aka a mountain biker, like the majority who weren't rich or fast enough to be a downhiller. It would take 15 years for me to even consider that rear suspension might actually make things better; closer to what my original vision of mountain biking was way back when.
As bikes got more suspension, bigger tyres and even more capable at climbing, they seemingly made us not want to actually ride them uphill anymore. After all, it is all about the downs, right? Why ride back up if someone has a bus, Ute or trailer? The bikes most of us ride now are closer to motos than they are to the original 'mountain bikes' from whence they came. But those same riders, most of them over 40 now, who sit in a shuttle bus lamenting to each other that “e-bikes suck” or they'd only consider one when they're “old”, seem to think that it's somehow cheating and/or an affront to their man/womanhood to add 250 watts to their life. For anyone who states they want to ride more often, for longer, on more trails, a staunch rebuttal of anything ‘E’ appears just a tad hypocritical.
Now, here's a big disclaimer: I haven't really ridden an E-MTB properly off-road. A couple of demo days here and there, and a lot of test rides up the street, as I also assemble and sell these (and 'proper' mountain bikes) a couple of days a week. Even with such limited time, actually using an E-MTB how it's intended, I'm convinced that in the not-too-distant future the majority of mountain bikers won't be stuffed into a smelly, dusty bus, but making their own way to the top and actually enjoying it. Heck, they might even look for more difficult and challenging ways to ascend, rather than the easiest - which is closer to the original concept of mountain biking than I think it has been for quite a while. Ride up, ride down.
The age old argument is also an annoyingly moot one, as I see it, although I'm pleased I can easily summon it if under fire when I go electric. Every mountain biker, and especially those at an advanced skill level, wants to ride more - surely? And when they do ride, do they not want to have fun? The whole time? If they have an hour to get a ride in, do they want to spend two-thirds of it grinding or pushing the bike up a hill? Maybe it's just me, but more/faster/longer seems to add up to funner.
And for Pete's sake, these aren't motorcycles! However, despite the motor, they are closer to one than the bicycle which spawned them. Mountain bikes have virtually been engineless motos for years now, and my moto genes are being freshly tickled by the tech side of the new genre, too. Enduro racing now seems like something I might want to do again, with e-bike categories cropping up at many events and a host of legends from all disciplines getting on board for the EWS E-series. It seems just about proven now that E-MTBs don't destroy trails any more than standard bikes, and they're not going to come screaming out of nowhere at 50kmh and wipe you out.
All this gushing praise and apparent attempt at validation may well be baseless without proper time and experience on an E-MTB. But, having witnessed dozens of trends and evolutions in the sport, I'm convinced pedal-assist mountain bikes will become the dominant vehicle of the bicycle industry, just as the human-assist MTB currently is. As with any technology from the last 20+ years, E-MTBs will get lighter, their batteries smaller and more powerful, and motors will shrink in size and grow in torque, until what we ride is even closer to what we're self-pedalling now. Only more often, faster, and for longer. Win/win/win.
Words: Brett Kennedy
Image: Cameron Mackenzie
Video: Back to School With Commencal
Back to school time has come for our teens!
Summer is coming to an end and what a summer it’s been for at least 3 of them. Till Alran, Max Alran and Sacha Brizin did bike park sessions, DH races and dirt jumps during all their holidays.
Fortunately, going back to school doesn't mean they'll have to put their bikes in the garage. They plan to go to school on their bikes and enjoy after school sessions on their ABSOLUT!
Riders:
Till Alran (@alran_till_mtb)
Max Alran (@max_alran_mtb)
Sacha Brizin (@sach.briz)
Film & Photography:
Nicolas brizin (@nicolasbrizin)
News: Trek Releases Sustainability Report
In 2020, Trek Bicycle partnered with WAP Sustainability Consulting to conduct their first emissions audit to better understand their environmental impact and build a plan to become a more conscious and sustainable global citizen. The data takes into account a single year of operation pre-2020 as a baseline metric to identify the company’s areas of greatest impact to better determine where to dedicate attention and resources to reduce the carbon required to operate.
As a result, Trek defined 10 areas of focus to reduce their footprint including:
10. Reduce use of air freight – Air freight has 84 times the footprint of transport by ocean. As a result, Trek is improving supply-chain processes to reduce air freight mileage by 75% by 2024.
9. Consolidate shipments to retailers – To address ground delivery emissions, Trek is working on a global consolidated shipping strategy by 2024. Mainland European retailers currently utilise a batched shipping strategy that drastically cut mileage required to move product.
8. Increase reliance on renewable energy – By 2023, all Trek-owned facilities globally will be entirely powered by renewable energy. Currently, global headquarters uses of mix of 60.6% wind, 33.3% biogas and 6.1% solar power. The California and New Jersey distribution facilities are 100% renewably sourced.
7. Reduce corporate travel – In 2021, travel has been reduced by 50% of pre-pandemic levels and Trek will continue to reduce plane travel moving forwards.
6. Increase reliance on alternative materials – Trek is committed to using recycled, recyclable or refurbished materials to build products. Today, 15 products are made entirely of reclaimed materials. For example, in partnership with Bureo, a group working to remove discarded fishing nets from the oceans, Trek is grinding down this ocean pollutant into reusable material that is used to create the water bottle Bat Cages present on Trek bikes. The material is present in several handle grips as well.
5. Create zero-landfill manufacturing facilities – Trek’s goal is to become landfill-free by 2024 with efforts already in place in the US manufacturing facility.
4. Establish and protect new trails – Established in 2021, The Trek Foundation provides support to develop bicycle trails and infrastructure for public use and to protect land from development.
3. Remove plastic waste from packaging – Trek is using new packaging for bikes and accessories in an effort to cut down on non-recyclable pieces, working towards a goal of plastic-free packaging by 2024. In one year alone, Trek was able to remove 196,678 kg of plastic from packaging.
2. Increase access to bike share – Since 2009, Trek-owned bike share system,
BCycle, has reduced congestion and transportation-based carbon emissions in 35 cities.
Trek is committed to accelerating that growth and expansion moving forward.
1. Get more people on bikes – In the US alone, a 1% shift from vehicle transport to
cycling would result in a carbon reduction that is around 17 times bigger than Trek’s total
global carbon footprint. Trek is supporting causes that lobby for bikes, provide economic
incentive to cities and individuals to choose sustainable transport and build better bike
infrastructure.
Trek is continuing to encourage people to #GoByBike. The campaign, launched in
2020, has encouraged hundreds of thousands of riders to opt for travel by bike instead of
by car. To help provide riders with a new milestone, Trek calculated the Rule of 430 –
giving cyclists the opportunity to reach carbon neutrality. When you replace a ride in
your car or an emissions-emitting vehicle for a bike trip, you are making a small
contribution towards the carbon neutrality of your bike. If you ride a collective 430 miles
– or a little over a mile a day for a year – that you would have otherwise used a vehicle
for, you have saved the carbon equivalent of what it took for Trek to make your bike.
Anything above 430 miles, and your bike is now carbon negative.
To learn more about Trek’s sustainability efforts and to download the full report, visit https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/sustainability/.
News: Pro Rider List Released for Crankworx Rotorua
Roturua, New Zealand, September 1, 2021: 19 months after it last wrapped, and 6 months after it was originally scheduled to run, the wait is nearly over. The Crankworx World Tour is set to make its triumphant return to its Southern Hemisphere home in Rotorua, November 1-7, 2021.
“I am frothing to be back in New Zealand!” said Vaea Verbeeck, the last woman to wear the Queen of Crankworx crown in 2019. “After being there in March 2020 last, the world turned into a much different place to navigate and Crankworx Rotorua was the last time we lived as per usual. I know it will still be different going back this time, but part of me feels like I’m going back to my happy place.”
"I'm super excited to head back to Rotorua, I always love being there and it somewhat feels like a home away from home for us,” said Bas van Steenbergen, who was in the lead for the King of Crankworx title coming out of the New Zealand festival in 2020. “I'm definitely feeling pretty confident having done well here in the past, so hopefully I can close out the King of Crankworx chase strong!"
“After some challenging times with travel I am really looking forward to getting back to NZ for Crankworx,” said Emil Johansson, who is currently in the points lead for the Crankworx FMBA Slopestyle World Championship title after winning in Innsbruck in June. The Swedish all-star has never clinched the overall, despite having won every event there is to win at this level of Slopestyle, including the Rotorua event the last time it ran. “I am going to try to do a run that I am happy with and up the run I did 2020.”
Other athletes on deck to wrap their competition season in New Zealand include:
On the hunt for the King and Queen crowns:
· Tim Bringer (FRA)
· Tomas Lemoine (FRA)
· Ed Masters (NZL)
· Bas van Steenbergen (CAN)
· Keegan Wright (NZL)
· Georgia Astle (CAN)
· Casey Brown (CAN)
· Danielle Beecroft (AUS)
· Harriet Burbidge-Smith (AUS)
· Robin Goomes (NZL)
· Kialani Hines (USA)
· Vaea Verbeeck (CAN)
Slopestyle’s Elite:
· Emil Johansson (SWE)
· Nicholi Rogatkin (USA)
· Erik Fedko (GER)
· Tim Bringer (FRA)
· Tomas Lemoine (FRA)
· Torquato Testa (ITA)
· Paul Couderc (FRA)
· Lucas Huppert (SUI)
· Jakub Vencl (CZE)
· Max Fredriksson (SWE)
· Lukas Knopf (GER)
· Tom Isted (GBR)
· Marcel Hunt (GBR)
· Griffin Paulson (CAN)
· Bernd Winkler (AUT) (ALT1)
· Lukas Schäfer (GER) (ALT2)
Top riders, keen to disrupt:
· Tuhoto Ariki-Pene (NZL)
· George Brannigan (NZL)
· Caroline Buchanan (AUS)
· Martha Gill (GBR)
· Mikey Haderer (USA)
· Brett Rheeder (CAN) (racing DH only!)
· Katy Winton (GBR)
The festival will include Pro, Amateur and CWNEXT racing, Kidsworx competitions, and a ticketed venue with all the action Crankworx fans know and love, bringing together the best of MTB for all kiwis to enjoy.
As Crankworx is included on a list of Government-approved events, only those critical to the event, including competing athletes, have been granted entry to the country by Immigration NZ.
With the border still closed to recreational travel, Crankworx Rotorua 2021 will provide a unique opportunity for kiwi fans to get front-row seats to all the action and watch the world’s best face off against their local heroes. From newcomers to keen riders, the event welcomes a wide range of people to get amongst the action and this year kiwis can get closer than ever.
Registration for all Pro, Amateur and CWNEXT events at Crankworx Rotorua is now open, running through October 27 at 11:59 p.m. NZDT: https://www.crankworx.com/athletes/locations/rotorua/info/
The full festival schedule is also now available: https://www.crankworx.com/rotorua/schedule/
Fans from around the world will be able to tune into live coverage of Crankworx Rotorua 2021 on Red Bull TV, including:
- Specialized Dual Slalom Rotorua
- CLIF Speed & Style Rotorua presented by Mons Royale
- Maxxis Slopestyle in Memory of McGazza
- RockShox Pump Track Rotorua presented by Torpedo7
- Crankworx Rotorua Downhill presented by Gull
Highlights and additional coverage will be available for:
- TREK Official Oceania Whip-Off Championships
- Crankworx Rotorua Air DH
The Crankworx Rotorua Slopestyle will be the final event of the Crankworx FMBA Slopestyle World Championship (SWC) season and will include the crowning of the Slopestyle World Champion. In addition, as the final event of the Crankworx World Tour season, Rotorua will be where the season’s overall King and Queen of Crankworx will be crowned.
With that, an additional piece of news was released today. Going forward, Crankworx Rotorua will shift permanently to the final stop of the Crankworx World Tour, closing out mountain bike competition season. The local Crankworx team are stoked to host the grand finale of the tour going forward and Rotorua makes the perfect hub for it.
Crankworx Rotorua Event Director Ariki Tibble explains: “While the Northern Hemisphere is wrapping competition season and gearing up for winter in late October and early November, New Zealand is in the thick of spring. The dirt is prime, the energy is high, and the appetite to get out and celebrate is on another level. To be able to bring all this together and share it with our international mountain bike family will be something special. While this year we can’t invite the world to celebrate with us in person to protect the health of New Zealanders, we are beyond thrilled to be able to host some of the world’s top athletes. We look forward to putting on a great show for our local crowds and for fans around the world on Red Bull TV in 2021, and to welcoming everyone back to New Zealand for Crankworx in 2022.”
“Coming back to Rotorua feels like we’re bookending a very strange chapter in our history,” said Crankworx Managing Director Darren Kinnaird. “Things were relatively normal the last time we were all together in New Zealand. The Crankworx World Tour was kicking off as usual in 2020. We had begun to hear whispers of COVID, but it wasn’t until the event wrapped and everyone got home that the world shut down. Since then, as event producers, we’ve had to draw on every ounce of creativity and tenacity that we have. While not always easy, it has paid off. Our athletes have been able to keep competing. The media are still out there shooting and sharing the stories of our sport – a sport that’s progressed at a rapid rate over the past year. And our fans have had something to look forward to and get excited about. Through it all, I am proud to say our team has never stopped pushing for what we believe in: creating opportunities, sharing our passion, celebrating the culture of mountain biking and the places steeped in the sport, and doing it all safely. I want to say a huge, heartfelt thank you to all those who were pushing and cheering alongside us over the past year and a half. We are here, preparing to wrap the final event of a full Crankworx World Tour in 2021, because of you. We’ve got some big things coming, and we can’t wait to share them.”
Get all the details of the 2021 Crankworx Rotorua finale (November 1-7) at crankworx.com/rotorua
Tickets are now on sale at https://www.crankworx.com/rotorua/passes/.
Video: Butters - Skip the gym & go Digging
In between guiding and instructing earlier this year I was lucky enough to be a trail builder on a new Grade 5 trail "Butters". This short film "Butters - Skip the gym & go digging" documents the trail crew experiences building this trail, located in the top of the South Island, Nelson, New Zealand. This trail has been named and built-in memory of Bernard “Butters” Simmonds.
The Trail was co-funded by Santa Cruz Bicycles Pay Dirt fund and Nelson City Council. Special thanks goes to Nelson Mountain bike Club and Ngati Koata trust
It was a real privileged to work alongside such experienced trail builders. Easy trail building services, Ian Phillipps, Martin Strelka, Kurt Lancaster, Digby Shaw and Niklas Louis Hueber
Release: Bosch's 2022 Smart System
Fully connected: The smart system
The interplay of app and eBike components enables an individual eBike experience
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Riding enjoyment through digitalisation on a new level; in everyday life and in leisure time
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Thanks to the eBike Flow app, the smart system connects perfectly coordinated components with the digital world
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The eBike system can also be controlled without an additional display using the LED remote control unit
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Extended range thanks to the PowerTube 750
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In the future, many eBikes with the smart system can be retrofitted with the ConnectModule and will be further protected against theft
The smart system by Bosch eBike Systems - consisting of the new eBike Flow app, control unit, display, battery, and drive unit - ensures an individual eBike experience. The new system generation combines technologically high-quality eBike components with the digital world, taking riding enjoyment in everyday life and in leisure time to the next level. “Digital features and services enrich the pedelec experience and are important enablers for our mobile future in a connected world. With the smart system, we are taking another step towards the eBike mobility of tomorrow,” says Claus Fleischer, CEO of Bosch eBike Systems.
An overview of the smart system:
Smart, forward-looking and customisable: The eBike Flow app
Download to discover a uniquely connected experience. The eBike Flow app is the central connection to the eBike and the key to the connected biking experience. Over-the-air updates always keep the eBike up to date and continuously enhance the eBike experience with new, innovative features. The app lets you customise riding modes, record activities completely automatically, and integrate fitness apps such as Apple Health.
Intuitive, innovative, ergonomic: The LED Remote control unit
A fully connected control centre that’s fun to use. The LED Remote can be operated easily, comfortably and intuitively with the thumb. Using different colours, the LEDs indicate the respective riding mode, which is easy to recognise while riding. Also practical for those who want to be on the road without a display when eBiking: The LED Remote is sufficient to control the eBike system and displays the most important information about the eBike, such as the current charge status and support level. The LED Remote is connected with the eBike Flow app via Bluetooth and thus the Internet.
Stylish, robust, clear: The Kiox 300 display
The robust companion on sporty rides. The Kiox 300 display provides a clean eBike look on the handlebar and is easy to read in any riding situation. With the display, all relevant fitness data can be displayed to optimise your training. Through regular 'over the air' updates, Kiox 300 always stays current and thus promises a lot of fun on sporty rides or on the trail, including in the future. The buttonless colour display is controlled via the LED Remote and is connected to the eBike Flow app. Using the display holder, Kiox 300 can be ideally positioned on the handlebar according to the rider's preference.
Enduring, elegant, reliable: The PowerTube 750 battery
The new flagship rechargeable battery for long and challenging rides. The PowerTube 750 offers the maximum range in the current Bosch eBike battery portfolio and is optimally designed for many metres of climbing and even longer distances. The lithium-ion battery can be integrated into the eBike frame and is characterised by a particularly high energy density at a weight of approx. 4.4 kilograms. The PowerTube 750 can be charged to 50% in just over two hours and fully in about six hours using the 4A Charger.
Powerful, dynamic, individual: The Performance Line CX drive unit
The powerhouse among the drives. The powerful Performance Line CX drive unit provides maximum 85 Nm of torque for a natural, dynamic and unique riding experience. In the eBike Flow app, the strength of the support, dynamics, maximum speed and maximum torque can be individually set for the respective riding modes and thus perfectly adapted to your own riding style.
A glimpse into the future: Future optimisation with the ConnectModule
In the future, eBikers will also be able to benefit from further developments in the area of theft protection. eBike models that are ConnectModule ready can be retrofitted with the ConnectModule in the future. This means, for example, that the eBike can trigger an acoustic alarm to deter thieves and, in the event of theft, be tracked in the eBike Flow app. In addition, further functions will follow that can be used with the ConnectModule.
Release: Bontrager Rapid Hydro Pack
The beloved Rapid Pack made better. A larger rear pocket that more easily holds a shock or mini pump and an integrated bladder for even more hydration.
• Larger rear pocket
• Integrated hydration bladder for easy access while riding
• Secure magnetic retention for hydration hose
• Light weight stretch woven material with elastic strap
• Foam back panel for breathability and comfort
• Internal compartments for easy organization
• Middle water bottle pocket centralizes weight while riding
• Right side features compression phone sleeve and key fob
1.5 L Hydration Bladder
Integrated Hydration Bladder adds 1.5L of easy access hydration with a HydraPak bladder and dedicated zippered pocket to securely hold it.
Magnet Magic
Magnets securely hold bite valve in place to it is out of the way while riding but so very close when thirsty.
Carry More
Additional capacity lets you carry more. The larger back pocket holds the HydraPak hydration Bladder and so much more, integrated pump loops make it easy to stash a mini pump or shock pump in addition to 1.5L of hydration
Comfortable Cargo
Forgiving elastic materials, perfectly balanced pockets, and an adjustable belt all add up to hip pack that stows everything you need yet quickly disappears as you start riding.
Centralized Water Bottle Pocket
A secure pocket holds a water bottle in the center of your back to prevent it from swaying back and forth while a pull loop makes grabbing and storing your bottle a breeze.
Organized Internal Pockets
The zippered pocket includes internal mesh pockets, perfect for all your ride and life essentials – tube, repair kit, multi tool, keys, phone, snacks. Keep it all secure and organized.
Ready to Ride
Be ready at a moments notice with a bag that has all of your ride essentials together and ready for even last minute rides. Never not be ready.