Electric Mountain Bike Vs Electric Gravel Bike | Which Is Fastest?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2024
- Manufacturers are now adding motors to bikes in the newest sub genre of cycling, gravel riding. But can these assisted bikes keep up with an EMTB? To find out, Steve went head to head with Georgia Leslie ⚡️
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More Georgia!!! This was a great video 👍👍. Funny 😆 and enjoyable great see the two bikes navigate the different terrain!! Please bring Georgia on as a presenter, funny, great personality!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
You should have included the area where gravel bikes have the most advantage over an MTB, flat smooth gravel or road - mtb will be hard to sit at more that 16mph but the gravel bike will be happy at 20+mph.
The Levo SL can easily travel at 20+ MPH with stock gearing. Actually, my Levo SL has a Wolf Tooth 34T chainring (stock is 30T) which makes it easy to achieve 23MPH on flats and if you can spin, you can achieve about 26MPH, even though e-boost stops at 20MPH. Specialized Fast Track 29 x 2.3" tires really help with the higher speed efforts.
theyre ebikes, flat gravel or road is easy to do 20mph. shit a cheapo 350w metakoo can climb hills on road at 20mph if not crazy steep.
the egravel is lighter but likely with less battery so imo the biggest benefit is when your not under motor power or the lighter weight on road.
that said, idk enough about egravel bikes to to know how viable they are over a light 17 lb or so gravel bike.
riding that egravel at pa 1, might just sort of pointless vs a light bike without motor.
to me emtb makes more sense as a heavier bike with energy zapping suspension is needed to do DH offroad but the power makes climbing easy, unless you like pulling the added weight uphill.
a regular gravel bike can pretty easily do over 20mph, so im not sure i see the need for egravel.
More Georgia please great addition to the channel.
Give Georgia a job on the channel. Great in front of the camera, knows what she's talking about and she can look after herself on a bike. 👍
She works for Specialized so it would be up to her if she wanted to jump that ship for EMBN, but it would be nice to see a female presenter on the mountain bike side of the Play Sports Network channels.
gravel bikes are just bikes for roadies who deep in heart know mountain biking is more fun
i do road and xc, mountain biking is more fun, but i don't see the attraction of gravel bikes. not as fast as a road bike and not as capable on the trail as a mountain bike. what is the point of them?
So true
Gary Martin some people only ride slightly bumpy terrain and never wish to get into mountain bike territory.
I still beleive mountain bikes are the best overall, specially considering resale value.
nope ... Gravelbikes are just the better Roadbikes because you can get about the same speed and handling on tarmac but have all the options beyond... you can allways turn left and right how you like, and dont get stuck, nor have to slow down.
Roadbike out and out speed and accelleration is amazing fun, carving down road descends aswell... but its a one-trick pony.
@@MrRumBacardi gravel bikes are very niche, an xc bike would do the job better. i tend to think it's a marketing ploy, but an E gravel bike? cyclo cross/ gravel, estate car/sports tourer.
What a joy to watch! Seeing this, I can't help but giggle about the folks who visit my shop determined their e-bike will fly apart of they don't have 4" marshmallow tires, full suspension and a Cloud 9 seat to ride our paved local MUPs.
That was a load of fun to watch, Georgia is such a sport. It actually gave an insight into what a e-gravel bike is capable of. Thanks for the vids.
The part where you picked up the bike and hopped over the little wall instead of taking the steps to beat Georgia made me LOL...I ride a leisure eBike but this whole video was thoroughly entertaining, thank you
8:19 I laughed. That was great. She rides like a beast!!!
Please keep covering e-gravel. Great bike and who in their right mind wouldn't want both of these if money was no object.
Is that Steve hiding behind a tree @12:25 ?
Yep :-))))))))
Damn you're right !
So they didnt actually race then
@@antifugazi Did you really expected them to race ? ;-)
DARIO MARCHESI Top Gear style racing
Interesting would be to confront the regular Levo to the newest E-gravel bike from Canyon, the Grail:ON. But this time with riders that have similar performances. At the end of this session, E-gravel bikes don't seem to live up to the performances of E-mountain bikes.
I don't know what to think about gravel bikes. Maybe they could be renamed gutter bikes ,not really road or off-road but if racing is not your thing then the comfort and versatility of dual suspension Emtbs on gravel roads really enhances the pleasure of cycling . E=Mtb²
Rob Haskins Try one (not with a motor) and find out for yourself. I have a fully emtb, a regular fully trail bike and a gravel bike and I enjoy every minute on the gravel - but I would never be interested in an e-gravel bike.
Crazy thing is you can take either bike on that ride and have a blast doing it, specialized nailed it with both
Thanks for looking out for Georgia @8.51 CAREFULL, cheers boss
I've got both turbo levo and acoustic gravel bike with 38c tires. Let's be honest, gravel is complementary bike, not a substitute! Gravel is extremely fast but had serious limitations. Unless you are kind of sadomasochist - than you can suffer on every road with your gravel 😉
Well done, Georgia. A worthy winner!
Spoilers!
Lighthearted fun and entertaining. Thank you for the video
No problem!
EMTB still rule, the bike is just best all rounder. Great vid very funny.
Don`t recall you mentioning the suspension travel on the gravel bike giving 2 inches of travel on the handlebar stem?
Since this season I ride both and I love them both. I even pushed some extreme gravel riding in Sedona this Fall and can't stop thinking about it. NB: great video.
Are you "shitting me" 🤣🤣🤣
One more thing you two should do more shows. The biking worlds little and large.
It would have been great if you re did it after swapping bikes, this is the exact question I've been trying to answer for months now!
Daaaaaaaamn. Georgia is a beast. Great riding.
Depends on the gearing configured for that ride on both bikes.
Gravel bikes are for going into town, riding long streaks, and for riding relatively tame (compared to the last downhill streak) trails in the woods. You can use it like an EMTB, but it's kind of like using a steak knife instead of a saw to cut down a tree. Gravel bikes simply aren't intended to do the same kind of mountain trail jumping and rock climbing that EMTBs very much are. If mountainous trails are the main activity: EMTB. If you're going on a road trip or have 15 miles into town, and can take some shortcuts through the woods: Gravel.
Interesting video, but the conclusion: that mountain bikes are better, is only convincing if you don't want a bike for the kinds of things gravels are intended for.
Georgia is a legend 🙌 love it
Georgia is the Queen Steve, you'll never surpass her admit it. Now as for the Cero SL EVO, it is a beast of a road bike. I demoed one not long ago and loved it but since we own Levos not in the market. But for someone looking for a crossover bike, the Cero SL EVO fits the bill.
Great video, more gravel please.
My KTM Macina Lycan came with rather puny DT Swiss E512 rims with 25mm internal diameter. I got a cracking deal on a pair of DT Swiss H1900 wheels for £100 with 35mm internal rims from CRC and can run 2.6/2.8 on them with a proper profile. I've put a pair of 50mm wide Schwalbe Hurricanes on the old wheels so if I want to do "gravel" or road even they fit the bill nicely no point in yet another bike! I upgraded the front disc to a 200mm....well I do live in the Cairngorms so necessary upgrades!
Excellent thanks
Still don’t see the point of riding a (renamed) road bike on dirt trails.
Gotta LUV watching Georgia mix it up with “Old Man Lump-o-Lard”! 🤣
Great Solid Safe Bike!!!
Forgot to beep the "are you shitting me at 6:37" 😂
Brilliant video 👍
The music sounds like it was made by squeaky brakes 😂
The pair of them were good together need her back lol
Steve, try the same competition on Bosch powered bikes and you will easily win.
Im not for one second buying that she actually climbed over the gate forgetting she has a bike.
I love the show it’s awesome 👍🏻
Good fun
Give me a good hardtail with the right tires over gravel anyday....just so much more fun.
More Georgia please.
Perfect!
TL; DR - Don’t ride e-gravel bike on technical MTB trails. You’ll be slower than e-MTBs, and the drive will be much more treacherous.
Youth and athleticism are no match for age and treachery
I have a Specialized Turbo Creo SL Comp Carbon...it’s a gravel bike but I have my Merida BigNine MTB too...but for the city is miles faster than the MTB and more comfortable than a road bike
Offroad MTB
City Egravel
And no way I’m gonna ride that rocky section on my Uss9000 Egravel
Can you do a review of the 2021 trek rail 7 please
Dick Dasterdly Vs Georgia.
We'll the old saying that it's better to be old and treacherous than young and skillful didn't take into account Georgia Leslie.
Flat pedals or spd in the gravel?
within the limiter E-bike is E-bike ... just about what you do after climbing... and what they did is just not gravelriding ... typical gravel-Speed for me is well beyond the limiter on more or less flat terrain.
put in a nice Road or smoth fire-road descend and a 2mile flat countrylane and you just smoke the s*** out of the MTB... E or not.
ridden Road, Gravel, Touring/XC, 140mm Hardtail, and Enduro.... pick one? Gravel... pick two? Gravel+Agressive Hardtail... and I'm top10 Strava DH locally even on my Hardtail.
... just the fun of beeing out exercising and having the bigger range and speed with less efford is the fun point of Gravel.
.... exact same reasons why people switch to E, just without it.
Add in E and you kill close to all the points of Gravel all along ... in the Flat on gravel you can go close to the same speed, climbing you can go the same speed, range same, Headwind close to same due to motor.
E-Gravel just gains close to nothing over E-Anything... Road-descending and flat out over limit speed in the flat are the only two.
They just don't need E or the later will not be reached by someone who does not want to put in the efford.
Just entertainment man. It’s not a serious show
We want Georgia!!😂
Gravel ebike with 25kph limiter is pointless.
That's for legal reasons
Feel sorry for EU and Australian Riders - 20mph for the Levo and 28mph for the Creo makes much more sense here in the states.
Does it stop you to go faster ? - No! I am well trained, so what, I easily ride my ebike at >30kph on the flats. I have a nose full of this pointless whining about the 25kph limitation. Anyone who wants to get rid of the limitation does not want to do sports, but just want to ride an e-motorbike.
Clearly not the native territory for the gravel, but actually the only that justifies a motor. Else you expect to get 40-60km/h and a restricted e is just extra weight. Go e for your trail bike, coz it's fun and makes up for the tire width and suspension weight. Go analog for gravel.
40-60kph is nonsense. That's professional roadbike speed. Unless you're talking downhill, in which case, I've literally just got back from an MTB hard tail ride doing 40-60kph on some of the descents. Over loose gravel and loam. There's no way a gravel bike can do those descents as quickly and as safely as an MTB can.
Gravel bikes are just road bikes for hard pack but not tarmac.
Fast downhills roads do exist, and they would be a lot faster on it than knobbly tyres.
@@xx-----------xx873 right, yeah, but that's one part of a multi terrain ride and going 65 vs 55 down a road hill won't make up for doing 20 vs 40 over loose terrain
@@thisisabsolutelystup True.
I always thought a gravel bike to be a relaxed road bike with wider tyres. I'd certainly buy one to casually ride around like a hybrid, then throw on a tubular wheelset for race days. It wouldn't be ideal, but would work.
Electric ones make no sense, they are pure denstistwear in my opinion.
oh look another specialized AD on EMBN.
Is there a fox for the routes ridden?
Gategate 😂
My preferred all-rounder is a turbo levo (non-sl), de-restricted and with a larger chainring.
06:21 - she forgot about the bike? She didnt think to look for a handle despite the coat? If that part is genuine and NOT scripted, Georgia is quite stupid.
Versatility beats speed imo, you wont seen a gravel bike go through a chunky rock garden
The correct title would be...old fat dude vs skinny athlete.
turbo levo C29er. hands down
Georgia's quite aggressive, I think you should sack her, as long as she's OK with that? I wouldn't want to upset her.
If that really happened with the gate. What a trollop!
It's the rider not the bike if your out of shape a fast bike won't help
Should have gone 650b
Georgia is the most beautiful MTB'er I have seen! 🤩
Those videos are only good if you want to laugh a bit.
Skinny & tight 🤔
Very interesting idea to do such a comparison. Even the thing with putting a jacket over the handle was kinda creative. I find it enourmously rude, though, that Steve didn't admit he cheated because of that. I thing it would be even very appropriate to apologize.
You cheated us the viewers out of the best part of the video. The only reason we watched this video is to see the gravel bike go down the mountain not some stupid fire road thumbs down
Who is this woman?
She could have jumped over those stairs
Do you think maybe your just old?
Brian. Yes I am.
Wouldn't you be better off just putting skinny tires on the MTB?
Gravel bike wankers
Sorry, but that 'prank' really takes away any seriousness of this. Please don't do that sort of thing again. You are better than Top Gear....
? really
Cheating Steve.