Licks Cycles: Mondraker goes on a food regimen with its all-new Neat e-bike

With a TQ motor, glossy carbon body and 150mm of rear journey, Mondraker’s Neat electrical mountain bike affords a compelling light-weight bundle.

Highly effective but silent. Steady but agile. Mondraker’s design transient for its entry into the light-weight (or food regimen) e-bike class actually has focus. However would the model that opened gateways with its Ahead Geometry pondering ten years in the past, break new floor on this quickly evolving class?

In any case, Mondraker’s present Artful Carbon full fats e-bike ticks loads of containers. It blends an built-in massive capability 750Wh battery and 85Nm Bosch Efficiency CX motor right into a glossy carbon silhouette. Would Mondraker stay loyal to Bosch and drop the brand new light-weight Efficiency SX motor and battery into an analogous blueprint or take one other route altogether?

The Neat e-bike makes use of the TQ HPR50 motor, additionally seen on the Trek Gasoline EXe

Following Trek with its trail-orientated Gasoline EXe and Scott with its extra XC-focused Lumen, Mondraker has partnered with TQ for the Neat’s motor, battery and controller. It nonetheless seems to be very a lot a Mondraker although… even with the marginally decrease high tube and extra compact swingarm that’s the results of a remodeling of the model’s long-standing Zero suspension design. The signature head tube window continues to be there too.

A revised Zero suspension system has resulted in a extra compact swingarm

The Mondraker Neat is the longest journey TQ-equipped e-bike available on the market. With 150mm of rear journey, paired with a inventory 160mm fork, it goes face to face with the second era Specialised Levo SL and Forestal Cyon, albeit with 10mm extra fork journey.

And as with these two competing bikes (and the 140mm journey Pivot Shuttle SL and Trek Gasoline EXe too), the Neat rolls on 29in wheels entrance and rear. There’s no mullet wheel possibility, even on the the smallest of the Neat’s 4 body sizes.

Mondraker is on the cash with the bike’s weight too. With the three fashions’ weights listed between 17.9kg and 18.9kg the Neat compares properly to the important thing gamers on this food regimen e-bike class, whether or not powered by Brose, Fazua or TQ.

The TQ show is neatly built-in into the carbon high tube

The HPR-50 is TQ’s solely mountain bike motor providing, so the tech spec on the Neat is equivalent to each the EXe and Lumen: 50Wh of torque, a most peak energy of 300W and a detachable 360Wh battery. Even the non-obligatory 160Wh down tube-mounted vary extender seems to be equivalent to the Trek mannequin, as is the highest tube mounted show and handlebar mounted controller.

There are three modes accessible to allow you to rapidly flick by the completely different ranges of help supplied by the motor: Eco, Mid and Excessive. Inside every of those modes you’ve an additional 3 parameters which may be individually adjusted through TQ’s E-bike app: Max energy, Help and Pedal Response.