Licks Cycles: All-new Pivot Shuttle AM – a mid journey, Bosch powered electrical mountain bike

Pivot has utterly revised the third choice in its Shuttle vary, the mid journey AM. Now a load sleeker and Bosch powered, it sits between the longer journey LT and lighter Fazua geared up SL

Pivot has introduced an all-new full energy Shuttle AM, bringing a brand new inbetweener that sits bang in the course of a 3 mannequin e-bike vary. Trying leaner, with a much less cumbersome body, it now sports activities extra up to date geometry and sizing and is powered by a Bosch motor.

Each the Fazua powered ‘food regimen’ Shuttle SL, with its give attention to decrease weight, and the longer-travel harder-hitting LT, with its Shimano EP8 motor, have impressed us once we’ve examined them. Actually the Shuttle SL 29 Workforce XTR cleaned up within the light-weight class of our in-depth e-bike of the 12 months check.

Positive, Pivots are fantastically completed boutique builds, with value tags that mirror this, however the consideration to element, suspension efficiency and experience dynamics go a great way to justifying the spend.

With 160mm fork and 148mm of rear journey this Shuttle AM sits neatly between the SL and LT

Have to know

Full carbon body, out there in 4 body sizes (S-XL)
148mm rear journey, 160mm (optimised) fork journey
29in wheels entrance and rear on inventory builds
Bosch Efficiency CX or CX Race motors
625Wh or 750Wh built-in batteries relying on mannequin
Non-obligatory body mounted 250Wh vary extender battery
Claimed weight 21.7kg (Workforce mannequin)
SRAM UDH mech hanger
Hangerless interface permitting use of SRAM T-Sort Transmission
Body mounted Pivot/Topeak Device Dock choice

Body

Squeezed into the road up between the 140mm journey SL and the 160mm journey LT is that this all-new model of the Shuttle AM, sporting 148mm out again. As with these two present Shuttle fashions, the AM runs 10mm extra fork journey and follows an analogous blueprint concerning body structure. Pivot specs a 160mm fork on the AM and caps that as the utmost beneficial journey too.

The body’s structure is acquainted and effectively confirmed

A full carbon body (there’s no aluminium choice) with a DW hyperlink suspension platform drives a vertically mounted rear shock. This leaves area for a bottle cage or a spread extender battery – extra of which later – and a low standover top. There’s a Bosch show built-in into the highest tube that’s paired to the wi-fi controller on the bars, giving a clear litter free cockpit.

As with the SL and LT platforms, Pivot affords the AM in 4 body sizes, S-XL. And as with all present Shuttle e-bikes, no matter body dimension, its 29in wheels entrance and rear. Pivot has bucked the pattern for combined wheel dimension ‘mullet’ arrange, staying dedicated to a well-balanced full 29er arrange.

The Shuttle AM’s two place flip chip permits 5mm of BB top adjustment

With a flip chip within the carbon swingarm, giving 5mm of backside bracket top adjustment, Pivot does give the nod to the operating of a 27.5in rear wheel although. It suggests a rise in tyre dimension to 2.6in (from the max dimension of two.5in for 29in) when operating this smaller wheel dimension too. Additionally keep in mind that the Shuttle AM’s hub spacing, in typical Pivot fashion, is the broader 157mm Tremendous-Increase customary.

With the flip chip within the low setting, a dimension giant Shuttle AM has the next measurements:

Seat tube: 432mm, Attain: 476mm, BB top 345mm, HA 64.1°, Eff SA 76.4°

As with all of Pivot’s Shuttle frames, the AM makes use of Tremendous Increase 157mm rear axle spacing

The Shuttle AM’s stature is low-slung, glossy but muscular, helped little question by the built-in battery, one thing which can show a deal-breaker for some riders. Pivot has given headset routing the miss, with the rear hose and cables dipping inside neat body ports. SRAM’s UDH rear hanger is used, additionally giving a ‘Hangerless Interface’, permitting the usage of SRAM’s new T-Sort Eagle AXS drivetrains.

Pivot and partnered with Topeak and developed three rescue software choices with storage instances that bolt on to the under-top tube fittings. A neat crowning glory on a boutique e-bike.

Motor

However the Shuttle AM isn’t just about Pivot providing a mid journey e-bike, it’s the model’s first Bosch geared up machine. And the timing couldn’t be higher, with Bosch rolling out updates to batteries, controllers and shows together with the Efficiency CX Race motor which has a give attention to e-MTB racing and enduro.

This new motor is customary on the range-topping Shuttle Workforce, with the common 85Nm Efficiency CX used on the lower-spec Professional and Experience fashions. We’ve had a style of the CX Race motor earlier than, on the Whyte E-180 Works MX, and it’s definitely an choice that can broaden the Shuttle AM’s attraction.

The Bosch x Pivot Cycles Movement app means that you can choose 4 out of seven modes to run. The Professional mannequin has Turbo, E-mtb shortcrank, Sport and Tout+ pre-installed, whereas the Workforce mannequin has the Race mode as an alternative of Tour+.

The Bosch Efficiency CX Race motor is inventory on the Shuttle AM Workforce

Battery

Whereas Pivot’s longer-travel full energy e-bike, the Shuttle LT sports activities a removeable battery, the AM’s Bosch unit is built-in. It definitely offers the body sleeker, decrease profile strains however you’ll must drop the motor and charging port out if you wish to substitute it. So there’s no choice to cost the battery remotely from the bike solely by way of the body mounted port.

Built-in Bosch prime tube show is paired with a wi-fi bar mounted controller

However would you really want to take away it although? Right here within the UK, solely the Shuttle AM Professional and Workforce fashions might be out there and each run a big capability 750Wh battery. Pair that with the non-compulsory frame-mounted Bosch PowerMore 250Wh vary extender (concerning the dimension of a water bottle) and you’ve got 1000Wh on faucet…

UK spec fashions

Pivot produces three specs for the Shuttle AM however as talked about above the UK will solely get the 2 greater spec bikes, the Professional and the Workforce. Each are geared up with 750Wh batteries however the place the cheaper Professional mannequin runs the usual Bosch Efficiency CX motor, the Workforce makes use of the most recent excessive efficiency CX Race.

Each the Professional and Race run prime drawer Fox Manufacturing facility spec forks, shocks and dropper posts and run the all-new SRAM Eagle AXS T-Sort drivetrains.