Steamboat Springs, Colorado-based bike producer Moots has no scarcity of two-wheeled eye-candy in its collection of high-end bicycles. The model caters not solely to cyclists who demand top of the range for his or her bikes, but additionally for performance-oriented cyclists trying to eke out essentially the most from their bicycles.

Moots has acknowledged the quickly rising reputation of electrical bicycles, and has unveiled its very first e-bike. Dubbed the Moots Specific, this electrical gravel bike is constructed to Moots’ exacting requirements, and is so glossy that it may be simple to overlook the truth that it’s really an e-bike, particularly when it’s in movement. Moots has managed to maintain the bike’s silhouette extraordinarily streamlined, all whereas integrating a detachable battery into the bike’s downtube.

For efficiency, Moots depends closely on expertise from Shimano – each for the motor and the mechanical elements of the categorical. It’s rocking a Shimano EP801 motor which dishes out 60 Newton-meters of torque. The EP801 additionally has an clever auto-shifting characteristic that adjusts help degree relying on rider enter. Which means that it will possibly detect uphill sections and ship extra energy, whereas on the identical time throttling down on flat and downhill terrain to save lots of battery.

Talking of the battery, the Moots Specific homes a Shimano 504-watt-hour battery pack throughout the downtube. It provides a most vary of 100 miles, however Moots makes it clear that this varies on terrain, driving type, elevation acquire, and even tire strain.

Moots retains a really acquainted cockpit configuration for the Specific, using Shimano GRX shifters for the rear derailleur, in addition to motor help controls built-in into the left hand shifter. Regardless of that includes glossy and chic traces, the body will be configured with quite a lot of equipment to spice up versatility. There’s a pair of bottle holders on the entrance triangle, in addition to a number of mounts on the body that may settle for luggage, racks, and fenders. So sure, the Moots Specific might very effectively be arrange as a motorcycle tenting rig.

The bike rolls on Shimano GRX carbon wheels shod in Panaracer GravelKing+ tires. As talked about earlier, it runs a mostly-Shimano array of components together with a LinkGlide chain, cassette, and chainring designed particularly to face up to the trials of e-bike use. It makes use of a 1×11 drivetrain with a 47-tooth chainring and an 11/50-tooth wide-ratio rear cassette.

All this expertise leads to fairly a light-weight e-bike, with the Specific weighing in at simply 33 kilos. It’s provided in sizes S, M, L, and XL, and unsurprisingly, retails for a hefty $9,999 USD.