California-based bicycle model Santa Cruz is in style for its succesful mountain bikes, and has been a staple within the business for many years now. Like all main bike manufacturers, Santa Cruz has hopped in full drive on the e-bike bandwagon. We beforehand talked concerning the model’s light-weight and sensible electrical gravel bike, and this time round, the model is taking a well-loved MTB platform, and launching an e-bike model of it, too.

Introducing the Santa Cruz Heckler SL, a succesful all-mountain e-bike that’s touted as a flexible and light-weight electrical mountain bike. Mountain bikers amongst you will surely be accustomed to the non-electric Heckler, a succesful all-mountain bike with a full-suspension body. The electrical model retains all these options, whereas providing additional enhance because of an electrical motor. On prime of all that, it’s impressively light-weight, tipping the scales at below 19 kilograms.

The brand new Fazua Journey 60 motor lies on the coronary heart of the Santa Cruz Heckler SL’s expertise. The compact, light-weight electrical motor dishes out 60 Newton-meters of torque and 450-watts of peak energy. Whereas not as punchy as techniques from Bosch and Shimano, the Journey 60 is famend for its lightness and pure pedal really feel. In the meantime, the Heckler SL depends on a 430-watt-hour battery pack for juice, which is built-in seamlessly into the downtube.

The Santa Cruz Heckler SL rolls on a full-suspension body with 160 millimeters of suspension journey up entrance, and 150 millimeters of rear wheel journey. It receives a low-lying VPP rear shock additional preserving the bike’s middle of gravity low. For additional nimbleness on the paths, Santa Cruz has opted for a mullet configuration, working 29-inch and 27.5-inch wheels on the entrance and rear respectively.

In whole, Santa Cruz is providing the Heckler SL in 5 construct configurations, all of that are constructed round full carbon-fiber frames. As such, it ought to come as no shock to you that the bike prices fairly a fairly penny. The bottom mannequin begins at $7,299 USD, whereas a step as much as the Carbon S will set you again $8,699 USD. The GX AXS mannequin bumps the value as much as $9,699 USD, whereas the X0 AXS RSV variant will fetch $11,699 USD. Final however not least, if you’d like the final word greatest that Santa Cruz has to supply, be able to shell out $12,999 for the XX AXS RSV.