Amflow PL Carbon "weight loss"

[Newchurch]

I want the new Avinox drive train and a light eMTB. And I don't MTB riding on bike parks, "heavy duty" downhills or on trails with high jumps, etc. So that's MY IDEAL eBike. If someone of you need a dropper, etc. - your problem

I will take some pictures today.

 

[HandsomeDanNZ]

I’d like to see the reverse. An Avinox drive system in a long travel (180+) 25kg beast.

See how it copes and if it’s still as good. I suspect it probably is.

 

[VWsurfbum]

As an ex XC racer, this intrigues me as my inner weight weenie comes to the surface every now and then.
Looking forward to the pictures.

On a separate note, are you a Dangerholme fan?

 

[whitymon]

Looks to me OP convert the bike into an XC or nearly gravel.

I can see the idea then to me the next logic step would be not to remove the fork for something way less burly. I bet a Fox34 would be far sufficient for OP with 300-450 grams lighter.

There is no really any use of either shock and fox with 150mm to be honest with that type of riding. You could reduce rear and front travel too and towards fox 32 but that could be complicated (geo might be kept?) and surely expensive - unless you succeed to sell stock parts. Then you would definitely reduce by a lot the weight!

As other mentioned I would go totally the opposite way 170-180/170 but definitely not on amflow frame.

 

[Newchurch]

 

[Suns_PSD]

This is a fun project, thanks for sharing OP.

My concern is that this motor is so powerful, and that the bike is set up for some pretty tame trails, and the bike with those tires is going to roll so easily, that you are going to spend a LOT of time against the speed limiter and that's not really going to be very fun. 25 kph is possible to maintain on easy trails, on any XC bike, a good portion of the time. I think you are going to be bored. I also suspect that you will barely use any battery juice.

Recently I rode with an older gentleman riding some pretty flat, but still chunky XC trails near my home and he was on the Pivot SL with the Fazua 60. I was hauling *ss that day and after I passed the bike I was surprised he was able to keep up. When we stopped, I found that he was a very experienced rider on an e-bike (I was riding my Smuggler trail bike, not my e-bike). He was running Ground Control tires, the bike was full weight weenie, and he had a CF seat post (no dropper) as well and he told me the bike weighed under 38#s ready to ride. (17.27 kgs).