Basically this... E-bikes in a few years will likely all be 6-10KG lighter and assisted bikes will be very normalized and hardly recogniseable from regular bikes.
Specialized Levo SL owners in 2020 are paying for two things:
1) To recoup the the R&D Specialized spent developing the worlds first 17KG EMTB
2) The privilege of owning the worlds first and only 17KG high-spec EMTB for which there is currently no competition.
Considering they are literally the first in the world to develop this bike technology and to take the risk of producing it I don't see how anyone can really complain too much about the increased cost,because this kind of bleeding edge pricing model for a new niche product is absolutely nothing new in almost any industry. People in this thread are treating it as though it's just a regular product introduction, when in fact is is a brand new and previously unseen type of EMTB that will fuel a new breed of bikes that everyone has been crying out for and that bridge the gap between MTB'ers and EMTB'ers and that may finally make them fully accepted.
As for the OP complaining rather simplistically about it being "half the power and yet costs more", well yeah... that's the whole point of this bike and what was needed to make it work. Otherwise it would be a regular EMTB. Common sense, no?
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