Other Talking future Specialized with Marco Sonderegger- Senior Product Manager

[Rob Rides EMTB]

Live replay:

 

[escrs]

Video no worky

 

[Fivetones]

Would love to see this but video doesn’t work for me too.

 

[Zimmerframe]

It seems to have changed it's settings to "Private" .. and vanished .. @Rob Hancill can you check it .. I was watching it in 2 minute snack's and I've not finished

 

[Rob Rides EMTB]

Sorry - had to remove it ?

 

[Zimmerframe]

Damn ! It was great video ! Marco and in turn, Specialized, came across as very open, honest and forward thinking.

Was it because @TheBikePilot was looking too buff ?

 

[Fivetones]

Sorry - had to remove it ?

I understand but noooo! Any idea when/if you’ll get the embargo lifted Rob?

 

[wildsau2]

We have to wait till Battery Day (soon!). 1Million Miles with one battery pack. 4000 charges. 20% more capacity ?peace✌?

 

[simonk]

I watched the first 30 minutes or so last night... question for anyone who watched more: was there any talk of any updates/changes to the SL?

 

[Eduardoramundo]

I think Marco forgot he was on livestream ??‍

 

[Mondfuchs]

Hey Specialized!!!! Stop with this kind of behaviour. It's get annoying. If you agree to an interview with your employees then let it roll or don't do it. Even if Marco was to explorative - who cares? It's what we as fan want - but what we don't appreciate is to say Yes and then No.

It's not professional and does look very strange and extremely controlled and manipulated - you know, there is also one in your country a quite similar who acts similar - don't be fool and follow....its should not your style.

Usually I'm a fan since you've started with Levo of your brand... be careful that you keep me.

 

[Eduardoramundo]

I just want to know when the turbo enduro SL will come out. Not that I really need the extra travel but the enduro is just the bomb.

There isnt one

 

[Zimmerframe]

question for anyone who watched more: was there any talk of any updates/changes to the SL?

They said they were developing the model, but didn't imply what that mean't - ie , just different suspension or other versions.

 

[Zimmerframe]

Stop with this kind of behaviour. It's get annoying. If you agree to an interview with your employees then let it roll or don't do it. Even if Marco was to explorative - who cares?

I suspect some of the information revealed wasn't due to be revealed at this point, so it's been pulled for that reason, not because of their openness, so it will no doubt either be edited and re-released or released again soon.

 

[Zimmerframe]

I just want to know when the turbo enduro SL will come out. Not that I really need the extra travel but the enduro is just the bomb.

There's quite a few builds in here which might be what you're after ?

Levo SL Gen 1 - Levo SL Custom Builds

Haven’t seen a thread dedicated to custom builds. I’m looking to try a few different builds, 160mm fork, maybe mullet build. But in the mean time if anyone had already done some customization let’s see them and hear your thoughts.

www.emtbforums.com

 

[Eduardoramundo]

He spilt the beans on the 2021 Levo which is why the vid has been pulled

 

[paquo]

He spilt the beans on the 2021 Levo which is why the vid has been pulled

and...

 

[Zimmerframe]

and...

If that was the reason it was embargo'd then there's a good chance any posts might be deleted also.

He did say it would have the same motor and the same 500 and 700 batteries but would have some component changes and different colours.

 

[Zimmerframe]

Interestingly, they did say that with some new cells presently in development, then possibly in 2 years with the 5.6 cells, they would be able to do an 800wh battery with the same physical dimensions.

They also said that they'd like to maintain motor format compatibility with advances, so that if and when they make changes to the mahle motor for instance, it would be backwards compatible with legacy frames. Until such a point that this wasn't possible due to, for instance, a reduction in size which would require moving onto a new design.

 

[Steve940]

I'll bet it was pulled because of the frame,motor and battery sales comment...no way will specialized do that

 

[Rob Rides EMTB]

I understand but noooo! Any idea when/if you’ll get the embargo lifted Rob?

I don’t think it’ll be back. Sorry :-(

 

[Fivetones]

I don’t think it’ll be back. Sorry :-(

oh well. Might be nice with an edit. Or another interview that can be shared.

 

[Slowroller]

I FEEL CHEATED!

Only the cool kids got to watch it...

 

[Zimmerframe]

Only the cool kids got to watch it...

Na, I saw most of it too ...

 

[Steve940]

I don’t think it’ll be back. Sorry :-(

Care to share why ?

 

[wepn]

I FEEL CHEATED!

Only the cool kids got to watch it...

Hmm to whoever asked Rob to pull the video:

Australian informal rootin' tootin' - Kenevo is definitely that.

 

[Jeffw]

I tuned in and very interesting to watch. "Some nice new colours for 2021".....never mind colours, get the reliability of the moter/battery sorted first!
Handing my Levo Expert back (as i had to with the Kenevo) and reverting to an Enduro. Levo was a great bike to ride...when it had power

 

[Mikeyusic]

Specialized maybe wasnt to happy about the content. I also could watch only a part of the video, but as soon that I heard the specs are going to be better and that they they are going to announce the new levo really soon, I canceled my reservation for the 2020 Levo at my dealer. If everyone does that a couple of dealers wouldnt be happy, so good think to not release the video.

 

[Moe Ped]

When watching it there were several comments he made that really made me wonder if this was going to be left up.

To be fair he was very open and frank but if i owned specialized i would have been concerned with some of the things he said.

 

[Fivetones]

When watching it there were several comments he made that really made me wonder if this was going to be left up.

To be fair he was very open and frank but if i owned specialized i would have been concerned with some of the things he said.

Can you give an example?