What is this?

[Rob Rides EMTB]

Hmmmmm

Embrace the Evolution

www.norco.com

 

[Rob Rides EMTB]

 

[Spin]

New Bosch SX motor ? 140 mm travel trail bike ?

Eurobike reveal I guess.

 

[maynard]

What's with the teasy photos ?

 

[dobbyhasfriends]

from the size of the battery I would guess some sort of SL

 

[RiderOnTheStorm]

I'm having difficulties to read between the heavily redacted lines! Could someone please declassify this material?

 

[Stihldog]

Norco has recently switched over to Bosch for a light eBike.

Maybe everyone already knows this.
I was talking to a Norco engineer yesterday but I was mesmerized by his new wheels.

He’s not a eMTB’er though.

 

[Ark]

I'm guessing someone is hiding the stabilisers

 

[Beer Man]

Norco has recently switched over to Bosch for a light eBike.

Maybe everyone already knows this.
I was talking to a Norco engineer yesterday but I was mesmerized by his new wheels.
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He’s not a eMTB’er though.

A little birdy told me that all the eeebs will be Bosch now.
Live to Play Sports is the Bosch distributer. Makes sense.
I actually like that wheel set.

 

[Beer Man]

This is what you see on the Norco home page

Norco Bikes - No Other Way

Rider-first mountain bikes. Designed and tested in the backwoods of British Columbia.

www.norco.com

 

[Stihldog]

I actually like that wheel set.

Those spokes were white a few days ago. I can’t imagine lacing up those wheels. 3 days to tension the strings. The front wheel was so friggen light and I had to be careful cause the dye was still drying when I lifted it…almost hit myself in the chin. I wasn’t expecting how light it was.

 

[Haveland]

I figured Norco was up to something because their VLT bikes here in Canada have been on a great sale lately. I've been tempted to pick up a Fluid VLT at 40% off.

 

[jbrown15]

New Fluid VLT with the light weight Bosch motor.

Hopefully the Sight and Range switch to the Bosch CX too.

It always seemed weird that they used Shimano seeing that they are the Canadian distributor for Bosch.

 

[jbrown15]

Norco has recently switched over to Bosch for a light eBike.

Maybe everyone already knows this.
I was talking to a Norco engineer yesterday but I was mesmerized by his new wheels.
View attachment 118010
He’s not a eMTB’er though.

WeAreOne Convergence wheel build with Berd Spokes and Onyx hubs, very nice setup. The mechanic at our shop just did a similar build but used I9 Hydra hubs. It's crazy how this wheels feel with the Berd spokes.

 

[irie]

Hmmmmm

Yet anothe revolutionary game changer AKA wallet emptier

 

[stiv674]

So is the SX going to be a smaller, lighter motor?

Maybe the rumour I heard that Whyte are bringing out a lightweight bike next year (so probably about 22kg ) is true then...

 

[Mart-e]

The top linkage changes back to a rocker arm design…. not showing the lower pivot linkage as yet….. C’on Norco bring it on a high linkage pivot design for the VLT’s….

 

[Stihldog]

WeAreOne Convergence wheel build with Berd Spokes and Onyx hubs, very nice setup. The mechanic at our shop just did a similar build but used I9 Hydra hubs. It's crazy how this wheels feel with the Berd spokes.

Apparently the Berd spokes have an oval profile once they are tensioned (maybe the owner was having fun with me). Regardless, I have a difficult enough time with steel spokes.…but a ball of spaghetti spokes .

 

[Zimmerframe]

Berd spokes

Spokes are so last year ! Especially on e-bikes. Don't you find people look at you and go "ooh, weird, he's still got a bike with spokes ? They're so 1821, I'm surprised he's not still running square wheels"

The weirdest thing with this bike (ok, maybe not the weirdest thing....) but everything about it is "futuristic" yet the cables run though the frame and not the headset ! Maybe that is the future !

The bike really deserves it's own thread rather than hijacking the Norco Bosch SL thread.

Anyway using tension isn't new. The 91/92 Slingshot would have been a lot cooler if they'd used a polycotton thread which you moisened to change the frame kinematics ...

 

[JP-NZ]

Good to see Norco ditching Shimano motors along with Canyon & Commencal. Who's next?

 

[Mabman]

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I used to ride SlingShots bitd. They actually didn't ride that bad pre suspension times. Several friends raced them professionally and did rather well also. I certainly don't long for those days however but they were fun while they lasted.

One of mine ended up in a collection over there in the EU, it had a red/white/blue band paintjob on it and was an earlier version.

 

[Beer Man]

Good to see Norco ditching Shimano motors along with Canyon & Commencal. Who's next?

It does seem like most companies are ditching Shimano.
Its to bad I own one and my 2 year warranty is almost up.
Got one motor replaced at 2400 km. We will see what happens.

 

[Eduardoramundo]

 

[Beer Man]

Nice!

Fluid VLT Gen 4 | Norco

www.norco.com

 

[Zimmerframe]

That looks like an amazing compromise !!

400wh battery.

55nm out of the sx with upto 600w of power !

NICE !

 

[VWsurfbum]

So a direct competitor to the Giant Trance Elite with 400 battery but with 85nm

 

[JP-NZ]

Norco Announces New Fluid VLT eMTB - Pinkbike

The bike will use Bosch's new Performance SX motor that delivers 55Nm of torque, with up to 600 watts of power.

www.pinkbike.com