{"id":12028,"date":"2024-07-26T04:05:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T04:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=12028"},"modified":"2024-07-26T04:05:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T04:05:48","slug":"cannondale-moterra-sl-2-electric-mountain-bike-review-lightweight-and-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=12028","title":{"rendered":"Cannondale Moterra SL 2 Electric Mountain Bike Review: Lightweight and Powerful"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Cannondale had one<\/span> goal with the Moterra SL: To create the lightest, full-power electric mountain bike ever made. The barriers are many, but there’s one big one: A powerful motor combined with a battery that has extensive range can add enormous weight and stress to an agile, lightweight frame.<\/p>\n

To engineer around that paradox, Cannondale needed to strengthen the frame while cutting weight. The company turned to a solution they designed a long time ago, which takes its cue from Formula One race cars. The Moterra SL uses what the company calls a FlexPivot, which it first used in its Scalpel XC race bike<\/a>. Instead of using the bearings and hardware of a traditional Horst link suspension system, they substituted a thin, ultralight piece of carbon that can flex in the bike’s chainstays\u2014the tubes that hold on the bike’s bottom bracket. These flexors not only look clean and eliminate maintenance, but they also allow engineers to fine tune-the suspension.<\/p>\n

FlexPivot technology can only go so far, however, in explaining how this 45-pound bike provides serious power without feeling like a Sherman tank. Cannondale took a deep dive into kinematics, a physics term that translates to \u201cthe motion of systems composed of joined parts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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