FIRST EVER E-BIKE RIDE! Were we converted?! 

Hey dude! Wondered how you’d been as I haven’t had a vid in ages! Glad to see you’re well and hoping for my Sunday night in with the dudes! Keep safe bruver!

Cracking day out ..In conclusion the golfie needs an uplift

Trail Angels sent from above" LoL loved that comment 😄🤣🤣🤣🤗 And I'm one of those who is completely n00b to Mtb biking, also soon 60 of age, so I did 4 weeks ago get myself an Emtb, the Specialized Levo comp, and I thoroughly enjoyed watching the video! Ill be back for more... :)

Cracking vid! I’m with you two,60 is the magic number to consider an e-bike.. maybe they will be a little more agile by then as well🤔

You should try a full fat ebike with decent brakes and good tyre pressures so you can ride it aggressively to get a real ebike experience. A bit like renting a sports car and saying we got the 2L instead of the 4L V8.

Great vid matey. Think you mentioned pretty much all my fears about eebs. They defo have their place, but not with shit brakes! Scares me the fact I'm a heavier guy and the steeps... 😬🤣 me and Ant are heading up for the uplift in May.

It just shows how important it is to have a bike set up correctly to your own preference as it’s the whole basis for the riding experience, one other final point you are obviously riding mid assist bikes the full fat e-bikes are almost 4-5kgs heavier 😮

Absolutely agree with your comments as just bought a Trek Fuel exe you still have to work hard but you get far more rewards, out of interest what model brakes did the bike come with as it really seemed to spoil the experience for you 👎

Nice vid mate.. I'm similar to you, in that i've got a carbon Capra but I bit the bullet and picked up a Decoy Core 3 a few weeks back. The main difference I've noticed is in the climbs, it eats up the climbs and you're able to get so much more 'fun' riding done.

Really interesting video guys (1st time viewer here!). I just got my first eMTB last week. Use an XC usually.... so chalk and cheese. My first impressions are massively similar to yours! Its still a workout, brakes are terrible, my wrists seriously where in bits. What I would say... is that I adjusted all the levers, dropper etc and it made a massive difference to wrist pain on subsequent rides. It was just setup all wrong to begin with more than anything. Brakes.... my eMTB has SRAM's and I hate them, even after multiple bleeds. They just have far too much lever travel and 'modulation'. Shimano SLX/XT/XTR imho are just so much nicer for me personally. They bite sooner and just feel like far less effort. Solvable problems hopefully on the eMTB. Only other complaint, is I feel physically sorer as I'm doing twice the amount of trails lol.

Love the golfie. I suffered with arm pump a little at 1st when I got an ebike....esp before I got hope brakes and didn't have to pull as much but the weight is a big factor. Also find I get a better workout on my ebike esp when I ride alone as I know I can get up the climb so I race up!

Great vid. Shame about the brakes. Got eager to get back there!