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Its new bike day!
If you look back a couple of pages in this thread you'll find a post where I said my next purchase would be a gravel bike. I turned 50 last month and the road bike that I bought in my mid 30's is just too aggressive and racy in its geometry to be comfortable these days. The modern gravel bike with their more relaxed enduro geometry and plenty of tyre clearance make great all-round bikes. Great on road, especially NZ's poor roads, and capable off road.
2025 Specialised Diverge Carbon Comp. RRP is $6,900 for this version but I picked it up for $5,000 2nd hand. Only 3 months old and less than 500km ridden. They guy had only just bought it but is now moving to the UK and needed to covert it to cash. Also come with ~$500 of accessories so a pretty good deal. I was looking at the lower spec Carbon Sport which would have cost $4,900 but had much lower spec finishing kit so when this one came up for sale I snapped it up fast.
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A raft of new eBikes have just dropped on the market and I am sure more MTB-related goodness is soon to come with the Sea Otter Classic just starting...including a prototype inverted single-crown fork from Fox being seen on a few bikes at Sea Otter opening day.
From an eBike perspective it's a busy time:
Specialized Turbo Levo Gen 4 - eye-watering pricing, but massive upgrades on everything that the Gen 3 had previously: https://www.specialized.com/nz/en/shop/bikes/electric-bikes/electric-mountain-bikes/turbo-levo
Base model starting at $14,500 !!!
This has some impressive updates/upgrades over the current Gen 3, with an increase to 101NM of torque on the standard models, while the $25k+ S-Works versions get 111Nm.
Forbidden Druid CorE and LitE - Forbidden's first foray into the eBike world. LitE is 140/150 travel and the CorE is 150/160 travel - the big thing with these is they use the revolutionary DJI Avinox M1 motor that outperforms the competition by quite a significant amount.
The DJI Avinox is a 105Nm/850W motor (120NM and 1000W on "boost") compared to the "industry standard" of 85Nm and 600W.
Forbidden have always had a high-pivot design, with idler pulleys and very little pedal kick-back. Long, low and slack, these things are built for aggressive trail riding and enduro. https://forbiddenbike.com/bikes/druid-core/
Trek Rail+ New Trek Rail+ has been out a few weeks, but they have upped their game, too. Longer travel at 160/160, with the ability to run a longer fork if wanted. https://www.trekbikes.com/nz/en_NZ/rail-plus-high-powered-emtb/
All new geometry and kinematics - this is a big improvement from what was already arguably one of the most popular and capable eBikes on the eMTB market. 
Unno Mith with the DJI Avinox and all the awesome weirdness that Unno is famous for, this looks like a killer bike! https://www.unno.com/en-us/mith
This is probably the least eBike looking of them all: 
New eBikes from Merida, Santa Cruz and others have also come to market recently. 
Etc.
It appears that the launch of the DJI motor has really stirred things up though - with the new Specialised motor being a high torque, high output unit and rumours that the latest Gen 5 Bosch motor is about to get a firmware update that will unleash its full potential to 100Nm and 700W of power (or thereabouts).
It's an interesting time to be a Mountainbiker, but an even more interesting time to be an eMountainbiker.
Tariffs are also going to stir up the market somewhat, too.
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And while I was writing all of that, I completely forgot about the real innovation: Bikes with Motor Gearbox Units and belt drives, doing away with the derailleur system altogether.
https://www.nicolai-bicycles.com/s16-mgu-en
The Nicolai S16 MGU is a real head-turner for a whole lot of reasons, not least of which is the integrated motor and gearbox, Gates Carbon belt drive and lovely long, low, slack lines.
It also turns heads for it's lofty price tag, but it's a unique and boutique bike. 
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