Specialized expands electric MTB line-up with new Turbo Tero, designed for every ride

(Pocket-lint) - Specialized has launched the Turbo Tero, a caller summation to the Turbo scope of electrical upland bikes and expanding your options erstwhile you travel to bargain a upland motorcycle with power.

Specialized is known for its high-end afloat suspension e-MTBs similar the similar the Turbo Levo, but the Tero takes a measurement down, presenting a thrust that's going to beryllium much applicable for mundane riders.

The Tero has an alloy hardtail design, with suspension for the 29-inch beforehand wheel, wrapped successful 2.3-inch Ground Control tyres and equipped with an SRAM oregon Shimano drivetrain depending connected the exemplary you choose.

There are respective antithetic versions of the Tero - 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0 - defining the spec level, with step-through and load-carrying versions too.

Packed into the downtube is the artillery with the top-of-the-line 5.0 getting 710Wh artillery and the latest Turbo Full Power 2.2 Motor, delivering 90Nm torque and 250W power. As you driblet down the spec levels, the artillery gets smaller and the torque reduces too, arsenic bash immoderate of the different components.

That sees the 5.0 with 110mm Rock Shock Recon RL suspension and 11-speed SRAM G2 GX, the 4.0 with 110mm Rock Shock Recon TK and 11-speed SRAM NX, portion the 3.0 gets 110mm SR Suntour XCM 32 suspension and a 9-speed Shimano Alivio drivetrain.

Specialized has designed the Tero to beryllium a versatile bike, overmuch much affordable than the afloat suspension models, but much applicable for commuting, with the enactment for load carrying too, truthful it volition beryllium arsenic astatine location connected the trails arsenic it is connected the schoolhouse run; it volition transportation up to 27kg of other load.

The powerfulness is designed to instrumentality the strain disconnected the rider, assistance creaseless retired those hills, allowing you to thrust further and faster - oregon to simply assistance you implicit your commute without ending up arsenic a sweaty mess.

You'll get up to 6 hours, oregon 90 miles, of riding assistance from that artillery and you tin complaint it successful the bike, oregon region the artillery for charging.

To assistance you power the exertion of this powerfulness - and to support an oculus connected everything that's going connected - there's the integrated MasterMind machine connected the handlebars, designed specifically for this strategy and moving with the Mission Control app connected your phone.

That not lone allows updates for your bike, but you tin power the powerfulness modes truthful you tin guarantee that you'll inactive person powerfulness erstwhile you deed that large elevation towards the extremity of your ride. You tin besides acceptable up the strategy to enactment with your bosom rate, truthful you tin get a due workout without excessively overmuch assistance.

Mission Control and MasterMind besides incorporated a information system, with an alarm strategy and powerfulness lock, truthful the centrifugal won't enactment if your motorcycle is stolen, securing it with a PIN.

The Turbo Tero volition commencement astatine £2,900 for the Tero 3.0, ranging up to £4,500 for the Tero 5.0.

Writing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 21 September 2021.