First Ride on the new 2024 Norco Fluid VLT C1 140 Ebike

Today Norco officially launched the new Fluid VLT series of E Bikes for 2024. These new e bikes are the lightest E Bikes Norco has ever produced with targeted weights in the 39-45 lb range depending on the model you purchase.
You can see all the bikes on Norco's website here:
https://www.norco.com/bikes/e-mountain/e-trail/fluid-vlt-carbon/

Full disclaimer Alert - I work for Norco Bicycles so this is not so much a review as an overview of the bike and my first ride impression but of course you should know I have some bias built in...I can't help it! I hope you enjoy the video and if you have any questions please drop them in the comments and I will try to reply as soon as I can. For more details keep reading & watching...

I have been riding ebikes since Norco first started making E MTBs in 2020. I am in the 50+ crowd and have been mountain biking for over 30 years. I still like to rip and ride multiple times a week but a busy work and home life sometimes means bike rides take a back seat. EMTBs have changed that for me! Now I can get a solid ride in on my home trails in just 1 hour and feel the stoke of riding! That was getting harder and harder for me to do on a non e-bike so that is why I love e MTBs and how they have changed my riding opportunities...

Over the last 4 years I have had a Sight VLT (Simplo Battery Gen) a Range VLT (Simple Battery Gen) and then the Range VLT (BMZ Gen) and Sight VLT (BMZ Gen). I've put thousands of KMs on ebikes in the last 4 years and so when our engineer and product management team told me we were going to be building a new light weight ebike in conjunction with Bosch and their new lightweight SX drive system I could not "weight" to try one. My main "complaint" about ebikes has been the weight. Almost all the bikes prior to this Fluid VLT that I had ridden weighed in the 55lbs to 60lbs range so getting this one at under 45 lbs had me excited!

The bike I am riding in this video is pretty much stock spec. It is an early production sample so sometimes these early bikes don't have the exact spec you get when they launch but they are generally are very close. The only incorrect spec on the bike in this video was that it had SRAM Level 4 piston brakes when it should have had SRAM Code Stealth Silver 4 piston Brakes. Since filming this video I have changed to the proper spec and can say the braking performance is significantly improved but since this bike was an early production bike it came with off spec brakes to start with. Otherwise it's stock. With Crank Brothers Mallet pedals this bike weights in at 43lbs which is super impressive to have an bike drop 12lbs off my previous bike - the Sight VLT BMZ which was in the 55lb weight range (it was a full power ebike btw).

I'll try and make some update videos on this bike once I have more time on it to speak to topics like battery life, motor performance, tunability etc. Stay tuned and Subscribe to stay in the loop.

Видео First Ride on the new 2024 Norco Fluid VLT C1 140 Ebike канала Steve @ Fresh Bikes