Specialized have launched their latest Levo edition that sports some posh components and a scary price tag to drop the bike to 18.8kg.
If you have twelve grand burning a hole in your pocket and fancy a rather svelte, full power ebike, then the new Specialized S-Works Levo R Ultralight LTD has got your name on it.
Key features:
- Fox 36 SL Factory GRIP X 140mm fork
- Fox Float Factory GENIE shock
- SRAM XX AXS Eagle T-type 12-speed drive
- Specialized 3.1 S-Works motor
- Specialized 600Wh battery
- Trickstuff Direttissima 4-piston brakes
- Roval Control SL VI carbon rims on Industry 9 Solix hubs
- BikeToke Revive dropper
- £11,999.00 RRP
- Specialized.com
To the untrained eye, this bike looks very much like an S-Works Levo R, but there are some changes that drop some 2.36kg off the weight of the aforementioned ebike. Oddly enough though, for this limited edition ebike from the Big S, it’s actually £500 cheaper than the ‘standard’ S-Works model.
Most of this weight saving will be in the battery, which drops from 840Wh to 600Wh. This change accounts for 1.2kg of this saving, with the 840Wh battery coming in at 4.4kg, and the 600Wh tipping the scales at 3.2kg.
Beyond this, the Fox 36 SL uses the simpler and lighter Grip X damper as opposed to the Grip X2 unit. The wheels change from Roval Traverse SLs to the rather fancy Roval Control SL VI on Industry Nine Solix hubs, laced together with carbon spokes. These are shod with lighter tyres too. A BikeYoke Revive replaced the Reverb AXS dropper too. SRAM Motive brakes are replaced by Trickstuff Direttissima anchors too.
The FACT 11mm carbon frame and drivetrain remains, you still get the 130mm Genie-controlled rear travel and Ti hardware. It remains to be seen if trail tyres can handle ~19kg (41lbs) on the trails. The bike certainly looks the part.
