Easy EMTB Skills Every Rider Should Know!

Having some EMTB-specific riding skills is a great way to level up your riding ability and ensure you really get the most from your amazing E-bike! Join Chris Smith as he runs you through some of these simple, yet extremely effective skills you can learn!

⏱ Timestamps ⏱
0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Static gear changing
1:25 - Cadence
2:20 - Lifting your E-bike
3:46 - Overrun/extended boost mode
4:39 - Wheelbarrow technique

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What was the one tip or trick that revolutionised your experience with E-Biking? 🧐

[RobHill]

Great tips, static gear change with walk mode and something as simple as hooking under the saddle to lift the bike!🤦🏼‍♂️ seems obvious but I didn’t think of it!🤤👍🏻

[codebender]

I use the wheelbarrow technique a lot. Makes it easier to go up stairs in walk mode.

[nvmtbkr]

I use the power of the walk mode to get my bike into the wheelbarrow position, also great for a 180 degree change of direction on a singletrack. Thanks for all the tips I have learned alot from this channel !

[Dannyjones]

I love my Specilized Levo. Top E Bike!

[vashon]

0:54 Fix the limit screws, chain off cog.

[ruralpestcontrol]

Walk mode might be a bit harder on some bosh computers. You have to keep the + button pressed for it to work. Only found that out yesterday 🤣🤣

[canderson]

These are so helpful, thanks so much!

[jimbeard]

I have a Magicycle (earlier version I bought Jan 2022) which weighs 75 pounds or so and a lot of your tricks won't work on it. But it came with a twist throttle which I modified by adding a piece of metal taped on to convert into a thumb throttle. I find this is easier to control than walk mode because I can 'milk' the low speed when going up steep hills or over rocky places. Of course with that heavy of bike, and with fat tires, I use it more in the desert in SE Utah than in mountains. Though I go over to Dolores CO in summer and ride Boggy Draw trails (e-bikes frowned on there) and roads; or closer to Cortez CO. Here where I live a premier place to ride is Valley of Gods or down Comb Wash to River House ruin and back. Lots of sand or gravel, but fat tires do well. And I generally stop about half way and turn bike off which magically "recharges" battery; actually I think separate cells inside battery switch on to make it appear so. So I'm getting about 21-23 miles total ride, with a low PAS setting. At my age that's plenty and I ride more on gravel or dirt roads than on bike trails in winter. And I don't have a dropper post but when I get to steep hills I just get off and walk, or go around somehow. So a lot of mountain bike tricks I see on YouTube are 'cute' and probably helpful for younger riders, but I'm not one of those. I have been mountain biking since late 70's and first three bikes were Specialized, including an obsolete Ultimate, which now looks a bit ridiculous but was my first bike with suspension.

[Cheapsht]

thanks Chris, really good tips, cheers

[lozetchells]

Great tips. Never thought of using walk mode for a static gear change before, nice. Not as nice as the berry coloured levo expert you're on, mind...

[vibelight]

In regards to bosh WALK MODE, im now refusing any further down loads from my MTB tech guy because i dont seem to be offer'd any list of choice's and walk mode seem to loose torque and speed making my day out more difficult & discouraging me from tech terrain. There's since been a download moderate improvement so im now a "Don't Touch" kinda customer. This brand of walk mode clearly needs more choice options for it's riders so i may choose where i go and not where Bosh say's i can't.

[windinthewillows]

I have a 2024 Orbea Wild, which has a Bosch gen 4 motor, I don’t feel any overrun, does the Bosch gen 4 motor have this? I have looked at the flow app, but can’t see where the overrun setting might be, any help (does Bosch call overrun something else)?

[Cheapsht]

I am surprised that the displays dont show the cadence sweet spot light or icon rather than a figure

[simonr]

Wait so does work mode turn the crank by itself for you? Doesn't do it for my Levo, my guess is German/EU regulation only allowing pedal assist for Ebikes

[patrickrgrier]

wow, air hill climb, motor over-run; change gears in a coast. Sadly my ebike's walk mode stops very quickly if bike is not moving.

[DrgnWd]

push another rider struggling a hill climb is a good tip 🤣