Is the Specialized Creo 2 the ULTIMATE Adventure Bike?

I went out to Portugal recently to put the new Sepcialized Creo 2 e-bike through its paces on some cracking trails and roads. Also went deep into the development of the new motor and challenging e-bike preconceptions with the engineers behind the new bike.

Content
00:00 Intro
00:41 Main changes and features
2:22 Who is it aimed at?
2:45 Ride impressions
4:13 Hill challenge!
5:43 More ride impressions
6:55 Developing the new motor
9:10 Challenge e-bike preconceptions
12:23 Summary

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[deanpurcell]

I'm 73 years old and ride 1000 km a month on my road bike but I'm sure that this bike is in my future! Curly bars, mtb tires and a dropper seatpost? Wow!!

[lyellharrington]

The thing about riding a Creo is the fun factor in getting your fitness levels up, you can make it a pain ride or a fun ride depending on you style, then once you're learnt the battery ranges for your ride areas & the improved fitness levels the fun can really begin. Just remember to keep adjusting the bike power levels to suit your fitness levels & ride course. Give me mixed surface riding everytime over big km's road riding, road riding is totally boring when you can get just as good results in less than half of the km's with mixed surface riding and there plenty of range in the battery+ extender battery for that on the Creo.
Besides theres definitely nothing quite like blasting away the last 20km's home into a screaming headwind in turbo mode and passing all your riding mates on there non ebikes who have been giving you shite the whole ride about you been on a ebike and actually having a plan to finish the ride in style and your the first one into the cafe without being crippled the next day as well, funny thing about that group that half of them are now riding ebikes.
Bring on the next gen Creo!!

[johntrussell]

Specialized is absolutely killing it these days, releasing the best bikes in the business.

[johnzee]

My days, I got mine on Friday. I haven't stopped riding it. It is beautiful! I usually mountain bike and never thought of an Ebike or gravel bike. I wanted a bike to adventure and to go into town and get shopping. This is so fun. I beeze around town, hoping about and then I've been stomping along some coastal routes, gravel paths/roads. 70% of the time I've got the battery off. It's great to flick the motor on when you've gone a bit too far and need to get home in good time. Wow!

[brentcollins]

We love our E bikes so much. I couldn’t even drag my wife out of the house to go ride with me. Now she’s doing 20 miles.

[maguedmalek]

Just got mine yesterday. Cant wait to explore the first KM.

[arcadialive]

Creo is 100% the most versatile fun bike, period. Over 2, 500 miles on my first gen. From coffee shop visits, or long touring days, to training, or gravel e-friendly trails. This bike is my favorite.

[KurtMueller]

I'd love to be able to load an interval workout onto the bike and then have the bike try to match the resistance needed for the current interval as I bike along my local trails / roads.

[schsch]

Very limited availability in early 2024. Snagged a 54cm Creo Comp 2 months ago and at 600 miles on the road or mild gravel find the total range to be about 80 mile with
intermittent use of the battery, ie going from 90-95% to <10% charge. Don't need battery for riding on the flat or downhill for the most part. If riding in ECO mode 100%,
expect 1% decrement in battery per mile of ride. One use of TURBO showed it to be a massive boost in power but drained ~8% of battery in about 1mile of a 3% uphill.
I dropped the bike wght 2# by switching to 36mm Gravel Kings, which are a bit more road friendly from the 47mm stock tires. Now planning to remove the dropper post for another 1# of weight reduction as I do not plan downhill riding, and the manual says DO NOT go over more than a 6" drop.

[haithamelmaleh]

I think a comparison video between this bike and the domane + and bmc road machine amp is highly required now

[noze]

Is surprising all the negativity that there is still around ebikes (probably from people that has never ridden one). All my riding since I relocate to UK is with conventional bikes (Mtb, gravel, road etc) as the terrain is quite flat in general compared to what I was used to. But I still have my emtb in Spain, and is lovely to be able to ride 2000m elevation in 50km without being completely destroyed. I got onto emtb's because of an injury and they did not only help me to recover and get fit again, but I enjoyed so much the process that I think I will always have an e-bike Not to mention that they are also great commuters or cargo bikes.
The Creo2 is a great bike, but I will prefer a Rudy instead of the future shock and prices for Specialized are always high.

[adrian.gaviola]

I have the previous generation Creo. Any mention on backwards compatibility with the new motor?

[dcv]

Ebike is the future for my kind of riding. 💯All-day explorations of FUN trails! 😎 Definitely buying one 💥

[howlinhauler]

The perfect 2nd bike. They finally realized what an Ebike should be, a pack mule.

[bd]

Great video thank you. Finally you are reviewing high end road e bikes. Perfect. Give us more tests please

[kapponeification]

I own the first gen and it's such a great riding experience. I ride much more since I purchased this bike. I don't understand why people gets so mad about e-bike, they hurt nobody and keep people out riding. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. It's simply a choice.
Price is very steep and the first gen motor is very noisy. This new one looks amazing but for some reason I don't believe it's "the quietest e-bike" out there. If you can afford it, it's worth it every penny in my personal opinion.

[steveradford]

Had my Creo 2 (lake blue same as this video) for 10 months. Superb e-bike, now with 950 miles 'on the clock'. It rolls like a conventional gravel bike and I only need e-assist on steep gradients, although ECO help on return leg of long rides. The real advantage is that it's only 14.5kg, so easy to lift over obstacles.

[richardmelickjr]

Just viewed your ride. I’m looking to purchase a Creo 2 Export. Going to ride an earlier version tomorrow. If you tou are riding a Ceo 2, what tires have you installed? Did you change your chain ring to a larger one. They will except up to a 48. Oh, I am out in Colorado. Little different riding here.
Thank you,
Rick

[BoomsRiddico]

love it! I'm on board with having an e-bike option as well as regular so I can use it to explore further or just as an off training day bike.

[matthewshaw]

I have a dropper on my diverge (probably the same one) that has that amount of drop and I think it’s pointless. Barely gets out of your way at all and as you say is much less compliant. I think either have a carbon post, suspension post or a longer more useful dropper.