Santa Cruz Bullit 2021 - First Impressions on the Baddest eMTB from Santa Cruz Bicycles

Santa Cruz just released their big-hitter eMTB. This pedal-assist mountain bike is DH bike that comes with its own chair lift.

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Tani Walling

My gear

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Where I get my music.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:48 Some background
01:48 Details on The Bullit
03:04 It's a nice looking eMTB.
03:14 It's a "mullet", i.e. a mixed wheel-size bike.
03:54 eMTB specific components
04:24 Ride Impressions!
05:12 Getting used to the Bullit
06:06 It gets faster and chunkier.
06:48 It gets steep.
07:23 Tani give us a tip on mullets.
07:34 Climbing
08:13 My thoughts on eMTBs.
09:48 Who is the Bullit for?
10:08 Thanks Crew!

#emtb #santacruzbullit #santacruzbicycles

[edaguirrentvbrn_familyaka]

Two years after my second knee surgery I purchased a trek full stache, totally stoked on, but my knees were strained to the max. Then 4 months after I returned that bike I bought the 2018 Kenevo it greatly helped with rehabbing my knees and quickly upgraded my 11 speed cassette to a 50 tooth instead of the 42 and my cadence matched more closely to an analog mtb and that's what most people thought since I also kept my assist at 10, 25 and 45 % boost modes. For the most part most people are stoked on the bike's build and the troy Lee design colors and graphics and others are giving props at my personal effort and being out there. Glad you got some perspective Mtb Alan and thank you for your content.

[uncle-special]

Right on. I love having the e-mtb option. I usually ride my analog with friends or my kids, but to be able to do 20 miles and 3, 000 feet of altitude during a lunch break is the best. The eeb is epic at pedal-up parks like Skypark too.

[andyclarke]

Spot on Alan 👍🏻 as a rider of 15 years and and emtb rider for the last 4 it great to see a first impression video being so positive

[TheCrashingDad]

I'm always amazed as to how you can make an electrified video without having the filming aspect take over your ride...
another great one Alan!

[hanselsanjuan]

Glad to see u on an eMTB hope you csn ride more of it in the future. Just started mountain biking 6mos ago and its the eMTB that got me hooked. I have 2 a Scott Strike eRide 2020 and 2021 Spec Levo Comp. To someone like me who had knee surgeries sinced Highschool, the eBike gave us hope to enjoy the mountains. Hope u can help us to have those eBike haters understand why these new technology exists when I come back from my fractured ankle injury, atleast I have an eBike that would help with my rehab and that I dont have to take a full load right away for my leg. Glad to see you were having a blasts!!! I was sooo excited watching you riding the Bullit. Thank you for the video its really cool!!!

[BikeandSkiGeoff]

I owned a 2003 Bullit which was my primary ride for about 13 years... which also weighed about 49lb

[trxlmtb]

Total game changer for long adventures!

[thomasoconnor]

Excellent video Alan!! As usual! I have the Heckler and it’s SICK!! I assume very similar to the Bullit, but 27.5 front and back. I ride in CT and VT - very technical and it’s a beast!! I feel like I do DH riding -up the trails!! Laughing my ass off the whole time!!

[jadonlawrence]

Glad too see you back at San Clemente
Don't know when you filmed this but many of the trails have gotten work done recently so the trails are running really well.

[adeeter]

Glad to see I'm not the only Alan that starts laughing when things get sketchy!

[ErichVonCartmann]

Santa Cruz Bullit Baby! It is truly one awesome bike! It is the only Ebike I have ever owned so take take my opinion with a grain of salt. However, it does everything that I expect from it, and I can' really see any long travel Ebike being much better. I had my Bullit for a year now and I even use it when I DH with shuttle service . E-bikes even makes us even more faster on the DH!

As with all bikes, it will take about 10 rides before we learn the suspension adjustments and have the cockpit dialed in, and that's about how long it took for the Bullit to get it dialed in to suit me.

Lots of people complain about all the rattle noises from the battery when riding, but the only one that really complains about the rattle are the people I ride with. I myself don't really notice the rattling much and it does not bother me at all.

I have 5 really nice mtn bikes all very different from each other, and it is nice having a variety of bikes to ride, the more the bikes the better! but if I had to pick just one bike, it will most definitely pick the Bullit.

[ioannisparaskevopoulos]

The Bullit was my go to bike for an ebike, the only ebike I really liked a lot! Also, the rattling comes from the EP8 motor and is an issue not only on the Bullit, but on all ebikes equipped with this motor.

[FernFlowMtb]

This bike is sick! Also, I always enjoy your videos 💯

[barathmuthusamy]

I rode a e-mtb (2017 turbo levo) If you put your weight on the front wheel and put it in the fastest setting and pedal up a hill, the thing goes up, but the wheel spins and send syou up. Its like drifting uphill!

[jacksonmtb]

That bike is super sick. Cool video as always!👍

[mmswcoc]

Picking my bullit up tomorrow....cant I'll run into you at greer this summer

[socalmitch]

With my analog bike I have to choose my lines with care when climbing, the Bullit I just point in up and let it rip over the rocks an roots on a technical climb, but I have crashed because I’ve been going too fast up the hill without to much care.

[.yamaha.R]

I just bought a sc bullit from them can’t wait to compare it to my kenevo sl waiting for them to ship

[t-rexfamilyoutdoorfun.]

I love my emtb. It allows me to keep up with a faster group, and also I don't like being the guys everyone is waiting on. I have noticed my climbing skills have improved alot on my analog because of riding the emtb. Now here is one drawback the ebike allows me to reach trails that are out of my skill zone easily because I'm not wiped out after my normal easer loops and I tell ya walking one of these tanks down or up a hill is rough.

[joeyyates]

Great review.👍👍Your laughter on the ride says it all.😁🤣