News | Video: ROTWILD Bikes – The E-MTB

Ritchie Schley racing the two AMG ROTWILD team riders Sofia Wiedenroth and Nadine Rieder uphill… Well, that simply can’t end well. Unfortunately for them, Ritchie has a little trick up his sleeve …

What makes a decent E-MTB? Is it the motor? The chassis? The design? The answer is simple: it’s about how the parts work together. Do they even work together? Up until now, no manufacturer has been able to successfully integrate the motor and battery into an E-MTB so that it looks – and more importantly, rides – like one cohesive unit. They tend to look more like foreign entities placed in the middle of the bike, with the frame having been built around it. Then there’s the added factors of dealing with the space that the power unit demands, and the tiny drive pinion; these make good geometry and rear triangle kinematics nigh on impossible.
It seems we weren’t the only ones to have these thoughts. Dissatisfied with this state of events, the engineers at ADP Engineering, the construction team behind ROTWILD, decided enough was enough. Together with Brose, who are experts with electric motors, they created an entirely new E-MTB concept.

ROTWILD bikes we already tested:

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