Whereas Aventon is understood before everything as an ebike model, the corporate began by making fixies in 2013. That offers it some bona fides in terms of making pleasing rides for skilled cyclists. (Along with the Present ADV, there’s additionally a higher-end mannequin, the Present EXP, with a dearer carbon body and higher parts.) Since its first enterprise into e-MTBs with the Ramblas in 2024, the corporate has continued to develop very properly specced electrical mountain bikes for the value.
The designers behind the latest iterations did a masterful job. The Present ADV seems one hundred pc the a part of up to date mountain bike. With its 6061 aluminum body, SRAM Eagle groupset, tubeless-ready Maxxis Minion tires wrapping a pair of double-walled 29-inch wheels, a 170-mm X Fusion Manic dropper put up, a Rockshox Psylo Gold entrance suspension that boasts 150 mm of journey, and a Rockshox Deluxe Choose+, it’d be straightforward to confuse the Present ADV for a conventional analog mountain bike.
{Photograph}: Michael Venutolo-Mantovani
It is price noting that whereas the motor is proprietary to Aventon, the parts should not. It may be tough to get your native bike store to have a look at the battery and motor, however assuming these are effective, it will not be laborious to swap anything out ought to it’s good to restore it.
Regardless of its design and trip really feel, all of which may make you simply neglect you’re driving electrical, the Present ADV is a category 1 e-MTB (which might be toggled to a category 3 through the model’s app), and one that offers hours and hours of driving on a single cost.
The 800-watt-hour battery is tucked neatly into the bike’s comparatively small downtube, giving a claimed vary of as much as 105 miles. After all, I didn’t get almost that, as I used to be consistently switching by way of any of the Present ADV’s 5 energy modes (Auto, Eco, Path, Turbo, and a brand new, 30-second Enhance Mode for further torque on massive hills). Nonetheless, the longest day I spent within the bike’s super-comfy Selle Royal SRX saddle was about three hours. In that point, the battery dropped solely about 20 p.c.
Eyes Up
The largest flaw I discovered within the Present is small and seemingly easy, nevertheless it nonetheless had a serious affect on my rides. That’s the truth that, when clicking by way of energy settings, the bike beeps, and all these beeps sound the identical.
Once I’m mountain biking (and possibly whenever you’re mountain biking, too), the very last thing I wish to do is to take my eyes off the path. Having these beeps be the very same tone meant I instinctively stored trying down on the top-tube-mounted show to see which mode I used to be in.
