Whereas Aventon is understood at the start as an ebike model, the corporate began by making fixies in 2013. That provides it some bona fides on the subject of making gratifying rides for skilled cyclists. (Along with the Present ADV, there’s additionally a higher-end mannequin, the Current EXP, with a dearer carbon body and higher elements.) 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 most recent iterations did a masterful job. The Present ADV seems to be one hundred pc the a part of modern 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 simple 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 elements usually are not. It is likely to be tough to get your native bike store to take a look at the battery and motor, however assuming these are high quality, it will not be exhausting to swap the rest out ought to you have to restore it.
Regardless of its design and journey really feel, all of which may make you simply neglect you’re using electrical, the Present ADV is a class 1 e-MTB (which may be toggled to a category 3 by way of the model’s app), and one that provides hours and hours of using 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 practically that, as I used to be always switching by way of any of the Present ADV’s 5 energy modes (Auto, Eco, Path, Turbo, and a brand new, 30-second Boost Mode for further torque on huge 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 most important flaw I discovered within the Present is small and seemingly easy, however it nonetheless had a significant influence 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 if you’re mountain biking, too), the very last thing I need to do is to take my eyes off the path. Having these beeps be the very same tone meant I instinctively stored wanting down on the top-tube-mounted show to see which mode I used to be in.
