Constructed off the pedal-powered La Sal Peak mountain bike, the brand new Fezzari Timp Peak will get 170mm journey on a low-slung, Shimano-powered eMTB chassis. Goal-built across the suspension kinematics and dealing with first, it places the battery weight actually low inside the complete carbon body.
The truth is, going with a full carbon fiber body entrance and rear gave Fezzari extra flexibility in motor and battery placement, created a stiffer body, and let it put harder elements on the bike whereas nonetheless maintaining the general weight decrease. Even the shock hyperlink is carbon fiber.
The 2018 La Sal Peak was the primary of Fezzari’s lengthy journey bikes to get the radically upright seat angle and really slack entrance finish. The second-generation La Sal Peak pushed journey additional, from 150mm to 170mm rear, with the choice of working a 180mm fork.
The Timp Peak retains the 170mm journey, with custom-tuned shock choices from RockShox, Fox, DVO, MRP, PUSH, and EXT. Inventory builds include RockShox and DVO, however the different manufacturers can be found as upgrades.
These shocks sit underneath a very low high tube, offering a ton of standover, plus room for the standard water bottle contained in the entrance triangle on all body sizes. Their angular tube shaping carries over, maintaining its aesthetics acquainted of their lineup and likewise giving it loads of torsional stiffness to deal with the added stresses of the motor’s torque and elevated weight.
All three fashions get Shimano’s top-level EP8 motor system, with {custom} tuning to offer the bike the specified efficiency. Fezzari then tweaked the battery mount by creating an inside rail system that gave it extra flexibility in positioning it and the hoses and cables.
This allow them to put the rail attachment factors the place it wished, then use that to work across the fastened battery mounting factors.
The result’s a body it says may be very simple to work on and keep your self, with the geometry and low heart of gravity Fezzari wished.
The highest two fashions get a 635Wh battery, and the Comp mannequin will get a 504Wh battery with the choice to improve for $200. They are saying it’s good for as much as 5 hours of using, however terrain, mode, and rider weight will decide your precise experience time. They are saying throughout testing, their crew has been capable of get anyplace from 25 to 36 miles with 5k to 7k ft of climbing per cost with 80% of the time spent in Path mode.
Output is tuned to supply easy energy onboarding and even supply, for extra predictable help, significantly when climbing. The steep 77.5-degree efficient seat angle retains you in a robust ahead place for pedaling. Mixed with the motor, it ought to imply easy crusing up the steepest climbs.
Brief 160mm crank arms on all body sizes maintain cadence excessive for optimum battery/motor effectivity … and assist clear rocks and chunky stuff whenever you’ve acquired to pedal via them.
The Timp Peak comes with 29-inch wheels entrance and rear, however the geometry flip chip could make it appropriate with a 27.5-inch rear for mullet builds, and that’s an possibility throughout checkout.
Value noting that if you happen to go for the 27.5″ rear wheel when ordering, they tune the motor for that wheel dimension so that you just’re nonetheless getting the complete 20mph (Class I) high help velocity.
All three fashions additionally include TRP DH-R EVO brakes, offering large stopping energy out of the field.
Fezzari Timp Peak Movies
Above is the sizzle reel, and beneath is the design crew’s overview of the bike.
Fezzari Timp Peak Geometry & Pricing
Timp Peak geometry chart reveals the numbers within the inventory place with the flip chip set in Low. Switching it round adjustments the head- and seat-angles by 0.7º and BB peak by 7.5mm. Max tire clearance is 29×2.6″, but it surely comes with 29×2.5″ on it.
The Timp Peak Professional Launch Version ($7,499) will get RockShox ZEB Final and Tremendous Deluxe Final suspension, PNW Loam dropper publish, GX AXS group, and DT Swiss HX1700 wheels with Maxxis Assegai/Minion DHR II tires. Coming quickly, there’ll be an up to date Professional construct with a brand new SRAM MTB group for $7,999…surprise what that could possibly be?
The Timp Peak Elite ($6,999) has the identical suspension and publish however with mechanical GX Eagle and DT Swiss H1900 wheels.
The Timp Peak Comp ($5,999) switches to DVO Onyx E1 suspension, X-Fusion Manic dropper publish, SRAM NX Eagle, and DT Swiss H1900 wheels.
All full bikes get Fezzari’s alloy bar and stem, with OneUp’s e-bike carbon handlebar out there as an improve. Not proven, a frameset with Fox X2 Manufacturing unit rear shock and all {hardware} will run $4,999, with a Fox 38 fork out there individually.
