Pivot Shuttle SL/AM Ride Eagle 70/90 Transmission

The motor and battery are unchanged from the rest of the lineup: a Bosch Performance Line SX system, which Bosch positions as its lightest and most compact e-bike motor, delivering up to 600 watts of peak power and 55Nm of torque from a 400Wh in-frame battery. That's the same lightweight, feel-forward setup found on Pivot's most expensive Shuttle SL/AM build, so buyers stepping into this price point aren't getting a weaker motor, just a different chassis spec around it. Riders who want more range can add Bosch's optional PowerMore 250 range extender, a bottle-shaped 250Wh unit that mounts to the frame and adds about 3.3 pounds. The Pivot x Bosch Flow app manages the system across seven ride modes, including Turbo, an eMTB-shortcrank mode, Sport, and Tour+.

The frame carries over the all-mountain geometry Pivot developed for its non-motorized Switchblade, built in carbon with 150mm of rear travel through Pivot's dw-link suspension and a 160mm-travel fork up front. On this build, that fork is a Fox Performance 36 with a GRIP damper, and the rear shock is a Fox Performance Float, both a step below the Factory-series suspension on Pivot's higher-end Shuttle SL/AM builds. The damping is less externally tunable as a result, but the travel numbers and suspension kinematics are identical, so the bike's underlying handling character carries over. Like the rest of the line, this XS size comes with mixed 27.5/29-inch wheels, built specifically to give smaller riders proper handling rather than a scaled-down big-bike feel.

The drivetrain is where this build diverges most from the pricier X0 AXS version: it runs Sram's Eagle…