Rented the new trek slash+, excellent bike. in eco mode for the climb, it matches you up to 150w. Coming from a non ebike, that asistance is huge, significantly more than just "taking the weight of the bike" I used eco basically the whole 4500ft climb and had over 50% battery left. Handleing was very nice too, this would be the SL ebike i'd buy 100%.
As for the rental shop... not so great. If you can call it "insurance" , it covered ONLY 200 dollars... anything abover that you had to pay up?! Not a single other bike rental ever has had this policy. The last thing the guy said to me as i pushed him a bit on the costs was "this bike dosen't have a scratch on it"! I nearly handed it back to him and left!
It ment i basicaly was on edge all day and didn't really enjoy it properly. I ended up walking bits i would have ridden etc. When i finaly scratched the fork lowers, i just went back to the FSR and finished the ride there and then.

0:00 Intro
0:42 Alpine
6:43 Trail into trees
10:12 fresh loam

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