Mountain Biking UK

VITUS E-SOMMET VRS

Vitus remodelled their beefy, long-travel e-bike this year, giving it an all-new chassis with a properly-integrated battery, a mixed-size ‘mullet’ wheel set-up and other tweaks. What hasn’t changed is that the direct-to-customer brand continue to deliver seriously high-quality kit for your dosh.

THE FRAME

The E-Sommet’s fat, squared-off down tube is shared with Nukeproof’s Megawatt (see p21). It conceals a large-capacity 630Wh battery, and joins a huge 1.8in head tube –

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