How Much Is The Ktm Freeride E-xc

[Badomero Schoulund]

Impressivebut I'd still want a minimum range of 100 miles with heavy throttle, and with such a range I'd be willing to live with a spare battery to slow-charge at a "wired" base accommodation where I might be staying; such recharging wouldn't be as workable if staying in motorhome/tent.

Dirtbikes have a long and ugly history with Nosy Nancys out here and they seemed to be teed up to engine noise. I have even switched over to an electric chainsaw for trail work and it is like I am not even there and no more frivolous complaints.

This sounds like a great bike for beginners or wives that "tolerate" going riding sometimes. I bought a Surron for my daughter and while I can run the battery down in a little over an hour, riding it slowly on trails I think we got about 30 miles on a single charge one weekend.

Range is always the 1st or 2nd question I get about the Freeride E-XC. Longer would be better but after 1500 miles of riding I still find plenty of places to enjoy the Freeride. My 2018 Alta EXR had a 5.8kWH battery that weighed around 70 lbs while the Freeride 3.8kWH battery is about 60 lbs. Maybe an updated Freeride battery with a power density closer to the Alta pack would provide a nice range increase without much weight penalty.

The last thing is the mapping. Map 1 is so smooth it makes a great setting for teaching new riders or beginning riders with little experience. Also no hot engine or pipes to worry about (nice when kids are around).

My minimum usual real life round trip ride is 40 miles, and my maximum so far has been 80 miles on one tank. My real life fuel tank range is about minimum 88 and maximum about 110, depending on throttle and terrain. My bike's full loaded curb weight is about 260 lbs. I'm looking for an e-bike/e-motorcycle to at least match these such specs of my internal combustion bike before I would make a switch.

My guess is you are on a 4 stroke with an oversize tank and electrics will probably not get there without being a bike like the zero dsr which is capable of 150+ miles I believe but its so heavy(a tad over 400lbs) and not a single track bike. My previous zero fx 7.2 could easily do 70miles of single track but it was heavy(290lbs with both batteries in or 250lbs with one) and odd geometry, put that power train into a good chassis and I think its almost to the range you want, within about 75%. My 125 smoker with stock tank gives me anxiety if I go much over 30miles on a tank in the woods at any sort of normal race pace. My surron could go that range stock if i kept it slow but with my new battery I should easily get that 30-40mile range at race pace and in my slow around the house test with my wife riding half the time it should get +60miles. To add I could also install a range extender I already made for another 10-20miles of range. I think a 25% reduction in range for a stock electric vs stock gas bike is actually very close. Look at what the freeride is base off, the 250 freeride which isnt a long range bike either so its actually the right range and I think thats why ktm focused on this model as its not in the cards right now to have high power and range(issue Alta faced). Just because a bike doesnt do what you do now doesnt mean its not a great option for what it was designed to do well and the freeride does it well from everything Ive seen.

I'll refer you to the TT section for my bike (Honda CRF230F) for others' stated MPG; as I recall, everyone reported higher MPG figures than my (minimum of) 44, and a lot of them have modified motors/exhaust/carb. But yeah, I do ride on the right side of the road when on highway sections; maybe riding on the left side like in the UK would lower my range?

I have a calibrated Trail Tech Vapor odo/speedo, and keep MPG records of my rides out in the Jillikins. I have often ridden alone out in relative wilderness, and I want to be confident of my fuel range.

Again, check out the TT section on "CRF150F/L, CRF230F/L & CRF250F". There you will find the experiences of, e.g., bajatrailrider, who runs a Baja facility with tens of thousands of miles of "test cases" of permutations/combinations/modifications of the lowly CRF230F ridden on a wide range of challenging terrain; often the riders who bring their hot KTMs there to ride with Larry end up preferring to ride one of Larry's House CRF230F bikes.

Somewhere on TT I recounted my experience on the Wheeler Ridge trail (northerly of Bishop, CA in the Eastern Sierras) where, on my lowly CRF230F, I made it up a challenging hillclimb section toward the John Muir Wilderness terminus---and a group of five KTM riders only had three (or was it two?) riders who made it up that section. No, I'm not racing, just having fun on often Black Diamond trails.

I don't think I ever claimed to be using WOT continuously on a ride with my IC bike; I don't think I'd be using WOT continuously on an ebike ride, either. I'm not racing. That's a whole different subject.

Somewhere on TT I recounted my experience on the Wheeler Ridge trail (northerly of Bishop, CA in the Eastern Sierras) where I made it up a challenging hillclimb section toward the John Muir Wilderness terminus---and a group of five KTM riders only had three (or was it two?) riders who made it up that section. No, I'm not racing, just having fun on often Black Diamond trails.

I think thats part of what we are saying, the riding you are doing is not what most people do and you have a bike that is not the norm for range you have one of the exceptions. You wont find many gas bikes that will even get that range so why come here and bash the electric that doesnt get that range. My 4 stroke xc bikes ive had in the past couldnt do it, most would get maybe 50-60 with a 2.7gal tank so are you never gonna switch to one of those or are you only here to bash the electric that we already know is range limited but isnt far off from what a typical trail bike gets on range?

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