Best 2025 eMTB Showdown? Amflow PL Carbon Pro vs Specialized S-Works Turbo Levo 4
We have the two most talked about EMTVs in the shop today. The Anflow PLC Carbon Pro and the Specialized Xworks Turbo Levo Gen 4. We are going to do a deep dive comparison on these two bikes. So, let’s dive in and go headtohead. [Music] [Music] This year has been a fantastic year for EMTB kind of development and motors, wouldn’t you say? Absolutely. I mean, you’ve had the Bosch system come out with the performance CX and the overtheair update that they did push that out to 100 new meters of torque. You had Specialized dropped the Levo with the Specialized 3.1 motor and then you had Amlow in August come into the US. So, it’s been it’s kind of been a fun year. Super fun. With all these different bikes and motors coming out, it’s been amazing to sit back and kind of just be a fly on the wall seeing the different uh components and how how bike manufacturers are integrating this technology into their bikes. Yeah. Like I was I was almost kind of bummed out cuz I just bought that Pivot Shuttle AM with the older generation, you know, Bosch generation motor and then all these things dropped out and I knew they were coming but I still just love that Pivot so much. But now that I’ve ridden all these different motors, it’s just it makes me want to go buy more and more just because they are so much fun. Um, but with that being said, today we’re going to cover the S Works Turbo Evo versus the Anflow PL Carbon Pro and do again that head-to-head comparison. We’ll do some other comparisons down the road. Um, but I think we got to talk about the one of the biggest differences between the two first up, which is the price. Yeah. Yeah. We’re talking uh some some price increases that have come from ter due to tariffs. Most likely the S works when it was was announced was uh a couple thousand cheaper. It’s now list price $15,399 versus the Ampl PL Carbon which is now $10,199. Yeah. So, initially that that was a little bit cheaper as well. Yeah. It’s it’s just kind of the scenario where we’re at today. And so we recognize my first car that I paid for this age was $4,000, right? We’re just going to recognize that up front and and do make a note that there is a $5,000 difference between the two bikes out of the gate. This being the top of the line Anflow that you can get. They’ve only got the two models and the topoftheline I guess there’s even a further top of the line Leo which we’re not even going to go to cuz that’s 20 grand. that’s just a little bit beyond and we don’t have that one in stock um or in the shop right now. So, that’s the comparison we’re going to do and we wanted to just again call out the price as we dive into the rest. Let’s go. [Music] All right. So, first up in this head-to-head comparison, we’re going to dive into the specs. And we are not going to cover every little spec because you’ve probably already watched individual reviews and you can go to the websites and and look at all the specs. What we are going to do is really try to help you understand the difference between the two bikes so you can decide which one is best for you. And as a little bit of background, Bryce, so you got the S Works Leo on launch day. Yep. How many miles have you put on that bike? Roughly 3500. He’s put a lot of miles on the bike. I mean, it’s a lot. When you told me that first, I was just kind of blown away. I know you ride I mean Bryce rides a lot, right? And so that’s why he’s kind of a perfect person to help help us walk through as we compare. Obviously, you haven’t had enough time to put that many miles on the AM flow, but you have put several hundred miles on it, right? Yep. So, oh, with with that being said, take us through what you think cuz there are some key differences in the spec. Um, take us through what what you think are the most kind of the biggest differentiators between the two. Absolutely. One of the things that that I found that was really fun to do with the Specialized bike is is you can I’ve got the range extender for that bike and you can ride it with the range extender only which drops a significant amount of weight. It reduces the power um but essentially you’re able to ride like an SL weight type of bike which has been which has been fun to do. You can’t do that on the Ampl. Um Specialized does have a new battery coming out. Um they they launched it saying there was going to be a 600 watt battery option. It’s supposed to be coming out at the end of this year within the next few months. Um, so I’m interested to try that to see how that affects the handling of the bike as well. Um, but other than that on the the differences in the spec really come down to a few a few key things. The first one is being the suspension. The the Specialized has that genie shock which is absolutely phenomenal. uh like unlike anything else that I’ve ridden uh to this point. And then of course on the on the fork, you’ve got a 38 on the Specialized versus a 36. And I find that those two things make a bigger difference in how the bike handles and rides more than most of the other things that we’re going to talk about. So So it’s definitely a more beefy burly build on the bike. And that Genie Shock is unique to Specialized, right? Like you can’t get it outside of Specialized. Right. Right. Yeah. And it’s very tunable and customizable. So depending on your your terrain and your weight and and and how you ride, like you can really tune that to to your liking, which is really cool. And so on the suspension for the Anflow then, walk us through your thoughts on that because again, it is it’s the Fox 36. It’s a little different setup, right? So the 36, this is the newer version of the newest version of the Fox 36, which is quite a bit stiffer than the outgoing version. And then the DPX uh shock in the back works really well. It’s more of a trail shock than an enduro shock, but it does give you kind of a a springy uh lively ride feel to that bike, which again, I think tends to define how the bike rides. Yeah. And that’s I mean, when I’ve ridden it, that was actually one of the big standouts is I mean that the bike just did feel lively, felt poppy, felt just really fun to ride. Which actually brings us to a spec that we didn’t bring up and we probably should have started with weight, right? I mean, that’s going to be a huge differentiator here on that. So, what what’s the weight difference? Yeah, weight difference is roughly 5 lbs. Now, that’s not stock. What I did different on my Levo is uh it comes with their downhill casing tires. Um, I swapped those out to their grid trail tires. um it dropped a significant amount of weight, but then I added a an insert in the rear in the rear wheel. Um the overall weight with the insert uh still is less than than the than the initial weight. So roughly we’re talking about 45 lbs on the Anflow and roughly about 50 lb on my Levo. 50 lb on your Levo because you did that. But out of stock, the Levo’s just over 52 lb, right? Correct. So stock out of the gate, there’s about a 7ish lb difference between the two. And for me, I I definitely kind of feel the difference in the weight. I I mean, the Levo feels incredibly light on the trail, but the Anvil just feels a little bit lighter. Absolutely. And I do know I do notice it as well as I’m lifting it. Again, I’m an old guy, right? Um as I’m lifting it up, you do feel it feel it less on the trail, but it still is a pretty big difference. And it’s the Anflow for me feels more like an SL bike with all the power. Yep. Yeah. The other thing uh that I feel like affects the ride quality on these on these bikes is the Levo comes as a mixed wheel setup and the Amplow comes standard with a 29iner front and rear. Um I was able to swap out the rear wheel on the Aflow to a 275 and I noticed a a drastic improvement in cornering and handling and just kind of the overall ride feel. It almost felt like the the the bike would felt a little stiffer, a little a little more uh confident interesting in corners and just kind of overall it just I I So you would get in and put it into a mullet setup. I mean, you love the mullet setup. That’s that’s your favorite anyway, so you’re probably a little biased there. Um I did talk to Anflow and asked if they are going to be selling it in a 275 and as of right now, they’re not. Um, so you would have to swap that out. Um, so definitely an extra step, but it is I’d actually say it is pretty cool that you can swap it out and run both. Yeah. So I mean because there are people that prefer 29 front and rear and for those people, you know, Danflow is cuz you can’t really do that on the Specialized, right? Right. You can’t run a 29iner. I know there are people out there in forums that are doing it and have done it, but Specializ is is saying don’t do it. Yeah. Um, okay. So, covered the suspension, covered the weight. Um, drivetrain, uh, drivetrain on both of those are the the top-of-the-line uh, Stram transmission, and they’ve been absolutely outstanding. Uh, with, just as a side note, with the Stram drivetrain, I know uh, in the ebike world, people talk about how much ebikes chew up drivetrains. the new transmission. Uh I’ve put over 3,500 miles on on that on that drivetrain. Didn’t change the chain or the cassette until last week. Um and you ride hard. Just just so you guys know, a lot of bikes that we bring in, I mean, Bryce really rides them hard. So this is not a you know, we take it on everything down and it’s very chunky here in St. George. So, I mean, you have a lot of times where you’re putting a lot of stress on that chain. Yeah. Not and not only on the chain, but if you look closely at the derailure, you can’t even I mean, it’s so scraped up and bashed and everything. And it has been working absolutely flawless. I mean, can’t say enough good about that. And so, between the two, it’s kind of sixes, right? Like basically the same on the drivetrain specwise um and performance-wise. you had an interesting comment that I think would be again this isn’t part of the comparison part but in terms of about the drivetrain uh you know these bikes are the topline bikes they come with the XX or the the highest end cassette which actually in those lower cogs has a softer metal it’s an alloy versus if you go to the GX cassette uh those bottom cogs are steel and will actually end up lasting longer. Um, just as a side note, moving forward, I would absolutely recommend getting that lower end. You’re not going to notice the the few hundred grams difference. I think it’s maybe a couple hundred between the GX and the uh or excuse me, that that top end uh cassette versus one down. Um, and it will last even longer. And the chains also that Stram is is putting out with the transmission are lasting just as long. You don’t there’s no need to switch out multiple chains per cassette. So, just as a side note, this is fantastic all the way on drivetrain. Um, next, what would you say? I think I think there’s a big enough difference in the brakes to talk about that, too. Yeah, ShraMM uh has released those Maven brakes and they are absolutely phenomenal. Every time I get on a bike that doesn’t have Mavens, I wish it had Mavens. I know there’s lots of people that talk about bleeding issues or that they’re too powerful or whatever. Um, I have had nothing, you know, but they’re phenomenal but but great experience with those brakes. They just make the bike feel light on your hands. Um, with all the power that you need. Now, the the Amplow comes with the MT7 from Mura, which is a phenomenal brake. Um, it just doesn’t have the same amount of power. Yeah. At the end of the day, so when you’re coming down into something really fast and you really need to slow down quick, it’s you got to pull harder on those MT7s. like it’s just what it is. It’s a great brake. It’s just not quite as good. Yeah, I I would give the edge to the Leo on here. Agree. On the on this one. Again, you’ve got the price difference that leads probably to some of that. Um and I I would also assume some of the weight difference a little bit in the brakes. The Muras feel a lot lighter on that. Yeah. Um what else on the difference of of the bikes do you think would be important to highlight? Um, I did feel like the the Aflow the Amph the bike that we have is a size large and I felt like it felt a little big. I I don’t know what to attribute that to. I just felt a little more stretched out than on some of the other large bikes that we’ve had. Um, I would have liked to have tried maybe a higher rise bar. Uh, which the the Levo does have a little bit higher rise. Uh, and and I’m not sure where the stack height comes in, but I think it’s a little bit lower stack. So maybe a higherrise bar or or you know an increase in that front end might make that fit for you personally. But those are things that you could change easily. And I would also point out that that’s very personal. Like I actually that ano fit me perfectly, right? Like I’m generally just a straight up size large. You’re kind of a medium/l large but prefer the medium. Yep. And so that could have been kind of what that is where the Levo get full power ebikes. I prefer to size down with that additional weight provides the stability that a bigger bike usually does. But when you size down a little bit, it for me makes the bike feel a little more lively and playable. And but again, so just take that into account with whichever bike you’re buying in terms of what size you want to get for you personally. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So now we are on to the motor headto-head comparison. The Ampl PLC Carbon Pro comes with the Avanox M1, which has 105 Nm of torque with a special boost button mode up to 100 new m of torque with a peak wattage of 1,000 watts. The Specialized, on the other hand, comes with their 3.1 motor, which has 111 Nm of torque. The lower models have 101 and 720 W of peak power. The Ampl has an 800 watt integrated battery, so you can’t I mean, I guess you can remove it if you drop the motor and take it out. That’s hard. They’re not going to recommend that. The Specialized, on the other hand, has an 840Wh battery, but you can remove it and connects to that really cool SWAT system, etc. So, removable, slightly bigger on the on the Specialized, more wattage, and technically more torque on the on the Avenox system. Um, chargers wise, they’re both 12 amp fast chargers, which is just they charge these things crazy fast. It is awesome. The Amplow though is about half the size of the Specializ. You can put it in your backpack easily and carry it. Whereas on the Specializ, I wouldn’t want to carry that one. Yeah. Um, but either way, like first time I saw the Specialized one, I was like, that is awesome. So, this is great um how fast you’re able to charge those bikes up. So, that’s the specs. Bryce, walk us through kind of what you found in terms of, you know, how that how that translates to the trail. Yeah. So, I think the first thing, um, I just found overall the Avanox motor to be more fun. Like, yes, they’re comparable with new meters and they’re they’re comparable with watts, but just overall the Aflow just felt uh more uh more controllable power and and more power. So, when you’re riding uphill, it was more fun to ride than the Specialized. It just was like it is more flow in more trails than the Specialized motor. So, I really like almost like they meant to name it that way. All mountain flow. Yeah. So, um overall though, the other thing I think that contributes uh to to this system as a whole is how they look like that. I I just think Avanox Ampla, they nailed it. the the motor is small. It’s inconspicuous. Um in comparison to to the Levo motor. Um the battery also in the Levo, it is removable, but it’s quite a bit bigger in that down tube than than than the than the Amplow. And the other thing for me that makes a difference in these motors, it’s how they sound when you’re out on the trail. I I sometimes like to listen to music or something while I’m riding, but a lot of times I just don’t like to listen to anything. And quite frankly, the Avanox motor just fades into the background. can’t hear it nearly the same way that you can on the Levo motor. So yeah, I mean it looks better, it sounds better, it rides better. Like overall I I really preferred that that Avenox system. I also preferred the uh the display and you know that it’s touchscreen and you can get to all those things over the specialized which is a nice really nice display but you’ve got that you know the control on the handlebar to get to to all the settings. So, and that the touch display on the Aflow I found to just be incredibly sensitive and just work great with gloves, with my hand, like it just it did a really good job. Um, and just all the data and just everything that you can get on that is is just fantastic. Yep. Yeah. Um, with the with this with with the screens on the bikes, was there any big differences that you noticed in terms of what you can adjust or the data that it gives you? Um, the one thing that uh that I noticed and maybe you can change this. I I did like on the Levo uh when you’re you see your ride data like it didn’t show uh meters or feet climbed within the ride. M uh I think you can maybe program that, but uh but the Amplow it just showed you ride distance and ride time and whatnot, but it didn’t show how much you’ve climbed or descended. Whereas on the Levo, it did show that on the screen, uh which was which was kind of nice. But, uh I did like the size of the Amlow screen better than the Specialized. And I think the responsiveness of it as well, again, touchcreen versus the buttons, yeah, was kind of a big deal, which you already mentioned. Um, and the thing that I would add to the motor is I I kind of want to highlight more what Bryce said about it being controlled. When I when I’m looking at bikes and people are asking me, “Hey, which bike should I buy?” I always ask them kind of, “Okay, where are you at? Are you beginner, intermediate, pro?” And I found myself actually being able to recommend the the Amplow to beginners more so than almost any other bike I’ve you know other than like maybe actually more than any other bike that I’ve that I’ve ridden even the SL bikes because of how controllable that motor is. So for example if my wife is going on a ride with me she doesn’t want to ride my pivot because it has the Bosch race motor. It’s just a little too peppy and like little jerky for her. Whereas this one, the Aflow, I can actually dial that down and it can be so controlled and the lightness of the bike, which is big part of that is the motor and the battery just makes her feel much more comfortable. But at the same time, as someone gets better and progresses up, like more intermediate, high intermediate where you are, you still freaking love it. So, it’s just it’s a it’s a motor that can grow with you, be tuned down, be tuned up, and is just I I attribute that a lot to the sensors that they have back on that speed ring where there’s a 40 there’s a speed ring with kind of 42 not teeth, but kind of openings that just give 42 inputs every time the wheel turns around versus the one for the Specialized. So, the system in general is just collecting a little more data, and they’re able to turn that into just more responsive, more controlled, and just frankly just fantastic. Yep. Yeah. The limiting factor uh in what these bikes can do is absolutely the rider, not the motor. And I felt like uh that Avanox motor, even though it felt more powerful in every scenario, it was not less controllable. In fact, yeah, I I was the limiting factor there with anything I tried to climb on that bike. There wasn’t one over the other. And would you say that, you know, that’s more a function of the torque or would you say that’s the watts? I I don’t know which one it is. Uh but but I but I do know it was it was very much something I could control with the power that I put in through my legs. Yeah. So, it kind of feels like to me it’s it’s the extra wattage that you can get out of it cuz I haven’t found anything too steep that these can’t climb. Like once you get to 100, my personal opinion is once you get to 100 new m of torque, you’re great. Again, I’m not I’m not good enough on the engineering side of things to like, so I might be wrong here. This is just my experience. But when it comes to just kind of speed and like ultimate power, like the wattage going to 800 versus the the 720 just did make a pretty big difference for me. Yep. The other thing that I really liked about the Amplow motor was the auto mode. Um, on the Specialized, it almost feels like it takes a couple of of cranks for the auto mode to to engage, whereas the Amplow uh the auto mode riding in that uh in that setting uh was was more natural. Yeah, I I actually found the same. I I really liked the auto mode on the Specialized, but I did find the Amplow just to be a little more kind of better predicting what I wanted. Yep. Um, and as in terms of riding an eco turbo, you know, trail turbo, I kind of almost felt like the Aflow turbo could be tuned down a little bit for sure. Sand Trail, too. Like they just both felt very peppy. But the Eco actually I wanted to tune up. I don’t know if you found if you felt the same way, which was one of the great things about that that screen and that system. You’re able to tune it pretty easily. Um, one of the other things that I found was phenomenal about the Ampl, excuse me, the Avanox system is that, uh, while you’re coasting, you can shift. Yes. So, if you’re coming down a hill and you, you know, you’ve got like an incline, you can hit those gears, you know, 3, four, five, without moving your feet, it’ll spin the chain and you’re in the right gear when you need to be. And and and same thing, you know, if you’re if you’re coming up to something where uh you’re dropping in and you were in a high gear and now you’re coasting and you know you’re going to need to put in a a pedal a crank real quick. You can shift to that gear and you’re right there ready to go. Um so you can’t do that on the specialized bike. The other thing that’s really nice is maybe you’re stopped on the side of a trail and you were, you know, in your uh 11 or 12 gear and you’re going to be starting out again. want one or two. All you have to do is click the button on your shifter, lift up the bike, and it will spin the wheel and get in that in that uh gear, which Levo, you have to kind of do that and put it in walk mode, right? Or turn the cranks yourself. Y a huge deal, but it is really nice. It’s these little things that that make that system stand out. Yeah. I I think bottom line for us, what we found if we’re going like pure headto-head on motor, we’d have to give give that to the Avenox. And again, that’s it’s actually not taking anything away from what Specialized did with their motor cuz this is just fantastic. I mean, we’re really at just a time where so many good motors, but again, head-to-head just it does edge out the Specialized. Absolutely. [Music] Okay, now that we’ve talked about specs, the motor, let’s talk about just riding the bike and kind of combining all of these elements, right? Um, before we do that, I do want to highlight a couple differences in the geometry because it affects the riding a bit. Um, so wheel size we already talked about, it’s 2929 out of the gate on the Envelope. You can’t switch it to mullet. The Specialized comes in a mullet set of 29x 27.5. The reach is slightly shorter on the Anflow. And I’m comparing this against the S4 Specialized Levo. So, just keep in mind that. So, the reach on the Anflow is 475 mm. The reach on the Specialized is 480 mm. So, 5 mm longer on the reach. Stack height on the Aflow, it’s 628 mm. The Levo is 638 mm. So, a little lower stack height there. The head tube angle, which is actually interesting, they both come at 64.5. The Levo, though, is quite a bit quite a bit more adjustable. You can adjust it down 1.8° to 63.5, or you can adjust it up 1.4° to 65.9. Um, chain stays, the Anflow is 445 out of the gate. So, 10 mm longer than the Specialized at 435. But again, the Specialized is more adjustable where you can adjust it shorter by 2 millime or longer by 11 millime. So you actually have a range of 433 mm to 447 mm. So you really can fine-tune depending on you and what you like a little more on the Levo than you can on the Aflow. The other two things that I want to bring up are wheelbase almost identical 1255 on the Ampflow 1254 on the Specialized and then the crank it is shorter on the on the Ampflow at 155 mm versus 160s. So that’s I mean there’s more differences but those are kind of the big ones that stand out to me. So Bryce, how do how do you feel you know taking that into consideration? How do you feel the Aflow rides? How do you feel the Levo rides? Yeah, let’s start with the Amplow because when I first got on there, um I set all the pressures at the recommended uh uh settings and and it just felt pretty stiff, a little bit too stiff. And so I ended up making some adjustments there, rolling the bars a little bit, adjusting the seat, you know, and then lowering some of the pressures. So, even though the Amplow does have a little bit higher bottom bracket, once I lowered the pressures to make it feel a little better on most of the terrain we ride, I ended up uh having a couple more pedal strikes on that even though it’s got shorter crank arms. Um, but that was just again kind of personal preference. I just would like to have it a little bit softer. Um, overall, the Amlow just felt really fun. Like it was just a really fun, lively bike. um like if you were to jump on a short travel 29iner or a trail bike, it it has that same lively fun feeling. Um but then when I got it on some of the steeper, rockier, looser terrain, it felt a little bit more twitchy, not quite as confidence inspiring. Um and and I quite frankly was just a little bit more cautious and and would go slower in a lot of those a lot of kind of like you would on any trail bike. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Eventually, that’s kind of what it came down to is I just was like, “This really just feels like an all- mountain trail bike.” Um, whereas when you jump over to the Levo, you get on it and initially it just feels comfortable. That uh geometry you talked about the stack height, that front end being raised up a little bit more. When you point that thing downhill, it just lends to confidence. It also is a little bit heavier. So you I I don’t know if that’s why, but when I when I go on a really fun, fast uh chunky downhill section of trail, the Levo just goes. I mean, it just it has your back. Like if you hit a line wrong, you can It makes up for mistakes and it just inspires confidence both jumping, uh cornering, um fast, chunky downhill. So overall, the Levo just felt to me more like an enduro bike. Like most enduro bikes uh are fun on that type of terrain. Uh so as I kind of went back and forth between the two bikes, it was really hard to say, “Well, I like this one better than the other one because they shined in different areas.” Yeah. And again, kind of going back to where you go back to back and I’d call you up and say, “Hey, what do you think?” And you, “Oh, I want the I want to keep the le.” “Oh, no. I want the AMF flow.” Um, you know, to me, I just think that shows how good Ampho has done. I mean, Specialized has always been kind of the leader in the EMTB section, right? And and this bike is absolutely phenomenal. Like, it just I would agree pointed downhill. There’s just something I mean, and I actually do attribute some of that weight, you know, to the fact that it just does feel a little more comfortable. Can’t flow. It can’t throw the bike around as much as the Anflow. Both are crazy fun. And the fact that, you know, Bryce who’s put 3,500 miles on this bike on the Levo, right? That’s a lot of miles. And generally, as you kind of ride a bike more, you kind of just get accustomed to that. And so, you jump on another bike, you you probably just don’t like it at the start. The fact that Bryce liked it as much as he did and flipped back and forth, I think just speaks volumes into just how they have dialed in the geometry really well. How the motor is just fantastic and kind of next level and just overall they did a really good job. Absolutely. And Specializ did a great job. Just slightly different applications depending on your writing style. [Music] Okay, so now we’re to the end, the summary. So, if you’ve stuck around with us that this long, thank you. We really appreciate it. Um, the winner, you know, I I don’t think that there’s a clear winner between these two bikes. They’re just slightly different bikes. They’re bikes that if you’re lucky enough to have one in your garage, you’re going to have a smile on your face and it’s awesome. But that being said, Bryce, who do you think the Amplow is for? Like just a little better suited for. And who do you think the Levo is a little better suited for? Yeah, I think the the Amplow is really better for someone who rides mellower terrain. Having said that, you can take it pretty much anywhere and there’s videos all over YouTube with guys riding this in Whistler and like all over the place. Um, so again, rider dependent. Um, but for me it that bike was more fun on flatter and flowier trails, whereas the Levo was more fun on steeper, more technical trails uh in our area. Um, I was able to take that that bike to a few different regions as well, both uh in Northern Utah as well as in Southern California, and it was an absolute blast in both of those those areas as well. Um, if I were to to to pick one, money being no object, I would pick the Levo. uh out of the box. So, if you got the 15 grand in your pocket, it’s better over out of the box, it’s for me and what I like to ride and how I like to ride it was it’s the better bike. Having said that, um if it was my money that I was spending today, I would buy the Amlow and I would change the shock and the fork and the bars. So, what would you change? What would you change to? I would put a 38 on the on the fork. I would put uh Well, the shock, maybe a coil. Um, but play around with that. The other thing I would also change is the rear wheel. I’d put a 275 rear wheel on it. And then I would get a set of bars that were a 35 or 40 mil rise bar. So, you you’re going to increase the weight a little bit, but it’s still probably going to come in a little bit lighter than the Levo. Um, but then you have the motor, right? Okay. So, for me, I I actually would echo everything that Bryce said. I would, me personally, I’d be a little bit different. I would pick the Anflow out of the gate. Money being no option, money being an option. And for me, it comes down just to the motor system. Kind of that heart of the bike. I just love it. It just it’s just how I would describe it is the motor of the Avanox is kind of like one step, just a half a step better than everybody else. The geometry and the feel of the bike feels kind of like a Gen 3 Levo or an Orbeea Rise, which are fantastic bikes and I love those bikes. And so while the Specializ might be a half step ahead on the geometry, that motor is just for me just the biggest the biggest point. I love the bike and even when I was taking it down steep stuff, chunky stuff, it was great for me. Um over time, if I was getting to the point of, you know, do I want to upgrade this or that, I might do that. Um but out of the box, I just think the the Amplow really was was my pick. Um, and I’m just kind of overall again, it’s no clear winner. Kind of depends on what you want. I hope this kind of helped you see that a little bit more. If you have questions or specific scenario questions to you, put those down in the comments. We’ll jump in and do our best to answer those. Um, but we’re just excited in general for where the EMTB space is going. There’s a lot of debate on the watt the wattage, you know, 1000 watt, 750, etc. That’s all going to play out, we think, in the end. But you have a lot of fantastic options. And I also love how Anflow is coming in at a lower price. 10 10 GS is still 10 G’s. It’s a lot, but it is less than than a lot of others. So, in the end, again, I think you’re just going to have a ton of fun. Um, anything else that you think you’d want to bring up? No, I would just say just a great time to be in this space. Super fun. manufacturers are pushing uh the limits of what you can do, what you can include in these bikes and and we are the recipients of of of them pushing the limits and it’s just it just keeps getting better and better. Yeah, it it it’s a great time to do what we’re doing is what I would say. So, with that being said, we appreciate you sticking around with us. Please leave any questions or comments down below and make sure you know if you’re not a subscriber, please sub subscribe. that really does help us out and hit that bell so you get notifications whenever we put out a new video. So, with Electric Bike Report, I’m Justin. I’m Bryce. And we’ll catch you on the trail next time. [Music]
See the Amflow PL Carbon Pro review here: https://electricbikereport.com/amflow-pl-carbon-pro-review/
See the Specialized Turbo Levo S-Works review here: https://electricbikereport.com/specialized-turbo-levo-4-review/
In this video, we go head-to-head with two of the most discussed eMTBs of the year: The Amflow PL Carbon Pro vs Specialized’s S-Works Turbo Levo 4.
In a year with many new product drops, the latest Gen 4 Levo and the Stateside arrival of Amflow’s PL Carbon helped usher in a new era of powerful motors. Both the Avinox M1 and Specialized 3.1 motor produce high amounts of torque and watts, with some fantastic control.
The bikes aren’t just about the motor, though. Both of these are premium builds with impressive suspension, great geo, and excellent features like wireless shifting, detailed app experiences and more.
Watch as Bryce and Justin compare where each bike excels and where one gains an edge.
#specialized #amflow #emtb #amflowvsturbolevo
00:00 – Intro
00:44 – Overview
03:18 – Tech Specs
14:10 – Motor
24:08 – Ride Quality
30:07 – Conclusion
