It's all completely new, but it's really the same. The idea that you're using an ebike to "cheat" on your normal rides will vaporize as soon as you throw your leg over this one and realize there are no more normal rides. Instead of using all this tech to make your life easier, you'll find yourself looking for more. Just like the first riders to experiment with suspension sought out new terrain, you'll discover you're riding further, more often, and ending up just as exhausted. In other words, you don't ride because it's easy, you ride because it's fun. And this bike?--it's undeniably fun. The Heckler rides like the Santa Cruz that it is, deftly handling terrain that's out of reach for other 150mm travel bikes, mashing as easily as it flits. Truly. The Bronson's cousin from another dimension, the Heckler is a pure mountain bike. It just happens to also be an ebike.