GrizlNfly CF 7

It's more than what I want to spend now, but maybe in the future. Thinking this would be a fun bike to take on camping trips, group rides with friends, and fitness. I just wonder how technical of trails it could handle. It does tick off quite a few boxes. I wouldn't be able to enter any races...but I'm pretty much past all of that. Anybody have anything similar?

I operate under the N+1 formula. I suggest you do the same.

i guess i'm a crotchety purist, but outside of people with disabilities or something like that, I don't get the allure of e-bikes. I ride bikes b/c I like to ride/exercise.

My thought was I could hopefully keep up with my friends who have true road bikes and haul ass. But I also get the ability to ride trails and so forth when we go camping

I don't own an e-bike, and rolled my eyes at them a bit, especially e-mtbs. Then I rode a pivot shuttle during a LBS demo day and it was absolutely wild. I couldn't believe how agile it was for being 45 lbs or whatever. Over 1.5 hours, I got in 25 miles on a super rooty, flat and curvy trail. I didn't want to crash and get hit with a stupid bill, so I was babying it, but even with that, I got my HR up to 150-160 avg bpm, so it was a legit workout, just more miles. Walked away from the ride an absolute believer in pedal assist. Still don't have one and don't need one right now, but I'm not judging anyone who has one. It was stupidly fun to explode up short, punchy climbs.

To OPs original question, seems like a fun gravel e-bike. Good for getting a lot of miles on group rides where you're not the fittest in the group, but prolly overkill for putzing around a campground. Should handle some single track just fine, depending on how good you are at riding, and the biggest thing you can do to make it handle more is get wider tires. It comes with 45s and doesn't look like you can get too much bigger than that from a clearance perspective, but that ought to feel okay on a lot of gravel rides.

Biggest reason for me is it allows me to go on much longer rides. I live in CO and can spend 1.5-2 hours on my eMTB climbing 1500-2000ft of elevation, and have a blast going back down (instead of being totally exhausted going down).

Even when I'm not climbing that kind of elevation, I can ride much longer. And I've actually done a few comparisons where I ride my analog bike on the same trail as my e-bike on separate days, and there isn't that much difference in my average HR. But I feel way more wiped out after riding analog vs pedal assist.

I'm 41 and riding my eMTB reminds me of how I felt riding MTB in my 20s.

I don't think that bike would be great on technical trails but it looks like a fun bike for gravel and dirt trails. I've seen people riding road bikes on some pretty technical trails though so I guess it really depends on your skill level (i.e. ability to quickly steer around big roots and rocks, instead of going over them).

If you aren't good a bike handling, you don't want to take a drop bar bike on many trails, unless they are fire roads.