Video: The Commencal Meta Power Now Available With Bosch Motor

May 15, 2023
by COMMENCAL BIKES & SKIS  
PRESS RELEASE: Commencal


We like to offer you the best, but we also like to let you choose what suits you the most. Following that logic, our trail and enduro e-bike frames are evolving to accommodate the most efficient engine on the market.

The META POWER TR and META POWER SX are now available with the latest Bosch Performance CX Smart System assistance. Renowned for its efficiency, all you need to do is choose your favourite model.

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POWER AND CONTROL
Powerful and dynamic, the Bosch Performance CX motor is designed to push the limits of your mountain bike. The system provides torque at any cadence and the maximum power output is impressive. The Extended Boost function is a bonus, and that excels on technical climbs. Assistance is constant and the handling responsive. These are all key points to having maximum fun on the trails.

In 2022, the Bosch system featured on six out of a possible ten Enduro World Series winning bikes. Choosing such a component for our bikes was obvious.


FOUR DISTINCT MODES
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ECO for maximum range.
TOUR + regulates assistance with the power of the rider for a natural feel.
eMTB specific, in line with the rider’s cadence + Extended Boost.
TURBO delivers maximum power and torque.

EBIKE FLOW APP
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The eBike Flow app allows you to record and track your rides, configure the different modes, and perform updates from your smartphone. If necessary, it can even replace the control screen.


POWERTUBE BATTERY
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The META POWER BOSCH is equipped with an integrated PowerTube 625Wh battery. It empties consistently over time so there’s no surprise draining. Energy management is optimized for increased battery life*.

*As an indication, behind the bars of a META POWER SX in eMTB mode, you can consider covering around 40km for 1300m+. With the META POWER TR in ECO mode, that would increase to 90km depending on some external factors. To better assess the range before you ride, we advise using the Bosch Range Assistant.

SYSTEM CONTROLLER & MINI REMOTE
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The System Controller interface is integrated into the top tube and displays info of the remaining range and the assistance mode in use. Along with the Mini Remote Bluetooth control, it makes a minimalist-look cockpit without any cables. As an extra option, combine it with Smart System components such as a Kiox screen or the Smartphone Grip support.


EXTENDED BOOST

Extended Boost is designed to help on technical climbs by keeping the assistance active for an additional half a second after the last pedal stroke. When you get stuck or hesitate it kicks in to help.

HILL HOLD
The Hill Hold function prevents the bike from rolling backwards in Smart Walk Assistance mode.

META POWER TR

The META POWER TR is for those who love to enjoy their ride. With 140mm of rear travel it’s easy to tame yet also forgiving: a lively and playful bike. When pedalling, the excellent geometry of all our TR models is a definite advantage and with a straighter seat tube and a long front end, the rider is ideally positioned between the two-wheel axles. Clearance capacity is also increased tenfold. The 29-inch wheels make tackling the most technical climbs easy. This is the bike for those who like long rides and then letting off the brakes on the way downhill.

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META POWER SX

The META POWER SX is our ideal shuttle bike! It’s made to accompany you from your local spot in the woods to a bike park holiday in the mountains. With 165mm travel and a mullet (29″/27.5″) wheel dynamic, it is ultra-precise, easy to move and super capable of riding the steepest, most technical terrain. Business at the front, party at the back!

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HOW TO CHOOSE

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RANGE

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COMMENCAL META POWER SX BOSCH SIGNATURE PURE WHITE

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COMMENCAL META POWER TR BOSCH OHLINS EDITION AQUA BLUE

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COMMENCAL META POWER SX BOSCH SIGNATURE LIGHT PURPLE / BLACK

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COMMENCAL META POWER SX BOSCH RACE CHALK

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COMMENCAL META POWER SX BOSCH ESSENTIAL 70´S GREEN





The bike is available for pre-order now. Prices from $5,300 up to $8,000.

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81 Comments
  • 80 14
 Perhaps one exists already, but if not, could PB do a piece on the cradle-to-grave life of an e-bike? I'm curious to see/know where all of these batteries and electronics are ending up, once they've reached end of life? Should manufacturers have a responsibility to accept them back for safe disposal/recycling?
The successful retirement/recycling of an older bike should be just as celebrated as the purchase of a new one. This would ease my conscience a bit more, but until then, I'm hesitant to add more stuff to a bike that may potentially just end up in a landfill.
  • 19 1
 Batteries don't end up in a landfill, for sure not. There is too mach valuble material in there.
But you have a valid point, that needs to be adressed. Recycling of batteries should be mandatory. Companies selling ebikes, should be forced to take back batteries, and offer something for it. (Reductions, money, etc.)
  • 3 0
 Many companies are part of a battery recycling program (www.hungryforbatteries.org) that People for Bikes has backed. That said, I think its a US based program and don't really know how most people are supposed to know how to get them recycled, which basically leads back to your point.
  • 37 3
 dude, google it. Every ebike and battery company has recycle info on the battery, manual, and website. in most states its illegal to throw away car, marine, and ebike batteries. and theres about 10 billion car batteries out there so worry about that instead
  • 17 2
 I thought we were just supposed to throw our car batteries into the ocean?
  • 39 1
 The batteries end up in the ocean to charge the electric eels, as they should.
  • 12 2
 I bury them in the forest once depleted and beyond life. I call it the circular economy, from the earth is the life-giving power, and to the earth it returns. Alternatively, my friends throw them in a fire, ashes to ashes and all that.
  • 6 4
 The other thing I’d love for these companies to announce alongside a bike launch is how long they intend to support the battery. If I’m paying this much for a bike and in 3-years I won’t be able to source a replacement battery it’s an even worse value proposition. Batteries are a wear item and after 3-years will have degraded to 60% of their new capacity and often times are unavailable for purchase due to evolution/planned-obsolescence.
  • 3 0
 @thustlewhumber: One of the most important issue of our times, covered up in mis and dis information is that our dolphins are at threat through lack of critical minerals causing their beaks to collapse and appear like had a stroke through facial paralysis.

Throwing expired batteries full of these elements, like salt licks of the seas is an important first step.
  • 3 1
 @bbachmei: And rightfully so. Climate change has made lightning 30% less energy effective, why just the other day it was proved that lightning had diminished its ability to create forest fires by 26% since 2007. With all that reduction in energy entering our seas, its easy to see how electric eels are at risk.
  • 1 0
 its already against the law to throw a big lithium ion battery in the garbage since they cause fires when pierced, if not the bike shop then there are many places that will accept batteries to be recycled for free
  • 4 1
 How much of the cradle part do you want to know? I will venture to guess many of us can not handle where it all really starts to manufacture a battery.
  • 1 0
 northvolt.com
  • 1 0
 @tsn73: I figured that would be the case on the ebike I use as a winter bike and commuter, with a Shimano ep6 motor and ~450wh battery. But i'm 3 full years in and 5000km and it's definitely still 85-90% of the original capacity. Maybe they're not all like this, but i've been very impressed with the shimano battery.
  • 1 0
 @slayerdegnar: good point about the car batteries
  • 2 1
 @matt721: What about millions of vibrators' batteries; where do they end?
  • 3 0
 @danstonQ: like @FoesKnows said. Buried in a hole.
  • 1 1
 @tsn73: totally. I’d much rather there was a universal set of ebike battery and motor standards than have marginal gains from ever so slightly different configurations.

That way batteries would be interchangeable between brands, 3rd parties could more easily produce alternate batteries and motors and the incentive for reuse and repair would increase.

I’d love to see PinkBike put its considerable industry weight behind something like this, it’s something practical the industry could do to lessen the damage it does. @brianpark how about it?
  • 31 6
 Dual-crown the shuttle version. High-pivot it too.

I'm not sold on these until they are DH bikes that cruise up the hill. I'm not going to use a 40+ lb bike to just jib around some boring ass trails, I want a track-slaying DH bike that turns the local pirate trails into a bike park sans lift.
  • 4 0
 Exactly
  • 5 0
 I love all my E bikes, but would love to see this done as well. Husqvarna haibike and specialized have all done dual crown, but I have yet to see the high pivot and 200mm of travel.
  • 3 0
 Yup..where the heck are the DC compatible bikes? There's like 2-3..
  • 5 1
 Bro, you are a true trail slayer and these requests are prognarcore. May the wizards and trail lords grant your request!
  • 7 0
 Pole’s ebike is pretty close in terms of travel with 190mm front and rear. I’ve seen people running a dual crown on it as well.
  • 2 1
 Having ridden the Haibike XDuro, it's honestly not that much fun. The bigger bike is harder to handle on tighter forest trails, whips get really difficult, and the dh high front end sucks for climbing anything but a smooth fireroad. Modern 180 mm bikes are more than enough for dh smashing. Shorter chainstays also make lifting the front easier with the extra weight. Personally, Im not buying any major brand till I see hot pluggable batteries of variable size.
  • 1 3
 The "shuttle version" of... an e-bike. There's something wrong in your sentence. Do you put your car on a truck to climb the hills?
  • 16 1
 Bosch is the best so this makes sense
  • 1 0
 META power BETA power BOSCH
  • 1 4
 Bafang is the best if you go by raw performance.
  • 5 0
 Had a Bosch Cx on a old Cannondale Moterra that bike was super reliable and the battery better than some newer bikes. If I were to buy another ebike it would have to have the Bosch. Love this Meta look oks amazing.
  • 7 0
 It's time for Milwaukee to step into the game!
  • 2 0
 Agreed. There are still too many Hercules brand Harbor Freight coal-burners in the EEB game causing house fires.
  • 7 0
 New meta AM with Bosch and 750WH and im sold
  • 3 2
 I tend to agree. It’s disappointing to see that these bikes have the smaller battery. It’s not 2019 anymore!
  • 3 0
 @sngltrkmnd: Bosch I very efficient. 625 battery is much lighter than 800 from Yamaha and 900 from Shimano but I got exactly the same horizontal and vertical range from Bosch with 625 battery, Giant with 800 and Norco with 900. If you are around 80-84kg you will get around 2000 vertical meters from all those systems with around 75% of max support.
  • 2 0
 @goroncy: perhaps I had an older battery but only managed 36km/1500m and 2hrs or so on a Bosch CX with 625WH. We were racing each other up the climbs though as it's such a fun motor/control set up.
  • 2 0
 Damn, they're not getting cheaper. My '21 Meta Power equipped with Zeb and Deluxe Ultimate and Code RSC cost me a hefty 7300€, but the equivalent here (with TRP brakes) would now be around 8000€.
Now for close to 6000€ you get a RS 35 Gold...
  • 1 0
 My 2018 one came equipped way better than the entry level 2023 for €4500!

Domain and SX on a 6k aluminium bike is pretty weak, there definitely better value out there even now.

Great looking and sorted geo though.
  • 4 0
 yes, gone are the old days of $4k commy ebikes
  • 2 0
 @slayerdegnar: Husky, Vitus, YT all under $5K tho.
  • 3 2
 Ive rode Commencal Ebikes with the EP8 and really enjoyed them. I'm probably going to get my first ebike this year and was excited to see this until I read about the smaller battery. The 625 is a hard no. Why no 750?
  • 4 0
 I find 625 with Bosch is a great middle ground between less weight and capacity for longer rides. It works for 9/10 rides for me. To each their own and if you’re regularly doing 5 hour rides, then the 750 is the answer. Cheers!
  • 2 0
 Not sure of actually efficiency, but I would guess that the Bosch motor operates more so than a Shimano. They've been in the motor game significantly longer. 20% more efficient likely not, but i bet they end up being pretty close. Bosch does offer a 500w range extender on those bikes that have the correct mounts.
  • 5 1
 625 is pleeeenty
  • 2 6
flag ryanandrewrogers FL (May 15, 2023 at 12:49) (Below Threshold)
 Dunno about 625s and 750s, seems excessive. A good ol' two-smokin' 250 will get you further anyway 2 cents
  • 1 0
 @creed27: nope not even close they should have the option of 720-750 and then spacer to 625
  • 2 1
 @PhoS: no it is not
  • 1 0
 @norona: Get a 2nd one?
  • 2 0
 @PhoS: on big epics we do in pemby squmish and whistler you need 1000-1100 so i have 2 720 watt hr, it is true most rides i do daily are 720 but you need a second if you want to go hard and go high...or at least i do.
  • 3 0
 For this reason - the 630W max battery for EP8 bikes - Shimano is a non-starter for me. I’ve ridden every motor but the Bafang and the Bosch is my preferred method of propulsion. Bummed to see thought that these Metas don’t have the big batteries of the Trek bikes (750Wh) or Norcos (900Wh). Ah well, maybe next year, I can’t afford one right now anyhow.
  • 3 0
 @sngltrkmnd: I can attest that the 900wh battery is pretty damn awesome. Once the weight becomes normal feeling: Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
  • 2 0
 @partswhore: I agree. And the weight does feel normal to me now. I feel like I’ve stated this in a lot of recent comments but for riders over ~180#, who really wanna get in some miles/elevation, and live in mountainous areas, big battery/full power bikes are the way to go. Nice as the Trek EXe and Orbea Rises are, they just don’t have the deep well of electrons that one is gonna really want.

Also, my working assumption is 99% of the commenters who are dragging ebikes have never put any miles on them.
  • 2 0
 “Clearance capacity is also increased tenfold”

I would like to see the measured data point, of any kind, that has increased 1000% since the previous model
  • 4 1
 My washer and dryer are both Bosch and are good, therefore I will buy this
  • 1 0
 I have to say that these graphics that represent certain aspects of one bike confronted to another as a very smart move by Commencal. Decathlon could learn from this.
  • 1 0
 Finally they ditched Shimano and their horrible, horrible customer support and service. Those bastards burned me one too many times. All they care about is money
  • 2 1
 I'm torn.....I do love a Commencal bike but with a motor??? Could grow to love it I guess.
  • 2 0
 They just want to be able to use the Bosch race motor in the EDR.
  • 1 0
 Just tweak the frame a little, get rid of the motor and add a gearbox. Perfect
  • 1 1
 With all the water the normal meta let's into the frame through various unsealed holes, I can see this lasting all of 5 minutes
  • 2 0
 Incoming!!!
  • 20 19
 It's a moped.
Why don't they make a site called pinkebike.
I'll buy one when I'm 80.
You could buy a helicopter for that amount of money.
Why not just buy a Motocross bike.
Have I missed any?
  • 19 10
 @mcozzy:
Thats not a real bike
Ebikes ruin the trails
Ebike wankers
I'd rather die than ride an ebike
Ebikers are horrible people and I hope they all die of something bad
Ebikers are fat and lazy
Ebikes make it harder for kids to get into the sport......

Any more?

#allbikesmatter
  • 6 9
 @mcozzy: stop speaking.
  • 1 8
flag jrez70 (May 15, 2023 at 15:29) (Below Threshold)
 Get over it
  • 2 8
flag Saucycheese FL (May 15, 2023 at 16:33) (Below Threshold)
 @mcozzy: go.somewhere else to complain then
  • 5 7
 @mcozzy: I’d rather spoon with a leppar than go riding with you.
  • 1 0
 @barneyisourhero: I bet this guy has an ebike now
  • 1 1
 Hope Commencal doesn't pay too much for per word or picture, the add space for this has got to be spendy!
  • 4 4
 Offensive seat tube length for the short legged people.
  • 2 0
 The trails are being auditied to comply with social norms and standards to counter this. Also people over six feet have to use 150mm cranks to balance out historic genetic injustice and entitled bike operation.
  • 1 2
 Do sizes L and XL really have the same stack height?
  • 5 7
 No one cares, bring out the new Meta AM!
  • 1 2
 ebike go brrrrr
  • 1 4
 The Commencal Meta now available without battery power.
  • 1 4
 Hey comme why u pregnant?
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