ALTA EXR UPGRADE
ALTA EXR LICENSE

This is an advanced-yet-grassroots company filled with passionate motorcyclists. Our first stop on the Alta tour was their Bay area-based headquarters and manufacturing facility. Performance-wise, the EXR rivals gas-powered bikes and in some areas surpasses them. You should probably be pretty close to home when that happens. Alta claims this new R-Pack only starts losing performance during the last five percent of charge. But for averages sake, Alta claims around 50 miles of city-style commuting and somewhere in the 30 to 40-mile range of spirited trail riding, or four hours, whichever comes first.įinally, power drop-off is claimed as nearly non-existent as battery levels deplete. The Alta’s range depends on how many times the wheel spins, obviously, and we have more info on that down the story a bit.

ALTA EXR UPGRADE

Charging time gets an upgrade over previous packs with a 1.5-hour total charge time on 240V and around three hours on a standard 120v United States-style house plug. The new EXR also comes with Alta’s latest R-Pack battery system and the latest software/firmware to pump out 50 countershaft-counted horsepower and over 40 ft.-lbs. Already, this bike is much better equipped than any other dual-sport electric motorcycle in the history of my testing experience. WP Xplor forks replace arguably dismal 4CS units on previous models and the brakes are the Brembo kind. The Alta Redshift EXR comes with high-quality components familiar to Austrian bike owners. Plus, they’re also some of the best off-road bikes ever produced.

It works and the bikes in this class of dual-sport are quite literally all the rage these days. Build a race bike and race, build a street-legal dirt bike that looks like the race bike and ride. In fact, it’s a similar path the Austrian and Japanese manufacturers take on their way to consumers’ garages. It makes sense for Alta to go here if their bike can go the distance. Its gas-powered dual-sport counterparts from KTM, Husqvarna and soon-to-be Honda have been fueling a rare growing segment of motorcycle sales for a few years. Alta keeps their motorcycle looking, well, like motorcycles, but you can certainly tell that something is different. If this was a gas bike that’d be a win-win-win-win already. It also receives significant power updates from the 2018 EX off-road model and gets faster charging and a lower price.

ALTA EXR LICENSE

It shares the same soul as the MXR model you’ve seen and heard about but comes with a license to go as on or as off-grid as you wish. The all-new Alta Redshift EXR fills the dual-sport spot in Alta’s lineup of serious, some would say aggressive, race-focused machinery.

Surely this would be enough for us to answer some questions, right? Our test days consisted of urban commuting through the heart of San Francisco and a dirt rip in the mountains of Nevada City. So, when they offered to send us up to their headquarters to jump on the all-new 2019 Redshift EXR dual-sport model for a couple days, we took it in hopes of getting a real ownership-style experience.

We’ve been begging Alta for a chance to try a bike in real-world terms for months. Media rides, even ones we’ve reported on here in Cycle News, have been short, and ride time and range have been largely controlled by the company. Honestly, real-world testing of the Alta product line has been almost non-existent. But, is it a viable alternative to existing gas-powered, competition-inspired off-road machinery? Can it pull duty as an urban-transport alternative? Are its range and re-charging cycles capable of delivering a quality experience similar to tried and true gas-burning moto and off-road machines? Is it better than the electric motorcycles that have come before it?Ĭlick here to read this in the Cycle News Digital Edition Magazine. It’s truly unique and futuristic and trendy. But considering one for purchase comes with a wheelbarrow of questions about range, power, power character, ride quality, build quality and price tag. It inspires curiosity and instant thoughts of invisible, silent hooliganism. The Alta electric motorcycle is one of the most intriguing platforms to come into the high-performance off-road market in decades. We get a taste of some real-world dual sporting on Alta’s new Redshift EXR

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