Girona is a cultural hub in Spain, with hills, exceptional trails, foods and pleasant weather, close to the border with France and close to the mild Balearic Sea. Home to several bike manufacturers, including the up-and-coming Guava bikes, Megamo is a long-standing brand who offer road, MTB and gravel bikes, alongside eMTB and eGravel. Taken for review here is this top-of-the-range Megamo Lande drop bar eGravel bike, using modern components and a lightweight Bosch SX Motor.
Is there Spanish flair, or is it flat as a Tortilla? Chris Keller-Jackson of CrankPhoto is our tester.
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Megamo Lande review: The headline details
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Pros
A very capable and lightweight eGravel bike.
Simple, quality, reliable build leads to broadly simple maintenance.
Easy on the eye – I had several positive comments whilst riding the Lande.
Cons
Poor quality paintwork – potentially on the fork and rear dropout, this could just be due to general wear and tear as part of testing – definitely not the first to test this bike !
Kink in seat tube limits the use of a Dropper Post.
Non removable Battery, you have to charge the battery in the bike.
Features
Traditional Gravel feel.
Simple and reliable component specification.
Very capable machine, unless you venture too far off road.
Specifications of this 2025 model (2026 model expected to be the same)
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Frame and Fork.
6061 Aluminium Alloy Hydroformed tubeset.
Integrated Battery (this can’t be removed to charge).
Carbon disc mount fork with cage bolt mountings.
Motor and Electronics.
Bosch Performance Line SX Mid Motor.
Bosch ‘CompactTube’ 400Ah integrated Battery.
Top tube mounted battery display.
Bosch Kiox 300 Bar mounted display.
Bosch Mini Remote power controller.
Drivetrain
SRAM Apex Eagle 12 speed rear derailleur.
SRAM Apex Eagle 11 – 50 tooth cassette.
SRAM Apex ‘Brifters’ (combined brake and shift drop bar units).
FSA Direct Mount Cranks, 170 mm.
FSA Megatooth 42 tooth Chainring.
SRAM Eagle Chain.
Brakes
SRAM Apex Hydraulic.
SRAM Apex 180 / 180mm rotors.
Wheelset
Megamo ‘Blackjack’ 29 SL Asymmetric Gravel rims, rear with built in Magnet over valve hole.
Megamo Thru Axle Hubs.
WTB Riddler 700 x 45c Tan Sidewall Tyres.
Contact Points
Megamo branded Alloy drop Handlebar.
Satori Viper 3D forged Stem.
30.9 Megamo branded Seat post.
Unitech Innovations Selle Royal Saddle.
The Megamo Lande: Build and purpose
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The Megamo Lande frame is based on 6061 aluminium alloy construction with smooth welds. It’s a lightweight eGravel Bike that centres around a mid-mounted Bosch Performance Line SX motor and 400Ah fully integrated battery. This is a simple and traditional chain driven rear derailleur design with a mixture of mainly SRAM Apex drivetrain components, typical flared drop bar and integrated hydraulic brakes.
As mentioned, Megamo hails from Girona in Spain, a place with a rich heritage in trail and road riding, and a generally mild winter climate which gives great all year riding. Though it has been a regular electric bike review fixture on Cycling Electric of late, you might not know the brand, who are now coming into the UK through AlsoBikes in collaboration with award-winning distribution partners Adaptive DCS. The Megamo brand has been in existence for 39 years and has an impressive roster of bikes and e-bikes currently available.
As for the bike on review here, the Magamo Lande has clean lines, with all cables integrated into the frame; aesthetically very pleasing, but not ideal for workshop maintenance, for the home mechanic, or for labour costs in a bike shop workshop. From the drive side, you’d be forgiven for thinking that this was not an e-bike, so small and well-mounted is the SX motor integration.
The Lande runs on 700c wheels (normal road bike size) and relatively chunky WTB Riddler 45mm treaded tyres, so can cope with a modicum of gravel paths and some more technical routes. It’s not however an ‘off road monster gravel’ bike, as will become clear from my testing below. It’s not marketed as such, but how far can it be pushed?
How does it handle?
Gravel bikes fall into broadly two camps, a more multi-terrain capable road bike and a less capable hardtail mountain bike. The component choices put the Lande firmly into the more terrain-capable road bike camp, with the added advantage of a careful choice of drive unit and some quality running gear.
eGravel bikes offer the added advantage of pedal assistance, and the Mid Motor placement of the Bosch SX motor unit offers what I’d consider the best implementation for eGravel that I have ridden.
Having experienced a number of different eGravel motors and placements, a lower output mid motor offers the best ride feel, balance and economy of movement. Weight placement is critical with a bike that is going to suffer some ‘off road’ terrain features and rear hub based systems are far more ‘crashy’ on the back wheel, are less balanced overall and can have a compromised ride feel as a result. Rear wheel drive systems can also be far more difficult to replace, whereas a Gravel based 700c wheel is an easier replacement or upgrade, as there is no rear motor hub to source.
On the flip side, mid motor eGravel bikes tend to be more expensive as the frame is more complicated to manufacture, and a mid motor tends to come from the bigger (and more expensive) manufacturers. That is born out here, but the quality is undeniable.
On road, gravel paths and smoother off-road tracks, the Lande is a joy to ride. It has a smooth and eager temperament; the lower power output SX motor does not hold it back, cresting hills and offering support to the rider with ease. Delving deeper into off-road territory starts to show the limitations of the component choice, mainly around the wheels and tyres.
45mm tyres are quite wide for a road bike, but offer little compliance and limited grip over roots and rocks, with the unforgiving wheels contributing to the terrain limitations. Testing a bike during the winter (over 10 rides / 300 km around the festive season, 2025) proved not to be the ideal conditions, with the tyres failing the grip test when wading through sticky mud and exposed roots, especially with the added torque coming from the motor.
Am I being harsh on this bike? Perhaps a little. My personal gravel bike fits into the ‘Monster Gravel’ extreme ‘sub category, as capable as a hardtail XC bike from 10 / 15 years ago, super light and with 2.4 inch off road tyres. This is due to the rugged terrain I tend to ride, and the Lande is not designed for this level of abusive. Removing the mud, the off-road inclines and the roots, the Lande is very capable for its intended use. I am being harsh, this is a fun bike to ride, spicy even, in the higher power modes.
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Back to the ride characteristics, this is one light bike for a fully featured eGravel bike (16.85kg), it feels light too and that is partly down to the balance, the low down mid motor, the 400Ah battery and the design of a bike made for Gravel, with a lightweight fork and relatively slim tube profiles. Acceleration is great and as the motor unit is not heavily retarding above 15.5 mph, the legal assistance limit does not just stop progress, and it’s easy to ride into the 20’s off the motor. There were times I deliberately rode without the motor powered up and the ride was not unpleasant.
Great as this bike is, my intention was to replace the seatpost during testing with a dropper post (a SRAM Reverb AXS) in the same diameter and run the wireless remote on a bar clamp. As a colleague has said in a previous review on Cycling Electric (and I agree), all e-bikes [with the capability] would benefit from a dropper post. On this model, and with this specific dropper post, the kink and bottle cage mounts on the seat tube prevent the dropper from being inserted enough, maybe a different model of dropper with a smaller stack height will work, but then you are into wired remotes and all that entails with a bike not designed for easy cable routing. Dropper Posts can be transformational on off-road capable bikes.
Aside from the internal headset cable routing (which is aesthetically pleasing and leads to smooth lines) with a long maintenance headache waiting to happen, this bike, with its mid-motor offers the best form of eBike longevity. Running gear is mostly SRAM Apex and not eBike specific, there is nothing really proprietary or hardened for the rigours of a high torque drivetrain, the SX motor gives enough juice, just not e-MTB power levels. Almost everything is off-the-shelf road componentry, just like a normal Gravel bike. This means most bike shops should be able to service and provide spares easily, including standard wheels. Add to this a Bosch drive system and all the support and dependability that comes with this brand’s offering and UK-based support and you have a winning formula.
On such a lightweight and well put together eGravel Bike, specing an SX motor with lower power output and weight is inspired. Ride feel is fairly natural over flat and mixed terrain, and on bigger hills as the power ramps up. It’s a breeze on higher power settings and easily defeats big, long hills. As with all Bosch motors, the riding logic is to increase cadence (revolutions at the crank) as the software much prefers this, and the head unit tells you when the gearing is ‘wrong’ for the motor, almost begging you to change. On a ‘normal’ bike, if the gearing is wrong, your legs take the strain, and this bike will do that to a certain extent – just don’t expect the Bosch unit to provide full power if you are below the cadence required, it takes some getting used to.
How about the competition?
Read our Megamo Lande electric gravel bike review and still hungry for some inspiration ahead of warmer weather? Here are three alternatives that we have ridden and rate highly:
Cube Nuroad Hybrid C:62 – £4,599
Another mid-motor Bosch-driven electric gravel bike is Cube’s Nuroad Hybrid C:62, the C alluding to the carbon frame and fork that puts this bike at the premium end of the market.
That said, if you want one bike to conquer it all, the Nuroad Hybrid is an incredible climber, plus has plenty of tyre clearance to open up its use case to the more challenging end of gravel cycling.
Estarli G28 – £3,195
A slightly different proposition comes from UK electric bike designers, estarli, who instead rely on a rear hub motor, but in making this compromise, are able to go full carbon with the frame and fork for a similar price. You’ll lose the Bosch ecosystem’s perks, which extend into software upsides, but gain a bike that is immensely sprightly.
Read our full Estarli electric gravel bike review.
Ribble Allgrit E Carbon-X – £3,749
Another light and sprightly ride with a rear hub motor is Ribble’s Allgrit E Carbon-x, a range accessible from £3,749.
This time using a well-known motor brand in Mahle and its X20 hub drive, this astonishingly light 12.2kg build is stated as having an up to 160km assisted range when used with the range extender. This adds 60Km to the 350Wh in-built frame battery.
Read our full Ribble Allgrit E Carbon-x review.