New Bosch SX range from Moustache

[Rás Cnoic]

I've always liked the looks of the French brand Moustache, they sort of do their own thing & in a very French stylish way! But being based on the Bosch system they were always full fat and fairly heavy for my interest. This new trange based around the Bosch lightweight SX motor looks very interesting. Paticularily like the drop bar commuter EQ bike the Dimanche Gravel 29.4. No weights listed here, further investigation needed!

The Dimanche Gravel 29.4 review:

First look: the Moustache Dimanche Gravel 29.4 EQ with full everyday equipment in our initial review — urbanbike.news

To launch the brand new Dimanche line-up, Moustache gave selected media outlets the opportunity to test the new bikes on an extensive ride around Munich. A good opportunity to briefly summarise the first impressions of the new bike here. The Gravel 29.4 EQ spec is pretty exciting, as it combines...

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The whole range of SX gravel bikes flat bar and drops:

For gravel, everyday use and everything in between: the new Moustache Dimanche e-bikes — urbanbike.news

The Dimanche has long been part of Moustache’s line-up for particularly sporty and lightweight e-bikes for road, gravel and urban use. And the new release of this classic impressively shows that this is not going to change any time soon! The completely redesigned model now relies on Bosch’s new...

urbanbike.news

 

[Rás Cnoic]

Listed weight 18kg/39.68lbs on Moustache website

Dimanche 29 Gravel 4 - Moustache Bikes

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[Stefan Mikes]

The front mudguard being the first thing to remove

 

[Rás Cnoic]

That's personal preference and is climate dependent. I have them on all year, on or off road. It's nice this last week or so, finally sandals weather has arrived, roads mostly dry but I leave them on anyway. Still giant puddles as the water table is so full from 8 months of rain. Easier just to leave them on.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

That's personal preference and is climate dependent. I have them on all year, on or off road.

Do you ride in any forest? A mudguard as deep as found on the Moustache will pick any small twig and block the front wheel, which inevitably leads to a serious crash.

A nice spill of that kind!

 

[Rás Cnoic]

I'm on Dartmoor. I ride in forests, moorland trails, muddy bridleways - a lot. But I'm not mountain biking blasting down single track and I rarely pick up debris. Advantage of the speedrockers is they are flexible. I've never in my life gone over the bars due to debris catching in the front mudguard. If anything it's dead leaves, mulch and small twigs in the rear mudguard catching at the chain stays and sometimes at the seat stays.

Here's an old pic of the morning after an evening ride exploring some very muddy bridleways in creeping darkness. Picked up a slow puncture I only noticed the following day. It was a blast in the mud! BUT that kind of all out MTB style rampaging is rare. I'm usually more sensible!

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Advantage of the speedrockers is they are flexible.

I do absolutely agree! I use them myself!

I mean the mudguards on the Moustache are not Speedrockers, and these look like a recipe for a disaster. This is a gravel e-bike to be ridden in rough terrain!

 

[Rás Cnoic]

Got you. From the description in the Urbanbike review they were talking about commuting. Which is Urbanbike's main concern. The Moustache website has pictures of this model with guards on & off. Anyway these seem nice, useful looking bikes. I give it ticks of approval for wide tyres, drop bars, suspension stem (or is it a future shock type headset affair?) and dropper post. All would be handy here for me & are on my lists of things my next bike should have. I've toyed with getting a dropper and even drop bars, watching closely people on here who've been successful converting. But its all a faff, expensive to do, and it might just be simpler to wait until funds and opportunity are there for a shiny new steed with proper geometry for drops.