YT Decoy

Think it's a 540wh battery, but in today's money it's a little light for a full fat ebike, they tend to be 625/700/750 these days, but it comes down to what you will actually need, are you doing all day runs with ebike uplift, then it may be a little light, if you're doing 2 or 3 hour blasts with the same runs, it'll do fine.

The Decoy was something i was thinking off, but just delivery times and warranty worries put me off, but i needed something quick unfortunately.

Sorry ,yes 540 wh. theres lots of bikes showing as instock at the moment and apparently bikes with warranty probs can now be sorted at the uk repair center

My mate has one and loves it. Luckily we live in the Surrey Hills so are pretty close to the YT Mill for any warranty issues. He finds the battery plenty but does ride it in eco a fair bit on a longer ride (which is no bad thing). Whether he'll start to get 'range anxiety' if we go out with him on our 750wh batteries who knows? There were rumours a long time ago of the Decoy getting a 700wh battery but so far nothing has emerged. They do look lovely.

I've got one (mullet), and don't really have anything bad to say about it. They are a fantastic bike. The reach is a little short (455 on a large) and I worried about that before I bought it but I think it probably suits the heavier front end.

I got mine when it first came out, and haven't had a single issue about 1,500 miles later. Mostly it's used in the woods for winch and plummet style rides, but I've had 50 miles out of it doing Borrowdale Bash and Back of Skiddaw, in mostly Eco and some Trail and the battery died a mile from the end of the ride. Battery two years later appears to be full health still, no play in the motor.

I've replacing it with a Levo SL, I think, which I bought last month. When I ride the Levo with a mate who also has a Decoy I'm working like a dog in Trail to keep up with him. There's a big difference in power between a lighter tune ebike and something like the Decoy, and overall I'm not sure which I prefer.

You can definitely just plough through stuff on the Decoy but it's actually very poppy and playful once you get used to it.

Love mine, nearly 2 years old now and apart from greasing the pivots and replacing a couple of bearings it's been pretty maintenance free. That is excluding the shimano mechs that for a time seemed to be a disposable item, latest has lasted better though.
Battery gets me 1100-1500 metres of climbing around the FoD over a 3 hour period, did 1100 on Sunday and still had about 25% left, cold does affect it but it will with all the bikes. I do ride on eco most of the time using trail mode when the climb or my legs need it, I think I've only used boost a handful of times as I find trail does the job.
Mines the base 29er which I've stuck a longer air spring and charger damper into the yari's on, I can't say I see any need to change it for something else.

Hauling my lard arse about I could easily get a days riding in riding in Trail and Boost with occasional use of Eco.

I never had any motor or battery issues. My Decoy 29 Pro was a capable bike and I never suffered from range anxiety either. Good if not overly progressive geometry for aggressive trail riding. Only issue for me was the weight.

One of our riding group has one and loves it, he's had a few issues with the ethirteen hubs and freewheel but that's it

Matt Wragg from PinkBike has one and there’s a decent breakdown of how his is set up on their website. He seemed to think the battery was big enough. Personally I do wonder if the Cold War (and one-up-manship) of bigger batteries is actually necessary in the same way that we always used to do it with suspension travel until we realised we didn’t need 28lb 180mm bikes for 99% of what we did and moved back to smaller travel.

Do you need a huge battery?
Matt Wragg Decoy

Worth a read as it’s his own money and he’s quite honest about it.