Model S2 Smart.Shift

The ultimate commuter.

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Discover the Opium Model S2 Smart.Shift

Engineered for the commute you currently drive.

The Model S2 Smart.Shift carries the same 1,600 Wh battery and 1000 W motor as the mechanical Model S2, with Pinion's twelve-speed electronic gearbox in place of the mechanical C-Series. Gears change at any speed, under load, or standing still.

Up to 230 km on one charge, with assistance to 45 km/h, on a Gates carbon belt. An optional suspension fork. Eighteen colours.

1,600 Wh. Up to 230 km.

One charge, one working week.

The 1,600 Wh battery drives the 1000 W rear-hub motor to 45 km/h, for up to 230 km on a single charge. For a rider with a 20 km commute, that is Monday to Friday and both ways, without plugging in once between.

That is the number worth doing the arithmetic on. A car covering the same week costs you fuel, a parking space at each end, and the time spent finding the second one. The Model S2 Smart.Shift costs you one socket, overnight, at whichever end you prefer.

The battery is integrated into the frame, which keeps the silhouette intact and the weight low and central. Loaded with panniers, the bike still steers like the bike you left the shop on.

Quiet and powerful: Opium hub motor

1000 W, in near silence.

A 1000 W brushless rear-hub motor with consistent torque and assistance to 45 km/h. Flat road or steep incline, the delivery is the same, and it stays the same at the end of a long day as it was at the start.

45 km/h is the number that changes the arithmetic against a car. On most urban routes it is faster door to door, because it is not the top speed that decides the journey but the queue, the lights and the last four hundred metres to a parking space.

The motor is sealed in the rear hub and quiet enough that you still hear where you are riding. Nothing about it is exposed, and nothing about it needs your attention between services.

Twelve-speed electronic gearbox

Twelve speeds, with automatic shifting.

The Model S2 Smart.Shift uses a twelve-speed Pinion gearbox with electronic shifting. Fast and accurate, from a standstill or under load halfway up a climb.

Automatic mode is the part most riders do not expect. Set it and the gearbox chooses, reading your cadence and the gradient, you ride a 45 km/h speed pedelec through the city and country roads without touching a gear at all.

Intelligent power management

1,600 Wh, perfectly allocated.

FIT sits between the 1,600 Wh battery and the 1000 W motor and decides, continuously, how much power is delivered. It reads cadence, gradient and load, and it adjusts several times a second.

Fine-tuning the power is what turns 1,600 Wh into up to 230 km. A motor given a fixed level of assistance spends charge on gradients that did not need it; a motor managed against the actual load does not.

There is nothing to configure. FIT is working from the first pedal stroke, and the only evidence of it is the range you have left at the end of the week.

Eight adjustable positions

Set the bike to the rider.

The ergonomic cockpit adjusts through up to eight positions, so the bike is set to the rider rather than the rider to the bike.

The lighting, the brakes and the mirror are integrated rather than added, which is why none of them spoils the line of the bike. You choose between a wireless charger Quad Lock mount and the large FIT comfort display.

Over a 25 km commute, position is what decides whether you arrive comfortable.

Rigid or suspension fork

Composed as standard. Softer if you want it.

The Model S2 Smart.Shift handles confidently on the rigid fork it comes with. The optional suspension fork absorbs vibration and takes the edge off a poor surface, without slowing the steering down.

Which one is right depends on the route rather than the rider. City tarmac and tram tracks reward the suspension; a smooth commute does not need it.

Engineered for safety and precision riding

A lower position, and full awareness.

A Supernova headlight, hydraulic disc brakes with 203 mm rotors front and rear, an integrated rearview mirror, and the FIT controls on the cockpit.

A lower, more dynamic riding position puts you closer to the road and more in touch with what the bike is doing. Paired with equipment specified at design rather than bolted on afterwards, that makes the Model S2 Smart.Shift a bike you can ride fast with everything in view.

203 mm rotors, four-piston callipers, and the same stopping behaviour wet or dry.

Mudguards with integrated pannier rack

Built for the daily load.

The Model S2 Smart.Shift's mudguards double as a pannier rack, built around Ortlieb's QL3 mounting interface, with the light cable concealed inside the structure.

Tool-free to fit and tool-free to remove, so the bike carries a week's shopping on Saturday and looks like a bike again on Sunday. Nothing is clamped to the frame and nothing rattles.

And it still parks where a car cannot, with the panniers still on it.

Drivetrain

Mechanical or Smart.Shift

Model S2

Pinion C-Series · 9 or 12-speed mechanical

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Nine speeds or twelve, mechanical and sealed. €1,000 less.

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