VOODOO ZOBOP E-SHIMANO

A 3k e-bike you can buy from an actual shop? Is Voodoo’s new Zobop too good to be true?

- Benji Haworth

Let’s cut straight to the chase. If there is one over-arching reason why anyone would be interested in the Zobop, it’s the price. And that’s not a slur, it’s just that this is one of the cheapset full-suspension e-bikes you can buy from a real bricks and mortar shop (the other one is the Decathlon Stilus for £2,699). And when we say shop, we mean Halfords, the exclusive UK distributor of Voodoo bikes. Anything remotely similar in price to this bouncy pedal-assist bike will normally arrive at your house in a box, and even then, it will still probably cost a couple of hundred quid more.

So the real question is: if you have £3k to spend on an e-mtb, is the Zobop a good buy? The short answer is, yes, but only if you absolutely have no more than £2,999 to spend, as the test-winning Vitus E-Sommet only costs £200 more. Or if Halfords is offering a discounted price on this bike (at time of writing it’s down to £2,799). Don’t get me wrong, the Zobop is very much a fun bike. More about that later. But I’m getting to the point here, and the main point is that the Zobop needs money spending on upgrading it immediately.