Most city motorcycles are designed for a city that does not exist — one with flat tarmac, no tram rails and no section of unmade road between the last junction and your front door.
The Outset is the Anthem with that fantasy removed. Same battery, same charger, same 75+ mph. What changes is everything between the bike and the ground.
Suspension you can actually adjust
The front is an inverted fork with 6.5 inches of travel and both preload and damping adjustment. The rear is a monoshock with 5.2 inches, also adjustable. On a bike at this price, adjustable at both ends is unusual; most rivals give you preload at the back and nothing at the front.
Travel is what absorbs a pothole. Adjustment is what lets you set the bike up for your weight rather than the test rider's. Together they turn a surface that would unsettle a road bike into something you stop noticing.
6.5 inches of adjustable fork travel; 5.2 inches at the rear.
Dunlop Mutant tyres — road-biased, but happy on loose and wet surfaces.
A narrower seat, wider bars and a repositioned footpeg for standing up.
4.9-inch TFT with high-visibility day and night modes.
Ryvid's line is that pavement is optional. On this chassis that is not marketing — it is a description of where the suspension stops caring.
What it shares with the Anthem
The important parts. A 4.3 kWh lithium pack that unclips and rolls indoors, an integrated 3.3 kW charger that fills it to 80% in 75 minutes from a Level 2 supply or 2.3 hours from a 110 V outlet, and the same instant acceleration — 1.1 seconds from 0 to 30 mph.
It also shares the honest limitation: this is a machine measured in tens of miles, not hundreds. The suspension does not change that, and no amount of fork travel will.
Who it is for
Choose the Outset over the Anthem if your route is rough, if you ride through winter, or if the last hundred metres of your journey is a gravel track. The taller stance and the bars also suit riders who like to stand on the pegs over broken sections.
Choose the Anthem instead if you are shorter, if your roads are good, and if you would rather have the lower seat and the quieter tyres. The powertrain decision has already been made for you either way.
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