Used Surron light Bee 2024

The Surron Lightbee X has singlehandedly created a completely new category of electric motorcycle – which we here at ECR refer to as Lightweight eMoto.

This category adapts downhill mountain bike parts and a small yet robust electric powertrain to a lightweight chassis to create the ultimate all-around play bike.

Yes, there were lightweight electric dirt bikes that came before the LBX, but those early iterations commonly utilized a hub drive motor – while Surron opted for the more performance-oriented mid-drive motor design for their Light Bee.

Since owning this market right from the start, the Lightbee X has gained tremendous popularity over the last few years, and both existing and emerging brands have taken note, developing bikes that position themselves right in the category that Surron had created.

It blends the feeling of riding a small pit bike, with the excitement of an electric powertrain, and the unthreatening nature of a mountain bike. Sounds fun, right?

While it is really fun to customize and hop these bikes up to make them crazy fast, when you put it in the environment where we think they perform the best, specifically turn tracks, flow tracks, and pit bike tracks, we feel that you don’t need to do a ton to this bike to make it a blast to ride. While there are some essential modifications that we recommend (which we’ll list below), a mostly stock Surron Light Bee X can provide a lot of entertainment.

And this 2024 bike is as fun as it ever was. If you’re riding a Surron Light Bee X flat out and you’re not smiling ear to ear, well, we think there may be something wrong with you!

It’s a reminder that no wonder so many other brands have caught on and built similar bikes as the Light Bee X because it is such a fun little bike. But let’s not be fooled, all of those bikes were inspired by the Light Bee X. So there is a lot of credit to be due to Surron and their Light Bee X.

So, the questions is, has the Light Bee changed much since we first swung a leg over it in 2019? Yes and no. The bike largely feels the same, but the updates have made it a better and more reliable bike. The important thing is that the bike still has the same spirit, which is why people gravitate toward the bike in the first place.

How the 2024 Light Bee X directly stacks up to its modern competitors, well, we’ll look at that more in our upcoming comparison video.

But it’s also worth noting that 2024 is also the 10th anniversary of Surron as a company – and we have a hard time believing this is the last we’ve heard from Surron this year.