The best Surron mods for ergonomics are the mods that make you feel at one with your e-moto. Things like the perfect handlebar placement, footpegs that hold your boots in place, and grips that invite you to ride your best.
Modding your Surron for ergonomics isn’t just a trend, it will transform your riding. You’ll be able to ride for longer due to less fatigue, you’ll be able to ride faster and with more control. Riding a dirtbike is largely to do with weight shifting, and if you can position your body correctly with ease, you’ll be amazed at how your riding will improve.
This list will cover all the usual upgrades essential to comfortable riding and a few that might surprise you. Read through this list, and think about what is most important to you.
If your Surron is still stock, ride it a few times first to find out how it feels. Then you’ll be able to work out what are the best Surron mods for your personal riding style.
1. Surron Footpegs: Get More Grip
Stock Surron Footpegs suck. Yep. The e-moto is awesome, but they are seriously lacking in the footpeg department. The 2025 Surron LightBee X has better footpegs, but is still a long way off perfect. I guess it’s a bit like buying a high-end pedal bike. They generally come with no pedals, with the manufacturer assuming you’ll replace them with your favs.
When upgrading your footpegs, look for something with big traction that will grip your boot. You also need a strong, sturdy footpeg. Be wary of imitations from cheaper websites. You need to be able to trust your gear.
✔ Here is our collection of footpegs
Many of us here at GritShift run the Warp 9 footpegs, they have a heap of grip and are both lightweight and strong.
2. Footpeg Brace: Save Your Frame
A footpeg brace is an additional part added between each footpeg. It gives your Surron extra strength, as the area the stock footpeg is mounted to is weak without this brace. If a brace isn’t added, and your e-moto tips over, the mounts are likely to bend.
Likewise, if you’re landing jumps, the extra force on your footpegs will inevitably bend the mounting brackets. This is a relatively cheap and easy install and will save you a heap of dramas!
✔ Footpeg brace… strengthen your e-moto here
We like to push our Surrons to the limit, so we built our Heavy Hitter footpeg brace with strength foremost in mind. Bracing your pegs helps avoid a potentially serious frame failure when you’re pushing your e-bike on the trails, tracks, or streets. Check them out here
3. Handlebar Riser: Ride Longer
After riding your stock Surron, you’ll probably have noticed it feels rather ‘toy’ like. The stock handlebars are more mountain bike style, and you’re likely reaching too low for good ergonomics. To bring the handlebar to more of a dirtbike feel, we’ve come up with the Direct Mount Stem Riser.
Installing a Surron Stem Riser gives a 2” lift to your bars, which makes the handlebar positioning feels much more suitable for a high-powered e-moto.
✔ Check out handlebar risers here
There are plenty of options to choose from – of course we like the one we make ourselves, but check out your options and see what’s right for you.
4. Handlebars: Ride Better
On the topic of Surron Direct Mount Stem Risers and the position of handlebars, have a look at a new handlebar. Did you know there are so many options with handlebars? You can add an additional rise in the handlebar if a 2” lift isn’t enough, bring the grips backward, out, up, and more!
When you add a new handlebar, you can really start feeling like you’re customizing your Surron for your body positioning. If you’re not sure what to go for, have a look at this article that dives into bar risers and bars. Get a mate to take a photo of you side on, while sitting on the bike. See if you’re hunching over, arms uncomfortably low, or just looking awkward.
This will help you decide if you need to move your hands up, back, or out and get better positioning.
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Our top favorite handlebars are the ProTaper A50 Aluminum Handlebar with a 2” rise, and the ProTaper A76 Aluminum Handlebar with a 3” rise. Both of these bars have a nice sweep, and are strong, yet light.
5. Grips: 40% Of Your Contact Points
The next section to look at is the grips. These are simple, cheap, yet very effective in helping you ride better. Think about this, grips are what help hold you to your dirt bike! They’re kinda very important!
As a bonus, you can choose a color to match your color scheme to make your Surron look just as awesome as it is to ride it..
Grips, the easiest, cheapest way to improve your ride!
When choosing the best grip, you have the option of different textures. Waffle, ½ waffle, mellow, pillow top… and the list goes on.
Check out this article on e-moto Grips to work out what would work best for you
6. Seat Upgrade: Comfort + Control
Have you ever found yourself at work on a Monday, and your chair is uncomfortably reminding you that you spend hours on your bike on the weekend? A seat could be the upgrade that will change the start of your week! Not to mention it will make you a better rider.
For real, a seat helps with weight distribution. Shift your weight around easier, and you’ll get better corner speed, better breaking ability, and better acceleration. You’ll also get less fatigued. Sounds good, doesn’t it?
Seat Upgrades, be comfy, ride longer!
This article goes into detail about seat upgrades and all your options.
7. Fender / Mudguard: Safe and Clean
A fender – either front or rear – is an essential ergonomic mod that will save you time and protect your e-moto. If you use your Surron to commute, by adding a front and rear fender, you’ll be stopping all the grime and dirt from flicking up from the tires.
Where does the dirt go? Upwards. Towards your controller, making washing it a pain, but the rear fender is more important, in my opinion. The rear fender stops the muck from flinging up onto your clean clothes.
Keep dirt at bay, grab a fender here
When you’re on the track, mud’s like a badge of honor. But when you’re walking into work to start the day, the last thing you want to be is damp and muddy! A rear fender will keep the washing pile smaller.
Ergo mods, but also performance
8. Suspension (Yes, this is an ergo mod)
Ok, hear me out. Suspension doesn’t help with your body ergonomics like a handlebar or riser does… or does it? You can select your front and rear suspension to be different heights and compression rates, changing the dynamics of your electric dirt bike.
When we talk about suspension, we need to break it down into a few parts. The rear suspension has the coil or air, but also included – and critical to a Surron LBX – are the linkages. Usually upgrading the linkages is ‘linked’ (sorry, not sorry!) with making them more sturdy to withstand hard hits, but you can also upgrade them to make them longer, thus altering the bike’s ergos.
This Heavy Hitter part actually allows you to adjust the height from stock to 1” with the single linkage component. Cool hey?
The front suspension can also be modified. The biggest mod, which yes, can also be classed as an ‘ergo mod’, is the conversion to a MX front end. Now that changes the dynamics of your e-moto! Not only will you be able to tackle the toughest jumps, having a dirt bike’s front end on your Surron will also change the front-end feel significantly.
If you don’t need to attempt the triples on the MX track, a better-quality fork might be all you need. This will also change the ergos, depending on the forks you purchase. It could also be as simple as changing the compression and damping on what you already have, which affects the overall feel.
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And we all know, when you get that suspension dialed in, your bike feels awesome! For more info on the suspension setup, check out this article.
9. Throttle: Fast, Smooth, and Precise
There are many throttle options on the market that you can upgrade to. They all have a different feel. While not normally considered an ‘ergo’ mod, the throttle is important to ensure you have the correct posture on your wrist – both at idle and full go.
It is a personal opinion, but you don’t want to have to re-grip your throttle mid twist if the twist is too large. Similarly, you don’t want the idle position to be physically low, creating a large bend in your wrist, or too high so you overcompensate as the throttle is moved forward. It is all about creating that nice posture to be able to work the controls efficiently.
Check out throttles here
We tend to like running a Stark Varg throttle on our Surrons. It’s a little more work to install and get working, but it delivers a far superior feel to the stock throttle all day long.
Ergo mods that are often overlooked
10. Protective Gear: You’re Most Important
Have you ever stopped to consider your body as an extension of your electric dirt bike? Seriously, it is the part that is worth the most! Protect it!
Whenever anyone asks me about riding gear, my go-to answer is to buy the best quality you can afford. Perhaps even put off a new mod until you’ve replaced a dodgy-looking helmet. Bikes you can replace. Bodies you can’t.
With that said, you can choose your gear based on personal preference. Feel, movement, breathability, and don’t forget how it looks! Look at the features – for example, how light is your helmet? Has it been DOT approved?
The same goes for boots and gloves. For example, I have light weight gloves for the dirt, sturdy gloves for the road, and full leathers with long cuffs for road racing. Different styles give you different feedback, which in turn changes your riding style.
11. At The Track (Or Anywhere!)
Clothing tells others a lot about you. Make sure you let them know you’re all about e-moto. To and from the track, and anywhere in between, look the part. And, as a bonus, don’t get sunburnt!
Look the part… grab some merch here
Check out our brand-new merch range here
Here’s a tip: Share this article or this link with your friends and family who keep asking “what would you like for your birthday or Christmas?” You can’t go wrong with a new hat!
How to explore what ergo mods are best for you
Without a doubt, the first mod most riders do are new footpegs. Ironically, as I write this, my husband is fitting new pedals to his downhill e-bike! For some reason, most brands must just assume you’re going to replace their cheap-as footpegs. After footpegs, the options are just about unlimited.
If you’re not sure where to start, grab your e-moto as it is. Put it on a level surface with the handlebar against a wall or friend. Sit on your bike as if you were riding it. Get another friend (or well-placed camera and timer!) to take a photo of you side-on. Do the same as if you were standing on the pegs.
Look at that image. Do you look comfy? In a natural position? Where are your arms/shoulders, what is your back like? How did it feel while you were on your e-moto? Are there any pressure points? From there, you can start to work out if you need to raise your handlebars, change your seat, or change your footpeg height.
It is all about trial and error, but it’s good to have a starting point. Chat among your mates, but remember you’re probably different heights and body/leg lengths, so keep in mind what works for you might not work for others.
And with all that effort, remember to look cool to and from the track 🙂 Seriously though, get out and ride, change one thing at a time, be mindful of what changes with your posture during those upgrades and keep improving.
Any questions, we’re here for you, and here is where you can get all your parts – all of which we personally choose to put on our website as this is what we would use!
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