The Surron Light Bee 2 is open for pre-order in New Zealand at $10,490, and the brand’s official local store says the first stock of the new electric dirt bike will arrive by late 2026.
That is as close to a New Zealand release date as buyers have so far. Surron New Zealand has listed the bike as a pre-order in four colours and asks buyers to reserve one and wait for their nearest dealer to get in touch. The Chinese manufacturer, whose name is often written Sur-Ron, revealed the model in June, and British dealer MotoEbikes opened United Kingdom orders on Monday 14 September.
Local interest has been building since the reveal. “It’s the kind of announcement that gets the whole community talking, and we’ve already had riders reaching out wanting to know more,” Surron New Zealand said in a post on 19 June.
Surron’s published specifications give the Light Bee 2 a peak output of 24 kilowatts, a 3.53 kilowatt-hour battery and a top speed of about 90km/h, in a bike that weighs 65kg. The distributor’s own comparison puts that at three times the peak power of the 2025 Light Bee, which made 8 kilowatts.
The company claims 0 to 50km/h in 1.8 seconds and a range of 108km at a steady 40km/h, a figure it says was measured with a 70kg rider on a dry, flat road at 27 degrees. Charging from 20 to 80 percent takes two hours, and the bike comes with traction control, cruise control and app-linked GPS.
Surron New Zealand describes it as “the new middle ground in the Surron lineup”, and its current price list bears that out.
- Hyper Bee, the entry-level model, $5,290
- Light Bee X, the current off-road Light Bee, $8,690
- Light Bee L1e, the road-legal Light Bee, $9,490
- Light Bee 2, $10,490
- Ultra Bee HP, the larger off-road model, $12,490
- Ultra Bee HP R, the road-legal Ultra Bee, $13,490
Takapuna dealer Electric Scooter Shop is taking $1,000 reservations at the same $10,490 and says limited numbers are landing late in the year. New Zealand buyers are not paying more than British ones. MotoEbikes lists the off-road Light Bee 2 X at £4,699, which is about NZ$11,000 at this week’s exchange rate, with both prices including local sales tax.
The Light Bee 2 is not road legal in New Zealand as it is being sold. The distributor’s page calls it an off-road bike, and the Electric Scooter Shop listing carries a plain note for buyers. “This is an off-road motorcycle. It is not sold nor recommended for road use,” the dealer says.
The reason is how the law sees it. With no pedals it can never count as an e-bike, and NZTA defines a moped as a machine with a top speed of no more than 50km/h, so a bike capable of 90km/h is a motorcycle. For scale, the 300 watt limit on an e-bike motor is one eightieth of the Light Bee 2’s peak output. When the AA called for tighter rules on high-powered e-bikes in May, the machines it pointed to were 9 kilowatt models at 30 times the limit.
Riding any motorcycle on a road would require registration, a warrant of fitness and a motorcycle licence, and nothing in the local listings suggests this model can be registered. For teenagers the number that matters is 16, which is the minimum age for a motorcycle learner licence. Britain is getting a separate road-homologated version, the Light Bee 2 L3e at £4,999, but no equivalent has been listed here so far.
Police set out the same rules in a warning issued last November, when Western Bay of Plenty road policing manager Senior Sergeant Wayne Hunter said “people need to realise that just because these dirt bikes are electric, it doesn’t mean they are allowed on the road.”
None of that stops anyone riding one where dirt bikes belong, which is off the road on private land or at a purpose-built park. Thundercross Valley Dirt Bike Park at Glen Murray, about an hour from Auckland and 45 minutes from Hamilton, now hires out Surron’s 2026 Hyper Bee, Light Bee and Ultra Bee on full and half day sessions, the distributor announced on 4 September. The Light Bee 2 is not yet part of that fleet.
For riders who want a Surron with a number plate now, the Light Bee L1e is in stock at $9,490. Its listing says “Top speed is capped at 45km/h to meet its road-legal classification”, which keeps it under NZTA’s moped ceiling. The agency says a moped can be ridden on any New Zealand driver licence and needs no regular warrant of fitness, although any licence still means being at least 16. Buyers should confirm with the dealer how the bike will be registered.
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The things to watch now are when the first shipment lands and whether a road-legal Surron Light Bee 2 follows it to New Zealand. Would you pre-order now, or wait for a version with a number plate? Tell us what you think in the comments below.
This article was written by AI, briefed to report the facts, hopefully without some of the bias people bring to the job 🙂
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