The Bike sold way over Specialized expectations. I don't know what those numbers are, but the bike was a smash hit. My shop is next to one of the larger independent specialized dealers in the US and I talk to the rep quite a bit and find him to be honest with his takes on the industry.
I saw this, interesting they did zero tuning on the bike. One complaint, the bike felt front heavy, well, go to the longer chain stay adjacent and adjust the head angle. Maybe taller rise bars and or move the seat back on its rails.
Compared to my 24 Santa Cruz Heckler, with a 807 front center. My 2026 s works with a 820 front center feels very heavy when trying to pop the front tire over obstacles.
Its funny how subjective these things are. I love the bike, find it very balanced and have made some changed to make it to my liking. I've also ridden in certain circumstances with just the extender, and will likely ride with a 600wh battery at some point just to reduce weight on rides that don't necessitate the larger battery. I did add a 170 air spring to the fork and that is very much too my liking. I think its incredibly balanced.
I think the clue is in “ paid for promotion “
I think the clue is your forum activity. Anyone can see, you’re focused on two topics, pro-Amflow and negative Levo. You’re actually quite weirdly dedicated to providing negative press on Levos. So if we’re going to put on our tin foil hat and profess insincere motives, I think you’re here to dampen enthusiasm for the Levo. I’m not sure you’re even a real person and not a bot.
lol,
But, they didn’t pay me for me review. In fact, I paid THEM for the review and I have positive feelings about it.
You’re underestimating my confidence in the bike I own and love. My own experience means everything and no third party threatens it. What I find difficult to relate to is spending time and attention on a bike you obviously don’t like.
mine always stays at 100% even after 2 weeks in the apt...could be temperature
Yes i do but I have noticed if left with the charging lead still plug in and not turned on it stays full , don’t ask me how
Yep I love mine too . I’ve made the front heavier too by adding the podium fork , for what I do big enduro type days with long rocky decent’s the thing is awesome
Correct
Simple reply, whats your gearing? If you have a 10-52 tooth, it’s xd, if you have a 11-50, it’s a hg. Hg will not fit a 10 Thoth cog. If you have a flat top chain, you need to run transmission cassettes, do not run a nx cassette with a transmission chain, the spacing is different.
That’s how it worked in the past. Now the T-Type SRAM 1270 Transmission cassette is 10–52 and fits an HG freehub body.
You’d be better off upgrading to an XD freehub body right away and swapping the cassette. Part of the reason those wheels are so heavy is the cassette itself, so if you’re trying to save weight, sticking with such a heavy cassette doesn’t make much sense.
From what I can deduce from Google, there’s about 100g in it between GX and S1000 cassette weight. So it’s something I will change in the future, but little point replacing a near brand new setup to save that kind of weight. In my experience.
I’m afraid that’s not accurate anymore, hence why I checked.
What a beast that Axell Hodges
Yea, I didn’t realize they came out with a 10-52 hg cassette for the transmission .I will stick with my cheap NX cassettes with their all steel construction. Alloy cogs seem to die pretty quickly on e bikes.
In New Jerzy how often are you on the 3 largest cogs?
The bottom end T type cassette (XS-1270) on the Levo 4 comp is also all steel I'm pretty sure.
