The action camera effect is real. They make everything look a lot more mellow than IRL. Hawes is a nice middle ground from Browns Ranch that’s genuinely mellow (but aesthetically beautiful); to Phoenix Mountain Preserve and South Mountain that has millions of loose rocks. Adding a quick clip from a demo ride on an Orbea Wild at PMP as an example. I assume people are somewhat familiar with SoMo.
Now that's better.
They’d have to take the update from my cold dead hands if Specialized wanted it back. It’s awesome! I see nothing like “far less” efficiency; actually I’m finding consumption to be nearly identical to pre-update.
The bike isn't any less efficient it just has 150w more power. It will obviously drain more battery when using that extra power. Those 150w extra don't come for free. If this is causing range issues then tune the power down 10-15% in the motor settings.
The new firmware is great..... To me the bike is just as efficient battery wise, and my bike never grinds gears when changing gears properly and the walk mode is as smooth as before. Not sure if everyone has the new battery nest, but once installed, my bike never looses power to the rear mech, and since the update the bike has been flawless... I've never had to turn the bike off and back on again because of a battery malfunction. The overrun is now far superior to say the least, the only things that are bugging is, the people reading about the update and bitching about it!
"new battery nest"??
Think a lot of it is you’re getting up the climbs quicker, so yeah it’s drawing more power, but for less time.
I haven't even messed with Dynamic Microtune, will check it out.
In what way does it drain more battery? Are you using the extra power or have you equalized the settings to what you had before the update? initial reports I saw suggested that the update slightly improved efficiency when power output was equalized.
The "jump-analyzing-feature" was already mentioned in one of the first (unreleased?) manuals. Don't think this is around the corner. Most likely a killed feature...
I hasn't adjusted anything just been riding the same route as I have done earlier on G3 and now G4 and after the update the battery drains faster like before when it was fully charged it used ~15% after 10km now it's ~20% at the same route.
In that case it's just physics. More power means more battery consumption. You can always tune to motor back to pre update power levels if needed.
Yes that's what I thought as well.
How do you get into the 0/100 micro tune mode?
Read the manual and then press the correct buttons.
Yeah I think they could have provided an extra mode or so. Like option to set a mode to a microtune (eg set eco to 0/100)
I finally got around to reading the manual and trying it out. I have to say it's fantastic! My range was drastically improved!!
