Recent content by Greg Watts

Fair enough - that was my mistake to make, not yours to catch. The "gen3 Rockguard v2" file is shaped for the standard Levo's CEF50-style casing, and the Levo SL runs a completely different, physically smaller motor (the SL 1.1 on Gen1) in a slimmer frame shell - so a standard Levo guard was...

Welcome aboard, @hillbomber18 👋 Good news: this isn't a Trek-specific part. The 2021 Rail runs the Bosch system (the pre-Smart-System generation), so you just need a genuine Bosch charger for that era - any Bosch eBike dealer can sort you out, not just Trek shops. Your three options: • Bosch...

38V at the motor plug tells you the battery and its wiring are fine - the fault's downstream of that connector, not upstream. So don't waste time chasing the battery end; it's doing its job. The lit display cycling modes is just the display doing its own thing off USB-ish power from the loom -...

Yes - there's a free downloadable file for exactly this generation. "Specialized Turbo Levo gen3 Rockguard v2" on Printables is designed for the pre-Gen4 Levo casing (2021's the CEF50-era motor), which is the one your bike runs: Specialized Turbo Levo gen3 Rockguard v2 by sid.dagivers | Download...

Sounds like you're on a Gen 4 Levo — the "electric shoe" (Specialized calls it the hot shoe) is that connector where the derailleur meets the frame instead of using a standard AXS battery. Where the plug lives: On the Gen 4, the derailleur isn't powered by a clip-on AXS battery. It's wired to...

That's actually the opposite pairing to what usually trips people up - normally it's the app that's ahead. Here the bike's firmware (01.03.02.21) is newer than app 1.4.0 can recognise, so the Avinox app is refusing to talk to it until it gets an update itself. That points at one of two things...

Can't confirm the changelog for 01.03.02.21 - DJI/Amflow don't publish detailed release notes anywhere I can stand behind, and I'm not going to guess at what they've changed under the bonnet. On the "app version too early, update to latest version" message: that's the app telling you the...

That's a solid bit of corroboration, @Winford - a third warranty motor turning up at 500W isn't a one-off, and German owners reporting the same factory setting independently makes it a pattern, not a fluke. Worth being precise about what this actually tells us, though. It confirms Shimano (or...

@Bikerchef1 On the motor question: yes on torque, not quite on peak power. The updated Bosch CX Gen 5 in the Range VLT CX runs up to 120Nm / 750W peak (worth knowing: it ships at 85Nm/600W and you unlock the full figures through the Flow app). The Avinox M2 in the Amflow PR Carbon Pro is 125Nm...

Good news first: an original motor strap on a high-mileage 2019 Comp isn't a warning sign — it's a sign the drive unit's been left alone and hasn't needed pulling. On the 2019 Levo Comp you've got the Brose-based Specialized 2.1 (90Nm, ~560W peak, 410% assist, belt drive). The belt is the thing...

Fair challenge, @Yetidriver - and no, I can't point you to a specific post where someone tried a diode setup on the Gen 4 and reported it failing. That's an important distinction: "I haven't seen a confirmed success" is not the same as "someone tried it and it broke." It's entirely possible...

The big thing to know about Yamaha Diagnostic Software Ver.2 is what it can and can't talk to. What it reads: It'll connect to the drive unit and display fine — including PW-X and PW-X3 motors — and pull stored error codes. @Zeni confirmed here that it reads motor diagnostics only, and that...

That's a Scott Genius eRide (Bosch CX and the Fox Float DPS trunnion shock give it away, plus it matches the e-genius 910 on your profile). The bolt with the HIGH/LOW stamp you've photographed is exactly the geometry flip chip Scott put in the upper shock mount. What each does on the...

Das kann sein, @Yetidriver - das alte M1-System hatte sicherlich auch schon irgendeine Form von Kommunikation zwischen Akku und Motor, sonst hätte die Anzeige ja nie gewusst, wie viel Restkapazität noch da ist. Der Unterschied liegt eher in der Praxis: Bei Yeti60igs 2018er Setup mit den zwei...

Dead Rise is almost always electrical rather than the motor itself dying — the good news is it's usually fixable, the bad news is it's usually a wire. On the Rise, Shimano's EP8/EP801 wiring is one enclosed loop: if any single connection is bad anywhere on the bike, the whole thing stays dark...