Recent content by Randy

I can’t get my head around cutting a honking great hole in the down tube - it’s just wrong from an engineering standpoint, especially after painstakingly removing removing every gram from the motor and the battery. Shame the clip on batteries are out of fashion, Lapierre glp3 with the new 800wh...

They have no size small, their size m is over 20mm longer than my current bikes

Looks to me that there are a couple of things going on with the battery size... Size small is not available on the Amflow, the battery is long and thin, guessing it's using the same cells as the Bosch. So, choice is short fat and ugly but accommodates a full range of sizes or long thin and...

Thats proper 'thumb in the air' stuff though. My range can vary 10% day to day on the same bike, depending on how tired I am, and it only takes small adjustments to the support strategy to make big changes in range. It would be interesting to do the maths...

The whole range conversation seems to me a bit unnecessary. In the end, the actual efficiency differences from motor to Motor are minute so range is dictated by more significant factors. So its battery size less, bike tyre efficiency, trail conditions and then, importantly, how much assist you...

Does anyone have info on whether a size small is on the way?

Great, thanks, that makes sense. Ive done the Swiss National DH track so know my way at least that far - Ill look forward to this next time Im there.

I don't suppose you know whether there is a map of the 'Col du Cou' ride - always wanted to do it but haven't worked out the route. I often holiday in Morzine/Les Gets with the family, it's a great place with lovely atmosphere. With the E-Bike it's great to go and explore and avoid the main...

My go to tyres are the Michelin Wild/Force combo... They roll well, side wall are robust without weighing a bomb, grip pretty well and progressive and don't wear that fast...

Both times Ive had e10 errors its required replacement motors :-(. To be fair, first one that bricked went into remission after I cleaned and greased the motors connectors but the inevitable happened in fairly short order. My opinion is they suffer from water ingress which can't be dealt with...

If you want lively and poppy don't buy the Vitus - its a plough bike. I'm on a 2020 E-Sommet which is great but if I were to swap with anything it would probably be the Orbea.

Sorry - did a typo, meant to say boat anchor battery! The EP8 is a good bit of kit in my eyes, bit more power than e8000 and 300g lighter. Not as powerful as others but if you're riding any distance you don't want to kill your range running full power so who cares. The stock 630wh battery...

At least there are a few brands doing the fucking obvious and ditching the boat anchor Shimano motor BATTERY and not cutting all the integrity out of the down tube.

Just treated mine to new bearings, rebuilt shock and fork and another new motor (on my third now). Looking forward to riding it… was feeling a little wooden, all the bearing were seized solid and the fork fooked.

Interesting. For me the 630wh battery doesn't really work... Wh/kg its far worse than the old battery and I've got comfortable enough having a spare in the rucksack most of the time so have a lighter bike + 1000Wh to use.