Recent content by salubrious_k

Hello all, I realised I never updated everyone on my choice and my thoughts about it. In the end I went with the Jam2 6.8 and I am very, very happy with it. I'm using it almost entirely for cross-country tours (sections of King Alfred's Way - that kind of thing) or trail riding Surrey Hills of...

Looks great! Love the colour of your Cube too! I took these the other day, after you asked, and then forgot to post them. Doh! Oh well... I'll post them now for the next person. These photos are more of the routing - 1) entering the frame 2) coming through the top of the downtube 3) leaving...

Ah! I have an update. I fitted an internally routed dropper post about a week ago. I got Crank Brothers Highline 3 with internal routing in the end as I wanted something with 100mm of travel. The internal routing was fairly straight forward. It took me about an hour. There's a special housing...

Just in case anyone is interested I thought I'd mention that Decathlon UK has a few Small and Medium size full suspension EMTB in stock - £3500 and very good spec. I've actually bought the EMTB I was planning now but I'm glad to see the Google script I set up to poll their API every 5 mins...

Hah! I'm lugging around about 40kg more than her! All muscle of course! ;P

Great! Thanks @MrPeaski! That answers my question. I have it on good authority that that is a Thron2 battery with spacer. I now understand I would also have to switch the battery covers (as the Focus and Cube ones will be different) but as I want to make it a permanent switch I think that...

That's impressive! I've been eyeing up a 95km ride out of London and through the surrey hills to visit my mum (and stay the night). I think I could do it on the 625Wh battery but I'm not sure about 500Wh Good advice about buyer's remorse! I don't do many trails but I do love it when I'm on...

Aha! Again, amazing advice @GrahamPaul! My wife's bike arrives on Saturday! So I'll check out whether it's a vertical or horizontal battery when it arrives. I'm guessing that theoretically I could unscrew the bashguards and just swap them but perhaps it's better for me to just wait another...

Hello again, another random question... hopefully someone will have tried this.... Has anyone tried to put a Bosch 500Wh Powertube with spacer attached (to make it the same length as a 625Wh Powertube) into a 625Wh Cube Stereo Hybrid? Here is a photo of a 625Wh and 500Wh battery with spacer...

Thanks again @GrahamPaul! And interesting to hear you have both a Jam2 and a Thron2 in your family! As it feels like this is my choice... get a Thron2 for definite now or wait 1-X months to hopefully get a Jam2. I'm not going to be doing big jumps or really gnarly stuff so I'm not sure which is...

Thanks @GrahamPaul! That's really useful! And is it easy to swap when out on the trail? Do you just need the key? Or a hex key? And I guess you need to be in the dry at the time? I'm trying to work out whether going for a 500Wh bike and having a spare battery in my rucksack for full days is a...

Hello all, I've been looking into getting a Thron2 or Jam2 with a 625Wh battery but it looks like my only option in the short-term might be a Thron2 6.7 with a 500Wh battery. As I might look to get another battery, or swap the battery for a 625Wh, I wanted to know how a 500Wh battery is set up...

Hello all, I'm hoping to get a Stereo Hybrid 120 Pro delivered early next week (not for me - this one is for my very lucky family!). One of the first things I want to do is to fit a dropper post. I know that I'll want a 30.9mm post, and I won't want much travel (my wife and daughter won't need...

Do you know what height this is suitable for?

@Tubby G - Thanks! That's really good advice! II hadn't thought about security when bikepacking and you're quite right. I guess it's still possible with something like an AirBnb where you're hiring somewhere where you can bring the bike inside but that would get expensive very quickly.