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Yeah doing ‘hot’ battery swaps wouldn’t be the quickest, not the worst either but I wouldn’t want to do it regularly. My 10spd setup so far is spot on - haven’t missed anything more than the 32T on the back, I even think I could run a slightly bigger chainring on this. I forgot just how good...

My office is about 50m down the garden, so it’s a bit pointless 😆 My physical offices are in London, Tokyo or California, so also not feasible, although I do still enjoy a C2W bike 😎

That’s the one thing I will miss. I won’t miss much else about it though. Keeping it on my Fuel+ & naturally aspirated bike though, much more suitable.

I’ve just got the bits for my 10spd setup. XTR M980 shifter XTR rear mech with Saint M820 short cage SRAM XG 1080 cassette. KMC E10 chain. Saved a huge amount of weight on X0 T-Type & have a stronger, more suitable & more reliable drivetrain.

Honestly. What’s a load of of guff. We have bikes in our garage with G5 Bosch motors, Avinox M1’s & and M2S & I can’t think of one occasion where I’ve hopped on the latest & had to ‘relearn & upskill’ riding up hills 😆 If all people are interested in is riding up hills of varying technicality...

Still haven’t changed my view on this bike, the TQ system & its versatility. Happy to rate it as one of the top 5 bikes I’ve ridden (motor or not). Running it in stock EX mode as I have a FF long travel bike as well, although I’m curious to put a 65mm stroke shock on it as I plan to use it in...

Hoping for a modern version of EX1 (really don’t need anything bigger than a 36T cassette on a modern EMTB groupset). I’d even given up the auto shift & go back to cables (really not that bothered by wireless either on an EMTB). If it’s too much range for the Saint mech, my second plan was one...

It was either this one or the base spec colour for me, but given I was using up some favour tokens, I didn’t have a lot of choice. I don’t mind the raw / black with the orange writing, but the orange forks, Kashima gold & then other colours just seems to clash horribly. I went the other way...

Yep will be keeping the Druid as my other half mostly rides that & I just steal it as & when I feel like it.

I have both. They are very different beasts. The Druid is a very capable bike, and in the builds they did (Zebs / Vivid) it’s probably enough bike for nearly all situations, although it kind of didn’t make sense in the space it sat, with the bikes it had. Having now ridden the Dreadnought a...

I guess I put my money where my mouth is & have a Dreadnought. But equally I would have the new Whyte Karve. I’m not super driven to keep an Avinox bike, I’d happily pick a Norco Sight/Range over the Mith as well. In fact if you told me I could only have one bike, I’d keep my Fuel+ over it as...

It’s almost a like for like build against the Mith I had & it’s heavier than that (giving some away on the motor & clearly the frame is more overbuilt). Second ride today cut short, as sadly they pinched the hardwire cable to the rear mech so I ended up having to single speed my way round. Even...

I’m not an owner of a Mith but I have spent a lot of time riding one over a couple of periods in the last 7/8 months. It is undoubtedly a fast bike (in certain situations) but it is not without its idiosyncrasies. It’s an absolute pain in the ass to set up & get a ‘balanced’ feel. The...

So my frame arrived yesterday & I spent the evening building it up. Ended up at 22.8kg as it is. Went for a quick shakedown ride today & it was as I remembered the blacked out proto - essentially a Druid Core on all of the steroids. I’m a fan of how Fobiddens ride, so it all came fairly...

That’s the beauty of the bike market now, it’s not just cookie cutter designs with a different logo on the front of the head tube. If you want to prioritise something that can be more lively you can pick something a bit more traditional / generic & size it accordingly & those who have tried...

You can’t isolate reach as the front half measurement of the bike, you have to consider stack height. The span measurement on the Druid & Dreadnought is comparable to bikes with+15/20mm on the reach number & a more ‘traditional’ stack height. They just go about it a different way (which is a...

Uprise did….

I can add a bit of context to this now, as earlier this year we had our bikes stolen & included in that was our MTe. With supply of the Treks now good, and courtesy of some very nice contacts, I got a substantially discounted Fuel+ to replace the Yeti. I always wanted another mid power bike as...

Somehow managed to snag myself an S3 Tier 2 frame, which should be here next week. We’re keeping the Druid & this will replace a Mith which is sitting dormant in the garage. Just got to go through the fun of a build for it (Rockshox based).

I thought we had got past this random ‘fact claiming’ of inefficiency 😆 I’ve owned or ridden many G5 CX & Avinox bikes & when you run them at comparable outputs, they still get comparable range & elevation. I haven’t ever ridden the Druid & come back wondering why I couldn’t get the same...