Similar story for me. As long as MTX is around, ALL my bikes will wear their pads. Period.
They have a few options, I don’t feel obligated to get the pad they think i need, I get whichever I want for each bike.
I don’t think I’m using an ebike pad on my Kenevo, and I don’t care about wear or...
WOOOOW!
My non-e-bike has a frame that weighs 2.877 kg bare. Your Kenevo is 2.7 kg bare! (probably 2.877 kg after you add the linkage bearings in :))
My non-e-bike "can weigh" 30 pounds if I didn't have a boner for DH class tires and coil spring suspension. So it weighs around 31-32 lb.
That...
I have thought exactly that. once the opening is supported, you should be GTG. Could be machined aluminum too.
Not my wheelhouse, so I won't go there. But as a concept it really evaporated because (for me):
a) the motor drag is unacceptable
b) the bike weighs 49 lb (22.2kg). Without the...
Don't get me wrong, I hear you loud and clear. I would just rather see a non-e conversion BB housing to let it freewheel cleanly.
But since you do what I wanted to do originally before finding out the motor saps effort, Have you ever smashed the downtube on something? Seems like the battery...
Yep. And I guarantee you are spending a not-insignificant portion of your effort driving the motor. Like riding the bike with 5 psi taken out of the tires. It rides fine. No, really.
only a super-heavy 2020 Kenevo here, but even if I went weight weenie on it, the brose to me has significant drag, so much so that at any weight it would be a significant portion of pedal effort
my s4 with 740 wH batt, 1400g DH tires F/R, and 220 rotor is 26.5 kg. That's why I'm curious about the frame weight.
Might be academic since no one who buys a Kenevo cares about weight per-se (to a point), but it is interesting nonetheless.
I always used online documentation of the hub and rim to determine that. If I had a built wheel, I'd probably pull one spoke and just measure it. Normally if I care about spoke length it's because I have a hub and rim I bought separate and I need to make it work.
Here's a dumb question I can't...
I have questions.
I'm trying to get the smart assist function working. The goal is to tie the assist to heart rate so I can get boosted assist when my HR is high, and suppress it when my HR drops too low. To me, this is the #1 advantage of Blevo and I want to experiment with it.
I use an apple...
6’3” here long legs on a 2020 Kenevo and I’m so glad I got an S4. I like to get off the ground at least a little and an S5 would make it that much harder. If I only liked steep super sketchy downhill (and I DO!), the S5 might be nicer as a purpose specific machine. But I think the S4 for me is...