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    Eco sucks!

    ECO up and TURBO down = max elevation and max smiles.
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    The Best ebikes for 2024

    Specialized Kenevo is still the best bike ever made! :)
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    Rotor wear

    I replace my rotors every 4th set of pads. I measure them too, but don't push the limits of wear anymore. Usually rotors don't wear completely evenly and as the wear performance drops off. Of course I'm only getting 300ish miles out of a set of pads and 1200 on a rotor.
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    Are you faster on a normal bike?

    NO I'm always faster on my Kenevo that I know like the back of my hand with custom tuned suspension and DH tires.
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    Dork disc. To remove or not remove.....that is the question.

    Dork disks are just as likely to screw up you wheel/chain as they are to prevent it. I remove all of them immediately.
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    Do's and Don'ts for e-bike battery care. What do you do to keep your battery performing at its best?

    It's actually pretty easy to measure battery degradation if you have the correct tools. The BMS could do this, but most manufactures don't share this information. The internal resistance gives a near perfect picture of the health of the battery. To test it you need to keep place a constant...
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    Do's and Don'ts for e-bike battery care. What do you do to keep your battery performing at its best?

    Get a wifi controlled plug. Then you can set timers, programs for early morning charging and even start charging from work so it's ready when you get home. As others have said. Let it cool after a ride Keep it at 60% Charge to 100% just before you ride. This balances the batteries and as...
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    Who's got the highest mile bike & motor?

    The motors and electronics are identical. All 700 batteries are the same as well. S-works is just the parts bolted to it. There are 3 Levo frames with decreasing total weight limits. 300lb aluminum, 275lb heavy carbon(comp) and 240lb light carbon(expert and s-works).
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    Do's and Don'ts for e-bike battery care. What do you do to keep your battery performing at its best?

    I get closer to 25-30 miles per cycle and 7000ft+ climbing. Not all miles are equal. All of mine are straight up or straight down. I'm very tall and tend to wear out parts fast, even with proper care.
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    Do's and Don'ts for e-bike battery care. What do you do to keep your battery performing at its best?

    Proper care vs just plug it in and don't worry about it will increase it's lifetime 2-3x. So many people don't care and are proud of it. It's like the shocks on your car they wear out so slow it's hard to notice the day to day degradation A well cared for battery should last 12-15kmiles. At...
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    Can you damage a carbon frame (say cracking the top tube) by bouncing it on it's back wheel to get it dry (asking for a friend)?

    I jump off 10+ foot drops and am 200lbs. Bottoming out the suspension at least 100 times in the last 2 years. With a 600lb spring that's over 1800lbs on the yoke, pivots and close to 800lbs on the wheels and fork. If you drop a bike to shake off the water and it breaks, well you get the idea.
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    Do's and Don'ts for e-bike battery care. What do you do to keep your battery performing at its best?

    It's a 42v 4 amp output. At 115v it's less than 2 amps even after factoring in loses.
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    Who's got the highest mile bike & motor?

    I feel that elevation is a better metric then time or distance. I'm close to 900,000 feet over the 4300 miles.
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    Who's got the highest mile bike & motor?

    4300 miles on my kenevo. Original motor. 15+ sets of brake pads. 1 full set of bearings and a couple sets shock yoke bearings. Custom build and it's holding up great
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    Rotor size/lever leverage/stopping distance discussion

    For my bike setup 180 lack the power to stop me, 200 work but requires too much hand force and I can feel them overload on 1 section of trail. 220 give me the best feel and more consistent braking. Better consistency leads to more confidence in where the limit is. I have experienced this on my...
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    Rotor size/lever leverage/stopping distance discussion

    During prolonged threshold braking the interface of the pad and rotor reach a temperature range that starts to decrease the friction coefficient. At this point you need to pull harder to keep the same breaking rate. Adding more pressure doesn't add a linear amount of stopping power...
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    Rotor size/lever leverage/stopping distance discussion

    Stopping distance is not just a matter of crushing the level and locking the wheel. There is a ramp in power from the hydraulic system. There is a ramp in power from the temperature rise of the pads and rotor. There is a decrease in power as gas is expelled from the pads and forms a boundary...
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    Rotor size/lever leverage/stopping distance discussion

    It's not just a physics argument. You are trying to extract maximum stopping distance in an analog system with consequences. If was as simple as can the brake produce more friction than the tire over the stopping distance, we would be done. The answer is NO, adding additional brake power...
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    Do's and Don'ts for e-bike battery care. What do you do to keep your battery performing at its best?

    Charge to 100 at least once every 5 charges and there is no benefits in going under 20%.
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    Would my Turbo Levo be too slow on the road?

    You would need to de-restrict, fit road style tires and put a bigger chainring on. Even then you will get accelerated wear of the chain and cassette. Only using the small cogs on the rear wears them at a high rate. A road style ebike should have a 50 front chainring.
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