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You are probably right there, but if it comes down to selling a motor or nothing at all, that might change things.

Things might change with the way the bike industry is going and seeing that Specialized is struggling to shift product. They may see a market for motor upgrades, as I assume when demand was really high there were no motors spare to sell separately.

Specialized must be in a bit of hurt at the moment. I bought a new Stumpjumper a couple of months ago and got $3000 AU off the marked price and now it's $1000 less than that.

Yes, you would swap TCUs as well, but you need a Specialized dealer to recalibrate them for the different wheel size. It may work out cheaper depending on what you sold your KSL1 for, but you do then end up with two bikes that you have voided the warranty on, and a kid's bike that you may not...

Unfortunately, from what I have heard, it's not quite that easy. You need to source full sized cranks (different cranks to the old 1.1 motor and not interchangeable) and get the TCU remapped for the bigger wheels (hopefully you have a good relationship with your local dealer). You will have to...

There're already places that either repair Ebike motors and/or sell replacement parts so you can do it yourself. The motors don't have to be boat anchors after the warrantee ends.

I have found a couple of bike shops in the past changing parts a bit too prematurely, so these days I just do it myself. I have a chain checker and replace the chain once it gets to the 0.7 wear and only replace the cassette if it either slips or the shifting is poor. This usually happens when...

No, I haven't had that issue. I do get the odd occasion where I will turn it on, and it turns itself off again, so I have to push the on button for the second time.

Mine seems to have sorted itself out now. After a few charges going to 100% it's now back to an 80% charge. Maybe it needed a few full cycles to balance the cells.🤷‍♂️

Has the new update worked for you? The new Specialized app is saying everything is fine and the battery charge limit is set to 80% but it's still doing full charges. :unsure:

I'd be interested to see what the battery consumption is with the assistance set the same as the old bike. From what I have heard it's only above the 1.1 power limit, will the 1.2 use more battery as that's where the additional power is made.

That would be and expensive purchase, especially since they will grow out of it in less than two years.😬

That's one thing I like about my SL over most the FF bikes I've ridden. It doesn't feel like your brakes are dragging when the power cuts out.

I suppose it's personal preference. Some will argue that the 27.5 wheel will accelerate faster, turn in easier and be less likely to buzz you butt. At least with the 29er rear you can burn out your old worn front tyres on the rear! ;)

You would still have the bottle cage, for a bottle or any other thing you wanted to put in there but the range extender battery would mount somewhere different. Kind of like having your cake and eating it. ;)

If they made the range extender like the old style Ebike batteries that just attached to the frame on their own mount instead of using the bottle mount it would be preferable. Maybe not ideal having the weight up high in this instance but you could design the frame around it, so it was lower.

I came here just to see such a comment!

That type of ride is the equivalent for me of a 40 something km ride on a normal bike. It was fairly tough going in places, while restricting the assistance and I was feeling pretty tired at the top of the climb. The thing I really like, is by resisting the higher assistance settings early in...

Got the new charger and it's all good again. Hopefully that is just a once off.

Did my biggest Ebike ride on the SL on the weekend. Still impressed with the range I can get out of this thing. 90% single track, rode in eco or off as much as possible but only off on the flat or down hill sections. Still used boost for a few tough climbs and trail on the less steep sections...