GeordieDownSouth
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Thanks man that’s very helpful, I’m ignoring it for now as it gets me around what i do at the moment and I’ll be interested to see if it just doesn’t like winter temps when the UK finally warms up, i know my wifes car is currently about 25% less on range due the temperature, it’s a great bike, i just want to be able to do big days out on it also!Hey Geordie, yeah, hopefully we can get some info on range extension options. I was following your posts here regarding your underperforming battery, and just wanted to mention that I was talking to my friend, who is a Cannondale dealer here in the US, and he just bought himself a Moterra SL 1. I was checking out his freshly built bike today, which passed my highly technical parking lot slalom test with flying colors and it "stuck" my rear wheel drop test!His bike, for the record, was about 45.5lbs in stock spec, and 48lbs with Doubledown tires, Cushcore, XT enduro pedals, and a fork swap from a Fox 36 to a 38. He happened to mention that the early models they'd received all had battery issues, but they were able to warranty the batteries and they've had no problems since then. He didn't know how or what they had changed, and I'm not sure what date your battery was made relative to any changes, but it might be worth perusing a warranty swap if you have one of the early ones off the production line.
It seems like e-bike manufacturers really need to step up in regard to reliability. I rented/hired a Turbo Levo for a week and, in that short time, I had several instances where the system shut off for no apparent reason, which required unhooking the battery connector cable, and reaffixing it, to get things running again. I couldn't find any problem that could be remedied, nor could the shop from which I rented it. It was just, as you say, a "quirk" to be learned and managed. I also had a total motor failure during that week, which required the rental shop doing an overnight motor swap. Luckily for me, it seems that motor failures of that type were common enough that they had extra motors on hand, and the motor failure happened near the end of my ride, so I didn't need to pedal the thing out of the deep woods unassisted, but it could have been a real nightmare. Its a weird paradox that there is an awkward middle ground where failures are less common (a good thing) but they become uncommon enough that they manufacturer doesn't stock the dealer with spares to have on hand (a bad thing), so you could actually end up with more downtime.
