Bogdan_CH
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Short answer : never enough 
How much vert do you typically climb/descend in a session?
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Wife and I got eMTBs so that we can get up to the top of the downs that really give us a buzz. Both used to ride supemotos so we know that as long as the front is right then even if it's playing silly buggers the back will finally follow.
Yes if we went down first I definitely wouldn't bother going back up.
Flat and up is the price to be paid for having a buzz on the way down. It's addictive so always want steeper downs, which means ever steeper ups - which is why we got eMTBs. Also a bonus to be able to do longer rides.
Yeah ..you must have to travel quite a way to find a decent hill to go down in your part of the world
From home 5 miles on a cycle path (Centurion Way) to the South Downs which is 'quite a big place', but a small area compared to your local rides I think ...Yeah ..you must have to travel quite a way to find a decent hill to go down in your part of the world
87 minutes this morning. 20km and 462m of up and I assume Dow as we started and finished in the same place.
For some reason my old app always used to say I did slightly more down than up, but I can’t figure out why as I always start and finish in the same place
For some reason my old app always used to say I did slightly more down than up, but I can’t figure out why as I always start and finish in the same place
I think I need to set altitude on levo it differs from mates trek every ride . So I presume I must put in actual correct altitude. A reset would put it to zero I presume.87 minutes this morning. 20km and 462m of up and I assume Dow as we started and finished in the same place.
For some reason my old app always used to say I did slightly more down than up, but I can’t figure out why as I always start and finish in the same place
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I've gone the other way now. I withstand the pedal up on the mtb (im 50/50 E mtb) get to the top and go ok, now time for the fun.
On the E i'm like lets see what crazy shit i can climb. I guess its a new learning curve. I've literally pedaled around the world in distance twice if not 3 times in my mtb life. So I know in depth what i can achieve on a pedal bike. Enter the E.... I wonder I can climb that set of stairs or tech section?
One if the sweet sweet surprises for me when i jumped on the E band wagon was the fact that i could ride a far more of my juicy hike a bikes. On the mtb i might get 50% before hiking, on the E its like 85% sometimes 95%. Its super cool to ride up something your would normally walk.
Totally agree the technical climbs are brilliant on a E . Manage about a dozen steps on it. Saying that I've fell so many times on climbing things I never attempted on mtb . A lightweight e bike would be great on climbing tech stuff. Levo a bit heavy . Now you're talking with your Amflow it's amazing.
I love trying to bomb up steep technical climbs, but recently I tried going as slow as possible up technical climbs that i have had a lot of trouble with certain lines in the past, and now im making them clean. Fun stuff.
Wouldn't mind some videos of technical climbing , millions of downhilling ones out there.
I am starting to love the “can I climb that stupid thing?” Attitude that comes with e-bikes. It took me a while to realise that on stupid, steep jank it helped to have the seatpost at about 50% and not full height - that was learned after some very awkward bails!
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