Recent content by ava1ar

But not Specialized, right?

Nothing - wearing one of those on my wrist right now. Not a mainstream anymore, but still valued by those who want their watches just to tell time :)

If they are using something like a coin batteries, it less the problem - you can swap it with new one - no need to have cable, charger, wait, etc. However, direct wiring to battery makes it more practical. One important note here is this wiring, even if possible, often require long cables wired...

IGH person here, who didn't ride with derailleur and chain for 10+ years. One question I have here reading the discussion - why do we need more batteries and charging on ebike, which already have huge battery installed and wired? This is such an omission in my opinion. Do Shimano or SRAM produce...

Thats more than mine, but somehow their mirrors never lasted longer than a season for me.

Well, probably matter of terrain and distances. Do you ride outside of smooth pavement? How many miles you have with these mirrors so far? New mirrors are all-metal, not much to break there. Main challenge was mounting and limited adjustment options.

No. Those claps are re-used from my old Hafny mirrors and pretty much same as yours. So yes, adjustments are quite tedious to do, but I don't need to do them often. The clamps from my mirrors were very bulky to be used on my quite small and busy handlebars, so keeping the old clamps was...

Those failed twice for me - plastic is not durable and prone to cracking unfortunately. Great they work for you! They are nice mirrors.

Which one do you have? As I mentioned in original post, I got 2 of E13 broken at the same exact place before switching to current metal ones.

Returning to this one almost 3 years later - they still alive! I had to redo the mounting for the left one, but otherwise they are just working! Here is the actual photo:

Sorry to hear :( What did you get instead? There is a gap on the market for the ultra long range ebikes (> 100 miles) unfortunately. This was potentially a first such option, but it failed.

Yeah, so those. I would actually buy one probably if they would be the proper size, but they are not :( I need 135/10, those are 142/12 and one is 148/10-12. I won't be buying hub as extra for shifter which even in best days cost < $100. I probably missed the window when existing owners/small...

Might be. However it works for brakes, why can't it work for shifting? However with electric is here, this what most will use in future and this is fine - it works well enough and exist in many form to match the ask.

well, it depends. One things where oil is superior is hidden installation and angles - you can apply pretty much any shape to it and it works exactly the same. Cable is much more demanding to the maintaining the as straight as possible installation to make it work and doesn't like angles at all...

Yes, there are folks on this forum who are doing it routinely :)