Recent content by Avg_Joe

The CF Vado2 6.0 non-EQ has a carbon fork and seatpost and clocks in at 35.x lbs. This isn't too bad. I doubt the aluminum version will be less than 40 lbs. Curious tire choice - 700c x 47mm trekking tire. Add another +$100 to swap those out unless the bike is strictly for commuting. Pass.

This is the bike I've been waiting for, updated Vado w/ SL 1.2 motor. Ain't no way in hell I'm buying, though. It's become a pig. I'll continue riding my steel Dr. Dew and regular Vado. O well.

Yeow, back from the dead. No guns, no other weapon of any kind, no more flipping people off, I have finally learned to just say whatever and continue on my way. I did have a driver threaten to run me over. I blew him a kiss.

Grab a hacksaw and trim a bit off the bottom of the kickstand - can't remember how much I took off, but it wasn't much (maybe 2-3cm?) and the instability is gone. Bonus points for cutting it properly so it sits flat when deployed. The other thing that drove me nuts w/ the Vado kickstand is mine...

This is an area you have no idea what you're talking about; and you are a person in California building one-off bikes for an entirely different segment, not a multi-national corp catering to wide interests. Why you have to interject here is beyond me, but at least you didn't post eleventy pix of...

I have used FlatOut on 42, 44, 47mm tubeless tires now and it's mostly worked fine, typically never above 45psi and ordinarily high 30's/low 40's. Recently I had a problem with Specialized Pathfinder Pro 650bx47mm (tubeless), it kept losing air. I'd pump it up and could not find any leak via...

You could see some nominal improvement for a substantial investment. Swap out the front suspension fork for a carbon fork (or maybe alloy) and save up to 4 lbs. Wheels and tires for sure. Here again, carbon or a lightweight alloy + tubeless will save a couple of lbs front and rear. These 2...

On the other hand, my Vado 3 with the 530wh battery, 200lb rider, easily gets 70 miles or more per charge. I ride in Eco except for some nasty hills, now tuned to 10-30% assist; Sport I have set to 50-70%; and Turbo 80-100%. I used to have Eco set to 5-25% and could go even further. This is also...

Wow, that looks like a totally generic chainring. I wonder if the shop swapped it out or just grabbed the wrong one prior to building it? Anyway, I'd not lament the absence of the Praxis Wave ring, and instead just get a quality narrow-wide chainring and happily ride for thousands of miles...

Aside from the Aliexpress pimping, what makes this a "trekking" bike? It appears to be a Como with a bunch of stuff bolted on.

Our Como didn't have a rack until I added one. :) Point is, there's many places a light can be mounted, rack or not - seat stays, seat post for example.

This is easily overcome, as I did it on my wife's Como - not the same bike, but the principle is. Run the tailight cable out through a gap in the plastic motor cover, or very carefully drill or punch a hole in the plastic. Then you can run the wire wherever you want - I ran it along the...

I picked up some Lightweights Safety Tape at REI, it's really quite nice - multiple colors, extremely reflective. I don't know that putting any reflective tape on the helmet is going to help (I do anyway), so I also have the Planet Bike amber Blinky Buttons on both sides of my helmet. I've...

It is fantastic! We have greenways everywhere, plus the American Tobacco and Neuse River Trails, and 16+ mi of gravel in Umstead State Park (adjacent to RDU airport) There's over 100 miles of greenways just in Raleigh, then add all of the other towns, it has to be around 200+ miles. If you do...

Got it - for cooling. And understood on collecting crap, not exactly what a bike needs.