Recent content by jwb

Oh, the flickering on my bike stops if I turn it on during charging.

Why do you remove the battery? Are you obligated to park it outside, or you have to go upstairs to charge it, or ??

LOL if that were my bike, that would be the cleanest chainring in my bike barn.

Mikes Bikes in Berkeley is also the shop that solved this problem for me. Their mechanics seem to be OK on Turbo problems.

You've met one now. I live at about 250m above sea level and I climb that on the way home every time. No worries at all with the base model Turbo hub motor and the smallest battery.

Yes, this sounds very much like my freehub noise. I took it to the shop and they fixed it. I'm not sure exactly how. They said they lubricated the freehub. Since that doesn't square with my understanding of how a freehub is constructed, I remain confused. Nevertheless, my Turbo is now...

This is the inherent problem with mid-drive electrics. Bike chains and gears are designed for people, and these new bikes are tripling the force. Hub drive forever!

I'm currently using a Shimano RT86 rotor, M8000 caliper, and H01A resin pads. The combination is totally silent.

That is a great ad. The hill in the video is De Haro Street, between 19th and 20th, in San Francisco, California, USA. It's a 19% monster. https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7610692,-122.4012162,3a,75y,176.25h,80.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sD8_W8IxKyq85eWvnA7fcOg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

On the mid drives, checking the chain wear is much more important. On the hub drives your chain wear should be normal (you will get > 5000 km from a quality chain). I used to have a 7-mile off-road trip to work each day and in those days I had to clean and oil the chain constantly. These days...

Same symptom for me. A kind of creaking sound that disappears after backpedal and comes back after a moment. They said they lubricated the freewheel. I dunno but it’s silent now.

19000km! Nice work. Mine just rolled 4000 miles. I replaced the bb, cranks, chainwheels, chain, both brakes, and serviced the freehub. Running clean and quiet now, no worries at all.

I finally got around to swapping in Deore XT M8000 brakes on my Turbo and I am so happy. It got rid of that damned squeaking sound that the Formula master cylinders make when you release them. Yay.

I changed my BB and chainring with a Praxis Zayante M30 direct-mount 42T. I wish I'd changed to a 42T a long time ago! Now I can actually use my 11T sprocket that was never needed with the 48T.

Thanks. I wish they were not equally prominent in the catalog.