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mcdenny replied to the thread Turbo Vado 2 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0?.Hi rochrunner, I see you are in Rochester Hills MI. My wife and I are OU grads and I lived basically at the intersection of 26 mile...
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mcdenny replied to the thread Turbo Vado 2 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0?.Weird, when I ordered my bike on Jan 20, Spec showed 10+ in stock and the bike arrived the LBS said it would be at their store in 5-7...
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mcdenny replied to the thread Turbo Vado 2 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0?.It's a Turbo Vado SL 2 5.0 step through. Color is called something like deep lake blue matte. It looks blue-green in the picture but...
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mcdenny replied to the thread Turbo Vado 2 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0?.New Bike Day finally arrived. It only took about ten days from order with LBS to delivery but the weather here in Nashville has been...
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mcdenny replied to the thread 2026 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos.RABH, what beautiful scenery. Making me think of vacationing in Scotland next summer.
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I forgot to mention in my last post about my 100 mile ride, my heated gloves lasted for the whole ride at the lowest setting and I... -
mcdenny replied to the thread Turbo Vado 2 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0?.Do you agree that "enhanced speed" is probably meters/second? If your "toast" level is 150 watts I'm impressed!
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The free gotoes website i posted above is super easy, drop the fit file and get a csv back, ready for excel. i have many thousands of...
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Fair enough. I'll resist the urge to throw up my hands till I have a few FIT files under my belt. But first, I should design some...
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it's interesting that the .fit file contains headers for almost every cycling parameter you could imagine, including "ebike_assist_mode"...
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i'd find a hill of around 5%, ideally at least 300' of climb, no stops, keep cadence around 80, heart rate at a steady sustainable value...
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mcdenny replied to the thread Turbo Vado 2 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0?.Had one other thought - that maybe the drop off in motor power at the high end of rider power was due to the Class one cut off of 20...
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mcdenny replied to the thread Turbo Vado 2 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0?.Good catch and reassuring that the Specialized published motor specs are accurate.
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mcdenny replied to the thread Turbo Vado 2 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0?.https://www.fitfileviewer.com/ Download the fit file, open it with the file viewer, export as csv file, open the csv with excel.
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Now, multiply the Pm electrical by 0.79 then the true mechanical power would be 414 W and Bmax equal to 2.76. If we take 430/525= 0.82...
