Recent content by mschwett

please for the love of god .. it's PEDAL :D

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-02-06/why-does-tesla-lose-to-this-chinese-ev-giant-in-almost-every-market https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9rjwpvmpzo https://www.idc.com/resource-center/blog/inflection-point-for-electric-vehicles/...

untrue, and patently so. both globally and in china.

it makes more sense that way. you might need to try pedaling at 600+ watts just to make sure there isn’t some rounding going on. my recollection was similar to jeremy’s that at 5/10 ease settings the motor did not work very well.

it’s odd that 0/100 on dynamic micro tune is not “motor off.” in regular micro tune, there is no 0 setting - 10/100 is the lowest on the table. they should have used a different name for the first parameter of dynamic micro tune, since it’s clearly not exactly the same as “ease” when...

decades ago I asked them what they had that was vegetarian, and the very grumpy manager said “NOTHING ITS NOT FOR VEGETARIANS ITS PANDA EXPRESS“ so I left and never came back.

they look very similar to the specialized 3d printed ones - which i really love, although the right shape is still key and i believe they’re made more for the weight-forward position of a road bike. the more narrow shape works best for me, like the fizik “vento antares” or the specialized...

a little more troubleshooting here (talking to myself!), using a longer gradual climb (15 minutes, around 600' climbed at a fairly steady 3-4%, no stops) i figured out why the mahle data points are so ... irregularly spaced in the downloaded json files. it records a data point every time the...

it's just soooo satisfying when you go to do something and the perfect tool is right there!!

i wonder what the pattern or logic is, there have been big sales on previous years’ models, and then they’re full price, and then back and forth again! you’d think they either have a lot of them or not….

New Old Stock a previous year’s model, but still new and unsold.

specialized has a certain number of bikes that only go to the stores, another number for consumers to buy direct on the website, and some other number which could end up elsewhere or both or so on. so if you go in and ask, what they see definitely doesn’t match the website. i bought a bike once...

gorgeous color! that color is called "Satin Deep Lake Metallic" for some reason all the sl2 step thru bikes are removed from specialized us site, still show up on many of the foreign sites

i reached out to mahle and shared this graph, and they said they accept a 5% difference +/- to another known good power meter, and would recommend replacing the bottom bracket sensor package. as with all things bikes, the question now is ... buy the two specialized tools that i'll likely never...

i have used this type of blackrapid strap to keep a camera at the ready while riding https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1927253-REG/blackrapid_361022_sport_x_extra_comfort_right_handed.html the camera attaches to a bit that slides around the long part of the strap, while the short padded...