Recent content by Rás Cnoic

I missed this bike (due to EMTB blanket coverage of Avinox/Goboa) this is a new urban ebike with the Goboa eCVT system at Eurobike. It reminds me of the Vanmoof when it arrived with that enclosed chainguard rather than a belt drive. Not sure why no belt? Anyway, this has an interesting...

Interesting thoughts about eCVTs online right now. So Decathlon had to recall all three models with Owaru drives last December (25) due to a software issue that caused backwards ghost pedaling. Something to do with the dual motors not syncing properly. They acted promptly and a free firmware...

A local bike mechanic friend had a Vado SL 5 in his workshop when I visited today. Bike had just had a full motor overhaul, sent off to one of the E Bike motor repair shops. £350 or so I think he said, not bad at all for more years of reliable riding. Anyway first time I got to pick one up and...

I posted about that Decathlon/Owuru motor on here at the time, but I didn't take in that it was a CVT motor or what that meant, just assumed it was a slightly different take on a mechanical gearbox with cogs etc. I saw an Italian rider review at the time on the 920 commuter bike, cycling in the...

Here's a look at the Intradrive motor at Eurobike and a chat with Ed (the owner?) I put this clip in the Eurobike tread as well:

Special part of hell for developers. ...Though they'll tell you it's south facing with great views and much better then the lawyers or politicians sectors...

instead of a flat bar conversion - words that make me wince* - the Creo is already quite high stack, short reach (endurance geo), & the Spesh hover bars have 15 or 20mm rise already. I bet if you tried one and added a few spacers (before fork gets the chop) and swapped in a short stem... Or for...

So the Scottish Intradrive MGU gets a look at by Alex Bike Tester and a good chat about it. Robust design and engineering (Scottish winter mountainbiking!) It looks exactly that and Ed from Intradrive confirms it could fit to frames with existing Shimano EP8 mounts. Interesting rumour that...

Again sorry about the crappy AI translation on this video. Felt it was worth a look as this one looks at a lot of smaller ebike companies. The English language YTers seem to concentrate on emtbs when there are a lot of interesting companies making motors for commuter and cargo bikes as well...

Seixas just offered €13M contract by Q36.5. Probably won't be the only offer. Cha-Ching!

Onley out, no surprise after the awful crash at Alp Rhone, was lucky apparently he wasn't badly - life changingly - injured in that ravine. It means Ineos won't have a leadership dilemma like Bora, though not a reason they'd like. Onley is having a nightmare of a season from 4th TdF last July to...

What a pavlova.

I'm trying to work this out from the management angle. So Lip finished third to Jonas and Pog. If they both got hit by lightning he'd have won the Tour De France. Better than all the rest. At the same time he never once threatened to beat either and no sign he will this year. But would he do...

Starting to look at the teams starting line ups. Bora, and I must admit I'm always sceptical about the Bora DS tactics! So they have Remco & Lipowitz and are apparently sharing leadership duties. Lipowitz 3rd last year, must be thrilled.

Ouch. Yeah climbing alps with groin stitches. And in a massive heatwave. Ouch ouch. I remember Kelly was doing really well in 86 I think and then got a boil -in that area- eventually had to be pulled from his bike. Ended up in tears in the team car. And hard man Kelly never cried. They said it...