Recent content by rochrunner

It will be on Strava in a few hours. Not often that we get good riding weather at this time of year!

Thanks. I wasn't aware of an internal rechargeable battery -- I always thought that it just drew current from the main battery even when the bike is off. The fact that this is the first time in three years that it's done this makes me wonder if the internal battery is losing its charge capacity...

When I stored my 3-year-old SL 5.0 in the basement over the winter I was sure that I had at least 50% charge in the battery, but today when I got it up for its first ride of the year it wouldn't turn on. I short-pressed and long-pressed the power button but nothing doing. I couldn't believe that...

Late to this discussion and not about to read 128 previous responses, so just my sum-up here. Fortunately for my budget, I'm just not interested in the SL2, especially since I've made some changes to my SL 5.0 that make it perfect for my purposes now. My main reasons for not "upgrading" are: I...

While the altimeter in a Garmin GPS can't do a very good job of determining absolute altitude, it does calibrate itself at the beginning of a ride and can measure relative altitude gain and loss pretty well (assuming the weather does not change much during the ride). One thing that can also mess...

You can't really slide helical gears together so the forward gears in your tranny are always meshed but not connected to the shaft that they rotate on when their gear is not engaged. When you move the shifter, what you are doing is sliding a mechanism that disengages one set of gears and engages...

Without knowing specifically what's in the SL motor, it's likely that the gear noise we hear is due to having straight-cut gear teeth instead of quieter (and more expensive!) helical-cut gears. If anybody here remembers manual transmissions on cars ;), they use helical gears except for the less...

I bought my RE right after getting my SL 5.0 based on what I thought I'd be using the bike for. As is often the case, what I pictured doing didn't come true and in two riding seasons I have yet to have had a need for it. Mainly I was expecting to use it on multi-day tours where I might not be...

Another thing (or maybe not). I used my Range Extender on my Vado SL yesterday for the first time in a couple of years, and I seem to recall that the old app let you look at the individual charge levels of the extender vs the main battery instead of just giving the combined charge (e.g. "140%")...

Like any stem, you can get close by eye and then when riding you'll notice if you want to tweak it a bit. For me, any bit of misalignment really bugs me but rarely requires more than one repositioning.

Not e-bike related, but I was on a group tour along the C&O Towpath trail a number of years ago. Most were on some sort of hybrid but one couple had Trek "Crossrip" bikes with full fenders. We were all envying the way they were staying clean on some muddy sections until they started coming to...

As a follow-up to my post about my changes for 2024, the bike -- good enough last year -- now rides like a (silent) dream! It's even smoother than before with the wider tires at a lower pressure, and between the FutureShock and the Redshift only the worst of bumps come through at all. I've not...

You're right on this, and I considered getting the DT350 hubs with the star ratchet but it was so much fun configuring my wheels that I went top-end all the way. Too bad that this model bike has a black and silver color scheme since the Onyx hubs are available in a number of anodized colors; you...

I'll let you know as soon as the weather lets me put some miles on it. I'm no longer as much of an all-weather rider like I used to be or like @Stefan Mikes is. ;)

That's a really inexpensive "Transit" rack from a mail-order company in the U.S. called Performance Bike (performancebike.com). I used the trick of using a single mounting strap and attaching to the bolt under the rear seat stay bridge where a fender mounts on an equipped model.