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Does a cover for the electric motor cost extra?

By the way, here is a useful tool for figuring out your range, depending on a variety of factors: https://www.bosch-ebike.com/us/service/range-assistant/

For years I rode my acoustic road bike with Shimano SPD road cleats. I found using cleats (aka 'clipless pedals') to be necessary for good power delivery while pedaling at a brisk cadence. Without cleats, your feet tend to fly off the pedals at faster cadences. Plus, you have no ability to pull...

Trek has a reputation for excellent customer service, which is worth a lot if something goes wrong. I'm not sure about Haibike in that respect. Also, Trek is about to release a new Allant+ Sport model with a front suspension fork. I'm pretty sure that this new model will have the aluminum...

A good lube for any bike (acoustic or electric) is Tri-Flow. I use a small aerosol spray can with one of those skinny plastic straws. Spray it on the pivot points of your derailleur and those little jockey wheels that guide the chain through the cage. I’d be careful about spraying near the disc...

That’s a good line, but it doesn’t pass the smell test. I routinely burn my newish 500Wh battery down to one bar after less than 2 hours. And who cares if the bike is 20 ounces lighter? Mine is 50 lbs, and most are well north of 40.

I agree totally. At a time when Bosch has upped the capacity of its Powertube batteries to 625Wh, why on earth would Giant cut the capacity on so many of its Ebikes? Now they have to rely on dealers to cleverly convince hapless buyers that they don’t need the extra battery capacity. If I were a...

Love it, I’ve gotta get some bicycle companies as partners too! are you in the cycling industry? Even without a battery, my ebike is pretty heavy to put on a plane. But I’d happily rent an ebike in Europe.

Nice video! My wife and I were in Scotland also at the end of September and the first week of October. Didn’t cycle there, though. We drove up north, then took the ferry to the Orkneys, then circled along the North 500 route to Durness and Ullapool, thence to Pitlochry and Edinburgh. Along the...

so long as you get to where you want to go!

I assure you that you will be able to pedal much faster than you can right now on an acoustic bike with either a class 1or a class 3 ebike. The difference is that with a class 3 ebike you will be able to pedal beyond the 20 mph power assist cut off of a class 1bike. Of course, it is possible to...

Lol, I’ve got my eye on the same Allant for my wife next spring! Big battery, fast motor, Trek quality and support, checks a lot of boxes!

On an acoustic bike with a rear derailleur, you do need to keep the pedals moving as you shift, albeit with lighter pressure on the pedals, as Alan DB posted. If you’re cranking hard on an acoustic bike when you shift, you’re adding wear and tear to the drivetrain. Conversely, if you stop...

Rick53, I’m 66, so my joints are older than yours. If you’re looking for a bike like mine with flat handlebars, check out this model: (Link Removed - No Longer Exists) Bulls has a few other similar Class 3 models as well.

Maybe ignorance is bliss, at least in this instance. I know there are an equal number of arguments against hub motors, so I won't regurgitate them here. In my case, I was looking for a Class 3 gravel grinder-style Ebike, something with drop bars, medium-wide tires and hopefully a front...

Rick, I am pretty sure that you can't swap a different model motor on a given bike, as the size and shape (and probably the mounting points) of each motor model differs. That said, there are bikes like the new Trek Allant that have various versions; some come with the Class 1 Bosch motor and...

I think all the Bosch motors use largish chainrings (38-46 teeth), except for the current Speed motor, which is now being replaced by the new model, which uses a large chainring. The current Speed motor uses a small (18-22 teeth) chainring that spins 2.5x per crank revolution.

Ken, I don’t fully buy into your premise that mid-drive motors deliver only 25% of their power (i.e., torque) to the rear wheel. For example, I ride a 52 lb. bike with a Bosch Performance Speed motor with peak torque of 62nm. That would mean that a maximum of 15 or 16nm torque could be sent to...

Repeat after me, ‘Class 3 is the way to go, everything else is way too slow’!

By the way, I think a really interesting and compelling bike is the new Trek Allante, which should be released any week now. It features the brand new version of the Bosch performance speed motor along with an upgraded 625 watt hour battery.