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Hi again! I just reserved my bike. Faced with the impossibility to run more trials, I had to take a somewhat arbitrary decision. I went with the Vado 3.0 IGH Step-through. It was a challenge, but my salesman was able to procure literally one of those. It should arrive in August. Trying...

Holy poop! That's a really expensive bike.

Oh, he knows I live way too far away to give him any return business. He's just taking bike shops in general. More like soul-sucking. 😂 Man would I hate every second of that. What? But ESPECIALLY for high-end bikes with high-tech automatic transmissions, isn't it doubly important to make sure...

The salesman said I would need a dry, warm space to do that. So since I live pretty high up and my bike shed isn't heated, I figured I'd need several visits a year. Do I? I'm starting to doubt everything. That was a flawless explanation. Thanks! I had never thought about giving the brakes a...

Those are definitely worth a read. Right now is difficult, but I'll be sure to check those out later. I may be mistaken, but wouldn't a 5-speed hub be a little limited for climbing capability? From the model name, I'm guessing that's also a 5-speed hub? Would it also be kinda meh for hills...

Could you elaborate on those? It would be good to be able to see for myself whether the cons outweigh the reduced maintenance. Do you think you could tell me more about these as well? I'm not very clear on what makes a good drivetrain or brakes, or what that actually changes. My friend was...

Hi! So I took an appointment at a dealer that sells Riese & Müller and Gazelle, and negotiated a visit to a Specialized dealer. (Remember, I'm having my mom accompany me, so I'm already really glad I could even visit two places.) Man, are things even more complicated than I thought. The store...

Wow, the closest one in stock for the Vado is in Ontario, and there is no Tero in stock, anywhere. That sucks. Would I get the right idea of how they ride by riding some other Specialized bike and assuming the better ones just get a stronger motor?

Yes. In fact, several. I even learned there's one much closer to me, 40-ish Km away, in Alma. It also requires a car trip, but it's more of an afternoon than a week-end. So if you think there's a bike I should really try, that's a possibility even before I visit Montréal.

I don't understand any of those numbers, but the Gazelle Ultimate C380 HMB says this: Front chainwheel 55 Rear chainwheel 24 Is that what you were looking for?

Actually close to me, there's a couple of dealers of Moustache bikes. One of them also carries Trek, but only a few models. Like I think they only sell the Verve+ 3. There isn't much choice here and it was a pretty frustrating to have salespeople recommend a brand because "this is the brand...

True; I'll need to use the goggles more often and (finally) find myself some boots that are actually warm enough. For that hill, which bikes would do the job? I have trouble comparing gears on bikes. Like, the C380 "semi-gearless" system vs a derailleur with 10 speeds vs a gear hub with 10...

Gosh darn it I did it again. Please check my previous reply, which I edited, for answers to these questions.

Don't underestimate a Canadian who hasn't owned a car in a long time! You can do a lot with good mittens, winter pants, a woolen scarf and snowboarding goggles! I can even go out in "feels like -55" super windy weather and walk a good while without feeling much of anything when fully equipped. I...

Oh yeah that was funny. The Gazelle spokesperson on the website's chat told me "very soon" and that I may want to subscribe to the newsletter and literally the next morning I got an email on the new products. Edit: poop, I tried to edit my message to include my reply to you and ended up posting...

That looks like an interesting product! Is there any hope I could try it relatively close by before buying? I  do hear a lot that the most important thing is to try the bike before buying, after all. I'm in Chicoutimi, but I'm not expecting that close. Is it possible somewhere within the...

What do you mean by "requires"? What kind of issues would I face in a hill if the motor is a little too weak? Is it just a matter of "the ebike would only make the climb a bit easier, not a total breeze" or would I find myself entirely unable to climb the hill because the motor went psssh...

So if I understand properly, you have a lot of experience riding on road bikes, and on those bikes, you have to hunch forward a lot, and that "professional deformation" made you always want to hunch forward even though the bike was made with an upright posture in mind. Is that right? In that...

Have they released more info than what you linked me to? It's not much to go off of. How would that one compare to the Gazelle? It's even tough to even know how to compare them. They seem really similar. Phew. That estimation indeed seemed really pessimistic. Sorry, I tremble at the sight of...

Can you elaborate on how you fell and what caused it? I'm not sure I understand. I'm not sure I understand: why do you have to ride unpowered in the winter? It would kinda suck if I bought an e-bike, only to ride it like a needlessly heavy normal bike half the year! Oh yeah it was my plan to...