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I still can’t justify another bike, but that Aethos sure looks sweet. Will likely keep my single speed e-bike (Ride1UP Roadster v2) forever, since it is such a great design. But mostly riding my acoustic bikes these days, and even in process of adding a power meter to my Canyon.

Beautiful. I’m jelly.

Agree 100% If it was me, the short answer would be no. More trouble than it’s worth, and you’ll likely spend more $ than the old bike is worth.

Ha! Mountain riding is a big differentiator. If money isn’t an object, I say go for it! If you have gears though, and you’re not worried about speed, it might not be worth the effort. You might just have a case of GAS (gear acquisition syndrome), which I am afflicted with. But I’m also a...

Depends on your use case. If you mainly ride the flats or minor hills, do shorter rides, and/or already have low RR tires … you might not notice a huge difference. If you don’t have low rolling resistance tires, I’d HIGHLY recommend the first thing you do for road use are the Continental Grand...

Agree 100%. Nice looking bike!

Yeah, I had considered carbon bikes, but I’m cheap and also worried about quality of cheaper carbon frames. They need to be made from a larger more established mfg or UCI certified. So I instead went with an under 18 lb Single Speed Al frame carbon fork $700 bike...

Nice. Can say enough about how much I have enjoyed my Ride1UP Roadster v2, at almost 8000 miles. Their support has been good too.

After spending the past several months REALLY ENJOYING riding my new single-speed acoustic bike, actually just got a new acoustic bike - a Canyon hybrid with gears! The single-speed for 4000+ ft elevation gain rides were a bit much. But still mainly riding the single-speed acoustic, geared...

“One speed is all you need” Did a gran fondo metric century on a single speed analog track bike (with freewheel and brakes) and it was both brutal and awesome 😅

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Got my Pearl Izumi on sale for $50 :) Always glad to buy last years model.

New, more affordable 1x12 SRAM wireless shifting released this month https://road.cc/content/tech-news/sram-apex-xplr-axs-first-ride-review-301887?amp Not sure of pricing for just shifter, derailleur and 12 speed cassette, but based on the previous version, hoping for under $600-700 Might...

Since I ride a single speed analog track-based bike, and a single speed e-bike, I really MUST use cleatless bike shoes (really like my Pearl Izumi mtn bike shoes). I have needed to stop and walk up 15-20% grades during gran fondo metric or imperial centuries. And stopping and enjoying the...

Have a lot of respect for the bikes that Ride1UP have come out with, and they just keep innovating. Except for some one-off (?) bad stories, their customer service has generally been good too. I do like the cadence sensor implementation of my Roadster, even after 8000 miles. In my case, I did...

+💯 Found the same thing, going from my heavier SS e-bike with 64x20 gearing, to a lightweight traditional road bike when in lower gears, and also with my lightweight SS traditional bike with a lower gear ratio. Go to a higher gear, and not an issue. Also found that heavier bikes were easier to...

FYI, great related podcast about this at https://www.roadmancycling.com/recent-episodes/josh-poertner Josh Poertner joins Anthony for today's Roadman Podcast. Josh is one of the most respected figures in the area of aerodynamics and cycling engineering. Today Anthony picks his brain about how...

See top, edited post, for my 7500 mile, 0.5 million ft altitude gained, update 😃

Glad to help. Yes, still using the same settings. Not sure if different values for 100% and 0% would work, but these settings seem to work good enough. Was trial and error for me, to get where I ended up. The watts output is the real time display value, when pedaling and riding. Won’t see that...

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