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I love my bike (2016/17 250W Turbo X) and am starting to ramp up my commuting now that the weather is getting consistently good (dry) and sunset is getting later! There is one current annoyance - the brake cable (housing, really) is rubbing against the head tube. I took it in to my Specialized...

I came here to post the same thing! Maybe start with the handful that have over 1,000 posts? At a glance, it looks like the top few are: Easy Motion -- 4k Juiced -- 3.8k Rad Power -- 5.4k Sondors -- 3.8k Specialized -- 4.4k Stromer -- 7k

Wow! How did you get 12x the life that I do?!?! You have Shimano Deore hydraulic disc brakes?

No specific answers (I have the prior gen of hub-driven Turbo) but welcome to the forum and glad you are (mostly) liking your bike so far!

@Bikerjoy Great review and report! Thanks for sharing your experience!

Great point. I'm curious how this will play out in the real world.

Hey @Newt you are in cycling paradise up there in Marin County. And I've heard good things about that shop! I think that once you try an ebike, you will feel like a kid again - it really is that much fun! The nice thing about ebikes is that you can work as little or as much as you'd like...

I'm curious what the advantages of FWD on a bike could be. Seems like it would create some spooky/unexpected handling dynamics. Have you ridden one and liked it?

I had the same question and this article helped to explain the process: Operationally, the battery packs will provide 62 hours of runtime and will need to be replaced every five days, on average. The battery packs can be recharged within four hours and redeployed...

Great question! My LBS has this one and while it looks cool, I know nothing about it: https://electricbikereview.com/gocycle/gs/ Lots of reviews here on EBR that you can use to start narrowing it down: https://electricbikereview.com/category/folding/ I would definitely make sure you can...

Don't get your hopes up - my bike (Turbo X) is amazing but I don't find much of value in Mission Control (unless the Vado has additional functionality).

I just completed my longest ride ever (by a good margin). 44 miles! Thanks to @Douglas Ruby and others for the tips and encouragement! Bike is a 2016 Turbo X (250W) with the 691 Watt hour battery. I was trying to do the full commute from home to work for the first time ever. 44 miles, only...

They sent an email a couple of weeks ago. Try this in case it helps: Dear Turbo Rider, As we previously mentioned, we've migrated our usernames and passwords to a new sign-on system in order to provide better security and consistency across Specialized’s website and apps. Effective...

@Douglas Ruby thanks as always - you are a great resource and I always appreciate your thoughts and input. So I am pretty confident based on my time so far with the Turbo (albeit much of it with the smaller battery) that I cannot go 44 miles in Eco50 mode using my typical riding style. I think...

I'd like to try my longest ride ever on Thursday. 44 miles (flat). I have a 2016 Turbo X (250W motor) with an upgraded 691 Wh battery. Say I want to use no more than 90% of the battery and it starts at 96%. That means I can use 86% of 691 Wh = 594 Wh. Over 44 miles, that averages out to...

If I wanted to figure out the average amount of power my e-bike is adding, is it right to simply calculate the amount of W-hr used and divide it by the time? E.g., Sample Inputs Battery capacity = 500 Watt hour Battery started ride at 100% Battery ended ride at 50% Ride lasted 1 hour (60...

I've hit 20% before and there was no apparent change other than something showing on the display (I forget exactly what) and locking out Turbo mode (presumably you can still adjust Eco to whatever % you what up to 90%).

@Streetfyta sorry about the bad experience so far! I hope your dealer can make it right! I will say that you need to take forums like this with a grain of salt (same thing in the car world). You will hear many more complaints than reports of everything working fine. People seldom write in to...

@Douglas Ruby and others, you have inspired me to try a longer ride! My full commute to work is a very flat 44 miles, much of it on beautiful dirt shoreline trails (SF Bay Trail). I'm going to try it at Eco20 or Eco30 to be safe and hope that I can make it the whole way on one charge! (I have...

As of the beginning of 2018, I'm just over 1000 miles (1015, to be exact, although this only counts strava miles and not another 100+ not on strava). Looking forward to hopefully doubling that this year! UPDATE: 1200 miles as of the end of March 2018.