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I do enjoy having the trail to myself...and riding east into the sunrise can be a spectacular way to start the day. One of the big advantages of starting out at 5:30 is little if any traffic at the Catoctin Circle, Belmont Ridge Road and Ashburn Rd. crossings. Belmont is scary at times due to...

Mike, I was tempted to convert an early 2000s REI Novara "comfort bike" with seat post shock and a decent entry level RockShox fork and a top-end Bionx motor and battery kit (the one with the motor in a large gray disc). It's a great kit. But the Novara is just an average entry-level bike I use...

The drafting doesn't bother me....it's the stopping with them behind me that bothers me. If I have to stop quickly they will run into me. I've had bikes drafting me twice, and one time the bike was about 2 feet behind me. The brakes on the X are very effective and the mass of the motor and my...

No negative feedback yet. Folks seem to realize this is about avoiding using a car to commute. A few times road bikers draft me.

At 5:30 to about 6:45 (when I'm on the trail) I almost have the trail to myself. I encounter about 2-3 commuters heading west, and pass one or two heading east on my way in. One time I left at 6:00 and by the time I reached the Herndon area there was a noticeable increase in bike commuter...

It's only about 275 feet of overall elevation difference. This is why the charge remaining is so high.

Hello - I purchased a 2016 Turbo X (small) a week ago. I have commuted on it four times since then. My commute is a little over 28 miles one-way, on the W&OD trail through Loudoun and Fairfax counties. In short - The Turbo X has surpassed my expectations, especially in terms of the range per...

Hi Ron, I haven't used the Mission Control App. I know about it, and thought I'd find it useful for determining the best ECO settings for my 28 mile (one-way) commute. However, I've found that I can ride a sustained 20-21 mph in the ECO 50% setting and arrive at work with 38-42% of charge...

I've completed two 54 mile commutes on the Turbo X. I've had a Thudbuster on another bike, and I think I like the spring loaded and bushing dampened one on the X more. Really impressed with the new Turbo X (2016). I'll post more about it in a different thread.

Opimax - The bike with pulsing issues was a 2014 Izip E3 Dash. I thought it was the bottom bracket spinning and cutting the wires to the torque sensor, or one of the bad motors that were a common problem with all of the 2014 models. I returned it and got a Domane 4.5 which is the most...

Thanks for offering an opportunity to test ride both a 1 and 2. It would be nice to see if I would be happy with a 1 and use savings to buy a spare battery, and more. For now I'm mostly interested in getting a truer sense of ST2 consistency/reliability. I'm very curious to know if common...

I owned an IZIP E3 Dash for a short time until the weather got cold enough to reduce the range to an unacceptable level. I was riding it 27 miles 1-way to work on the W&OD trail. I also experienced the pulsing folks are describing here. Both pulsing and range drop occurred within a week of each...