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As PedalUma said, switch down to an 11 on the rear.

At least your local shop says they'll do it. This is one of the topics that started me not trusting my LBS choices. Twelve years and 100 pounds ago I popped a spoke on my 3 speed cruiser, and trying to get it fixed was... well, absurd. The first shop I took it too dropped the F-bomb "get the...

I'm planning on building a custom camper for mine, already have the 20x2.125 tires/hubs and dropouts I plan to use, but money ran out this month, be continuing on in the coming month. Also need to clean out and re-arrange the garage enough to have the room to start building it. I might try to...

Which is precisely when I'd go for an even larger chainring to bring those lower unused gears into play, and add even more options on the high end. Though as I learned the hard way you want to keep the bottom gearing close to stock for when/if you need to ride without the motor. Thus my 53 ...

I hear a lot of paranoia about that, but seriously if the steel used is that sensitive to heat expansion that it won't return to true, just how the devil is it ever able to survive normal everyday use. It's setting off my bullshit alarm since if you're hitting the 800 degrees+ needed to...

I just dug out the stock bars for the Aventure, and I'm shocked, They're 24". I could have sworn they were narrower.. I balanced them about where they would have sat "stock" (albeit an inch higher). Gives you an idea how much it changed the grip. Also surprised how scratched up they are for...

I live in New Hampshire, I know hills. :D On a nearby hill I normally don't come down I smoked my front pads riding the brakes too much. New to disc brakes myself and having just replaced the rotor I wanted to give a burn-in. It literally started blowing smoke halfway down. They started to feel...

On a lark I did a amazon search for 28" bars, and I think these are actually them. 15 years later, can still buy them. A bit expensive though for a lousy set of cruiser bars, even with the enlarged size. https://www.amazon.com/Sunlite-Alloy-Retro-Cruiser-Handlebar/dp/B000650U5O Says 28" x 14"...

It's a full foot, which is likely why I needed the longer stem riser to push them back forwards 6". Sorry for the blurriness, parkinsonism is acting up again. Hard to take clear pictures when you're shaking like a chihuahua. 28" bar-end to bar-end, 12" stem to reach-line, and I was right...

I actually have no clue. They came off a bike I had a decade and a half ago and sat on the floor in the back of my garage until quite recently. Was looking for something I already had to fit the Aventon, saw them and cleaned them up. They were actually rusted to the floor, I sanded them down to...

Paddle grips can help with that. Really you shouldn't be "gripping" the grips so much as letting friction from your palm do the work. Fingers out straight ready for the shifter and brake levers. If you're "wrapping around" the grip, yeah. That. It's the old Groucho Marx joke: "Doctor, doctor...

I'm a web developer who specializes in helping site owners who are being sued or prosecuted for US ADA, UK EQA, CA ACA, and dozens of other laws around the globe, and you don't know the half of it. A lot of prosecutors looking to "make a name for themselves" will use ambiguities in the US law...

I hear that. If it weren't for New Hampshire hills and the fact there are a few roads I travel (route 10 between Keene and Swanzey for example) where doing less than 30 will get you killed, I'd agree 100%. Same for a few spots where there are bike path to road crossings where I just need the raw...

Fourteen years and 100 pounds ago I was in a similar boat. I wanted to bike to shed the pounds (I was up to 280, which is bad at 5'4"), butt my tailbone was killing me... right up until I switched to a cruiser. My old conventional 3 speed, cheap Micagi Tahiti NX3: Even back then I never did...

The Zoom brakes that came with my Aventure take the same pads as a Shimano Deore. These were a perfect fit. https://www.amazon.com/Pairs-Organic-Resin-Bicycle-Shimano/dp/B089YWBMYW Another seller: https://www.amazon.com/Pairs-Bicycle-Compatible-Shimano-Alfine/dp/B088WW5HK2 That they give...

Big one that comes to mind is maybe your derailleur was out of whack, so "you keep on using that gear. I dunno think it means what gear you think it means.". If the index adjustment were off an entire gear width (or enough to force the shift), that could mess you up a bit. Does the highest gear...

No, you're just being an ass, because how dare in a topic other people might find somebody offer an alternative when accessing the controller isn't an option or available. Or worse have the gall to present an option or opinion that contradicts yours. Much less try to make recommendations to...

Who says it's less efficient? You and that's about it. I will admit, I DID make the mistake of only swapping the chainring and not taking power off into account, but that's why I later changed the cassette as well. Learning curve. Since the alleged stock 46:32 == 1.4375, whilst 53:36 ==...

Oddly that's the argument I'd use for dialing in your gear ratios. You don't put a tow truck transmission on a race car, or a track transmission on a pickup truck. Or a street car transmission on a Semi. Even when all those vehicles have the same horsepower engine. We have gears for a reason...

To my thinking the ideal in that case is to get the correct gear ratio and assist mode. I think since I've only used cadence sensor bikes where the PAS sets the top speed not the power applied, I'm probably looking at it differently from those who's controllers actually vary the power. I mean...