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I have a Vado SL 5.0.

On my Mastermind TCU with the programmable screens, I have one set up to show the Rider Power and Motor Power fields. The Rider Power of course matches what my Garmin Edge shows but I find the readouts interesting as it lets me get a direct indication of how the assistance is delivered while...

A few days ago the forums were unreachable. Today when I click in the email message that informs me of an update in the thread I'm watching it gives me an error related to connection security. WTF? I can still get to the discussion by going directly to the forum URL -- just not via an email link...

I've used the Varia products with my Garmin Edge devices for a number of years. Does the built-in Varia work with the app in a similar way to the Edge, where approaching vehicles appear as dots moving up one edge of the screen? I really like the Varia for the way it can pick up a vehicle when...

I can't get it to connect to my SL 5.0. It pops up a message "Unable to execute behavior: Connect to this bike". Thinking to start over, I selected "Remove bike" from the menu but that didn't do anything at all (bike still shown on SA screen). I tried a few other things like restarting the...

I don't know if you noticed, but the wheels in my photo above are on my Cannondale Synapse of around 2010 vintage! :cool:

I see that Onyx uses a sprag clutch design rather than pawls and ratchets. No wonder they're totally silent (as well as expensive!). The 2-speed trans in our dragster used a planetary gearset and sprag clutch, and that was good to handle about 800+ hp! :D

Nice! I previously had some wheels built for my old road bike by ProWheelBuilder and have been recently playing with their configurator. My tentative configuration uses Swiss DT 350 hubs with Sapim bladed spokes. The rims would be alloy similar to the OEM wheels; I hadn't been looking at carbon...

What wheels did you get? Onyx Vesper is a new one to me and there are fewer selections in the 148x12 hub size on the SL (not to mention 110x12 front hubs).

There's a guy in my regular riding group who has a Vado SL similar to mine but rides with max assistance most of the time (due to some health issues). So he's always in a pedal-coast-pedal mode, surging as well instead of riding at a constant speed, and I know that it's been remarked on by...

@mfgrep The video is for Swiss DT hubs which is not what you have. Your Specialized hub is like mine and has three spring-loaded pawls on the freehub that engage with an internal gear on the main body of the hub. As I mentioned in my post, with the rear wheel off the bike, you should be able to...

I can't believe that this is all it took to remedy my pet peeve about my SL since the day I bought it: noisy ratcheting (clicking) sound from the freehub. It wasn't just me, but was remarked on by people riding with me, and was definitely louder by far than my other bikes, wife's Trek e-bike...

I'm pretty sure that I listened to a podcast where a guy from SRAM explained the system in such a way that it somehow *does* know the position of the cassette and then moves the derailleur at just the right time to catch the ramps. I'll do some digging on this when I get a chance...

+1 on the Redshift products. My SL 5.0 rides like a dream now (came with the FutureShock front fork so just the ShockStop seat post needed). New wheels and tubeless tires on the horizon.

Thanks. I figured that that might work. I also saw a YT video where the guy used some dental floss wrapped around the pawls, tightened to get them to drop in, and then pull out the floss. But try the easy way first!

Is there a technique for reassembling it to get the pawls back inside the ring gear?

For me it's that I find the OEM hub to be excessively noisy and have had comments from people riding next to me about it. I'm currently considering having a custom wheel build done using something quieter. My other two bikes -- a Felt VR5 road bike and an old Specialized Crosstrail hybrid -- are...

Nobody would refer to our roads as "gravel". Our landscape consists mostly of "glacial till" and contains clay, sand, coarse gravel, and rocks of all sizes. Unless the roads have been recently graded, there are often washouts from water running across, a lot of washboarding that will shake your...

That's exactly the type of e-bike that I could use for riding the miles and miles of rough dirt roads that are available to me. Riding them on my Vado 4.0 and now Vado SL 5.0 was/is not that practical due to the condition of the roads and the tires on those bikes, so I rarely do it. The...

Before we took the plunge on e-bikes, my wife and I rented a pair from a Pedego store while vacationing in Tucson. That was my issue exactly, as I couldn't figure out when to expect a sudden non-proportional boost from the hub motor. The bikes also had throttles, which were kind of fun to use on...