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  1. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Wrecked my Z1 yesterday - Dusted off my trusty DIY Luna BBSHD FatBike. Rides like shite, but I still love her.

    Always sad to hear a fellow Electric Bike Review rider get hurt riding their bike. Tom@WashDC, all the best to a quick and full recovery.
  2. Mike TowpathTraveler

    chain mileage

    The particulars: Haibike Full FatSix. Yamaha PW drive, 70nm. 10 speed rear cassette, Shimano, Steel. Dual front chainrings, Full Speed Ahead with X-10, 44 tooth big chain ring, Aluminum. Exclusively ride in the High power setting. Pedal RPM average is in the 80's to 90's. I do not hammer the...
  3. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Trying to Decide- MID Drive, Electric Full Suspension Bafang 28mph or Shimano STEPS?

    I have a Motobecane Grand Touring that I bought new in 1982. Beautiful French touring bike. The Motobecane of 2022 is not the Motobecane of 1982. All it is anymore, is a china engineered and built bike with a slap-on Motobecane badge at the steerer tube. Most everything I've read of the...
  4. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Yamaha has a new motor for 2023

    It looks like they are following the latest market rage of light-lighter-lightest. I guess that's fine for those concerned about total weight of the bike. But for myself, a happy owner of a 2016 model year PW drive system with no problems, it'd be nice if Yamaha would look at...
  5. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Zen Samurai

    Court, EBR site owner and lead bike tester, did a great review of the Samurai here: https://electricbikereview.com/zen/2022-samurai/ Court is one of the most fair and objective reviewers for any medium and we are blessed to have him. Haibike owner here; I love the Zen and if in the market for...
  6. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Winter Is Coming - Biking in Cold Weather

    I'm in New Jersey and we don't consistently get the extreme cold and snow that Chicago and the Upper Midwest can get. But still, when we get those arctic fronts that come from out your way; or if we get a coastal N'oreaster blizzard, it can be bad enough. Using my own area as the measuring...
  7. Mike TowpathTraveler

    HydroDipped my new frame.

    @ruffruff: That's about the nicest looking e-fatbike I've ever laid eyes on. So perfectly executed. I hope you have many tens of thousands of happy miles on it!
  8. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Enviolo Repair / Replacment

    I think you made the best, expedient decision in buying new in order to get back on the road again. Looking at the below "teardown-tear apart" video, it seems to me with 18 thousand miles on the drivetrain components, that there is going to be more wear internally than just on the two side case...
  9. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Looking for an ebike that will allow someone with a bad knee to keep up with a serious cyclist on long rides

    I will always be partial to the Yamaha powered ebikes out there cause as an owner of a Haibike fat tired, Yamaha PW powered bike, I know they are bullet proof. I would not discount the good number of lightly used, external battery Haibike and Yamaha-branded ebikes right now on craigslist...
  10. Mike TowpathTraveler

    What mode do you ride in and why?

    Stefan, I tend to agree with you here on this. Even at that, I'd not mind another 10nm of power, or more. Always wondered what the later models with the PW-X and X2 motors feel on this bike...
  11. Mike TowpathTraveler

    What mode do you ride in and why?

    Ortliebs. With tactical tire pump, patch kit, spare tube....
  12. Mike TowpathTraveler

    What mode do you ride in and why?

    2016 model year Haibike Full FatSix. Put into full time service in April, 2017. From Day 1 up until now (and beyond), I ride pretty much 99.999% of the time in the Yamaha PW's High power setting. The .001% is for those days when I am a long way from home and down on battery power. Then, Standard...
  13. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Fatte Bikes (aka FattEbikes for search purposes) Review and warning

    http://voyagedenver.com/interview/meet-victoria-brunner-fatte-bikes-sun-valley-neighborhood-just-off-8th-federal/ The lead picture of the co-owner pretty much tells most of the story. I have no beef with their claims of Made In The USA. They are pretty much no different that say, Haibike (my...
  14. Mike TowpathTraveler

    need help to untangle bike chain

    There goes another happy customer of TowpathTraveling Bike Repair, LLC, who took advantage of our mid-summer bike tuneup deal! 🥴 On a serious note, this has the potential to unseat SolarCabin's "Bike Elitist" post for Troll Of The Week. If not a troll and you are in need of help, put your...
  15. Mike TowpathTraveler

    My battery died of heatstroke 😥😭

    This is likely your one and only shot to deal with this battery situation as nobody in the US wants anything to do with BH after getting stiffed by them. Lenny's bought that discontinued stock of leftovers but as far as future repair parts, that's going to be left up to what Lenny's decides to...
  16. Mike TowpathTraveler

    I think phone cases are getting crazy expensive

    Best Buy--About 2 months ago I went into the local Best Buy that I was last in about, oh, over a decade-plus ago......back when a time when I would browse their CD section to check out the latest box set, being that Tower Records went under and out. Completely different vibe and appearance upon...
  17. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Signs just put up on my home town bike path.

    Who? These guys. Which is what they are doing here.... Right now, the leadership in NYC, the governor's mansion and that Albany state legislature is in total meltdown and dysfunction. Incompetence. Too much to describe why for this thread without it getting all political. You can look into it...
  18. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Buyer Beware - 2 month old bike, leaking brakes and Biktrix says "wear and tear"

    I just read the Biktrix warranty/terms of service and cut & pasted this for everyone's edumacation: No warranty except for out of the box defects/ damages within the first 14 Days of delivery on: Braking System including but not limited to rotors, brake pads, brake fluid, braking power, etc...
  19. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Chain, cassette, sprocket replace for 2019 FullSeven

    Great job, staying at it, @DanInStPete! Nice looking Haibike, too.
  20. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Chain, cassette, sprocket replace for 2019 FullSeven

    @DanInStPete Tonight, 9 Aug, just to help, I was noodling around on the internet trying to find that sprocket. Not much luck, though. Even old reliable, RideWill in Italy didn't list that unicorn part. But I did see what appears to be you on the EMTB forums, posting up for help. Good site, that...
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