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If specialized did a better job of supporting their products, I would be riding them. Unfortunately, choosing specialized meant months of downtime. I don’t pay a premium for that kind of experience *even* when it is the “best available”. They need to do better. If you genuinely think that is...

Just IGH ebikes with an enviolo hub. My rohloff ebike is still fine. I have never had any chain based ebike. You can’t draw conclusions from sample sizes of 1. Based on what I know today, a tero x with an sram transmission drivetrain would work just fine for me. Unfortunately, that will wait...

Probably better if you skipped the rest of the thread. ;p

To sum up: If I can't maintain cadence of 75+ without hitting a performance limit, I really need some more gearing. But, if I can do that, even if the pace is relatively slow, then I am good to go and should just work on performance gains to do it faster. So, goal for this week: Take this bike...

Yes. Though I don't recall having this on the breezer radar, diverge or other chain bikes I have tried. And I have so far road this one less than any of those. It is possible my peak power has changed dramatically since then. I think the thing I really want to get to is UDH frame so I can have...

Sirrus X 4.0 is in. And I sized it and road it down the block and back. Overall, I like it much more than my wife's bike. The shifting is much snappier though it was a bit slow going into the hardest gear. One thing I immediately noticed: as I pedaled, the bike "pulsed". This was inline with the...

I have an flx blade 2.0 with a bafang ultra m620. I want to get an ant+/bluetooth power meter on it. I tried the garmin xc200 pedal power meters but found them unreliable (possibly due to being over their weight limit) This may be a dumb question, but it’s not clear to me what crank based power...

My replacement sirrus x 4.0 arrives on monday. Looks like it made it to the local delivery facility without getting a damage flag. ;P The bike shop got the first one and it was "not sellable". We finally picked up my wife's roll 3.0 today. It's a great bike for her and the rail trail purposes...

I haven’t had time to watch the keynote yesterday. That’s pretty cool. I think the sram power meter I plan to put on the sirrus should work with this. That might eliminate garmin from my life! Woot! I wonder if the peloton counts?

Specialized hasn’t said anything to me but I just got a shipment notification for another sirrus x 4.0. So I am guessing it was deemed damaged.

Stop talking in absolutes. Because you haven’t experienced an issue requiring mothership intervention doesn’t mean they don’t happen. And yes, it is possible some LBS have everything they need in house to solve problems. But, that isn’t reasonable in all regions. It is quite possible that...

*sigh* It is quite obvious to me that Specialized support and warranty department is built around a parts replacement strategy. This makes a ton of sense pre e-bike. Mechanical problems will typically be straight up parts replacements. Furthermore, they seem to heavily depend on the LBS...

My luck on bikes is comically bad. When I bought the IGH bike pair I figured I was just going to have to be patient when problems started happening. Then they sent one broken and built wrong. So I ordered mechanical bikes. Fedex lost them. Previously I Fell into a specialized ecommerce black...

Pretty sure they sent you the IGH control system that was supposed to be on my wife’s como. ;)

Don’t know. Fedex seems to have lost them. Well, one has a damaged delivery exception and the other is stuck in a time loop.

The bikes should be delivered today. Once I have some time on it I am seriously considering moving to an X01 T-Type chain electronic drivetrain. If I didn't have to deal with a freehub swap, I probably wouldn't even blink at doing that. It is the onyx wheelset that is really making me pause from...

I currently like a brooks c17 carved saddle. And, on my current bikes I have used kinekt seat post which, I would think, would be a problem for the radar mounted on the saddle. I also have the kinekt saddle bag which is my preferred simple place for wallet/key/bike tool... etc. On this bike, I...

Got it. I am hoping the geometry is such that I don't need to change the stem for the type of riding I do with this bike. The fit *appears* like it should be better on paper. (taller stack, shorter reach... etc). But I never did eliminate hand numbness entirely. I also want to find a better way...

No kidding. I haven't even gotten into the bottom bracket stuff yet. All I am trying to do is create a reasonable cost map. So I know how much money I am getting into and approximately when based on my current desires. Gear range + electronic shifting is #1. Either wheels/hubs/gx cassette or...

LBS gave me the go ahead a few days ago and the roll and sirrus x 4.0 are ordered (supposedly deliver Tuesday). Will be putting gx axs on it with an nx eagle cassette as soon as is reasonable. Plenty of other upgrades planned if I like the results of that. (onyx hub on new wheels, spider power...