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SFebike01, that sucks! I'm so sorry to hear that! I just bought a 2021 Levo Comp on Monday, March 1, that arrived in February, but was ordered before Jan 31. I was able to get the buy it for the old price. Are you sure that your bike shop advocated appropriately on your behalf? As far as I know...

One of my friends called retirement, his "rewirement." In June, I'm going to take a little vacation and on either the Vado or the Levo do the cross Vermont trail. It's basically a rail trail ride. Nothing gnarly and passes by multiple towns. My plan is to leave from my house. So I'll ride across...

Thanks everyone! Really appreciate the good wishes!! Most of it's on a new low interest credit card. I'll probably retire in a year, so combined with the Specialized price increase, it felt like a now or never situation. Ride on!

Yes, I've got a Vado, which is very much set up for commuting. But there are two reasons that I put the rack on the Levo for occasional bike commuting. With winter conditions, local trails don't open up until May. I've got the mindset of a little kid. I can't wait that long to ride the bike! So...

Turned 65 in January. Because of the pandemic, I pretty much ignored it. Decided to give myself a birthday present and just picked up a 2021 Turbo Levo Comp today. I've mentioned before in this forum that my rural NH town's LBS are selling any Specialized & Trek bikes that they had in stock...

Boy, nothing is ever easy in life. I tried to figure out how to change the wheel circumference myself in Mission Control. I didn't see a way? Googled the question, which took me to Specialized support. Here's the answer: How do I change my wheel circumference in Mission Control? Due to legal...

Good catch! Forgot about that. Thanks Stefan Mikes!

Just to follow up on this thread. I ended up procrastinating and not buying new tires until this week when I finally got my first flat. I bought the Vado 4 in March 2020, rode the heck out of it and didn't get a flat until this month. So that was pretty good! When I took the tire off to fix it...

This is a very minor tech tip, but for me it's blown my mind. I live in New England and am one of those eccentric folks and ride my Vado 4 year round. Not every day or while it's actually snowing, but if it's not snowing and is 25 F or up I try to ride at least 10 miles. Because of winter road...

As the person who began this dialog, can we end it here? If people want to continue talking about global finances, nuclear waste and building your own ebikes, they can they start their own thread in the general ebike section. Much of this is important info, but the dialog has moved on to only...

Today I went down to my small town, New Hampshire LBS and bought a 2021 base model Levo for the old price of $5000. They told me that for any bike that they had in stock they weren't going to raise the prices. Any new bikes that have to be ordered will have the new prices. I had my sights on a...

A bike shop owner did a YouTube video about the Specialized bike price increase on Feb 1. He discussed it from a bike store's perspective and how it's going to make it be much harder for him to sell their bikes now. Specialized bikes already were expensive and many of them are consistently out...

This is from a similar thread on the EMTB Forum. '21 Turbo Levo (base) was marked up by $500 ($5000, to $5500) '21 Turbo Levo Comp was marked up by $1200 ($6300, to $7500) '21 Turbo Levo Expert was marked up by $1600 ($8900, to $10500) '21 Turbo Levo SL Comp was marked up by $500 ($6500, to...

Yah, that's crazy! I think that Levo Comps have gone from $6000 last March to $7500 right now. I'm suddenly very happy with my Vado 4 and won't be selling it. Thanks Stefan Mikes! Stay safe my friend!

Just noticed that as of this week, there's a big price increase on all Specialized ebikes. (Probably it's all bikes. I only looked at ebikes) I had decided to upgrade from my Vado in March. I would have done it earlier, but I didn't want to buy a new bike in the middle of New England winter. The...

So very sorry that your bike got stolen on Christmas! That completely sucks!! I own a 2020 Vado 4 and have ridden the heck out of it this Pandemic year (about 5000 miles). Now in 2021, I'm leaning towards keeping the Vado as my commuter, but buying a second e-bike in 2021 to expand my bike joy...

Thanks everyone! I appreciate the info. Here's to another year of riding!!

After about 5000 miles on my 2020 Vado 4, I want to replace the tires. I'd like to get thinner tires to help go farther and faster. Do you know how narrow of tires that I can get with these rims? The Vado comes with 700 x 47 tires. The Vado SL comes with 700 x 38 tires. Can I go to 700 x 38 or...

I should also confess, that last year was the first year that I rode year-round. I bought a RadCity in the fall and was so excited I couldn't stop myself. I learned that if it was 25 degrees or above, I could do my 15 mile rt commute. What I learned about bike commuting in the cold and snow is...

This year there's been a serious drought where I live in New Hampshire, but in ordinary summers it rains a lot. It often is 80 degrees and raining. But and this is an important, but, it tends to rain in outbursts. It might be 10-20 minutes of serious hard rain and then either stop or lighten up...