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One has to recognize that forum members are skewed older than the general interest group of the subject at hand (whether in this forum or another one with a different focus than ebikes). Forums are outgrowths of the old "bulletin board" genre from the early days of dial-up computing and the...

Most ebikes that have a throttle are hub drives, so the throttle performance is independent of the gear you are using and the assist level. So, yes, you would get full throttle. The few mid drive ebikes that have a throttle might perform differently depending on the gear you are in.

Basket? My cat thinks she wants to ride on the seat.

@TMH ... I am curious to know if you tested a couple of the voice command failures that I identified in earlier posts. The command "Hello Sena ... Mesh Intercom" is supposed to turn on the Intercom feature. but on my non-CS EVO helmets it instead turns on the tail light. The second issue I...

Didn't NYC at one time outlaw ebikes with a throttle? Has that been changed?

The reason I think that SENA has quit selling the original R1 EVO with the speaker built into the helmet is because their online store no longer shows an order selection panel for size/color. It does show that panel on the R1 EVO CS model, even for the combinations that are "out of stock".

Voice command isn't a problem if you turn off the intercom first before you say "Hello Sena". In my opinion, the voice command implementation is only marginally useful even if they work out the bugs. I don't think I would like the speakers on the strap, so I am happy to stick with the R1 Evo's...

You could try to contact Sena to see if they would replace your EVO helmets with the EVO CS. Maybe they will be willing to acknowledge a design flaw in the original EVO. We are just guessing here though that they have actually retired the original EVO.

As much as I wish that all the features worked as advertised, I am still happy with my R1 EVO helmets. The main reason I got them was for the intercom, and that works very well. Without trying them, I don't know if I would like the strap speakers as well as the built in speakers. But so far...

I wonder if the helmet strap speakers on the Sena R1 EVO CS eliminates this problem by preventing the microphone from picking up sound from the built in speakers. It appears to me that Sena has retired the R1 EVO with the built in speakers and replaced it with the R1 EVO CS with the speakers on...

With the Evo helmets, there is no pairing. When you initially set them up, you pick the channel you want to use (there are 9 channels). After that you just turn them on (unless you are communicating with multiple groups and need to switch channels). From what I can tell, using the buttons is the...

The Sena R1 Evos are pretty simple for entering intercom mode. You press 2 buttons to turn the helmet on. Then after it is booted up you press the center button to put it in intercom mode. That's it. The voice commands are pretty worthless IMO, but you don't really need them.

It is obvious that there are many different but valid opinions for likes/dislikes regarding IGH vs derailleur. In my case, the only way you will replace my IGH with a derailleur is to pry my cold dead hands off of the shifter on the handlebar. 😃 ;):p

Forums are based on casual discussion and therefore the language and spelling tend to be colloquial rather than literary or grammatically correct. That said, I find this forum to generally be better in that score than most of the other forums I participate in. I do regularly participate in a...

So far I am liking my Sena R1 Evo helmets. We mostly use the mesh intercom feature which has pretty good range. We don't really use the music player or phone functions. Once in a while I will use the FM Radio feature while at a rest stop. It works OK. Sound quality for radio/music is about what...

Great choice! ;)

Beautiful Truck! I was going to guess IH (International Harvestor), so good thing the correct answer was posted before I embarrassed myself again.

For an old fart like me with hip and arthritis problems, the low step-thru of my Gazelle Arroyo is a godsend. I have had some gentle (good natured) teasing about riding a "girls bike", but I just smile and keep riding :)

My wife (now 76) rode a Blix Aveny ebike for a couple of years and liked it a lot. But her balance was declining and the last year she rode the Aveny, she suffered several falls. She also had a fall down the steps at home, so we decided that continuing on the 2 wheel ebike was just too risky for...

It is not only topography. I have been surprised at how wind can affect the range on a battery charge. With topography, when you go up, you (usually) eventually go back down and gain back a portion of what you lost. A tail wind can really increase your range, while a direct head wind will kill...