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Ah ok. Thought they still owned them. Turns out they never fully owned them but instead: Pashley has a long association with Brooks, having initially been based 5 miles away from the factory in Birmingham. In recent history, Pashley ensured the continuation of Brooks’ production when its parent...

Pashley is a very old English bike brand established in the 20s I think. Don't see many of them around, think they sort of disappeared in the 70s or 80s for mainstream bikes. They still own Brookes saddles which are doing very well and have a sort of retro range of 531 steel bikes

Also the Velduro bike frames & forks are manufactured in China and assembled in NZ. So the US market might be a big no no depending on country of origin rules for tariffs. They are such a new brand I'd say it'll be baby steps for a while just to survive.

Fair point, but I'm just saying for a NZ brand and a start up America is just too difficult and expensive to branch into. Even large European companies have had difficulty even before Trump. Orbea got a terrible reputation among customers and dealers alike in the US and the blame was with the US...

Bafang seem very robust and easily repairable.

The Velduro Phantom is a lightweight, Avinox-powered flat bar commuting and adventure bike - rigid frame, rigid fork. They make a drop bar gravel version, as well, and sell the motorized frame for custom builds. Very interesting looking bike and they do it in drop bar as well at 14.9kg but...

Not sure that's the case anymore. The US is a bit of a bike backwater and too difficult for outside brands to navigate with tariffs and uncertainty especially small brands. The Avinox hasn't been approved for US sale yet which is a big stumbling block and Asia and China in particular are the...

Last week TQ released their new (or updated) lightweight & quiet motor with 60nm (up from 50nm). I saw a scathing review of the new Yeti MTe bike with it, on YT from a Californian popular emtb site that said with such low power in the world of DJI this was three years out of date. The same day a...

Ha. Was sure you meant the Goboa. But that's probably just the name sounds so Chinese and I hadn't heard of them before. The Mahle name plate on the side of the motor is surprisingly cheap looking. Yet I'd seen other pics where it was much larger in polished aluminium. Very German engineering...

Also small SL motors can do an awful lot as long as the gearing is low enough so you aren't having to grind out gears. Those emtb tests with the SX motor had very low mtb gears probably 32 x 50 or something close allowing them to spin even on the crazy steep tech trails. I reduced the gearing on...

This is true. I remember the first reviews of the SX motor on emtbs where the reviewers found that pedalling furiously up steep techs climbs released far more power, almost comparable to the powerful CX motors. In other word it's designed to reward fast cadence. A quirk of the motor.

You mean the GOBAO or the DJI?

No mounting points on my 'SUV-ed" Brave. Fitted a £12 sturdy kickstand made by Halfords (huge national chain of car & bike parts/garages), was concerned it might slip or twist, but no, it's been brilliant.

Neither broke outright. First one was sounding loud after 2 years hard riding. A friend in the bike biz advised I take it back to shop to check out before warranty ended. Bike mechanic rode it and compared noise to a new Vado SL on shop floor, rang me and said the motor noise was significantly...

Good discussion about the new motors, power arms race, software and DJi making such waves. Alex bike tester can be quite anti-DJi but very in-depth in industry analysis.

Hard luck Jeremy. As long as your bike shop are on the case it should be a straightforward new motor warranty swap, couple of weeks. Had 2 new motors in the 2 year warranty period. No quibble warranty claims & the second was a couple months out of warranty but they swapped it anyway, great bike...

Yep.

Reading EMTB boards, rumours that this Mahle motor could have been developed with Specialized for the Levo. The Levo Gen 4 was a year late and there was talk of a falling out with Brose as Spesh were unhappy with the motor Brose was developing and back then (a year ago) Mahle was mentioned to...

Good point - I mean coming to market on their own, not as an arrangement with another company like Specialized. In fact thinking about it, this looks to be the first motor they have designed from the ground up, the X35 & X 20 hub motors coming from the Spanish ebikemotion company acquisition...

Haven't met many Aussies have ya mate?