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As a fellow SL rider, very encouraging!

The results are in: 40/60, 60/80, 80/100 is zippy fun but eats too much battery for routine use — especially on bigger rides. For example, burned 71% on a recent 30-miler with 3,000 ft of gain done almost entirely in 40/60. Apparently, if I give myself access to more motor power by raising the...

Put the charger on a simple shutoff timer set to turn off in X amount of time. You'll learn to guess X pretty well. For example, my gravel bike charges at ~40% per hour, the commuter at ~15% per hour. This inexpensive timer's been completely reliable for nearly 3 years...

Lots of young teen girls riding their own ebikes here in coastal SoCal — often with another girl on back, clearly enjoying being out and about on their own. Nearly always with helmets. Overall, the safest riders I see here, adults included. Don't get me started about some of their male...

Yes to all of that, but you don't really need street view. Zoom in with RideWithGPS or Google Maps in satellite view, and you can easily see if a given stretch of road has bike lanes or rideable shoulders. You can also get a crude preview of any dirt road you might be considering. Does it go...

Another thing I've learned from riding in a place crawling with ebikes: People have all kinds of reasons for riding them — utility, pure transportation, pleasure, fitness, bum knees and other physical limitations, etc. As long as they're riding responsibly, who am I to say that they should be...

Impressive! I'm struggling to hit the 3,000 mi mark on my Vado SL's upcoming 1st anniversary. You're averaging over twice that!

Amazing cloud reflections on the water!

So far, so good with our 4 month-old Velotric Breeze. What happened?

Some great points, but the ones about electronics and rear suspension are way too broad. There are pros and cons to everything. The trick is to play the trade-offs as best you can for your own goals in an ebike, and these vary widely in the ebike world. First, not everyone wants or needs full...

I only carry a bottle (of diluted orange Gatorade) on rides longer than 25-30 mi, or when I'll be stopping to eat. Still use the aforementioned Any Bottle Cage on my 70 lb hub-drive commuter. But to keep my 38 lb mid-drive gravel bike as light and nimble as possible, went to a lighter...

Over 90% of my rides are solo. The rest are with the missus, a few friends (one at a time), or occasionally a local group of mostly roadies. No rides with someone else who came to need a rescue. And I've needed only one myself — after a failed flat repair ~4 miles from home on a solo ride. One...

The bears are all on Strava to get bragging rights on segments like chasing tourists down famous trails or up well-known trees. Bears are very competitive when it comes to sports. ;^}

You may not have been aware, but we have a dedicated sub-forum for selling bikes. This off-topic post belongs there.

Yikes! Just checked the rear spokes on wife's Breeze — so far, so good at 200-300 mi but will definitely keep an eye on them going forward. Our only customer service experience went well. The Breeze tended to drop the chain outward in 7th and 8th gear. Called the closest Velotric dealer (not...

Welcome! Active recent thread on that very subject: https://forums.electricbikereview.com/threads/what-have-you-learned-from-your-e-bike-experiences.58016/

They closed the trail because the bear was on a Surron. If something isn't done about those @#$%^&*! Surrons, there'll soon be no trail access left.

I'm selling it. Go to PayPal and send $10 to [email protected]. B^}

Be sure to watch the Stage 21 highlights if not the whole replay. Wout pulled a Pogi on Pogi and just rode away from Pogi and everyone else in the lead group of all-stars. Huge gap in seconds. Wout was just on fire — a beautiful thing to behold. Really happy for him. Can't think of anyone more...

I have a dog maneuver that lets me open up a gap as I go by. The dogs on my commute either couldn't or wouldn't close the gap, and soon they'd give up. That was on an old steel Raleigh road bike sans motor at the fittest time of my life. Pretty sure I could still drop most dogs on my low-power...