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Thought this might be worth passing on. We visited the Sequim/Port Angeles area the last few days. Rode various chunks of the Olympic Discovery Trail, a work-in-progress that aims to tie Port Townsend to Forks. All the way across the top of the Olympic Peninsula. One lovely day (air temp...

Ravi, thanks for showing the insides of a typical bike battery pack. Are those 18650's? For folks following this, 18650 refers to a specific size of Li-Ion cell. Apparently the correct terminology for one 18650 is a cell, not a battery. A bunch of cells packed together is correctly referred...

Thanks to everyone; let's keep the conversation going! Just a quick review: my Haibike HardNine has a 400Wh battery, as does Patti's Liv Amiti-E+. Both bikes roll on ETRTO 622 rims. Her Serfas Krest FPS knobby tires are 52/622's and my Conti Trail King Protects are 54/622. I'm not scientific...

I consider the Reflectix as an experiment, using what I could find in the shop that I didn't mind cutting up. Had to try something before we went out again. Neoprene would be awesome, but I don't have a partial sheet nor a stout sewing machine. Hadn't pondered conductive vs. radiative...

rich c, I was writing while you were writing. The bikes stay in the garage overnite, then it's about ten minutes drive to the rails-trails trailhead. I guess we could keep the batteries in the car with us.

Thanks a million for the tip! I plugged the batteries in as soon as we got home. The charger indicated it was done by the time I did the following... The first time I held the button down I didn't wait quite long enough. Tried again. The sequence goes something like this. For the...

My Haibike HardNine 1.0 is only 400Wh battery. It has three boost settings. Eco, Std. and High. My wife's Liv Amiti-E also has three boost settings and a 400Wh battery. She weighs a lot less than I do so her battery goes almost twice as far. Our usual ride is 20 miles RT on a local...

I was looking at the Haibike HardLife with 35cm frame but they stopped making those last year. I'd like to say I was actually looking at one but that's not the case. Looking at the computer. If only there was a shop that had these bikes on hand! The HardFour is - wait a minute - I thought...

Hmmm interesting idea - seat with no nose so the rider can take advantage of the lower part of the top tube. Didn't think about that. She's using a Cloud 9 seat right now. I know what you mean about the extra room required for a suspension post. We had a tandem a few years ago. I got her a...

I'll try to get back with some pictures and more specific comments. The push products aren't cheap. But they work. I tried three or four over-the-counter drug store thumb braces. The push works better than all of them. The other ones not only didn't work as well, they were big and fuzzy...

CMC (carpometacarpal) is the most common type of thumb arthritis. The joint at the base of the thumb deteriorates, causing pain when grasping. I think years of shoveling, running fire hose, air-powered tools, etc. probably did it to me. Modifications made to a Haibike HardNine 1.0 medium...

She's 4'11" and 26.5" inseam with no shoes. Currently riding a Liv Amiti-E+ medium frame. I think the Trek Powerfly Women's 14.5" would fit her. We went to a Trek store and the salesman put her on a 13.5" frame. I think it was a Marlin? Plenty of standover. Then he tried a 15.5" frame. A...

Where do you live? How much rain? We're in the PNW, where it can drizzle for days on end. If your wife is willing, there are solutions to most of the weather related discomfort. I've found that you can bulk up all you want around your core, but if your extremities go cold it's all over. My...

62 now. Grew up on bikes, then motorcycles. Then long periods of no bicycling at all. Recently I was resigned to the obvious conclusion that my wife and I weren't gonna ride any more. Then I took a gamble. Spent $4500 for two e-bikes knowing that they might collect dust. We've been...

Salesman got back to me on this. There's no calibration. Better make sure the e-bike you're buying is the one you really want!

Do you ride for yourself (exercise, stress relief, Point A to Point B, etc.) or do you ride to find out what others think of you? Innovation is disruptive. You and your e-bike are at the forefront of a major disruptive event for bicycling. Betcha half the people making comments wish they...

That didn't occur to me at all but now that you mention it, that makes sense.

I'm waiting on a reply from the shop. That'd be kind of a bummer if there's no calibration. The ability to calibrate has been a given for years with plain old bike speedometers. Progress marches backward?

I replaced the OEM 700c knobby tires on my wife's 2017 Amiti-E with some 29er tires. She noticed the trip odometer is off. Does anyone know anything about the Giant Charge Display? The Charge Display is simpler than the Evo Display. The manuals we got with the bike are not exactly...

My wife is currently riding a Liv Amiti-E small frame. Her inseam is 26.25" with no shoes. I'm wondering about the little 35cm Haibike frame. I'm told the 35cm HardLife is not available. What about the HardSeven? Does anyone have a 35cm Hard Seven? If so, could you please measure...