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The important lesson isn’t how hot the brakes get. What’s important is not touching them with your fingers to find out! 😃

This is my experience as well. To be fair, most rod bi’e riders on the W&OD are not speeding along at very high speeds. I can usually keep up at my cruising speeds, 14-16 mph, and usually can pass them up the long shallow rail trail assents but they then frequently come up next to me on my...

It’s a part so a dealer can order one. Availability is a whole separate issue.

The Vado SL was released as a 2021 model I’m May 2020. That’s when I bought mine. On my wife’s birthday which is why I remember. in 2021/2022 the specs were modified to address the then current supply train issues. In late 22 or 23, a new version with Mastermind was released. Other than the...

For a while, I worried the heart rate and other sensors were not accurate. I compared the readings at my cardiologist’s and they were pretty close. Trends are the important metric for my needs. As long as the readings are consistent with each other and my occasional cross checks I don’t care how...

I agree it eats the watch’s battery, and your iPhone too for that matter. But with fully charged devices chances are they’ll last at least as long as your bikes battery. (If I’m going on a ride longer than two hours I bring a power bank. I haven’t needed it to charge my watch but the iPhone has...

Your experience highlights one of big delusions of the anti Ebike crowd. I average between 14 mph and 16 mph on my usual W&OD routes. There are several sect where I can ride 20-25 mph slower riders and pedestrians allowing. Even at those speeds I’m frequently passed by road bikes going 30 mph...

I’ve been riding with the RE all the time for a while now. my regular rides are between 10 and 30 miles. I do two or three rides a week and can often c(rage just once a week. The RE has often given me the capability of taking unplanned longer rides without range concerns. I bought my Vado SL...

I notice that if I’m in Turbo (100/100) and riding slowly the assist does surge slightly when I start and more annoyingly lags or pulls back when I lower my cadence. It’s slight but definitely noticeable and occasionally disconcerting. I agree with Stefan that this is may not be normal or...

After more than a half century of vadoing investing never reached the point where I’d get lost if I could still move. 😜

I’m sure that the folks at Specialized are working hard to screw up the software further in a future update.

I don’t think speed limits on undulating trails would work. Bikes go faster down hill and slower climbing. If you are going too slowly at the bottom of a hill you might not have enough momentum to reach the top of the next one. Even on an e-bike. Where would the cops enforce the limit? At the...

Stefan as usual provides precision to the discussion. This explanation mirrors my experience. Another factor is ambient temperature. over this past mild (Northern Virginia) winter my range on the colder days was down as much as 20%. Speed was also lower, but that might be attributed to the...

It appears that reviews can no longer sorted. Especially by date: newest to oldest

It would seem the Specialized folks misunderstood my emails about their e-bikes being computers on two wheels. Rather than providing an App that enabled mastery of the current and future sophisticated features provided by the bikes’ microprocessors they put together something suitable for young...

Sounds more and more like a protection racket.

I not aware of any regulatory issues but I’ve ridden the trail both alone and with the E-Bike Lovers of Washington DC group several times in the past few years without incident

Northern Virginia is really good for biking. I’m in Ashburn and am less than a mile from the W&OD which riding 25 miles or so southeast indirectly connects to the Mt Vernon trail. a very cycling friendly region. And the local govs are working to improve it.