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I haven't seen a video, but the PDF with photos sure makes it sound and look easy. :) But they are also not showing the details of the harder part, just saying "Stow all in the frame tube" and "Fold the motor up again, making sure no cables were squeezed." SIGH I've still got the bike...

Has anyone seen some kind of guide about how the motor wiring should be routed? I’ve had the motor pivoted down (on the back bottom bolt) and I can’t for the life of me get the wiring routed back the way it should be. Every time I bring the motor back up into place I find there‘s some wire left...

Welcome to the forum, Carl! You say the weather hasn't been good for riding... rain or snow? Here in Montreal at the moment the roads are bare and dry but for the last two weeks they were already snow-covered and I thought the riding season was over for us. Lots of rain forecast for later...

Wow! Most helpful! Thanks very much!

Thanks. I'll have to see if I can get one. But since Yamaha bikes are not sold in Canada, it might be a bit tough. Do you have one? Does it list torque values for things that are not really part of the PW drive, like chainring nut torque, crank pedal torque, etc. Or only the motor itself...

Have you ever come across something like a shop manual for these bikes? It would be real nice to have the torque values for things like the chainring nut, crank bolts, etc. I'm a bit concerned about putting the crank arms back on... they were really tightly on and very difficult to remove...

Thank you! I'm going to take a chance on it being 36mm. I'm at work now and found a tape with both Imperial and metric measures, and the estimate of 1 3/8" I made yesterday is real darn close to 36mm. I don't think I want to fuss with disassembling the spider if I don't have to. I'm bummed...

I'm trying to remove the chainring on my 2019 Explore E+1 GTS and ran into an unexpected nut. I've got the crank arms off on both sides but there's a really large nut holding the chainring in place. And it's recessed enough that I can't use a wrench or vice-grips to open it. Looks like I need...

It would be prohibitively expensive for me to buy a Giant bike in the US and then bring it into Canada. Duties and taxes are paid on the bike when it arrives in the US, and I'd have to AGAIN pay duties and taxes upon bringing it into Canada. Plus the dollar exchange rate is really poor. At...

It's now on the Canadian Giant site also, but it doesn't say that it's a 28mph bike like the US site says. I wonder if Canadian regulations limit the speed. I'd think that if the Canadian version of the bike also does 28mph, they would say so. That would be a great selling point.

What's Di2?

I haven't heard any rumors about larger batteries (larger than 500Wh), but it seems that Giant's recent trend is for SMALLER batteries like 375Wh. And for bikes with those smaller batteries, they offer an add-on "range booster" battery that attaches and extends the range. I don't like that...

The "range-extender" battery is only for certain new 2020 Giant models. Unfortunately. And most of those use a 375w battery instead of 400 or 500. I received my BikeSpeed RS last week and was going to install it today (bought a crank puller yesterday) but now it's snowing and the forecast is...

I fear my riding season is over later today... 20cm of snow forecast. And there's no way I'm riding in that, no matter what the temperature is. And coupled with very cold temperatures, it's unlikely that we'll see bare roads again for months. SIGH (Ordered a Merino wool balaclava which I...

I use Merino wool underwear all the time and wouldn't be without, but I can't seem to find a balaclava using Merino wool. I've checked with the two major outfitters here (Mountain Equipment Co-op and La Cordée). Where did you get yours?

Don't forget good gloves... they need to be warm and they need to be waterproof. (Wet gloves would make you freeze your fingers real quickly.) And you still need to be able to operate the brakes and gears and probably other controls. I'm still looking for the right gloves.

There are gadgets you can buy that bypass the standard speed limitation of these bikes. Some of them are external and fool the bike's computer into thinking you're going slower than you really are, but these also cause the bike's speedometer and odometer to give wrong readings. Other gadgets...

I'm not sure if such a thread exists or not but there have been various posts about winter riding. More about tire choices than anything else. I'm not going to commute during the winter (30km each way) because of ice and snow, and also the road salt we use here would make a mess of the bike...

When I wanted to buy (or even look at one) my local Specialized dealer didn't have any e-bikes. And it was already very near the end of our riding season here in Montreal (it's snowing now) and he said he'd have to order 5 (assorted) e-bikes and that he didn't want to carry that inventory over...

You made me laugh with your "we're old" comment. I'm old too! Funny that you had your bike shipped across country for you... I did the same to get my 2019 Explore E+1 GTS... it was the last one in all of Canada and I had it shipped from Edmonton to me in Montreal. Cost a small fortune, but I...