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  1. Stefan Mikes

    Specialized Turbo Vado SL: An Incredible E-Bike (User Club)

    @JRitt: you could try either Specialized Pathfinder TLR 40-622 or Schwalbe G-One Overland 365 size 40-622
  2. Stefan Mikes

    NSW [Australia] considering plan to halve power and top speed of ebikes as rider dies in collision with garbage truck

    250 W, 25 km/h. It could easily happen in EU. The whole talk about "reducing e-bike speed and power" is just a crap.
  3. Stefan Mikes

    NSW [Australia] considering plan to halve power and top speed of ebikes as rider dies in collision with garbage truck

    Isn't the max assisted e-bike speed in Australia just 25 km/h? Instead of inventing new laws, riding the Chinese unlawful rubbish should be penalized.
  4. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Chargeride's YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@chargeriderepeat7024 Now Dima, you buy and start wearing a helmet then you are our man! :D Don't worry Dima, I cannot understand most of Chargeride's jokes; my impression is he speaks a language different from English :)
  5. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Poland has a pretty long border with Belarus. Many local (borderland) Polish people are Orthodox, and most of them have experience with Belarus and the Belarussian. Yes, we have some issues on the border but it is the wrong place to discuss it here. On our September ride in the Białowieska...
  6. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Dima, the question was if you needed to show your passport on the Russia-Belarus border or it is basically an open border? There is the site of Belarussian Santa Claus around. Will you perhaps ride there someday and show us some pictures?
  7. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    To be frank, I cannot see it happen within my lifetime...
  8. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Dima is a Belarussian :) He would have more issues to ride into Poland. The view from a Poland's Białowieża forest towards the Belarussian border (the exclusion zone), the 6th of September 2025. On those days, the Belarussian border was totally closed. You were not allowed to approach the...
  9. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Derailleur hanger alignment gauge.
  10. Stefan Mikes

    Gender Neutral Spanish

    You would be very surprised Uma to learn how strange ways the political correctness can take in a gendered language such as Polish. The feminists in Poland do whatever possible to enhance the position of women by changes to the language. While the American PC is all for gender-neutral...
  11. Stefan Mikes

    Wahoo ELEMNT vs. Garmin EDGE (as E-Bike GPS Displays)

    So it means your computer is somehow connected to the Vado SL. Why no e-bike battery level? Weird! P.S. @BEC111: I have read some Coospo material. It clearly states the computer can work with e-bikes. If you get the cadence and pedal power it means Coospo is connected to two sensors of your...
  12. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    I don't think Afghanistan is Russia or Belarus :)
  13. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Dima, from what I read you get a 5 day visa to cross 500 km in Turkmenistan, sandy roads, no water, maybe no electricity en route? :) ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO MAKE IT?
  14. Stefan Mikes

    Yes but I don't make trip blogs there.

    Yes but I don't make trip blogs there.
  15. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Our @Dima is planning an e-bike ride around the Caspian Sea, all forbidden -stans including Iran, with Azerbaijan inaccessible by land or sea, and Turkmenistan requiring by law you hire armed bodyguards :) Would be more interesting to hear a report from someone we know :)
  16. Stefan Mikes

    Well, congratulations Dima! I could notice you ride with no helmet and often on the left side of...

    Well, congratulations Dima! I could notice you ride with no helmet and often on the left side of the road? See my longest ride. It was a race, almost 27 hours gross, a Specialized Vado SL, several hours of sleep at an agrotouristic farm :) https://www.strava.com/activities/9287991749
  17. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    IGPSport is a known brand. It is actually the maps that are the most expensive part of any bike GPS computer. Some weakness of the "breadcrumb GPS navigation" is you get lost on non-obvious trail forks, as you are not assisted by the map, which shows actual terrain features. Turn-by-turn...
  18. Stefan Mikes

    Pinion Motor.Gearbox.Unit (MGU)

    You can control it with the app :) Ah, "what app?" :D
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