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  1. Stefan Mikes

    Beware Having REI Set Up Your Canyon - Potentially Dangerous Fail

    OK. Perhaps this post had two markings: the minimum and maximum insertion depth? If so then I owe Cat an apology! @Catalyzt: Could you take a photo with the minimum and maximum insertion depth markers?
  2. Stefan Mikes

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

    Those women, not you, right? :)
  3. Stefan Mikes

    Specialized Turbo Vado/Como/Tero/Tero X User Club

    I had to fix the front mudguard in my Vado 6.0. I need to start with it is one of a very few original parts on my e-bike! (Almost everything else -- I say everything including the frame -- was replaced!) I only removed the long mudflap several years ago as it was a constant nuisance. For...
  4. Stefan Mikes

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

    Available in London UK on the 3-4 January 2026. Friends and visits? :)
  5. Stefan Mikes

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

    Wrong e-bike! This is how AI fancies @Brix :)
  6. Stefan Mikes

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

    I think @Chargeride would starve in Poland, because... ...Cheddar is hardly available in my country :) It is either Edam or Gouda or Tilsit (my favourite) or Emmentaler through any of hundreds local cheese types to imported and specialty cheese but no Cheddar :) A picture taken this evening at...
  7. Stefan Mikes

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

    Hahaha! He said, however, "Cheddar is the most popular type of cheese in the world". Is it? :D
  8. Stefan Mikes

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

    Nothing will surprise me with the nation who puts the fried potatoes (aka chips/French fries) or crisps/chips into a toast sandwich :) P.S. Still fond of the British cuisine perhaps with the exception of lamb or jelly eels :) P.S.2. Still cannot understand the nation that thinks cheddar is the...
  9. Stefan Mikes

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

    I asked because you put a kind of "number plate" on your e-bike and I thought you wanted to cover the number plate support (which is present on HS e-bikes) :)
  10. Stefan Mikes

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

    Is your R&M the High Speed (HS) version, @Dima? Well, well, well... Snow? "Motivation" Ride with Tommy Tommy had requested a relatively short but interesting ride, so I invented something for him in my neighbourhood :) The first 15 km were totally uneventful, almost all on bike paths. As we...
  11. Stefan Mikes

    2026 R&M Models video overview from Propel

    Oh, come on, it is :) At least for some of us :)
  12. Stefan Mikes

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

    Jeremy, perhaps I will say something obvious, yet... There is no sales tax in Europe. The Value Added Tax is what any end consumer (an individual or a business) has to pay. Only the business can deduct the VAT from the goods or services it bought to produce something more valuable (which is...
  13. Stefan Mikes

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

    Elks in Valley of Josaphat, Rabe Mountain, Fixing the Second Mirrycle, Vistula Gravel, The New Warsaw-West Train Station I rode to my brother Jacek in the late Saturday morning. This time, I chose one of the shortest routes, that is, the one leading through Kampinos National Park (KPN). Elks...
  14. Stefan Mikes

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

    You have a low VAT. Ours is 23%.
  15. Stefan Mikes

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

    News: The reportedly 1/8" Chinese made hex wrench turned out to be as good as the rest of the Chinese scrap metal. 1/8" = 3.175 mm. The key measures 3.08 mm on one side and 3.52 mm on the other (I didn't measure the third side). So the key does not fit the 1/8" American bolt socket of the...
  16. Stefan Mikes

    Three fat old men on ebikes could nail that

    Just tow the glider with a motorcycle, or, better, a car :)
  17. Stefan Mikes

    Importing from North America Has Become Tough

    Heard of those "shadow fleet" tankers recently damaged in the Black Sea? Russia had to move her Black Sea navy to the seaports in the east because... Are you sure those got impounded? (St. Catherine Quay, Londongrad, July 2022).
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