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From the Brain article referenced sounds like there are two ways a bike can be shipped. A smaller box with all the parts that the dealer would assemble, Then a larger box if you chose to have the bike sent to your home. In the latter case, the bike is fully assembled, adjusted and test...

In your graph data, you are only considering assist (support?) level. Your figures here show the importance of also including peak power setting as well as bike speed. I'll simplify that the SL is 2x you and max elec power is 300 W. @ 70/70 if you output constant 100 W then the motor power is...

If all you need is battery level display, free version of ebike field from the garmin app store will do it. Worked fine when I had an edge 25 with my vado sl.

I don't really like 29ers myself. I wonder if the new Vado with 650B wheels and maybe different tires would be a better bike for me. I have a Levo SL so that will take care of the more technical off road - but I'm looking for something for fire roads and less technical off road. I'd probably...

Very nice review Stefan. I'm still considering a 5.0 and need to make time to get to the nearby Specialized Experience Center to check them out. I also noted the specs call for increased standover height on the Tero vs the Vado- due to the bigger wheels? Hopefully I can still fit a medium as...

Looks like the Tero 5.0 is available for demo rides ($65/4hrs) at the Santa Cruz Specialized Experience Center. This is close enough for me to give it a go. From the pics on Specialized website the Tero comes with a display. As shown it appears to have 2 cables from the display into the bike...

Just used Blevo to check internal and range extender battery health. Not too bad. Internal battery lost 11 Wh from rated 320 Wh starting capacity. Range extender lost 6 Wh from 160 Wh rated at start. I don't know if batteries as received were at rated or not. For comparison, my Levo SL...

Is the normal behavior of the Vado to cut power assist at <5%? On my SL, I ran main battery below 5% and assist was still available albeit limited to about 50 W motor power displayed on Blevo. This was at 4% battery remaining in both normal Eco mode as well as using Smart Power from Blevo...

I haven't been below 10% on the internal battery since I've been using smart power. Next time I am low I'll see what happens. I do know that the range extender set to discharge first with Smart Power works the same. Below 10% it reduces power and at 5% it switches to the internal battery. I...

Yeah I'm not sure how smart power works either tho I still intend to use it. Currently setting so the threshold is slightly below average power. Then set the +/- tolerance so that I can easily exceed it to boost assistance. This works pretty well in general for uphills and the headwinds...

I think so, it's when I got an email announcement. Not available from any local stores yet but website still allows ordering Tero 5.0. All sizes except medium say low stock. Called LBS to see when they'd have in stock and was told who knows? Didn't check any of the other models online since...

Here is the configuration page from the Blevo manual. The +power, ++power and boost allow setting the amount of assist pressing the button will add.. The +power is can be set in 1% increments from 1-10. ++power can be set from10-80% with 5% increments. The boost is same as ++power. So it...

I have a vado sl and a levo sl as well. I got the levo after the range extender firmware had already been updated. Haven't noticed any issues swapping the range extender between bikes.

Did a short uphill ride to check out settings with assist acceleration threshold around 100 W, acceleration set to fast and deceleration set to super eco. Climb is about 5% overall with a few >10% bits. Smart power set to eco 19-98W. Overall the assist response was very smooth and the...

I think it is flexible enough. The threshold power can be set in the range from 50 W to 400 W. Then the range boundaries where assist increase/decrease takes effect can be set from +/- 10 to +/- 40 W. So at a minimum, you could set 50 W threshold with 10 W boundary range. In this case you...

Have you tried Blevo's smart power option? While browsing another forum looking for more info on the remote, I came across discussion of the Blevo Smart Power settings and decided to try it out. It does let you set Eco to an initial setting say 10%. You then set a threshold of rider power...

By coincidence I received the remote today. I don't think it could get pass the lock screen - maybe if Blevo is running background with the screen locked it still works. It's no matter to me as when I use Blevo the display is always on and I'm using it as a secondary bike computer that has...

If there is a better practice, it will depend on your ride and elevation profile. You are looking at 20 miles/750 feet climb per range extender and 40 miles/1500 ft average for the main battery. If most of the climb is early in the ride and/or I have hope that I could complete the whole ride...

70 miles / 300 Wh (rounding down from 320 to account for staying out of reduced power) is about 4.2 Wh/mile. On the flats this should be plenty of assist. The bike will definitely feel more lively than the stock Eco settings. However you may be surprised at the battery usage as the 100 peak...

I set Mission Control to drain the range extender first. When the range extender gets low the max support/assist does get limited. Around 10% - possibly higher but I was in Eco so didn't really notice. At <10% the 100% peak power is no longer available. At 5% on the range extender - the...