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definitely get some miles on it before thinking too much about upgrades! the 12 speed nx cassette (11-50) fits a standard shimano freehub, ought to be plug and play. heavy piece but solid and a great range. its around $90. chainrings are the same between 11 and 12 in this case, lots to choose...

those sunrace cassettes are not great. very heavy and lacking the sophisticated ramping of the sram or shimano stuff. personally i’d go with one of the AXS upgrade kits, reasonably priced and no more futzing with the cable, the cable getting stretched or worn or frayed. game changer for me. not...

is there some way to delete these bot/spam/promotional posts?

please for the love of god .. it's PEDAL :D

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-02-06/why-does-tesla-lose-to-this-chinese-ev-giant-in-almost-every-market https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9rjwpvmpzo https://www.idc.com/resource-center/blog/inflection-point-for-electric-vehicles/...

untrue, and patently so. both globally and in china.

it makes more sense that way. you might need to try pedaling at 600+ watts just to make sure there isn’t some rounding going on. my recollection was similar to jeremy’s that at 5/10 ease settings the motor did not work very well.

it’s odd that 0/100 on dynamic micro tune is not “motor off.” in regular micro tune, there is no 0 setting - 10/100 is the lowest on the table. they should have used a different name for the first parameter of dynamic micro tune, since it’s clearly not exactly the same as “ease” when...

decades ago I asked them what they had that was vegetarian, and the very grumpy manager said “NOTHING ITS NOT FOR VEGETARIANS ITS PANDA EXPRESS“ so I left and never came back.

they look very similar to the specialized 3d printed ones - which i really love, although the right shape is still key and i believe they’re made more for the weight-forward position of a road bike. the more narrow shape works best for me, like the fizik “vento antares” or the specialized...

a little more troubleshooting here (talking to myself!), using a longer gradual climb (15 minutes, around 600' climbed at a fairly steady 3-4%, no stops) i figured out why the mahle data points are so ... irregularly spaced in the downloaded json files. it records a data point every time the...

it's just soooo satisfying when you go to do something and the perfect tool is right there!!

i wonder what the pattern or logic is, there have been big sales on previous years’ models, and then they’re full price, and then back and forth again! you’d think they either have a lot of them or not….

New Old Stock a previous year’s model, but still new and unsold.

specialized has a certain number of bikes that only go to the stores, another number for consumers to buy direct on the website, and some other number which could end up elsewhere or both or so on. so if you go in and ask, what they see definitely doesn’t match the website. i bought a bike once...

gorgeous color! that color is called "Satin Deep Lake Metallic" for some reason all the sl2 step thru bikes are removed from specialized us site, still show up on many of the foreign sites

i reached out to mahle and shared this graph, and they said they accept a 5% difference +/- to another known good power meter, and would recommend replacing the bottom bracket sensor package. as with all things bikes, the question now is ... buy the two specialized tools that i'll likely never...

i have used this type of blackrapid strap to keep a camera at the ready while riding https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1927253-REG/blackrapid_361022_sport_x_extra_comfort_right_handed.html the camera attaches to a bit that slides around the long part of the strap, while the short padded...

to be fair … all those other things are fairly small factors relative to the work your legs are doing. my resting HR was 40ish and full blast on a climb might have been 135. emotional state and caffeine might make a 10% difference, pretty small compared to the 300+ % of riding a bike hard!

i have a few rides recorded where a driver did something rude or agressive, and i got angry... and a few rides where i did something reckless or stupid and nearly crashed, and got scared/frazzled. the ride data clearly shows a brief disconnect of around +15bpm above normal heart rate for the...