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  1. Rás Cnoic

    Show us pictures of where you ride your ebikes!

    This one you need to get a high quality print and frame - to look at on those miserable winter days with the lights on all day, to remind you why you ride. To me that road, that sweep and view is what cycling is all about. the lure of exploring & whats around the next bend. Great photo Rab.
  2. Rás Cnoic

    Pinion Motor.Gearbox.Unit (MGU)

    Reading all the - slightly hysterical - reporting about these new eCVT gearboxes at Eurobike, now is probably a good time to put up this vid, a restoration of a 1930s German Wanderer gearbox bike. Such remarkable engineering, clearly built to last given that bike is close to 100 years old now...
  3. Rás Cnoic

    Show us pictures of where you ride your ebikes!

    If your life had taken a different turn it could have been "... as the riders enter the famous old velodrome here in Roubaix and it's the American, the one they call Banshee McCreary in the lead!" Banshee McCreary actually has a great ring to it. I sense a new podcast/vlogging career coming up!
  4. Rás Cnoic

    Pinion Motor.Gearbox.Unit (MGU)

    One of the motor gearbox systems that has been developing for a number of years is the tiny Scottish firm Intradrive and their GD8 motor. They had a rideable prototype at Eurobike last year and are back this year apparently on some brand bikes, but nothing yet online from Eurobike, lost in the...
  5. Rás Cnoic

    Eurobike 2026 ebike news

    I actually missed that Aventon gravel bike! Could only listen to the Ai in small doses. That one looks lovely. Definitely interested to see what price they attach to it and a better look at motor and parts.
  6. Rás Cnoic

    Show us pictures of where you ride your ebikes!

    "They call him Jeremy (Wailin' Banshee) McCreary"
  7. Rás Cnoic

    Eurobike 2026 ebike news

    Apologies for the AI dubbing, though German seems to work better then Italian, a video I looked at yesterday was so fast speaking it was hilarious! Anyway Velomotion magazine do a lot of deep dives into e-bike motor systems and bike reviews- and not just EMTBs, commuters road etc as well. Also...
  8. Rás Cnoic

    Do You Wear A Cap Underneath Your Bicycle Helmet?

    I guess I'm the opposite, i wear cycling caps most rides, but not when off the bike! I don't have the long skinny face for it, mine's too round and it looks like a child's cap perched on my head! I wear all kinds of other caps and hats off the bike. Wearing an old straw hat at the moment as we...
  9. Rás Cnoic

    Eurobike 2026 ebike news

    I think the fact they came from drone technology and world leading drone technology at that meant it wasn't like starting from scratch. It was a remarkable launch at Eurobike 24? Maybe 23. And they were well prepared to hit the market with a fully mature system; more powerful, lighter, quiet...
  10. Rás Cnoic

    Eurobike 2026 ebike news

    True that, I forgot it was fairly lightweight already. I still scratch my head when Orbea dumps was it Shimano? for avinox, then does a similar RS firmware restricting the power- I understand it saves battery, full power avinox must eat battery. But why change to avinox in the first place...
  11. Rás Cnoic

    Pinion Motor.Gearbox.Unit (MGU)

    Yeah I'm a complete novice with anything other then manual gears, car and bike! Would have to ride one to get a sense, can't quite imagine the bike getting my cadence right, if you see what I mean. On the other hand I'm very relaxed about different systems, with old friction shifters on one bike...
  12. Rás Cnoic

    Eurobike 2026 ebike news

    From some google research - the TL comes with TRP Hywave electronic shifting and 11 speed TRP new E.A.S.I derailleur, 11-43T cassette. The crankset (38T) (155 for small, 160 for medium/large), cockpit and wheels are all Amflow inhouse. The wheels are heavy duty aluminium (AMFLOW HTA-25 wheelset)...
  13. Rás Cnoic

    Eurobike 2026 ebike news

    Whereas I'm curious about Avinox, will they ever release a low power, but extremely lightweight system for road and gravel? Currently they are building a number of bikes around the same (or at least two similar versions) motor, with the exception of the new gearbox concept. Nice to see the drop...
  14. Rás Cnoic

    Eurobike 2026 ebike news

    The Dropbar version has TRP hyware electronic shifting. Nice. Didn't catch the rest!
  15. Rás Cnoic

    Pinion Motor.Gearbox.Unit (MGU)

    Very good points. How will it work with changing gears under load, say on a very steep twisty technical climb? How can set cadence anticipate that, when the only cadence required is not to fall off the damn bike and get over the next tree root! Plenty to be discovered once these new systems are...
  16. Rás Cnoic

    Eurobike 2026 ebike news

    Re: Price that German vid says €3,500 which puts it cheaper then the Amflow EMTBs I think they start at €3,999?
  17. Rás Cnoic

    Do You Wear A Cap Underneath Your Bicycle Helmet?

    Cycling caps traditionally have no top button (like a cricket cap?) and are lightweight cotton or wool in winter that fit snugly under pretty much all helmets unless mtb full or half face etc.
  18. Rás Cnoic

    Eurobike 2026 ebike news

    If you go to 5:20 he briefly looks at the dropbar version.
  19. Rás Cnoic

    Eurobike 2026 ebike news

    I don't speak a word of German but in this Eurobike walk around the new trekking/commuting Amflow TL - is that a dropbar version of the TL behind them?! First Amflow dropbar bike if so!
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