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Seriously. I updated mine to WG85 a while ago, and everything is correct with my ACE.

Please check the right hand side buttons. It looks like the top one is stuck :)

Rab, just to say something for a perspective: -- My Vado SL 1 bare weight (the internal battery inside, all equipment out) is also 16 kg -- My Vado 6.0 weight with the battery is 26 kg. However, either e-bike has the Walk Mode, so I can walk my e-bikes upstairs. I assume yours (as a road...

Just to confirm: Specialized -> Wahoo Giant -> Garmin.

The most proper e-bike for you! A real road machine with conveniences! Now, you can hide your jacket into a pannier or a rear rack bag when it has stopped raining! I apologise for being skeptical about the Dolan, it looks a thing!

Congratulations, Rab! Is it a 2x drivetrain? The e-bike has come equipped, a good thing for Scotland and long rides!

Have you ever thought of large group ride organisers? Like gravel races? Several organisers ride long routes to verify them; for several formats. Often, changes are necessary as late as two days prior the race. The capability to improve the routes by several different people is a blessing. Ah...

Why did you need that many? Well, my planned Łódź Heights gravel ride is only to happen on Sat Oct 17th. This Saturday, we are gravel riding from Warsaw to Warka for apples (again!) I would not even consider it if not the fact I was invited by my friend Alfer, and he means a lot to me! Still...

Doable. It is usually 32-spoke wheels with sturdy rims. I had to replace rear wheels in my two e-bikes with custom wheels of the 180 kg rating. Otherwise the rear wheels got damaged after a few years of riding them (the total system weight was at the maximum or slightly above with stock wheels...

Most e-bikes (except cargo e-bikes) are rated for a total system weight (rider + e-bike + any cargo) of 136 kg.

Hi Declan, The 20/80% practice certainly helps maintaining the longevity of the battery. However, doing so is only practical for the people who hardly ever ride their e-bikes for any longer distance. Having your battery charged 100% after every ride allows you riding for longer distances and...

I seem to have fallen in love with Łódź Heights. Planned a new route that should be fairly easy to ride but which would involve as many as 16 Points Of Interest, being a Metric Century with 550 m elevation gain but 640 m elevation loss and with the tailwind being dominant :) The plan was met...

I enjoy Poland being a safe country nowadays. I can leave any of my e-bikes by the local grocery store unattended. If I ride to any of the shopping malls in the neighbourhood, I use the least expensive ABUS chain just to mark my bike as "it is not to be taken" :) I prefer keeping my eye on the...

@Mr. Coffee: The Polish author Stanisław Lem (whose writing varied from sci-fi comedy through solemn space stories to serious philosophical discourse) described the world past the AI takeover and with the robots inhabiting Earth for many generations in one of his witty novels (it could be the...

That's why the title of this thread is "American Customary Units...", naming the Imperial as another system. I think the UK is metric with some hangover from the Imperial times :) The British cyclists on GCN have no issue with kilometres or km/h :) Thank you Mr. Coffee! Enlightening!

As funny as it might seem, I often install the Quick Rack, attach two Ortlieb Vario panniers (the new and the old) and go for a 4-mile full blown grocery shopping with my Fearless :) The rack is extremely sturdy! The greatest benefit is walking my lightweight e-bike with the panniers up three...

One of many issues of the UK nowadays.

You have of course used the CityMapper, haven't you. I cannot quite get why we as tourists were happy with British railways but you do complain? I could complain on many things in the UK but the railways would be the last of them. How convenient it is to get to/from London airports by train...

I wonder how the EV market would look like if the car electric motors were as faulty as the e-bike ones... The article is about e-MTBs. Mountain e-bikes are known to be abused. I had an older Brose TF replaced once after 14,000+ km. My Specialized SL1.1 holds strong after 5 years and 20,000+ km...

The last thing. Ortlieb panniers have had a single design glitch from the beginning, a glitch that is very well described in the documentation (but who reads it?) All these bolts are held in place by big plastic nuts inside. As far as I can remember, Ortlieb has never used a threadlocker for...