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By chance I met up with a group of fairly advanced riders today and made an unexpected observation. My bike is a first generation electric bike - a big, fat, portly 37 lb Trek Domane+. I love it. Understandably, when this bike came out a few years ago, serious riders scoffed at a bike...

Electrically assisted bicycles have the unimaginative name of e-bikes, but that now requires us to rename traditional bikes that were heretofore simply called bicycles. Analog? vs digital Acoustic? As in an acoustic guitar vs an electric guitar. ICE? As in powered by my Internal Combustion...

I own a 16 lb Cannondale system six. My Gestalt is that riding my 38 lb Domane+ in ecco mode, requires about the same effort (i.e. calories expended, overall effort) for the same ride. My Apple watch estimates calories burned but uses speed as a factor. This is inaccurate as a lot of effort can...

The e-bike under exercising myth. Each person’s thighs are made up of a unique combination of type I slow twitch (endurance) and type II fast twitch (fast cadence sprinting) muscle fibers. While it is true that you can do different training exercises to strengthen either fast or slow twitch...

It seems like Trek has removed all of the bike reviews from its website. I don't know if its temporary or permanent. I don't know if the review section was subject to abuse, felt to be too unprofessional or perhaps too revealing? Trek did parse the reviews prior to posting, so they did maintain...

Class 3 e-bikes have a motor that provides power up to 28 mph, and are not available in many parts of the world, presumably because such power is considered reckless or dangerous. My portly Domane+ with the motor hanging off the bottom of it is obviously an e-bike, but most cyclists I meet have...

In the Northern hemisphere, the covid crisis came right at the beginning of Spring, and the cycling season. This has shut down much of the world, put many people working at home in quarantine, and seems to have reduced road traffic by about 80%. Last weekend I rode up and down Las Vegas...

I have several hundred more miles on my Domane+ I’m writing a review as I think the trek website does novice buyers of e-bikes a disservice. There are two very different types of bikes available on the web site, but they look similar. The class 1 bikes (domane+ LT, LT7, LT9) use small, light...