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I posted the following in another Portola thread (thanks BobP), but thought I could also start my own here. Thanks for the great review on a great bike. I went to the Portola review on EBR and posted the following in the comments. For some reason it went to the review on the R1U 500, which...

My bottom bracket was getting pretty rough recently. I took it out (easy job) and re-lubed it even though it is supposed to be a sealed bearing on each side. It was somewhat better, but I went to FleaBay and bought another bottom bracket. They seemed to run $20-25. When I got the new one, I...

I bought a R1U 700 in March of 2020, which got delivered in June 2020. Overall, its a good bike but I feel like I don't do any work at all when pedaling. I also wanted a second ebike, so that I could leave one at my place in FL, and decided to get a bike with a torque sensor. I also purchased...

I now have two ebikes for city use. I put a Long Travel Thudbuster on the first bike and expect to get another suspension seatpost for the newer bike. The Thudbuster is pretty nice, but does not compare to the 160mm (6") of travel my mountain bike has. But it does a good job on city streets...

I got my 700 in mid June. After about 200 miles I decided to have my controller display the battery voltage rather than % remaining, since it was so inaccurate as a percentage left. When fully charged it goes to 54.8 volts. I do not want to run the battery below 44 volts so I set my scale...