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  1. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    The proper way of travelling in England is taking a train 😃 Local buses are not bad either. For example, a Ramsgate bus 69 works on the "hop off hop on" principle, and you can explore the whole Thanet for just £6 a person! The weather is gorgeous. I enjoyed walking barefoot along the seaside...
  2. Stefan Mikes

    Show us pictures of where you ride your ebikes!

    Garmin is always +5°C off 😃
  3. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    I could have expressed myself wrongly: Buzzcocks sounded terribly on FOH, that is, for the audience. The proper mix for a 1970s punk-rock band is the drums, bass, and vocals with electric guitars creating the background (louder guitar soloes are allowed). Buzzcocks had their two guitars set too...
  4. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    We Moved To Ramsgate On Sunday Margate and Ramsgate are seaside resorts in Isle of Thanet, which is in reality a peninsula in county of Kent, England. Ramsgate is nicer and less expensive than Margate. Enjoying life 😊 We live in a Victorian apartment with a sea view at the Promenade a...
  5. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    People in England love small talk with strangers (l'm used to it). One of such chats began in a Margate restaurant bar where a gentleman expressed his interest in us drinking IPAs instead of lager. I told him the life was too short to drink Lager 😂 I love engaging in small talk here. For...
  6. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    There was a keg of 13% Imperial Stout from Azvex, a brewery in Liverpool. The keg broke (!!!) so I had to find the more expensive beer in the fridge. We had the Azvex IS the next night in Canterbury 😊
  7. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    It was only a Verdant glass. The strong hazy IPA was from Fuerst Wiacek, Berlin, Germany. This is one of very few German breweries that understand what craft beer is! The night before, we were in Craft Beer Junction pub in South London we are friends with. There, we had this Imperial Stout...
  8. Stefan Mikes

    2022 Vado 4.0 SL - Future Shock upgrade?

    Aye. Order the whole assembly including the Future Shock.
  9. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Canterbury, Kent, England, The United Kingdom You'll always find a proper craft beer pub in an English city 😁 @Chargeride: getting a Continental Breakfast in an English B&B is an insult, innit 😃 P.S. I'm totally happy about my current stay in England. Everything is so easy, and the weather...
  10. Stefan Mikes

    Specialized Turbo Vado SL: An Incredible E-Bike (User Club)

    I charge to the max as I never know what the future might hold 😊
  11. Stefan Mikes

    2022 Vado 4.0 SL - Future Shock upgrade?

    You must upgrade the fork to the carbon one to install Future Shock.
  12. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Guess the country I'm in 😃 (You have a choice of three in this island). A birthday present from @Brix ❤️ As @Chargeride often says in his videos: 'A nice little psycho path' 😃
  13. Stefan Mikes

    2025 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

    Strava sent a message its AI Themis was actively detecting cheating. I know it works for them. For instance, an ebike ride declared as "Ride" is now being detected by Themis. I got several my rides (wrongly declared earlier) flagged!
  14. Stefan Mikes

    Giant Ease e is very less supporting

    The simple PAS does not measure cadence :) It is on/off.
  15. Stefan Mikes

    Giant Ease e is very less supporting

    Simple PAS has overwhelmed North America with thousands of cheap Chinese e-bikes that either have "PAS" or "torque sensing" and/or "throttle". (Throttle is illegal in the EU and UK). Europe has heavily gone towards mid-drive since simple "PAS" was a thing.
  16. Stefan Mikes

    Giant Ease e is very less supporting

    Jeremy, anyone here understands PAS as the system that just activates the motor by pushing pedals. Why to create confusion.
  17. Stefan Mikes

    Giant Ease e is very less supporting

    I said that in the sense of the "American PAS", that is, the system only checks if you are rotating the cranks and the wheel's moving. You have just coined a new and proper term. Our mid-drive systems is a way more refined.
  18. Stefan Mikes

    Giant Ease e is very less supporting

    What throttle :D (Wrong continent!) PAS only.
  19. Stefan Mikes

    Vado Derestriction

    Use whatever you like. It is illegal anyway :)
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