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I recommended a friend a used Vado SL EQ. He likes to use bags (like Ortlieb backroller) AND a box or some "platform" were he can store a jacket, a sweater, etc. The normal racktime rear rack on the Vado SL does not provide lower extra horizontal tubes for bags/backroller and with a Racktime...

Same here. In a german forum I had contact with a LBS dealer with quite some experience in road bikes who was eager to convert his Vado SL to race bars. At the end he swapped the bike back to the original Vado SL parts and sold the race bike parts... It's totally ok, if someone does not...

I ride a Creo Comp Carbon for longer rides at the weekend and a Vado SL 4.0 EW for shorter rides during the week (shopping in the next city, etc.). As we are under the 25km/h limit here in Germany, the difference between the two for ME is quite big. If it's flat, I ride the Creo mostly over...

I did (almost) the same on my wifes Vado SL St 4.0, 650B with 47mm and TL. Much more comfortable and together with 160 instead of 170mm cranks also much better for a small person on a S Vado ST. It's a pity that Specialized doesn't put 650B in the Vado SL ST in size S like it's common for MTBs...

+1 I bought a Comp Carbon in summer 2020 and convinced my wife for a Vado SL in 2021. I thought the 5.0 with futureshock 1.5 to expensive so we bought a Vada SL 4.0 (alloy, no futureshock) for her. She was always complaining about the stiffness/uncomfortness of the new bike. And I said to her...

Stefan & others, I finally found a Redshift stem for a reasonable price. But I doubt that mounting the front light on a moving stem is a good idea. I guues it will work better at the fork (where my 4.0 luckily has a hole...). But the cheap/special (for the Vado 4.0) Lezyne Hector needs to be...

I tried it as well wit a good rim 23mm tape and it looses air in minutes, in both tires, I can maxmium do a 30minutes ride. I'm not an expert but with quite some experience in tubeless with many wheels&rims&tires and I never had a wheel/a rim less working, even the cheapest rim 4 years ago with...

I don't see anything "snippy" or any reproach in a simple question. The TE would like more motor power - this is totally ok. But he is complaining from the first moment, that Creo and SL are rubbish and Specialized is cheating him just because of torque. And without realizing what are the...

You're right, all the guys with decades of cycling experience and ten thousands of miles with different ebikes should say goodbuy forever, if they don't understand your complaints! And you will stay alone here. Even if I'm not sure if you deserve more advice and spending time with your...

It's just that the disadvantages of a motor (price, weight, more complex technology to maintain) should give me "something" back on most tracks. If bike or circumstances do not allow this, I would choose a bike without motor. So if my main use case woud be to cycle my more or less flat track to...

I didn't want to say that. On the contrary, I wanted to describe that my limited Creo on a flat tour (where I need only about 1Wh/1km) is dissappointing and I guess I would gain more with a limited Vado SL with a higher battery consumption. Maybe you don't gain time or speed but you save some...

Same here in Germany. For the first inspection or the first year a FW update is normally included. Later the Shops charge about 40-45 €. As one hour at a good LBS with taxes, security, etc. is already 120-140 € here, the price for the amount of work would be fine for me. For an important work...

I think it depends on how far and how often you want/need to commute, plus your fitness and weather, height profile, etc. For commuting sometimes/not too far and in hilly areas ebene a limited SL bike could be fine. Of course for daily commuting 2x20 miles more powerful ebikes can be more...

I also think that a "normal" 45km/h s-pedelec is the better choice here for this use case and such a distance. I guess you have this ebike class in Ireland as well? It's less the law or that it's legal, it's also the bigger battery and the amount of support and time&nerves it saves you for daily...

So ebikers are not only cheaters but, even more obstacles slowong down the best riders in the race? That what the usual ebike haters here in Germany would say... ;-) I'm not sure if you need more power, that this is escpecially uphill. On my tours with much faster and lighter riders I usually...

You're right that I don't know about Alaskan's situation. But if he forces even a healthy and very fit rider to squeeze the maximum out of his SL drive, it's clear that he could have used a fraction of the power to stay equal with his frtiend without support. And even with "only" a Creo still...

And do you think your need for extra support and even more riding this way with (semi?) expert riders is a usual and tipical use case for the SL drive?

@Alaskan Anything else than this experience would be a surpirse, it's simly physics. The question is not, if a more heavier powerful motor+battery is faster, but where and when do you really need it. For me this is the case for example for every day commuting or daily purposes in normal clothes...

I rode my Creo Evo the first weeks with the dropper and almost never used it. The few times I used it, I was disappointed from the short travel. And when I needed the dropper to feel safe in really tough downhills, I still missed a (real) suspension fork, stronger brakes/bigger discs, a wider...