5000km Anniversary for SuperCharger 2

[sammcneill]

Thought I'd share something not too serious - I had a 5yr work anniversary this week and now a 5000km anniversary on my SuperCharger 2 as well.

It's taken a shade under 18 months to clock it up and by coincidence a t-shirt and hoodie I'd ordered last week arrived on the same day - this was designed by a local cycling enthusiast and shows the new cycle pathways in the city laid out like a traditional subway map (@peterh_nz you'd appreciated this!). Check it out:

Here's the magic number:

This was the lovely spot (with rather unlovely weather) beside the Avon River and the memorial to the lives lost in the major 2011 earthquake that devasted my city:

and finally this is the odometer readings I've been keeping for our car and bike:

You can see from the orange line the car we semi-permanently loaned and no longer use, so for a family of 6 we do pretty well with one car and an eBike! (the big spikes in car usage are typically driving inter-city either for holiday or dropping my daughter at University)

Cheers and enjoy your riding

Sam

 

[AleksR]

I got supercharger2 and similar distance covered, 4000 miles. Love the bike. It's a tank.

 

[Kiwibru]

Awesome! My SC2 will be two years old next month and I am at 4235km and counting. Winter rain and snow throws a wrench in my commuting but I still love the bike and pushing the weight around with the power turned off on the flats is a great workout. I do need to replace a flaky rear wheel pick up sensor but that will come later after warranty is out. Propel did send me a replacement unit under warranty which was great, I just have to dive into removing the side cover and maybe the motor to swap out the connecting wire.
Ride on...

 

[One]

Mine Supercharger 2 is 1.5 years and has 13170 km and counting it's indeed a tank.

 

[sammcneill]

Mine Supercharger 2 is 1.5 years and has 13170 km and counting it's indeed a tank.
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That’s awesome! Well done !

 

[webcurl]

Mine Supercharger 2 is 1.5 years and has 13170 km and counting it's indeed a tank.

Whoah, that's a fair bit more than me and mine is twice as old.
On the German forums they call it a Jeep i think

 

[webcurl]

With a good translator this forum usually has most things Charger/SuperCharger discussed well before ElectricBikeReview forums.
It's a huge resource - at 865 pages with 17,296 posts, here's one of the early uses of "Jeep" to describe the SC:

Riese & Müller Charger / Supercharger Erfahrungsaustausch - R&M

Schick, schick. Da werd ich schon ganz hibbelig.... Da ich beabsichtige, einen schmalen GPS-Tracker zu verbauen: wenn der Akku eingelegt ist, wie viel Platz ist dann ungefähr bis zur Unterseite der Abdeckung? Danke!

www.pedelecforum.de

 

[One]

With a good translator this forum usually has most things Charger/SuperCharger discussed well before ElectricBikeReview forums.
It's a huge resource - at 865 pages with 17,296 posts, here's one of the early uses of "Jeep" to describe the SC:

Riese & Müller Charger / Supercharger Erfahrungsaustausch - R&M

Schick, schick. Da werd ich schon ganz hibbelig.... Da ich beabsichtige, einen schmalen GPS-Tracker zu verbauen: wenn der Akku eingelegt ist, wie viel Platz ist dann ungefähr bis zur Unterseite der Abdeckung? Danke!

www.pedelecforum.de

Thanks for the link indeed a huge resource.

 

[sammcneill]

Well I don’t intend to post every “anniversary” in this thread but turned out I saw it tick over onto 6000km this morning after test riding the bike after completing some minor brake maintenance.

I confess my bike mileage is now being split between the SC2 and my eMTB which is vying for more adventure hours! This is from a 52 eMTB ride on the weekend:

With fuel prices increasing we are definitely attempting to drive less and bike more:

Stay safe everyone

 

[theloafer]

on yesterdays ride i got just over the 5,000 miles .. and in all that time this beauty has never missed a beat an awesome piece of kit

 

[sammcneill]

Saw it tick over so thought I’d snap a photo … not long until the first real anniversary worth mentioning- 10,000km!

I lost my job at MSFT where I’ve been working from home for last three years so most use of bike has been odd jobs and pleasure. I’ve signed on a new role where I’ll likely have a 15km return commute and intend to use the SC2 for all of that wherever possible.

Should see it hit 10k soon, although I’m now splitting ride time between this, my road bike, my eMTB and & my gravel bike….

 

[Kiwibru]

Just over 4200 miles (7000km+) over here. With spring coming more ride time too!

 

[sammcneill]

18months after posting this thread I’ve clocked over 10,000km on my SuperCharger on a frosty ride to the beach.!

A good milestone on a great bike.

(Precise spot where I hit 10,000km - nice little reserve.

Great start to the weekend

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Good, good, Sam! Congratulations!

 

[keithj69]

Awesome. I hope one day I can do the same.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Thought I'd share something not too serious - I had a 5yr work anniversary this week and now a 5000km anniversary on my SuperCharger 2 as well.

It's taken a shade under 18 months to clock it up and by coincidence a t-shirt and hoodie I'd ordered last week arrived on the same day - this was designed by a local cycling enthusiast and shows the new cycle pathways in the city laid out like a traditional subway map (@peterh_nz you'd appreciated this!). Check it out:

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Here's the magic number:

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This was the lovely spot (with rather unlovely weather) beside the Avon River and the memorial to the lives lost in the major 2011 earthquake that devasted my city:


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and finally this is the odometer readings I've been keeping for our car and bike:


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You can see from the orange line the car we semi-permanently loaned and no longer use, so for a family of 6 we do pretty well with one car and an eBike! (the big spikes in car usage are typically driving inter-city either for holiday or dropping my daughter at University)

Cheers and enjoy your riding

Sam

Wasn't cycling much when we visited the North and South Islands of NZ in 2010, but I remember seeing lots of great places to ride — including Christchurch, the Southern Alps to the west, and the area around Wellington Harbour.

Would also love to explore parts of the North Island's Taupo Volcanic Zone by ebike. What a geologic wonderland NZ is!

 

[sammcneill]

Wasn't cycling much when we visited the North and South Islands of NZ in 2010, but I remember seeing lots of great places to ride — including Christchurch, the Southern Alps to the west, and the area around Wellington Harbour.

Would also love to explore parts of the North Island's Taupo Volcanic Zone by ebike. What a geologic wonderland NZ is!

Yes it’s a super interesting place with high geological diversity in a very small place.

You might like to check out some of my recent bikepacking adventures then around the north and south islands:

Adventures

It’s not all ICT & EduTech for me! Here is an overview of the various adventures we’ve undertaken recently. They are in descending order of most recent to oldest. You can click on e…

samuelmcneill.com

 

[sammcneill]

Hit the 15,000km mark today, ironically biking back from the LBS where I bought the bike. I had gone to my "other" LBS where I get my gravel bike serviced to buy a Rohloff Oil change kit and had parked my SC2 out front - somehow it managed to fall over and the kickstand on the SC2 snapped in the process.

Fortunately, the R&M LBS had a replacement kickstand I was able to get fitted today and on the ride home in about 2degrees celcius temperatures I ticked over 15,000km.

Given I've had much of the last 12 months off all bikes with a ruptured quadriceps tendon (Massive Knee Injuries Change Everything: Why I’ve Not Been Blogging Recently – SamuelMcNeill.com) there has been a considerable delay hitting the 15,000km anniversary.

I still track the usage of my R&M SC2, my wife's R&M MultiCharger and our car:

Whilst I don't record every ride on Strava, this is one snapshot across my bikes - I retired my first road bike earlier this year after getting a "well done Sam" NBD after my knee rehab, so one of my bikes is not there:

• Black Jack Johnson = Specializsed Turbo Levo eMTB (gets the least love - also the one I crashed when I wrecked my knee)
• Matte Curry (SC2)
• The Midnight Streaker = Canyon Endurace (new roadbike post-knee rehab)
• The Wolverine (Soma Wolverine custom built gravel/adventure bike)
• Wahoo Kickr Bike (indoor training bike for Zwift etc)

 

[dblhelix]

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Hit the 15,000km mark today, ironically biking back from the LBS where I bought the bike. I had gone to my "other" LBS where I get my gravel bike serviced to buy a Rohloff Oil change kit and had parked my SC2 out front - somehow it managed to fall over and the kickstand on the SC2 snapped in the process.

Fortunately, the R&M LBS had a replacement kickstand I was able to get fitted today and on the ride home in about 2degrees celcius temperatures I ticked over 15,000km.

Given I've had much of the last 12 months off all bikes with a ruptured quadriceps tendon (Massive Knee Injuries Change Everything: Why I’ve Not Been Blogging Recently – SamuelMcNeill.com) there has been a considerable delay hitting the 15,000km anniversary.

I still track the usage of my R&M SC2, my wife's R&M MultiCharger and our car:

View attachment 196239

Whilst I don't record every ride on Strava, this is one snapshot across my bikes - I retired my first road bike earlier this year after getting a "well done Sam" NBD after my knee rehab, so one of my bikes is not there:

View attachment 196240

• Black Jack Johnson = Specializsed Turbo Levo eMTB (gets the least love - also the one I crashed when I wrecked my knee)
• Matte Curry (SC2)
• The Midnight Streaker = Canyon Endurace (new roadbike post-knee rehab)
• The Wolverine (Soma Wolverine custom built gravel/adventure bike)
• Wahoo Kickr Bike (indoor training bike for Zwift etc)

anniversary, huh? Did you take her out? Not your wife, silly, the SC!

 

[fexixav]

Thought I'd share something not too serious - I had a 5yr work anniversary this week and now a 5000km anniversary on my SuperCharger 2 as well.

It's taken a shade under 18 months to clock it up and by coincidence a t-shirt and hoodie I'd ordered last week arrived on the same day - this was designed by a local cycling enthusiast and shows the new cycle pathways in the city laid out like a traditional subway map (@peterh_nz you'd appreciated this!). Check it out:

View attachment 108334

Here's the magic number:

View attachment 108335

This was the lovely spot (with rather unlovely weather) beside the Avon River and the memorial to the lives lost in the major 2011 earthquake that devasted my city:


View attachment 108336

and finally this is the odometer readings I've been keeping for our car and bike visit more at Portsmouth FC:


View attachment 108337

You can see from the orange line the car we semi-permanently loaned and no longer use, so for a family of 6 we do pretty well with one car and an eBike! (the big spikes in car usage are typically driving inter-city either for holiday or dropping my daughter at University)

Cheers and enjoy your riding

Sam

Congrats on both milestones! 5 years at work and 5000 km on the SuperCharger 2 is impressive. The cycle map design sounds awesome, and it’s great to see how well your family does with one car and an eBike. The spot by the Avon River sounds meaningful, especially with the connection to the 2011 earthquake. The odometer readings are a nice touch to show how efficient your setup is!