Can we see more reviews like this one?

Seth rides another Specialized ebike ;)



I once rode a dead ebike on a mostly flat gravel rail trail for 12 miles. Seth has me beat.
 
J.R. said:
Seth rides another Specialized ebike ;)
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So our "e-bike expert" had his camera and other electronic devices fully charged but didn't check the e-bike battery level prior to the ride? Too funny! :D I can imagine Seth making a video "I rented a Ferrari but it had almost empty gas tank!" :) (What would you say about his qualification as of a driver?)

J.R. said:
I once rode a dead ebike on a mostly flat gravel rail trail for 12 miles. Seth has me beat.
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KUDOS to you!

It was:
  • 15 km upwind on the early version of my Vado with BLOKS display. That early system was totally hopeless. It loved to "freeze". If so happened, you had to remove the display from its mount and push a reset button with a tip of a pen or with the smallest hex wrench in the set. That was the first "freeze" of BLOKS I experienced, had no idea what to do and pedalled home unassisted. (Later, Specialized upgraded the e-bike to TCD-w display on warranty).
  • 10 km in a torrential rain, lost in a forest, involving a bog. I was testing Giant AUTO assistance mode to find out that mode was a laugh!
Even getting a Vado SL with 70% battery for a demo ride allowed me getting back to the showroom with no issues... (I had been aware the battery was not fully charged).
 
Jeremy McCreary said:
C'mon, Stefan. That was intentional —
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My cousin was taking mechanical engineering around 1986 because he had a Honda 500 Interceptor and wanted to design motorcycles as a career.

He rode the ~85 km back and forth to university every day because it was fun, and he could ride at up to 240 kph on the backroads without being caught.

He wiped out over half a dozen times, always at speed, and he'd just pick the bike up and carry on.

One day a foot of snow fell while he was in class so he threw his motorcycle on the back of his friend's pickup truck and paid him gas for a ride home.

He and a couple friends from school decided to chip in $200 each to buy a used car, so they could spend the afternoon playing bumper cars with a real car.
They drove it into the forest and started bouncing off trees and boulders and doing the impossible.

They spent the day having a Fricken Blast for less money than a trip to Canada's Wonderland.
And it was Way More Fun than bumper cars or a go-cart at an amusement park.


Sometimes it's just plain Fun to do dumb s*it.

And BTW,..
The Ford Edsel has been described as the worst car ever built.
They're worth A Lot of money now.
(unless you drove it into trees and stuff.😂)
 
Stefan Mikes said:
Seth cannot afford a Specialized unless it is rented (with an empty battery as the electricity is not free!) or dragged out of a skip :)
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Have you seen his house? His Air BnB? His personal MTB park? He has 2 media channels, one with 1.2 million subs and the other with 2.65 million subs. The dude is very wealthy. He's humble, self-deprecating; and to watch him with his kids and his charity works is truly inspiring.

BTW, he has a custom MTB that costs more than your ebikes and mine combined.

I know you're just pulling our leg and kidding, but Seth is one of the good ones.
 
I find this kind of video a way more informative :)


Let us put is straight: Seth is not an e-bike expert. Can we settle on that?
He said something like: 'Assume you are a person who rented an e-bike but you missed the fact the battery was empty". I know a person I work with who bought a very good e-bike and was to ride home from the LBS. The store owner was not there, and an assistant forgot charging the battery. My friend indeed rode for 15 km without assistance in a very hilly country on a brand new e-bike. So such situations do occur. Would you name my friend "an e-bike expert"? :) For me, whenever Seth touches an e-bike, it is just to generate clicks, likes, subscriptions. He is not an e-biker. You @J.R. are and I am. It is because we could understand e-biking by thousands of miles ridden on e-bikes, not by making videos.
 
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J.R. said:
Ironic, since I addressed that. Obviously, no point in reading anything on this forum, since none of us are experts.🙄
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After a rather long hiatus it's sad to see Mikes is still so active and remains a complete snob job. Arrogant, self-aggrandizing, and an embarrassment to any of us with impossible Polish surnames. I'd send an ASSHOLE MERIT BADGE but haven't an address.
 
Stefan Mikes said:
I find this kind of video a way more informative :)


Let us put is straight: Seth is not an e-bike expert. Can we settle on that?
He said something like: 'Assume you are a person who rented an e-bike but you missed the fact the battery was empty". I know a person I work with who bought a very good e-bike and was to ride home from the LBS. The store owner was not there, and an assistant forgot charging the battery. My friend indeed rode for 15 km without assistance in a very hilly country on a brand new e-bike. So such situations do occur. Would you name my friend "an e-bike expert"? :) For me, whenever Seth touches an e-bike, it is just to generate clicks, likes, subscriptions. He is not an e-biker. You @J.R. are and I am. It is because we could understand e-biking by thousands of miles ridden on e-bikes, not by making videos.
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I think we had it straight. I wrote on page 2:

I don't think he thinks he is an expert or the final word on anything. He has good content and his information is valuable. His subscribers and others will send him products. He shows all, and if they are stupid or dangerous, he tells you. He takes a financial hit to his media business, but he's honest.

For my part, I'll repost this from page 2:

I too watch EMBN and have subscribed from day one of the channel (7-8 years?). Great content. On that channel, the riders consider themselves MTBers, cyclists, as do I. I suspect you consider yourself to be a cyclist. Getting a perspective from an experienced cyclist on an eMTB has value. Seth seems to be very knowledgeable about ebikes and he brings people onto his channel that add expertise to the topic at hand.

I've ridden bikes for many decades, and I just consider myself a cyclist, a sometimes mountain biker and in general a biker. When I was commuting by bike, then ebike I would read and watch videos about other bike commuters. When I need bike parts, accessories and gear I go to the bicycle stores and websites. The E part is just that, a part. I enjoy channels like Seth's because it's about bikes and riding. He'll ride anything from a $200 Walmart bike to a $13,000 titanium MTB. It's about the ride! You and I are not as far apart as you seem to think. If someone said he was an expert, I missed that.

It's the unknown around the corner that spins my wheels... the ebike just assists.
 
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