Interesting connection between battery life and screen technology.
E ink. That is a battery winner.
You will surely enjoy the mid drive experience once get used to really using your gears more on hills and weaning yourself off the throttle. I started with a hub motor bike but now I am picking up my fourth mid-drive on Sunday. Kudos to you for trying to go with a beautiful super light bike like that but there is no shame if after 30 days you want more power. If I was 50 instead of 70 I would try to make a go of it with a super light. My new one is a Bulls Iconic Evo 2 Speed with 85 nm of power. I am already planning to modify it ( new pedals, change seat , shorten the handlebars, change the tires and add a seat post suspension. These are things I expect to do to bikes, but at least this one will not need a De-limiter. Here in Canada ,the speed versions are very hard to get.
yeah - as nice as they can be made to look, remember that the “black” on a traditional lcd screen is the exact same amount of light emitted from the backlight, just blocked by the screen of crystals.
Thanks! My neighbor has a Bulls similar to yours. Very nice bike.
I could restrict many unwanted apps for the Exercise mode if I wanted as well...Stefan mentions wolves and not a single response, you can tell its an American forum.Right.
You asked whether you could charge your phone from the e-bike, and the answer was 'not'. Equipping our e-bikes took some of us years according to growing needs and experience. Similarly to @DaveMatthews, it took me a long time to ride with the smartphone on the bars and a powerbank. (Despite owning a Samsung S24 Ultra now -- the battery holding for two days with a proper configuration -- I still carry a powerbank in my pannier just in case). I bought my first Wahoo only after I could not bear using a smartphone on e-bike anymore (and smashing yet another phone).
Which reminded me of an adventurous day in West Pomerania. West Pomerania is (I guess) one of the wildest areas of Poland (sparsely populated, forests, wolves, etc). On the second e-bike ride of that day, I had to ride with the powerbank in my jersey back pocket and the cable extending to the handlebars
When I go for a long or critical ride, I carry several items in my pannier:
I've been riding my Vado SL tubeless for 4 months now. Except regular re-inflation and a single sealant replenishment, I even didn't think of catching a flat. But I was missing the security, the tubeless repair set! I ordered one on Wednesday: a Lezyne one that even included CO2 cartridges for re-seating the tyre bead on the rim. On Thursday evening, I happily pedalled my Vado SL to the nearest InPost parcel locker. To my surprise, the QR code from the app produced an "Authorization Error" in the system, for the first time in my life! What could have gone wrong?! Well, I ordered the delivery not to that parcel locker but to the gardening store a kilometre away...
- A set of hex wrenches, so nothing will become loose... Check.
- A repair set for the chain, so chain wouldn't even get the idea to break... Check.
- A first aid kit, disinfectant, pads, bandage, patches, so no crash would (of course) happen... Check.
- Toilet paper, so I wouldn't...
- A pump... Wait, didn't I forget something?
I wrote this to give you Jeremy a little bit of distraction!
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My Vado SL holds very well!
nothing wrong with wolves as long as they stay in other peoples forests,some dummies here in the us are trying to increase the gray wolf and grizzly bears range( the busybodies really screw the locals at times-otters were reintroduced in the alleghanies,now there is hardly a fish in the streams,the streams used to be loaded with panfish,minnows and bass,trout sometimes,now they are barren-i guess its the same mentality that turns formerly nice rideable fdr roads into unrideable trail bike hell)
Jeremy you will be fine on the Vado SL. I just picked up my new Turbo Creo 2 and was shocked at how nimble and fast that it was, even though you have 8 years on me I am physically 15 years older than you with very weak legs due to a late onset form of muscular dystrophy. I went up hills that I would use the sport setting on my old Bosch mid drive previously and used sport on the new Creo on same hills with no problems. If you can ride your current bike unassisted, you will feel like superman on your new ride. I've only ever ridden my old 54 lb. mid drive unassisted once when I suffered a crash that snapped my controller, and I had to ride it home about 2 miles- that was a real Jane Fonda workout! The Creo I road several miles initially before even turning on the power and it was easy-peezy. I would have gone with the Vado but I was concerned with the 35 vs. 50 newton meters of torque in my diminished condition. My only experience with the SL was in Hawaii a couple of years ago where I was able to rent a SL 4.0 for a few days, mainly a flat area and I did fine with it but this disease is progressive and I figured the extra 15 N.M would be needed now. Battery burn has been on par with my Bosch system, about 2% per mile with some unassisted some eco and some sport. I can probably expect 40-45 miles in mixed terrain the way I ride.
Ah, sweet memories from the West Pomeranian wilderness! At one November 2021 night, I woke up before the dawn in a very small town of Tuczno (@Brix hometown). I realized we had no coffee in the guesthouse! The nearest service station was located 12 km away in another mini town of Człopa (West Pomerania is our Wild West and is really sparsely populated!) I jumped into the car and was driving in the darkness and thick fog. At any time, a big beast such as a moose could jump out the forest! And meeting wolves was quite probable!
Totally get it, my friend. Who wouldn't brave wolves for morning coffee?
Thanks for the encouragement! Plan A, knees permitting, is to make myself strong enough for the SL if at all possible. I think I have a pretty good shot at it.
I think it more the distraction Jeremy, it is also good to get out and get some fresh air through my lungs. I find it very difficult to walk more than a quarter of a mile, so riding is a good way to see the things on back roads and out of the way places that I would rarely drive. The doctors encourage me to keep moving, just don’t push so hard to where I have sore muscles the next day as with this disease you can’t build muscle, if you ache, you have destroyed muscle and accelerate your destiny to the wheelchair. I probably did a lot of damage about ten years ago before I had a diagnosis. I found myself getting weaker and often fatigued so I decided I would work hard on the treadmill and build up my legs and lungs, but over the course of two years I only got worse even though I would exercise to exhaustion. I got the bad gene from my mom ( she was mis diagnosed with polymyositis before genetic testing was available) she was in a wheelchair at the age of 66, so I’m doing a little better than her at 68 though I feel I am biking on borrowed time. I sold a float plane this spring that I had for 41 years so decided to splurge on a couple of new bikes for my wife and I, just hope that I have a year or two to enjoy it. Does no good to have cash shoveled in on top of your coffin, might as well enjoy it now!
Im now checking out West Pomerania
It's happening...
What a great news Jeremy! Now, your e-bike will be waiting for you!
The history of West Pomerania is too complicated to explain it. Suffice to say the region was Prussian then German since 1713. Pomerania proper (to the east) was Polish by 1772, then it was stolen by Prussia. Even farther to the east, there was East Prussia. Post WW2, Poland lost all her eastern lands but was given a lot of former German area for compensation. Having said that, Szczecin (Stettin) was always a German city but Tuczno (Tütz) was actually stolen in 1772.
