lemmitrek
Member
Hello,
Quick introduction. First post: My name is Wolfgang and I have been reading this forum for several months now. I have been an avid road and mountain biker in the past and also used to commute for a quite while, but I couldn’t keep it up. 3 year later, I realize that I have to change my exercising habits. Trying to commute again is certainly a good starting point. During one of my frequent trips back to Germany I saw that S-Pedelecs are getting really popular over there and I started to read up on it when I returned. I live in NJ and have not seen a single ebike/pedelec on our streets here.
I have to admit that the idea of considering an ebike made me feel guilty, but then I thought doing nothing is even worse.
During my research I came across http://electricbikereview.com
Big compliment to Court, who is doing an excellent job with reviews and has been helping me a lot to narrow down my choices. I was looking into Specialized Turbo. I really like this bike, but the price tag is bit scary. If you keep looking you eventually end up finding this forum and I enjoyed reading the commuter log of Brambor
http://electricbikereview.com/community/threads/commuter-log.274/
That was quite inspirational and I tried to find a local bike shop where I could test ride it. Nobody within reasonable distance was selling them. Knowing that nothing is perfect, I really wanted to buy it local,
My local bike shop is 2 miles away from my home. When I dropped of my mountain bike for service, I saw that they were selling the eFlow and iZip E3 dash. I test drove the eFlow and E3 Dash. Did not like the eFlow at all. To my surprise the E3 was more than half of the price of the Specialize. Now I needed to learn more about it and ended up in this forum. It has been really interesting and educational. I have to admit that it was also scary to read about all the problem with the motor. As much as I liked the bike, I did not need another project. Once the problem was identified and seeing how Larry Pizzi handle the issues, I went for another test ride.
There were a couple of things that I did not like about the bike. I was working with the LBS to get a quote of the bike with hydraulic brakes, different shifter and possible change the gearing. There was not an option to get the hydraulic brakes brakes from the eFlow on the dash. While I was going back and forth with my LBS, Court posted a new review of the E3 Dash 2015 model.
I was sold after that. I like the changes a lot. Really like the new color since my old commuter bike was a Cannondale Bad Boy.
The controller was updated and new shifter and gearing. Currietech addressed all the things that I did not like. It just took much longer to get in my hands than I was hoping.
I picked it up last night and it is a pleasure to drive. The new shifter are perfect and even the brakes feel better than the 2014 model. The new controller is much nicer and does not look so out of place.
Of course I enjoyed PAS 4 way to much when I was trying to see how much faster I could get on a Friday night during rush our to visit my significant other. It is almost 10 miles and can take me easily 45-60 minutes. Using my motor cycle, I was able to do it in 25 minutes. The Dash used 27 minutes. I was in heaven. Got my workout and did good in time.
Coming back, I paid the price and ran out of juice L
This bike should really come with a second charger and a bigger battery.
The 2014 is a great bike, but I am happy now that I waited and hope that I still get some quality time with it until the snow starts.
I want to thank everybody on this forum for their great contribution. You guys convinced me to join the club.
Quick introduction. First post: My name is Wolfgang and I have been reading this forum for several months now. I have been an avid road and mountain biker in the past and also used to commute for a quite while, but I couldn’t keep it up. 3 year later, I realize that I have to change my exercising habits. Trying to commute again is certainly a good starting point. During one of my frequent trips back to Germany I saw that S-Pedelecs are getting really popular over there and I started to read up on it when I returned. I live in NJ and have not seen a single ebike/pedelec on our streets here.
I have to admit that the idea of considering an ebike made me feel guilty, but then I thought doing nothing is even worse.
During my research I came across http://electricbikereview.com
Big compliment to Court, who is doing an excellent job with reviews and has been helping me a lot to narrow down my choices. I was looking into Specialized Turbo. I really like this bike, but the price tag is bit scary. If you keep looking you eventually end up finding this forum and I enjoyed reading the commuter log of Brambor
http://electricbikereview.com/community/threads/commuter-log.274/
That was quite inspirational and I tried to find a local bike shop where I could test ride it. Nobody within reasonable distance was selling them. Knowing that nothing is perfect, I really wanted to buy it local,
My local bike shop is 2 miles away from my home. When I dropped of my mountain bike for service, I saw that they were selling the eFlow and iZip E3 dash. I test drove the eFlow and E3 Dash. Did not like the eFlow at all. To my surprise the E3 was more than half of the price of the Specialize. Now I needed to learn more about it and ended up in this forum. It has been really interesting and educational. I have to admit that it was also scary to read about all the problem with the motor. As much as I liked the bike, I did not need another project. Once the problem was identified and seeing how Larry Pizzi handle the issues, I went for another test ride.
There were a couple of things that I did not like about the bike. I was working with the LBS to get a quote of the bike with hydraulic brakes, different shifter and possible change the gearing. There was not an option to get the hydraulic brakes brakes from the eFlow on the dash. While I was going back and forth with my LBS, Court posted a new review of the E3 Dash 2015 model.
I was sold after that. I like the changes a lot. Really like the new color since my old commuter bike was a Cannondale Bad Boy.
The controller was updated and new shifter and gearing. Currietech addressed all the things that I did not like. It just took much longer to get in my hands than I was hoping.
I picked it up last night and it is a pleasure to drive. The new shifter are perfect and even the brakes feel better than the 2014 model. The new controller is much nicer and does not look so out of place.
Of course I enjoyed PAS 4 way to much when I was trying to see how much faster I could get on a Friday night during rush our to visit my significant other. It is almost 10 miles and can take me easily 45-60 minutes. Using my motor cycle, I was able to do it in 25 minutes. The Dash used 27 minutes. I was in heaven. Got my workout and did good in time.
Coming back, I paid the price and ran out of juice L
This bike should really come with a second charger and a bigger battery.
The 2014 is a great bike, but I am happy now that I waited and hope that I still get some quality time with it until the snow starts.
I want to thank everybody on this forum for their great contribution. You guys convinced me to join the club.
