Picture of my Como 3.0.
Additions:
* Carbon fiber handlebar extension, Specialized Vado mirror, Pixel XL and Fenix BC30R light
* Abus Granit 6500
Looking for saddle bag for extra tubes, CO2 pump extra tools and front rack mount (Surly or Tubus).
I am thinking of a seatpost suspension. How do you like the Kinekt?Hi Everyone, I'm just posting another picture of my Como 3 with Brooks B67 saddle, Kinekt 2.1 suspension seatpost, Specialized Roll rack, Timber bell.
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I am thinking of a seatpost suspension. How do you like the Kinekt?
While I typed Sirrus (since corrected) I meant that I have a Stratus (the first edition). I am still riding it and will be alternating with the Como once the honeymoon period is over. We don't have a lot of hills here, so I still love riding both!Ha, I've got a RANS recumbent too, Stratus LE. It's been hanging on my wall for ten years, there are just too many hills around here.
Thanks for posting! Good stuff.
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While I typed Sirrus (since corrected) I meant that I have a Stratus (the first edition). I am still riding it and will be alternating with the Como once the honeymoon period is over. We don't have a lot of hills here, so I still love riding both!
Hi Bob, if I'm only riding 10 or 15 miles I don't recharge my battery. I only try to make sure my battery is almost dead by Friday Night so I have a full charge for a Saturday or Sunday "Good" Ride. There are many theories/stories about how to treat your battery I've heard the "80-20" theory which means stop charging at 80% and stop riding at 20%. That's not going to work for me, I'm trying to go further right now. The only thing that seems consistent across the board is; don't store the battery in cold weather and leave about 50% charge in the battery over long periods of non use. I would suggest taking the battery down to at least the 40% mark before recharging, but I have no Scientific research to offer. But based on all the lithium Ion Batteries I've dealt with it seams better to discharge them to a fairly low level before recharging. Again just my opinion there are surely going to be people to offer highly technical info but I don't want to make my bike rides overly technical I just need this bike for stress relief and excercise. Hopefully my battery will last for a while!Most of my weekday rides are about 10 miles. Just curious how everyone goes about charging their batteries. Should I hook up after every ride, or allow it to run almost all the way down and then charge? Or does it matter? I know that the battery is supposed to be good for appx 400 charging cycles. Do the incremental charges count toward a full charging cycle, or as an entire full charging cycle? I'd hate to have to replace the batter after a year or so.
Do the incremental charges count toward a full charging cycle, or as an entire full charging cycle?
Hi C ! So by charging your battery to 80% mark your saying I'll be able to go farther or I'll get more cycles out of the battery?
My method is not the best way, according to this info that C has referenced. I charged it up fully on Sunday after my long ride and was out of town Monday and got home late Tuesday so I wanted to come home to a fully charged bike in order to ride. It was after dark when I got home last night but I just needed to ride for a little bit, only rode locally around my house but squeaked out 7 miles. So my battery sat almost 2 days with a full charge, and after my ride I didn't charge it last night, during the week i usually get about 2 or 3 rides before charging, so my method also must qualify as "Sloppy and Cavalier", I guess I'm a battery abuser too.I've watched all those Specialized videos on Youtube over time, of Switzerland engineers and california vice presidents yak about Specialized electric bikes mountain bikes, vados, and in in general. Somewhere I remember they told me that their chargers are programmed for all that 80/20 stuff. No I can't cite footnotes on this.
No where in their literature do they tell me to do anything special. I plug it in as soon as I get home all the time, I want the bike fully charged and ready for a long ride if the whim is there.
I've read this Specialized forum extensively. No where am I seeing long term owners cry about wasted batteries.
I choose to ride it and plug it in when I'm done. I'm sure some will think my method sloppy and cavalier.
I'll try to manage it differently based on this but it will be hard. Thanks C!!!Charging to no more than 80% is to get more cycles; help the battery have a longer total life.
BUT avoiding storing it at 80-100% is more important than not charging it above 80, and not deep discharging it is the most important.
Since you need all of the range you can get, if you can charge, charge all the way to 100% just before you use it (to minimise time sitting at 100) and try to still have at least 20% at the end of the ride.
Ah Fall is finally taking a strong hold here in the Central Valley of California! On my Sunday ride the temps never got past 80! It was nice to ride without sweating profusely for a change! Like before I ride the same trail most of the time I either go upstream or downstream, the trail parallels the American River in the Sacramento Area. And now, the trail takes on a whole new identity, squirrels are madly packing nuts away for winter, Wild Turkeys are rooting around looking for food and the summer time Rafters on the river are for the most part gone. So the trail is a little quieter, bike traffic is still about the same. But with the new scenery it just makes it seem like a whole new trail, the Como 3.0 is still going strong and I seem to love it more with every ride! My only problem now is the strong breeze coming back home sucks the power up fairly fast. Plus with the cooler temps I rode about 28 miles before turning around and heading back home (wind was at my back), so needless to say there was a few miles of no power, which really sucked, because as some of you already know the last 3 miles home is all uphill. With this weather it is very easy to ride well beyond the range of the bike which is something I need to figure out without spending $800.00 on a spare battery. (Next ride I'll steal the battery from my wife's bike, she said it was too cold to ride!) LOVING THE COMO 3.0! And for Bob the Como 2.0 is very awesome too!
Yeah I've robbed the battery a couple times alreadyYou can use your wife's como for spare parts.