Specialized Turbo Vado/Como/Tero/Tero X User Club

My Vado has reached the 10,000 km mark as of today. The warranty expiring in less than a month.

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No cracked frame. No faulty motor. No issues. How odd :)

I had a situation this morning. As you know, my Vado 5.0/6.0 is registered as a moped (so I'm obliged to ride with traffic). At 7:30 am, my mate was riding his gravel bike in front of me, so my Vado was visible as a moped to any driver catching up with us. 7:30 on Sunday means no traffic whatsoever. Yet, there was a driver with a mission who honked at us, opened a car window and was abusing me because I was not riding a bike path that was on the opposite side of the road.

I blinked with my high-beam headlight thrice, turned the Turbo on, and got the driver at the next intersection:
-- Don't you need an eye-test, sir? -- I asked -- can't you see the number plate on my moped?
-- I honked at your buddy!
-- Bullshit. The only thing you could see was my moped.
And he stopped talking.

:)
 
Any recommendations for a wheel damper for the Como bikes? I want to prevent that front wheel flop when I got stuff on the pizza rack.
 
RGVCycling said:
Any recommendations for a wheel damper for the Como bikes? I want to prevent that front wheel flop when I got stuff on the pizza rack.
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Do you mean while pedaling? Or after you stop and engage the kickstand?

If it is after you stop and want to keep the front wheel from moving, the following elastic bands might help. They grab the brake levers and lock either front or back wheels or both. I got them as part of the "click-stand" product. You could probably make a similar band.

 
kahn said:
Do you mean while pedaling? Or after you stop and engage the kickstand?

If it is after you stop and want to keep the front wheel from moving, the following elastic bands might help. They grab the brake levers and lock either front or back wheels or both. I got them as part of the "click-stand" product. You could probably make a similar band.

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Yes, when I stop and get off the bike. I don't want the front wheel to flop over when I got something on the pizza rack.

How do you use those bands?
 
Nubnub said:
Is the normal behavior of the Vado to cut power assist at <5%? On my SL, I ran main battery below 5% and assist was still available albeit limited to about 50 W motor power displayed on Blevo. This was at 4% battery remaining in both normal Eco mode as well as using Smart Power from Blevo. One interesting thing was that the range extender was down to 5% at the start of the ride. Stayed at 5% until I took the main battery down to around 30% and the range extender discharged as well until 3% remaining.
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I know it does cut out or significantly reduced assist at 5%. maybe even sooner on my Como.
 
RGVCycling said:
Yes, when I stop and get off the bike. I don't want the front wheel to flop over when I got something on the pizza rack.

How do you use those bands?
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You leave the bands on the handlebar somewhere. I believe it works for both drop and flat bars.

Here's a quick video I just found. I like her use of that other band to secure the front wheel, too.


At around 2:55 you can see it on a flat bar:


One of the guys in the photo/video thread mentioned the Click stand when I asked how his bike was defying gravity. Turns out the product is made in WA state, my home state in Kurt Cobain's home city! (g)
 
RGVCycling said:
I know it does cut out or significantly reduced assist at 5%. maybe even sooner on my Como.
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I haven’t seen a description of the Specialized battery management system but I know electric cars‘ lithium ion battery packs typically reserve 5% or so capacity both at the top and bottom ends. Fully charging or discharging drastically reduces cell life. A side benefit (for the manufacturer) is that if you take your car in to claim a battery warranty because its maximum charge falls below 70%, they can “release” a little of the reserve to bring it back over the 70% warranty threshold. So, if BLEvo allows your battery to discharge below 5% and Specialized doesn’t, I would be very wary of dramatically shortening battery life Using BLEvo, and possibly voiding the battery warranty.
 
kahn said:
Do you mean while pedaling? Or after you stop and engage the kickstand?

If it is after you stop and want to keep the front wheel from moving, the following elastic bands might help. They grab the brake levers and lock either front or back wheels or both. I got them as part of the "click-stand" product. You could probably make a similar band.

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You can also use any sort of Velcro strap of the sort that come with laptop power cords to keep the cord bundled up. Just keep it wrapped around your stem or someplace out of the way when not in use, and use it to cinch down your front brake lever when parking. Velcro does a more secure job of cinching down your brake lever than elastic. I used to do this with my Co-motion Tandem which is heavy and tippy when parked. It is more of an issue if you are using the flix-stands rather than a conventional kick stand.
 
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Calcoaster said:
I haven’t seen a description of the Specialized battery management system but I know electric cars‘ lithium ion battery packs typically reserve 5% or so capacity both at the top and bottom ends. Fully charging or discharging drastically reduces cell life. A side benefit (for the manufacturer) is that if you take your car in to claim a battery warranty because its maximum charge falls below 70%, they can “release” a little of the reserve to bring it back over the 70% warranty threshold. So, if BLEvo allows your battery to discharge below 5% and Specialized doesn’t, I would be very wary of dramatically shortening battery life Using BLEvo, and possibly voiding the battery warranty.
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The problem is I'm not inclined to try discharging the batteries of my Specialized e-bikes so deep anymore. I only wonder whether the capability of discharging below 5% was the outcome of the special mode of BLEvo or it is now in the bike's firmware.
 
Onimaru said:
@Court might. Charlie (DC) that has filmed with Court had one for just this purpose on his Como 5.0.
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Oh yes, I remember that video. They had to drill into the frame to put the anchor screw. I’m not sure my bike shop has the skill to do that or nor they want to.
 
Following receiving a company bonus, I ordered the U1-600 battery as the third one for my Vado. Plus a Graphite-colour battery cover (no other is available).
The Euro price of the battery has bgone insane. If the battery can be kept in the "frozen" shape (never activated), I'm going to keep it as a spare for the dark future. My both batteries are not worse than 90% of health after two years of use.

Interestingly, Specialized still make batteries for older Turbo e-bikes!
 
After 3 years and 6,000km I decided to replace the tires.
I bought the original and after the replacement the biggest difference is in the noise, so the new tires are almost inaudible compared to the old ones which were very noisy ....

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