Metric century while nipping out for a biscuit! That's a fantastic start. Pretty clear that even if you feel you weren't working hard on the big brother powerful Vado, you were actually laying down a great foundation. All those long rides, all those hours of spinning, hours of your leg muscles getting into shape through frequent use, all adds up and allows you now to have honest to goodness fast sweaty fun on the SL! Now just give up the fags and you'll be unstoppable
I write my Japanese on notebook paper to show to people. Maybe you can do the video where you have cue cards, and just toss them one at a time. I’ve thought about using those in Japanese
Your English is probably better than mine is these days ha ha!
No, and thanks for posting this. I have mounted my bikes like that on occasion but found the dismount awkward at best. Even leaning the bike requires you to sort of hop out to the side. It also depends on the actual height of the top bar since frame designs differ as to the slope of the top bar -- not sure if the Vado SL is lower than typical or about average.
BRAVO. BRAVO. ENCORE. (accompanied by huge applause)
Bravo! I’m going out in a little while and will try it. I can swing my leg over the seat, even with a trunk bag, though I have to tilt the bike a bit to do that. But it’s not easy and as I get older it may get harder. So time to practice what may be an easier way.
Ok Captain, tell us the secret, what size of frame are you on? Mine is L, top tube is 815mm by the specifications. I wasn’t born an egret or a crane so I can’t get that high. I don’t have the bike yet so I can’t try. I do have a 70 cm high dresser, and my wife caught me trying to hoist my leg over the top. Wasn’t one of my more graceful moves.
I've use the curb or similar height difference. But for a few months. I used my oak tree (I've got ten planted in the parking strip). I would wheel the bike over to it and use it as support to mount. Out in the field (as it were), I would find lampposts or fences or similar to dismount and mount. For some reason, I became a bit more limber in the last year and stopped needing the external support. But I do still use care as I don't want to lose my balance. Also, as noted, replacing the rear luggage on a rack with a hanging and therefore, lower pannier has removed that obstacle or interference.
To each his own when mounting or dismounting. I couldn’t do it your way as I’d be afraid of falling over backward, which is how I injured my shoulder years ago. I still find it hard to mount my wife’s Allant+7 Lowstep.
In the olden days when road bikes all had horizontal top tubes, the way to measure frame size was to straddle the bike flat-footed on the ground. If the top tube just barely cleared your crotch it was considered to be your size. Newer designs with the sloping top tubes shot down that "fitting" method.
Mine is size M.
Vado and Como SL ST models will be available in Europe only in the coming December. It shouldn't be different for Japan.
I mean using the Range Extender, a 160 Wh battery in the shape of water-bottle. Main battery (320 Wh, or 100%) and the RE (160W, or 50%) give 150% at the ride start. The best scenario is setting "discharge both batteries at the same rate". It is hard to get that "150%" is actually your "total 100%" when you make range considerations. BLEvo app with its excellent Range Estimate helps a lot!
How true Ras! If I bought an SL as the first e-bike, I would be greatly disappointed. (Similarly to one elderly EBR Forum poster who spent all his savings to buy an SL, and to discover the bike didn't satisfy his needs, especially regarding the e-bike's power).
Believable! Knowing what to expect from an ebike is one of the biggest challenges when purchasing your first one.
What interests me is that in about a year of riding you are in good enough shape to buy the SL ... that you didn't even think you could ride a year ago. Pretty quick progress, I say.
