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I've had a 3.0 for just over a month now - done nearly 600k.
The motor is beautiful, especially when it has been set with a top speed of 45k. Mine developed a little squeal early on, but the dealer told me to put some miles on it, and it has gone away.
I was wondering how the gearing on the 3.0 would go at 45k, as specialised designed it for a 32kmh motor. The 3.0 has a 40t at the front - the 5.0/6.0 which are the designated 45km/h models have a 48 tooth chainring. The around town and bike path riding I've done means I don't have need to push much faster than 40km/h, so the existing gearing is perfect.
I've wound it up to 48km/h on the flat, and that was at full stretch. I can't imagine being limited to 25 or 32km/h. Useful speed for dense urban area I suppose, but this bike loves to stretch its legs and seems to almost sing as it goes faster and faster.
The 47mm trigger sport reflect tires are suprisingly fast, but looks bloody silly. I'm not brave enough to really lean into the curves, so don't know their limits. At some point I will try 50mm schwalbe big apples or bens or marathon supremes (the 6.0 use a 51mm tire so should be room).
Brakes are a little underwhelming. I am heavy and feel they are just good enough, but no more. They have a soft feel and need a lot of squeezing to dump high speeds. My mass is the issue of course: gotta take a lot to stop a lot of gut when it's near escape velocity.
The lack of shift detection on the Brose is a thing. Bosch is clearly superior and in use much faster and easier to flick through the gears. On the Vado I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a rookie rider and spent weeks mashing the gears to smithereens. I've improved, but still bang out poor changes with regularity. Mostly it's just learning how long the brose will keep supplying power after you stop peddelling - there's a 3rd of a second or so where the power continues and will cause the gears to graunch if you shift too early. I wonder if this response time will improve with later firmware.
My clock resets to 6:00am every time the system is powered on - no word yet on what the distributor wants to do about it.
The motor is beautiful, especially when it has been set with a top speed of 45k. Mine developed a little squeal early on, but the dealer told me to put some miles on it, and it has gone away.
I was wondering how the gearing on the 3.0 would go at 45k, as specialised designed it for a 32kmh motor. The 3.0 has a 40t at the front - the 5.0/6.0 which are the designated 45km/h models have a 48 tooth chainring. The around town and bike path riding I've done means I don't have need to push much faster than 40km/h, so the existing gearing is perfect.
I've wound it up to 48km/h on the flat, and that was at full stretch. I can't imagine being limited to 25 or 32km/h. Useful speed for dense urban area I suppose, but this bike loves to stretch its legs and seems to almost sing as it goes faster and faster.
The 47mm trigger sport reflect tires are suprisingly fast, but looks bloody silly. I'm not brave enough to really lean into the curves, so don't know their limits. At some point I will try 50mm schwalbe big apples or bens or marathon supremes (the 6.0 use a 51mm tire so should be room).
Brakes are a little underwhelming. I am heavy and feel they are just good enough, but no more. They have a soft feel and need a lot of squeezing to dump high speeds. My mass is the issue of course: gotta take a lot to stop a lot of gut when it's near escape velocity.
The lack of shift detection on the Brose is a thing. Bosch is clearly superior and in use much faster and easier to flick through the gears. On the Vado I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a rookie rider and spent weeks mashing the gears to smithereens. I've improved, but still bang out poor changes with regularity. Mostly it's just learning how long the brose will keep supplying power after you stop peddelling - there's a 3rd of a second or so where the power continues and will cause the gears to graunch if you shift too early. I wonder if this response time will improve with later firmware.
My clock resets to 6:00am every time the system is powered on - no word yet on what the distributor wants to do about it.
I've just picked up a Turbo Vado 4.0 and have a commute of about 90km round trip. On the first day I rode in to work with power in Eco mode the whole way. I've found that the battery is well into the third bar by the time I completed the first leg. I have some pretty serious hills on the return trip so I left the assist off, except on hills, until I was well past the half way point then used Eco the rest of the way and was well into the last bar when I got home. The next couple of days I rode with a combination of assist off and Eco mode both ways but I was quite tired at the end of those rides. Yesterday and today I brought the charger with me and used Eco all the way and it was a much more pleasant ride with no range anxiety. 
