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Technical climbs they really come into there own. You can get up stuff you’d never even look at on a normal bike.
This is part of the problem with modern bikes I find. Not just ebikes. The same happens with modern trail/enduro bikes on the downhill. As the bikes get more capable you have to seek out more extreme terrain to get the same thrills, with the consequence that it hurts a lot more when you get it wrong. It sounds as though ebikes bring the same issue to the climbs as you now have to try to ride up a cliff to get the same challenge you used to get from a muddy bank.
Where's Geex when someone needs telling they can't ride a bike?
Has he been kidnapped?
It sounds as though ebikes bring the same issue to the climbs as you now have to try to ride up a cliff to get the same challenge you used to get from a muddy bank.
I was talking about technical climbs rather than just steep stuff. You have a the ability to put down a huge burst of power very very quickly so you can get up and over stuff much easier, and in less distance.
Where’s Geex when someone needs telling they can’t ride a bike?
Dunno. I miss him 🙁
Well that was a minor distaster, after a not inspiring trip to BPW i thought i'd help Mrs Weeksy out by fitting a dropper post. Bought a Specialized Command post as i really liked the one on my boys bike.
Went to fit it and well, lets just say an Ebike isn't quite as simple as a standard bike.
Just to get the first 6" of the cabling started i needed to remove the lock mechanism, which is fiddly beyond words. It's then internally (ish) routed down towards the motor, but you can't get it started without removing the motor cover.... Then you can't get to the cover bolts as the cranks are in the way and the chainring. Once you get past that you realise that without removing the sodding motor you can't actually get the cable routed at all ! I simply am not doing that, it's just too extreme.
So for now the wife has my wireless Magura Vyron fitted and if she gets on with that, i'll have the Specialized Command fitted to my G-160 later on.
What a pain in the backside.