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Thanks for the offer I'll let you know how I get on. I need a 67mm spring for my Airdrop, it might fit that.
I promise I won't post an article every time I ride the bike I did another familiar route today to get the feel for it.
I had very sore legs this morning. I never would have gone out if I didn't have a motor plus new bike vibes.
I went to Dronfield and explored the golf course area where I heard people were building trails. I'm pleased to report I found all the berms and jumps. I missed them last time, they're pretty well hidden.
It was a 32km/20mile loop and I used 85% battery. I thought I'd use more to be honest. I did some absolutely enormous road climbs which would be totally impossible on the normal bike. For me anyway.
I did lots of dicking around. Slithering up greasy climbs and shooting up and down steep bits. It was good fun.
I need to work out the power levels. Off and Eco basically feel exactly the same and Turbo is no different to Trail.
I need some proper trails next. Probably Wharny on Friday if the new spring arrives as I don't want to batter it while it's running so soft. Then I need to put it back to Wife Spec for the weekend.
The default app settings are awful. I run mine 25/25 in Eco, 50/50 Trail, 80/80 in Turbo. If I need 100% I use Microtune, mainly on my commute.
Enjoy! I love mine.
I use 25/25 50/50 80/100.
Power delivery in turbo starts limiting a bit at 40% battery and more severely at 20%
Then I need to put it back to Wife Spec for the weekend.
This is soooo leading to a second e-bike purchase 😀
I had very sore legs this morning. I never would have gone out if I didn't have a motor plus new bike vibes.
And I get that too. I put just as much effort in when on the e-bike - legs are just as sore afterwards but I've covered a lot more ground. 38km/1,180m elevation using 350Wh(ish) of my 430Wh battery, with quite soggy ground conditions at times and draggy tyres.
This is soooo leading to a second e-bike purchase 😀
Mate, you don't even know! I'm trying to decide which of my 2 regular bikes I can live without. Top choice I think would be a low spec Vala or Druid and frame swap my Airdrop as everything would fit. I love the Edit though. If I sold that I'd end up looking at DH bikes. It never ends.
Anyway, it's irrelevant for now it'll be this time next year before I'm seriously looking.
Also, yeah I'm working pretty hard because I'm pedalling with new-bike enthusiasm. I'm just doing it on climbs which I'd usually be walking up.
@sharkattack you've had it a few months now. How are you finding it?
Short version- I love it.
Remember all that stuff about how I was going to share it with the Mrs so she could get back into riding without it being a total sufferfest? Well, we did that a couple of times. It was exactly what we expected. Me pedalling away with Junior on the Shotgun, her absolutely dropping us on the hills. You couldn't wipe the grin off her face. She was loving it and it was totally worth it for those reasons.
Then after a couple of weeks she did a pregnancy test and scored a winner. So after 4 years of waiting to ride together and start having fun again, we're going back to square one with another bundle of joy.
So far I've been riding way more than I normally would. I'll grab the bike and go out on days when I definitely can't be bothered to pedal a normal bike. I can leave from home and access proper trails without using the car. I can do this on my normal bike but it takes all day and ruins me. I've done a lot of solo winch and plummet stuff at Wharny which has been good.
I've changed the tyres. It's true that the new Specialized Butcher's are a huge improvement over the old ones but they're still a bit crap. I've just fitted a 50mm rise bar because I had a voucher to use and that feels nice.
I haven't ridden over the Xmas period because we've been driving all over the place visiting in-laws and stuff. I'm hoping to squeeze in a quicky tomorrow then back to normal soon after, riding Monday's and Friday's.
I'm only working 3 days a week and planning to rinse it until I'm forced back to 5.
Ridden mine in the last week of dryness more than in the last three months of swamp.
still loving it, just ticked over 1000km since i got it.
Good to hear you're enjoying the bike @sharkattack, and congrats on baby news!