Recent content by Lumo

Can I ask why you disagree robert , I am just saying what I found works best for me and was suggesting the OP tries it to see if it works for them also. I expected a higher gear to work better as I could give more torque, but was surprised to find the sweet spot was a couple gears lower than I...

Make sure the insurance covers self builds, the insurance I have had a clause that excludes self build ebikes.

Have you tried gear 1 or 2? I have a similar ebike to the one you have. When I first got it I would try hills in maybe gear 4 as that felt right in terms of pedalling but the motor wasn't giving a big boost, if I switch to a gear that feels very low and pedal harder and faster in that gear the...

It's a powerpack battery

How wide are the grips? I have one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zefal-95293-Double-Adjustment-Mirror/dp/B000FY05PG/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=bike+mirror&qid=1599722459&sr=8-5 They would be able to go around quite a wide grip. However, I don't know if I got a dud or not. It is OK but...

We live in a small building of 6 apartments, connected to another building which is the same. We keep our ebikes in a bike room on the ground floor of our building, there are a few road bikes in there but no other ebikes. The building next to us has the same setup, however I have not wandered...

I'm pretty sure it is not the 2020 model and it has the Active Line Plus

AXA assistance is part of komoot premium and includes roadside repairs and accommodation.

What's so special about the 1 Jan 2016 date?

No, hers still went down quicker. Here it was harder to do a fair comparison as we both played around with the power levels a lot and I generally also went faster and waited at rest points etc, but her battery was lower than mine by the time we got home.

Well we did the route with hills, 20km roundtrip, 7km or so up, so 7 down and the rest mostly flat. Not sure how to quantify the hills, on the map they are 8-18% with shorter parts of 20+%. Another way of describing them is that I would not have managed them on my non-ebike without it being long...

Interesting comments, thanks. She now wants a second battery. We are going to try a trip with quite a few hills soon, I wonder how our ranges will compare there, and whether I will end up with a tougher ride than she has.

Yes well of course...BUT the perceived pedaling was light and there was no way of making it lighter without shutting the motor off competently, not having more control of the power at this end of the scale seemed to result in the motor ending up working more than it needed (and yes the user...

Well I never implied there was magic and I also never mentioned motor efficiency. I wasn't thinking that narrow. I was meaning on a long route where both systems are in the lowest assist mode and neither person is pedaling with all that much force, the cadence sensor based system seems markedly...

We went on a trip on our ebikes last weekend. My wife has what I believe is a cadence sensor (Fischer ebike) and I have a torque sensor (Bosh ALP). Her battery is 422wh whereas mine is 500wh. She was in power assist mode 1 the whole time and I used eco (level 1) for most of it, with periods of...