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Hi again. I'm now a month into my time with the Giant Twist/Lite. I've been very consistent in my commuting and have just over 400 miles on it. The challenge is still the 7% 1 mile long hill on the way home. I'm not huffing or puffing, but I'm a sweaty mess at the end of that climb. With...

I just had a Nuvinci hub installed on my Giant Lite. It replaces the Shimano Nexus-4. The first improvement is the added gear range. The Nexus-4 has a total range of 184%. The Nuvinci has a total range of 350% with a low end gearing of 1:0.5. This gives me a much better climbing gear for...

So, this was my first full week of riding the Giant Twist/Lite. I managed to commute to work twice using a combination of bike and bus. We're fortunate here in Seattle that all buses have bike racks installed on the front so it's easy to make a route that mixes the two. And, my company offers...

Currie Technologies and Dolphin are partnering on a new line of Currie branded bikes. It will combine Dolphin's Syntelli drive (aka the Dolphin Hybrid Drive) system with Currie technologies to create a new line of bikes. They claim "the IZIP Express™ model will outdistance, outrun and out...

If you happened to read my intro in this thread, you know my wife is a hard-core cyclist. I mean lycra wearing, double-century riding, gear freak, HARD-CORE cyclist. I showed her the new Twist/Lite. At first she sniffed at it because it wasn't a "real bike". I moved our trail-a-bike on to...

I was sniffing around the Internet tonight and found the new Panasonic Lithium mid-drive motor . We all love and lament the passing of the twist/lite. Would it he possible to build this new unit into our own design? I'm not sure what size order Panasonic would need to take this seriously...