After 20 years out of it, I've re-joined the fold!
Things have now moved on. Having seen the questionable colour scheme of the 2010 Tasman, a drab looking brown/bronze affair, I just couldn’t proceed. An expensive bike will deserve some TLC and I just couldn’t bring myself to love one in that colour. I'm not generally fussed about such things and almost any other colour than horse dung would have been fine.... So I changed my mind, decided to push the boat out for what I really wanted in an electric bike, and am now the proud owner of a….
…Pro Connect S instead.
And what a machine. So far it’s done almost everything I wanted from an electric bike, romping up all the local hills with just gentle to moderate pedalling and the first battery charge has lasted a creditable 23 miles from full to dead.
Lugging a 17st rider around the Chiltern Hills, that’s an impressive range. The range and hill climbing are indeed a revelation after my 1987 e-bike and I thank the contributors on this forum once again for sharing their knowledge and offering valuable advice to help guide my purchase.
The bike’s preparation wasn’t quite as good as it could have been and apart from having to screw down the valve seats to the rims, I've had to adjust the remote fork lock-out cable so that lock-out can actually be achieved (the cable's ferrule hadn't been properly seated when adjusted at the pre-delivery inspection) and adjust the front brake shoes so one wasn’t going to rub into the tyre bead as it wore down.
Minor matters for someone with basic knowledge of bike maintenance, easily resolved, and, to a degree, I could even overlook the bottle cage lug which has previously been overtightened and stripped the thread on the downtube (any ideas for repair please anyone?).
No, the real disappointing aspect on this bike is that Chinese made front fork. It’s rubbish. Even on the softest preload settting, it doesn’t absorb any road bumps and is shamed by the Rock Shox and Cannondale Headshock on my two mountain bikes. That’s quite poor and unexpected on a £2,195 bike. I was looking for a soft and compliant fork to counteract the harsh ride of an aluminium frame, but this isn’t it. It feels no different whether the fork is locked out or on its softest setting -- it's that unyielding! Can anyone recommend a replacement that would fit? When I recover from the bike’s initial outlay, I might have to treat myself.
Other than that though, the bike should hopefully bring much pleasure and looks set to fulfil my main objective which was to get more exercise/lose weight in as enjoyable and tolerable a way as possible.
Things have now moved on. Having seen the questionable colour scheme of the 2010 Tasman, a drab looking brown/bronze affair, I just couldn’t proceed. An expensive bike will deserve some TLC and I just couldn’t bring myself to love one in that colour. I'm not generally fussed about such things and almost any other colour than horse dung would have been fine.... So I changed my mind, decided to push the boat out for what I really wanted in an electric bike, and am now the proud owner of a….
…Pro Connect S instead.
And what a machine. So far it’s done almost everything I wanted from an electric bike, romping up all the local hills with just gentle to moderate pedalling and the first battery charge has lasted a creditable 23 miles from full to dead.
Lugging a 17st rider around the Chiltern Hills, that’s an impressive range. The range and hill climbing are indeed a revelation after my 1987 e-bike and I thank the contributors on this forum once again for sharing their knowledge and offering valuable advice to help guide my purchase.
The bike’s preparation wasn’t quite as good as it could have been and apart from having to screw down the valve seats to the rims, I've had to adjust the remote fork lock-out cable so that lock-out can actually be achieved (the cable's ferrule hadn't been properly seated when adjusted at the pre-delivery inspection) and adjust the front brake shoes so one wasn’t going to rub into the tyre bead as it wore down.
Minor matters for someone with basic knowledge of bike maintenance, easily resolved, and, to a degree, I could even overlook the bottle cage lug which has previously been overtightened and stripped the thread on the downtube (any ideas for repair please anyone?).
No, the real disappointing aspect on this bike is that Chinese made front fork. It’s rubbish. Even on the softest preload settting, it doesn’t absorb any road bumps and is shamed by the Rock Shox and Cannondale Headshock on my two mountain bikes. That’s quite poor and unexpected on a £2,195 bike. I was looking for a soft and compliant fork to counteract the harsh ride of an aluminium frame, but this isn’t it. It feels no different whether the fork is locked out or on its softest setting -- it's that unyielding! Can anyone recommend a replacement that would fit? When I recover from the bike’s initial outlay, I might have to treat myself.
Other than that though, the bike should hopefully bring much pleasure and looks set to fulfil my main objective which was to get more exercise/lose weight in as enjoyable and tolerable a way as possible.