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I bought an EXe when they first came out and bought a second battery at the same time. Back then, you could purchase a second battery for a couple hundred dollars more than the range extender. They weren't really anticipating people doing this. You had to separately buy all the brackets to attach to the battery to attach it to the frame. I think the pricing spread has moved substantially. If you ride places where it's common to cruise back by the trailhead during the ride, this setup is amazing. I also picked up a power station on black Friday...

Yeah, I still really like my Nebo Peak with the Ride60 drive unit. Mine started making a grinding noise pretty early on, but it was warrantied and replaced before it ever died. The replacement drive unit hasn't had any issues. I wish I had the newer, slightly larger battery. But I can get ~20 miles and 3,500' without being too conservative on assist. I assumed Ride60 was a dead platform, but I heard there's at least one more new eMTB coming out with it.

Without any kind of fast charging available the Bosch SX system paired with the 400wh is not making any possible sense, just go CX / 600wh and detune to get better range at this point. TQ HPR60 with the 580wh is ahead of the whole SL segment, we need more bikes with this system.

I'm pretty sure you're right. The axle position on Kolb's bike is clearly lower than the original, which would correspond to a 27.5 rear.

If Richie Rude uses a steering damper I don’t even know if what im doing counts as riding a bike

This Maxon air motor is possibly gonna be less weight vs the Tq 60? It’s slim pickins when looking for a lightweight emtb with dual 29 wheels. MTE or fuel + really all there is.

I feel like I can finally add input to this thread. I have just about every flavor of Maven's in my fleet and I just got the chance to try out the b1. I have a set of expert a1 (on my nomad 6), bronze a1 (on my ebike) and base that I just converted to b1's with a silver lever assembly (on my ht4 trail bike). I am also trying out a set of maven base levers with db8 calipers at the moment on a weird ultra light trail bike experiment build... but that's a story for a different...

OK this thread is getting WAY off topic with helpful advice and success👎 Some basic rules from my time as a customer facing shop mechanic: Don't touch your face with greasy hands. (I did) It's your duty to not tell your coworker they have an extra cassette grease 'stache, or eyeliner when they are helping customers at the service desk. (they never told me).

It is sick, exactly like my spire but with longer chainstays which is what I wanted. Great at jumping, way more nimble than the trek I came off. But yea the routing is just so annoying.

My newest dumb problem is that I got one of the new tr11 frames and they put the screws for the frame cable guides underneath the cables and it’s pretty delicate plastic. So you need a buddy to pull the cable out of the way super hard while he also holds the guide in place and you fight to get the tiny screw in with my fat fingers. Why they removed external routing ill never know.

I've just placed an order for the base Sidekick. The price is too tempting, thank you for the note.

Had my first ride on the EX 1700 today, DT Swiss’ new alu wheel that comes with the chain device installed. It cost £400 for the full wheel at RRP which feels like quite a fair price. It felt really great, the bike almost felt like it floated under me, my friend noted that my rolling speed seemed high. It’s quite a chain slappy bike and the device has definately reduced that on the small chunk, but it still slaps on proper hits. One odd thing that may be unrelated is that the suspension felt too soft, I even had...