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The battery in the original TCU was a non rechargeable lithium button battery typically lasting 3 years. Is the Mastermind battery now a rechargeable one? If so it is possible it was at a low state of charge to start with and since the bike shop would have had it plugged in to flash the firmware...

as does every motor....that is how a torque sensor works. What differs is the amount of power delivered by the motor as controlled by the software algorithm taking account of rider torque and cadence. The Brose motor has always been more responsive at lower rider torque settings and lower...

you started by saying you got a puncture...............and went straight to tyre inserts as a solution!! Are you running tubeless?? If so a puncture will self heal unless the tyre is ripped or the hole is too big. I would say first off go tubeless if youa re not already. Second, at your weight...

1. Buy from a good local bike shop 2. Match the bike to the type of riding you do...intend to do. No point in having a hard hitting enduro set up if you mainly ride fairly flat single track. Lower powered EMTBs beome an option if that is your type of riding. No point getting a pure trail bike if...

The lower the Gopro is mounted the more steep inclines or ascents have the correct perspective.

I am surprised there is not more feedback to brands on these developments. Designing frames where the fork crown can hit the frame is just poor design and feeding cables through the headset just delivers more restrictions on cockpit set up for no rider gain. Designers have no issue with cutting...

If you use turbo you just need to employ a slightly different technique that in EMTB. Power delivery in turbo is more instant in turbo than EMTB and it also has more overrun. So, as long as you use a low enough gear ( and if the climb suggests a need for turbo then you should be in one of the...

I think the answer to your issue is technique....and its totally free! First use a front wheel stand and remove the thru axle. Lift the bike leaving the front wheel in the stand. Hold the bike under the down tube and under the seat stay and bend your legs. Just straighten your legs to lift. No...

I think one mistake folk make when bleeding brakes is not taking into account that the range of piston movement in the calliper when pads are in place is very small and the pistons are permanently pushed quite far out of the calliper. Compare that to the situation when bleeding the brakes, where...

the difference being the Bosch magnet has North pole magnetic field facing the sensor only. The Trek magnet has both North and South pole magnetic field visible to the sensor. The Trek sensor therefore sends two signals per revolution whilst the Bosch magnet sends one?

@RustyIron has it right in the last paragraph but it also helps to be predictive...ie change to an appropriate gear at the bottom of the climb even if that feels too low to start with. What kit you have also makes a difference. My GX AXS on GX 10/50 cassette is invariably quiet and needs only...

I use the Epic bleed kit which includes the Bleeding Edge adaptor...c £25. My current kit is 3 years old and still works fine. Epic do kits for SRAM and Shimano...and the kit includes a full instruction sheet. I have no idea why some think SRAM brakes are difficult to bleed. For me its a 15...

For me it varies with what bike I ride, and whether there is any opportunity to gain momentum before the climb. In general EMTB offers more control but Turbo is more useful if the climb is sudden with no run up. My bikes also vary. On eis a Whyte E180 Rs and the other a Whyte E160 RSX. The 160...

Let us know how it goes! What really sponsored me to try the tuning was watching a video of mine of our forest trails. It was my first outing with my Whyte E160 RSX so I gave my mate my Gopro to wear on a chest harness and he followed me throughout the ride. On the twisty single track and...

Certainly on Code callipers and I suspect much the same on any 4 piston calliper, the fluid routing to the outer pistons is somewhat more tortuous than to the inner pistons. That invariably means that any air or water in the fluid is more likely to sit behind those outer pistons and those...

I have had no problems with the Flow App except for the update before last which they messed up.The latest update is fine. My experience of the tour+ and EMTB before I changed the first of the 2 tuning sliders to 5 was really twofold. Firstly the amount of motor power really only kicked in to a...

:) ...never sure what the heck is meant by integrated or semi integrated!! All my bikes have the type of headset arrangement where the headtube has built in faces (plus the steerer tube race) for upper and lower bearings to sit on ( so I guess that is what they mean by integrated.........or...

just to add I left the second slider as standard in the a bove test. I have now increased EMTB and Tour+ by 2 stops on the second slider so see how that impacts on next ride.

The recent firmware update added the ability to tune Tour + and EMTB. I set both on the slider to 5 to see what difference it made. Today I rode a series of downhill trails in Wareham Forest, and it is a ride I do regularly which always works out at a bout 10 miles . In fact I did an almost...

Zero gap on all my bikes ( Whyte and Cube) ..as it should be.........otherwise the headset is open to water and mud ingress.