When you get a new rotor you have to break it in, which involves depositing pad material on the rotor. This greatly increases the friction and how well the brakes work - see photo of instructions from Swisstop. If you come to a complete stop during this process there is a risk of depositing a...
I’ve got the same set up as you and have had the same problem, with the same irritating noise. I think that the problem is that this disc is thicker than the standard one (I think 2mm instead of 1.8mm) so the brakes are more sensitive to correct adjustment. I have to use a torch and make sure...
I wanted an H15 but only H30s available until next year so went with H15 with upgrades to deal with obvious weaknesses in discussion with LBS.
Tyres - rear changed for a Dissector, so same front and bac. Will go for minion DHF & DHR combo when need replacing, which is what I’m used to and works...
I got 10% on an H30 rise, which I didn’t even ask for. I think it was because the shop owner knew I was disappointing not to be able to get an H15 and the discount was a sweetener to seal the deal. Where I live in Switzerland we also get a subsidy for about £550 so in the end the bike was about...
They are Marzocchi bomber z2. I found link
to manual in Rise manual and they do take tokens. It has a graph showing effects on different tokens so odd they don’t give you any since they hardly cost anything.
I wanted to buy a Rise H15 but they are not available in Switzerland as this year’s stock was all stolen from a lorry! My LBS persuaded me to get the H30 instead. He gave me a pretty good deal and I had the brakes upgraded to 4 pot SLX with the 200mm rotor on the front. I was going to upgrade...
3000k on my second motor on my 2019 Kenevo, but this motor was serviced by PLB and my hope is that it will keep going for a long while yet. I agree with all the sentiments above. Despite the fact of high specialized sales and the forums will give a distorted picture, the failure rate seems very...
Sadly, I agree. Of course, it is not certain that the motor will fail once out of guarantee, so its a risk, not a certainty. Either Shimano do something about this or maybe someone finds a way to get around the software problem. If I were to sell at this point, I would probably lose more than...
Point taken about Shimano motors. In fact, I wrote to emountainbiking magazine to say that they should mention in their tests that Shimano motors were protected by software from being repaired which I saw as a huge disadvantage which should be mentioned to prospective buyers. Then I heard that...
Maybe that’s why it was for sale! It’s fortunate that you have good mechanical skills and that bearings are relatively cheap. Anyway, I’m sure you will enjoy the bike. That model was best in test a few years ago in bikes under €5000 in emountainbike magazine. The bike is sort of in between the...
Good post. I like all the photos. I’ve got a 2018 Kenevo and I’ve not yet found any play or noise from the pivots and I’ve done 5000k, but I did buy a bearing press and puller kit and replaced the bearings in the rear wheel and there is already play in the rear wheel again. My creak was from the...
My wife and I weigh about the same and have same bikes - 2018 KTM Town bikes with Bosch performance line motors and 500w batteries . On one climb of about 1200m ascent I managed to get to the top but she ran out with about 200m to go. I had used turbo pretty much the whole way whereas she...
I was mountain biking in Maderira and our guide said they sometimes get through a set of brake pads in one descent (mind you, they are long and it can be muddy). I’ve been out for rides when at the beginning brakes sounded fine, but soon sounded awful as metal on metal does. Spare pads weigh...
I reckon you’ve got three choices; go full fat, full lightweight or in-between. You probably didn’t have those choices when you bought your Levo. It depends what type of riding you want to do. Want the lightness and manoeuvrability of an analogue bike and are not bothered about having to work...
I think comparing range with others, even with the same bike is not very helpful. We all know that it is very difficult to calculate range because it can vary greatly as there are so many factors involved. However, with several years and thousands of ebike kilometres behind me I reckon I can...
I have been trying to get my Garmin ebike field app to pair with my Orbea Rise with my edge 820, but it does not seem to find and pair with the Orbea battery. This is supposed to happen automatically. In fact, my app has stopped pairing with any extra batteries. For some reason my display...
It’s interesting that you say that. We seem to spend a fortune on having a lighter bike and testers rave about the handling of the latest generation of lighter ebikes, being much closer to analogue bikes and thus much easier to jump, manual and generally move around, let alone lifting one over a...
In my manual (for Rise H30), it says pairing will happen automatically - there is nothing to say how to put it into pairing mode with the display. Jan’s notes with ebike app say pairing should take place automatically so I’m baffled
Thanks. What you read makes sense. It’s a shame one can’t change the default on the display (it always defaults to speed which is in the toolbox anyway so it’s an unnecessary duplication).
Hi, thanks for reply. When I check in connect, the rise does not show. It hasn’t paired - that’s the problem. I don’t have a black LED
Controller - I have the display. I’ll try putting garmin close to that. Do I need to delete Rise toolbox from the edge? Is there a conflict between the two data...