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technical progress is incredibly fast today. Even in the electric vehicle sector, the depreciation of used vehicles is impressive. Part of this is marketing, but part of it is reality: ebikes have not yet, in my opinion, reached maturity: too heavy, complicated to use for some, underperforming...

I am overwhelmed by all the responses, suggestions, etc.! THANK YOU ALL!!! I am now trying to digest all the information before doing the job, and looking at the video material I can find around, as suggested by some of you. And by the way, both tires are marked EXO TR (Tubeless Ready), 60 TPI...

Hello everyone, I have been on a business trip and since the availability of MTB tires here is very limited (and the prices very high), I took the opportunity to buy a pair of new tubeless tires for my Trek Powerfly. In fact, I booked a night in transit at a B&B to find that the B&B had a...

Fun fact: 700 Wh is the energy required to raise an ebike (considering 27 kg with accessories) + the rider (90 kg including clothes etc.) by approx 2.200 m. Obviously this doesn't account for 1) frictions (to be added) and 2) the energy added by the person pedalling (to be subtracted). This is...

if you use Safari to browse, there is a little icon on the right of the URL area that let you choose the language to translate. However, it doesn't always work if a post uses different language. See image below, in which I activated the translation to Spanish of this same page. I thing Chrome...

I think @Bummers says it all. And... your choice of course... but I agree with @B1rdie. It is really tiring and annoying to ride more than 20-30 m in walk mode, at least with my Trek Powerfly. I sometime use walk mode but the button is in such a difficult position that is really difficult to...

I noticed that the Powerfly - I own a Powerfly 7 Full Suspension - is not very popular here. People here tend to prefer the Fuel (that wasn't available on the island when I bought my ebike). Can someone explain me why? I have not experienced other ebikes, so I cannot tell if it is bad or not...

I know, I read about this here: Bosch CX Gen 4 shutting down while fast ride

Thanks. You confirmed my suspect. It was probably an overcurrent/overtorque. What surprised me is that I couldn't find a reference to a behaviour like this: a few sec shut down and then back again.

mmhhhh... things are getting even more complicated... Here usually the weather is dry but with occasional heavy rains on some areas. In those occasions is so muddy that I do not usually there to go on dirty steep road. I was sticking on Maxxis but at this point I will try other brands, as you...

It looks like the 3C MaxxTerra and MaxxGrip are compound, not models. Correct? By using the Maxxis finder (bicycle, mountain, 29 x 2.40) I came to these selection...

Thank you for sharing this experience! I worked at the Izaña Observatory for 3 months 31 years ago, and know the area very well. El Teide and the crest you rode is visible from here : Every three days during that time I went from the observatory (that you can see in the above picture, taken...

Has it ever happened to anyone else here?

Thanks for the suggestions. I have "learned" to go off-road here. I am quite... "differently young" and my technique is probably s****y, but I have gained a lot of experience just by going up and down the island. So far I have only fallen once on a rather complicated section of trail on a...

that's very useful. Thanks again. I don't care about having the same tires on both wheels. I do whatever is better.

Thanks Steve. Got it! Keep in mind that my goal is not to drive at a speed that would end me... at the (only) local hospital, but to keep my balance in difficult sections, uphill and downhill (and save range). It is difficult to explain, but on this small island there is not a single flat...

Me again... I am even more confused then earlier as I understood now that there are many versions of the Assegai, only a few of them available for 29 x 2.50: What really puzzles me is why some versions are only available in a few size, and why some sizes are only available in a few version...

Makes sense... I'll keep the Assegai order. The photos I took today while returning home unfortunately do not render the depth and the actual incline, but this is the "commuting" between office and home. It's beautiful of course for those like me who love MTB but, especially considering I'm...

Inspired by your comment, I searched the internet and found a lot of people complaining about the Assegai being extremely slow on dirt. See for example , essentially because it is optimized for downhill use. I wonder if it wouldn't be a problem for me by reducing the range (which is quite a...

Hello everyone, A hour ago I was doing a very uphill and crumbling track about 500 m long. I set the Turbo on my Trek (powered by Bosch CX Performance) and was using the highest gear, no problems. At one point I rode up some kind of sharp step between rocks. I clearly felt the rim of the rear...