well I'm about at the end of the journey here.
Specialized won't support this bike. Some last minute T/S suggests the cable is fine, battery is fine, motor is indeed dead. The bearings are perfect, the belt is super-perfect. Maybe the CPU board fried? hard to say. But super-frustrating that the...
Got a final answer back. Apparently it does. Shop meant the mfg date was too "late", not too "early".
Specialized is saying the bike I bought in August 2020 was a model year 2021, thus does not apply to the 4 year warranty they announced 1-2 months earlier.
I must have gotten super 'lucky'. My...
Next Update, a call to Rider Care, they can not answer why claims deemed my bike as not applicable to the 4 year warranty. They say they can only read the conclusion the claims department made, re-iterated that my 2020 Kenevo had a 2 year warranty only (no explanation from them). They said they...
Short follow up, Specialized told my LBS that my 2020 Kenevo does not qualify for the 4 year warranty, only 2 year. they claim it was because the bike was "manufactured before the coverage was extended to 4 years". Apparently doesn;t matter that it was bought 2 months after the memo was released...
Stand by.
I got shockingly lucky. I'm 6-8 weeks before the 4 year warranty expires. It's in the shop, but need a few weeks because it's the busy season for Specialized.
Hi guys,
I searched but didn’t see exactly my symptoms so I thought I’d ask.
My 2020 Kenevo (couple months out of warranty now correction, I bought in August 2020, 1 month warranty left?) has an issue.
I took it for a ride. Got on, turned it on and the lights came on like normal. Started to...
Similar story for me. As long as MTX is around, ALL my bikes will wear their pads. Period.
They have a few options, I don’t feel obligated to get the pad they think i need, I get whichever I want for each bike.
I don’t think I’m using an ebike pad on my Kenevo, and I don’t care about wear or...
WOOOOW!
My non-e-bike has a frame that weighs 2.877 kg bare. Your Kenevo is 2.7 kg bare! (probably 2.877 kg after you add the linkage bearings in :))
My non-e-bike "can weigh" 30 pounds if I didn't have a boner for DH class tires and coil spring suspension. So it weighs around 31-32 lb.
That...
I have thought exactly that. once the opening is supported, you should be GTG. Could be machined aluminum too.
Not my wheelhouse, so I won't go there. But as a concept it really evaporated because (for me):
a) the motor drag is unacceptable
b) the bike weighs 49 lb (22.2kg). Without the...
Don't get me wrong, I hear you loud and clear. I would just rather see a non-e conversion BB housing to let it freewheel cleanly.
But since you do what I wanted to do originally before finding out the motor saps effort, Have you ever smashed the downtube on something? Seems like the battery...
Yep. And I guarantee you are spending a not-insignificant portion of your effort driving the motor. Like riding the bike with 5 psi taken out of the tires. It rides fine. No, really.
only a super-heavy 2020 Kenevo here, but even if I went weight weenie on it, the brose to me has significant drag, so much so that at any weight it would be a significant portion of pedal effort