I have exactly the same procedure.
I'm doing a little mod to mine which involves fitting grub screws into the side of the caliper so that they have a 'stop' that can be returned to whenever the caliper has to be removed, to save myself the faff.
A creak is more likely either the crank arms need tightening or the motor mounting bolts need tightening.
I bought a couple of tubes of service grease from the shop where I bought my bike, Berkshire Cycles. It took a while to arrive though but I don't actually need it yet because it's only done...
It looks in the picture like the inner face of the caliper mounting lug is more inboard than the left inner face of the disc pathway in the caliper, which is very silly if that's the case.
It's worth noting that it appears that some bikes are going full circle and going back down to 625 and 504 batteries, because the extra battery weight high up front, combined with ever more ' longer, lower, slacker ' geometry means that the bikes are getting difficult to get the front where you...
Bosch have done a couple of bigger batteries for the Smart system but I think it's physically bigger so might require a frame mod to fit.
I should say that I think the slightly bigger capacity (545 maybe?) battery looks slightly bigger, but there's also a 725 but that's MUCH bigger.
Maybe if I put it another way;
I'm fortunate enough that I can have any bike at all. If this one got stolen I'd buy the same straight away. Nothing else I've ridden has been close.
As for customizable choice.... When I bought mine the choice was red with EXT. That was it.
At the time I'd rather...
Yes, I bought it from Chris at Berkshire Cycles. Top bloke, absolutely straight advice.
I wouldn't worry about frame strength. They are used in EWS-E competition and I'm pretty sure they category 5 rated (the highest). You'll likely break yourself before the bike.
I haven't done Antur Stiniog...
Like ANY bike, there are some minor things that let the Mula down. None of them are insurmountable, and all but one I've already made my own 'fixes' for.
For example, it runs a spoke magnet and the speed sensor half way down the left chainstay. I've used a Shimano sensor fitted inside the...
EXT ERA V2.
I've got various Foxs on different bikes and Zeb unlimates RC2 on another bike and none come close to the EXTs.
Plus you don't get the steerer tube creaks because it's the fork crown taking the forces directly into the lower bearing, not the steerer tube via the joint between the two.
Crikey, that's 23.8 kg for the S-Works with a 500 battery, that's heavier than my Fulgur with a heavy duty coil shock!
From memory my alloy SL comp with its mudguards and range extender was roughly 22kg, so that's around 44lb 8oz. It does have Hope hubs and DT Swiss rims with Michelin Wild...
I had the idea first. 🙃
Have you actually weighed both bikes?
I've got a Levo SL, I've used an Orbea Rise for a demo day, which was nice but too close an experience to my analogue bike I felt, and I've ridden a Forestal for a few hours (very underwhelming).
I'd like to try the new Trek but...
I've got both light and full fat, and I enjoy riding both because they're both good in their own ways.
I do think though that, given there's not THAT much weight difference between the motors in themselves, that lighter (obviously smaller capacity) batteries to fit full fat bikes would be a...
I use Ordnance Survey trail 2 bike. (I'm in the UK).
It's actually made in Spain by 'TwoNav'.
It's a little bit of a faff to set up initially because there's two accounts to activate (OS and TwoNav) but once that's done it's great.
Before buying it I looked at everything available. Most of...
I've had no shutdown issues for ages now, not since the last update. That said, I've not ridden it much whilst I've been developing my little idea. Plus I've got the Fulgur Mula to ride now which is just in another league entirely so I ride that most of the time.
I never checked to see what the...