I did the same (or very nearly the same) ride on Friday. Middle setting of Eco this time with about one or two miles of Trail combined where the trail got a bit nadgery. The battery had only just dropped in to one bar at the end of the ride, showing another 16 miles of range despite an extra...
"One more issue is the charge port that is placed under the downtube, kind of tricky to get the charge port protection on some times"
Rub a little Vaseline around the outer side of the rubber cover, needs doing every 10 charges or so. Slips straight in and stays there...
I think the stock Yari is perfectly okay. I have settled at about 28% sag and I’m reaching close to full travel where I’d expect (the oh shit, I didn’t get that right moments), and its supple enough on low speed hits. It’s no where near as bad at blowing through the travel on mid-speed...
My Base arrived today.
Really well packaged, everything boxed nicely and logically laid out. Everything was set up, just the bars to put on, brakes to swap left to right and then whack the mech on.
They were the easiest wheels/tyres I ever converted to tubeless. Valves were included...