An Ebike virgin.

[Jurf]

Hi,
I,m Jeroen from the netherlands and right now riding an Ibis Ripmo.
Perfectly fine in the Netherlands (that are very flat!), awesome in the descents pretty much everywhere, but misses a assist on the climbs when the rider is gassing out.

I tried a several bikes at Lake Garda and in Wales and I,m pretty conviced that I want an ebike so joined here to read/learn a lot more about them.
So far looking at the Canyon Spectral, Orbea Wild, and TurboLevo.

 

[Paulquattro]

Welcome to the forum

 

[mustclime]

Welcome, my choice would be the Levo or the canyon ….. the wild has headset cable routing. That’s a dealbreaker for me.

 

[Jurf]

The main probem is that every bike seems to have its flaws and the ideas about what to get changes from day to day.
I,m recovering from a pretty nasty broken ankle so instead of biking i,m sitting waay too much time on the couch surfing the web about bikes.

I,m 188cm x95kg and with the Canyon i,m a bit inbetween sizes, The Large is too short and the XL has a pretty high stack, otherwise that was a great bike imo (although Shimano and also headset routing).

I demoed the Turbo-levo in Wales and that S5 is an awesome bike, just a tiny low stack for my liking but with Sram what I prever over Shimano.
I asked about it at the locsal shop but they are 1.5K+ more expensive as most for a lesser build while a friend of me is on its 4th motor in 3years and to top it of I need to wait 3month for an S5 size because that seems to be a popular size.
The 3 month waiting time sucks because I want/need that bike for a decent recovery as well (at least that is one of the excuses to my wife buy one now)..

I,m not a fan of the headset cable routing of the Wild either, but how often do you work on that?
Its basicly when replacing bearings or when I want a different brake-set and they can get me one in a week.
I can get an M20 (the carbon frame with the shitty fork) for 5200,- because expensive bikes with shitty forks don,t sell well but I have a Fox38 Performance coming my way that I ordered online simply because it was a too good of a bargain passing by, so that fork is sorted (and already paid so no part of the current bike budget).

If I buy an Float X elite and a decent brake set (that the TurboLevo needs as well anyway) put the XO-eagle stuff on it that I have on the shelf as left-over from another bike I have pretty nice ride for just over 6K.....If i don,t slice my wrists from working on the cable routing

I probably need to stay awake another a couple of nights over it staring at the ceiling to think it over.