It took me about a year of lurking here to join you bunch.
Member of another well known forum, but when I started to entertain the idea of going electric and looked at the eMTB section there, it was just a big mess full of bickering and venom spitting. This Forum is exactly the opposite, lots of knowledge, encouragement and friendliness.
Since May I'm proud owner of mint Focus Bold 2 Plus which I bought from interstate from a guy who upgraded to Sam 2. Of course did some upgrades immediately... I'll post some pics to some other thread in general area later.
As expected the first ride was like "maate, this really is bloody fun, like they say over at EMTB" , "lets try Boost - whoa, who's pulling me up this hill", grin, grin...and more grin on each ride.
Loving it so far. It just opened up so many places in the bush to go to revisit since I went there on 250cc Kawasaki in first gear.
There are several nice trails locally, from XC, flowing, to more technical stuff - for these I still prefer to ride them on my lightweight full sus BH Lynx 29er, but for everything else I already have a plan for a year worth of weekends to explore some countryside. Not many flats, lots of climbs. Good times ahead.
And, just finished building a set of commuter wheels to commute in style on 24km round trip to work with two short but steep climbs. No shower upon arrival needed anymore.
PS: My desktop picture on all computers and phone is pic of : Lapierre eZesty. Enough said.
Cheers to all of you,
Lad
Member of another well known forum, but when I started to entertain the idea of going electric and looked at the eMTB section there, it was just a big mess full of bickering and venom spitting. This Forum is exactly the opposite, lots of knowledge, encouragement and friendliness.
Since May I'm proud owner of mint Focus Bold 2 Plus which I bought from interstate from a guy who upgraded to Sam 2. Of course did some upgrades immediately... I'll post some pics to some other thread in general area later.
As expected the first ride was like "maate, this really is bloody fun, like they say over at EMTB" , "lets try Boost - whoa, who's pulling me up this hill", grin, grin...and more grin on each ride.
Loving it so far. It just opened up so many places in the bush to go to revisit since I went there on 250cc Kawasaki in first gear.
There are several nice trails locally, from XC, flowing, to more technical stuff - for these I still prefer to ride them on my lightweight full sus BH Lynx 29er, but for everything else I already have a plan for a year worth of weekends to explore some countryside. Not many flats, lots of climbs. Good times ahead.
And, just finished building a set of commuter wheels to commute in style on 24km round trip to work with two short but steep climbs. No shower upon arrival needed anymore.
PS: My desktop picture on all computers and phone is pic of : Lapierre eZesty. Enough said.
Cheers to all of you,
Lad
