New Member from SF Bay Area

[ebnash]

Ordered my 1st eBike last week and now for the unbearable wait.

I live in the Santa Cruz mountains in Los Gatos, CA. Raced BMX as a youngster and been MTB riding for the last 15 years off an on. Most of my riding in well known trails around Santa Cruz. My main rig is a Transition Sentinel Carbon and have been loving it, as its my 1st modern geo bike.

I've been through a lot of injuries and surgeries in the last 7-8 years and it's catching up to me. I usually need a few days off between rides or the pain gets out of control. A little over a week ago, a friend called me up to go ride that afternoon. I said no because I had ridden the day before. Eventually, he talked me into it and about half way through, I couldn't climb any more. He was riding a Levo Expert and let me ride it for a little while to keep moving. I had resisted trying an eBike for a long time because I knew what it would lead to.

5 days later, I ordered a TY Decoy 29 Pro. It's not expected to show up in the US till October time frame. This leaves me way too much time to keep looking at bikes and second guessing my purchase decision. So annoying.

One of the reasons I'm here is to try and figure out if I've made the wrong decision and should have purchased the Decoy Elite Mullet Bike. It's probably more aligned with the type of riding I do on my Sentinel. but I'm not convinced that i will even ride an eBike on downhill trails with Steeps, Drops, Chunk, Jumps, etc...

I'm going a little nuts fighting the urge to call YT and and change my order to the "Bigger" bike, but just not just sure. 1st world problems, huh...

 

[alleny]

I'm on a Decoy comp (mullet) and it smashes the descents. Surprisingly stable, at jumps and in corners. I imagine the shred mullet will be similar if not better. Dunno how the 29 rides in comparison but I have one on order!

 

[MacCruzIn]

Ordered my 1st eBike last week and now for the unbearable wait.

I live in the Santa Cruz mountains in Los Gatos, CA. Raced BMX as a youngster and been MTB riding for the last 15 years off an on. Most of my riding in well known trails around Santa Cruz. My main rig is a Transition Sentinel Carbon and have been loving it, as its my 1st modern geo bike.

I've been through a lot of injuries and surgeries in the last 7-8 years and it's catching up to me. I usually need a few days off between rides or the pain gets out of control. A little over a week ago, a friend called me up to go ride that afternoon. I said no because I had ridden the day before. Eventually, he talked me into it and about half way through, I couldn't climb any more. He was riding a Levo Expert and let me ride it for a little while to keep moving. I had resisted trying an eBike for a long time because I knew what it would lead to.

5 days later, I ordered a TY Decoy 29 Pro. It's not expected to show up in the US till October time frame. This leaves me way too much time to keep looking at bikes and second guessing my purchase decision. So annoying.

One of the reasons I'm here is to try and figure out if I've made the wrong decision and should have purchased the Decoy Elite Mullet Bike. It's probably more aligned with the type of riding I do on my Sentinel. but I'm not convinced that i will even ride an eBike on downhill trails with Steeps, Drops, Chunk, Jumps, etc...

I'm going a little nuts fighting the urge to call YT and and change my order to the "Bigger" bike, but just not just sure. 1st world problems, huh...

Hi, I also live in Santa Cruz and purchased a Specialized Levo SL Expert in July, what a game changer! I have been riding the trails since 1984 and my 1st Mountain Bike was a StumpJumper. I bought a Santa Cruz Heckler in 97 and never looked back and have a TallBoy and Bronson. I demoed the new Heckler in June and was not impressed, more like a motorcycle, and then Specialized opened a shop on River street and I demoed the SL Expert. 1st rider, and was completely blown away and worked with Spokesman to buy an XL, which are still available, otherwise, I would of had to wait like you. The StumpJumper-E is awesome on the downhill and I just love the feel of this bike, I am working twice as hard and riding twice as long and very happy with my purchase. Nice to meet you and hope to see you on the trails.

 

[ebnash]

Hi, I also live in Santa Cruz and purchased a Specialized Levo SL Expert in July, what a game changer! I have been riding the trails since 1984 and my 1st Mountain Bike was a StumpJumper. I bought a Santa Cruz Heckler in 97 and never looked back and have a TallBoy and Bronson. I demoed the new Heckler in June and was not impressed, more like a motorcycle, and then Specialized opened a shop on River street and I demoed the SL Expert. 1st rider, and was completely blown away and worked with Spokesman to buy an XL, which are still available, otherwise, I would of had to wait like you. The StumpJumper-E is awesome on the downhill and I just love the feel of this bike, I am working twice as hard and riding twice as long and very happy with my purchase. Nice to meet you and hope to see you on the trails.

Sweet! I also did not like the E Heckler. I rode my friend's SL Expert and it was a joy to ride, but I have a personal block when it comes to ever purchasing another Specialized bike. Too many issues with previous bikes and poor support from Specialized, themselves. I can't argue that they currently have the most refined eBike package right now, but its a non-starter for me.

Hope to see you out there, as well.

 

[MacCruzIn]

Today I woke up to ash all over the property and friends having to evacuate in the Santa Cruz mountains. Looks like it’s our turn to burn and hopefully once this is all over we will manage our forests properly like the Native American knew for 1,000s of years. I don’t know if it will ever be the same.

 

[ebnash]

Yes, I live in the Santa Cruz mountains, on the Los Gatos side of the summit. We had ash all over and are seeing that we are on the watch list for evacuation, as well. Luckily, my wife is able to take the dogs to work with her. Unfortunately, all my bikes are at home, but those are just replaceable things...

 

[ebnash]

So, as I mentioned in another thread, I had an October available date and received my bike 2 days ago. Assembled last night, did the firmware upgrade, and charged her up. Did base suspension setup this morning and rode the roads around my home to bed-in the pads. I live in the Santa Cruz Mountains so my roads are up and down. Not much of any flat.

I have to say that after playing around this morning, I’m instantly regretting not cancelling the 29 and waiting for the mullet. It feels very steep to me and heavy nose dives on any braking. Really going to have to be aggressive on compression dampening, especially since Im a big guy.

Thought for a moment, oh wait, I have a flip chip! But alas, it shipped in the low position. What a shame.

No real option to send back, I think, now that I’ve assembled and rolled around the roads.

Hopefully, in time, it will become a useful tool for me.

 

[Roger007]

New to the site. Just picked up a YT Decoy. Looking for tips for all ebike related information.

 

[cleoent]

So, as I mentioned in another thread, I had an October available date and received my bike 2 days ago. Assembled last night, did the firmware upgrade, and charged her up. Did base suspension setup this morning and rode the roads around my home to bed-in the pads. I live in the Santa Cruz Mountains so my roads are up and down. Not much of any flat.

I have to say that after playing around this morning, I’m instantly regretting not cancelling the 29 and waiting for the mullet. It feels very steep to me and heavy nose dives on any braking. Really going to have to be aggressive on compression dampening, especially since Im a big guy.

Thought for a moment, oh wait, I have a flip chip! But alas, it shipped in the low position. What a shame.

No real option to send back, I think, now that I’ve assembled and rolled around the roads.

Hopefully, in time, it will become a useful tool for me.

You could probably sell the bike in less than a day on Craigslist if you're really wanting to make a change.

 

[Alldayridernz]

So, as I mentioned in another thread, I had an October available date and received my bike 2 days ago. Assembled last night, did the firmware upgrade, and charged her up. Did base suspension setup this morning and rode the roads around my home to bed-in the pads. I live in the Santa Cruz Mountains so my roads are up and down. Not much of any flat.

I have to say that after playing around this morning, I’m instantly regretting not cancelling the 29 and waiting for the mullet. It feels very steep to me and heavy nose dives on any braking. Really going to have to be aggressive on compression dampening, especially since Im a big guy.

Thought for a moment, oh wait, I have a flip chip! But alas, it shipped in the low position. What a shame.

No real option to send back, I think, now that I’ve assembled and rolled around the roads.

Hopefully, in time, it will become a useful tool for me.

Stick with it and dont regret your decision - just ride it. I have my first ebike, a Commencal Meta Power SX which I got last year and although I absolutely loved it straight away I realised it actually took me a long time to really gel with a ebike. I came off a 27.5 YT Capra and riding non-ebikes for a long time and thought it would just be this easy switch over which it sort was but the extra weight and length etc dose take time to get used. After quite a while I got the feeling where you know everything it will do in a situation - they are quite different. Hope that make sense, it will of course be different for everyone. I would never go back and will be going 29er for next one.

 

[ebnash]

I've done a couple rides now and absolutely no regrets. I'm able to ride the bike how want and it doesn't really seem to be holding me back, at all from a technical terrain, standpoint. I can ride through chunky downs at speed and still jump, although it takes a little extra effort on my part.

I'm quite impressed that I've been able to do 2 rides back to back with no charge and now I'm down to 1 bar on the battery status. Considering that I weigh ~250 lbs., its amazing that I was able to get 2 rides on one battery cycle, with still some juice in the tank. The combination of the 2 rides comes to 40 miles and 4900ft of climbing. The 1st ride was all Eco mode with intervals of motor off just to understand if I could cope with a dead battery during climbing and then the 2nd ride was 80% trail with small mixes of boost and running Eco/motor off coming down the hill.

I'm stoked!

My only complaint, which seem to be pretty universal, is that the YT seat in like a stone. They really have no business putting this seat on any bike... My favorite seat is now on order, as well as a set of 800mm Carbon Bars and a shorter stem.