Ran it to flat today. It does go to Zero !
If you use the Range estimator, it's like all of the motors, if your terrain changes or your assistance mode changes, the estimation will be incorrect (more hills, less range).
Generally, the battery % was pretty linear all the way down until about 8% when it seemed to start dropping a bit faster.
At 5% the battery icon started to flash and power was limited to about 320w.
The last 5% vanished and only lasted about 1km. So when you're down to 5%, put it in "E" and prepare for some work, or turn it to no assistance and save the 5% for a hill.
Range was about 55km's and 1000m climbing - not too bad as I was generally pretty lazy and used more assistance than normal.
I think the brakes might actually be starting to improve ! (I suspect I'm imagining it...) Only taken 100km's to bed in a bit .. The calipers actually look fine and take the same pads as 4 piston XT/Saint/Zee. The finned XT pads don't fit, they foul the caliper sides slightly but the normal pads fit. Have just put some in to try out of curiosity. Might swap over some Shimano levers and see how they feel then.
Heard back from Bikester. They want me to return the fork to them, for them to send to Suntour to see if it can be repaired. Slightly disappointed if I'm honest, was hoping with a new bike they'd send out an exchange fork or damper. But then there's always the possibility that people say their fork is rubbish and it's just normal with lots of time and money wasted. I'm guessing by the time it's got to Bikester from here. Then to Suntour. Then looked at. Then returned to Bikester. Then returned to me that we'll be talking about a month. It's ridiculous to have a new bike sitting around which you can't ride and there's no guarantee that the returned fork will actually be usable, so I have a Zeb on the way. The Suntour won't be going back on so that's the end of the Suntour experiment.
In other not exciting news :
Swapped the right hand lever and microshift levers around and moved the brake lever further inboard. With the Tektro lever length that puts the Microshift more where I'm used to having the shifter and the brake levers in a far better place. Swapped on some loamlabs counterpunch bar ends/grips too as they've saved me countless times.
Pretty much did the same on the other side. Moved the brakes inboard, then the dropper (swapped positions) - so they're now where I'd normally have them using matchmakers or equivalent. This left space to move the M510 controller in slightly too as I've caught the buttons with the side of my hand a few times.
And finally .... views in the downtube - very neat !
If you use the Range estimator, it's like all of the motors, if your terrain changes or your assistance mode changes, the estimation will be incorrect (more hills, less range).
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Generally, the battery % was pretty linear all the way down until about 8% when it seemed to start dropping a bit faster.
At 5% the battery icon started to flash and power was limited to about 320w.
The last 5% vanished and only lasted about 1km. So when you're down to 5%, put it in "E" and prepare for some work, or turn it to no assistance and save the 5% for a hill.
Range was about 55km's and 1000m climbing - not too bad as I was generally pretty lazy and used more assistance than normal.
I think the brakes might actually be starting to improve ! (I suspect I'm imagining it...) Only taken 100km's to bed in a bit .. The calipers actually look fine and take the same pads as 4 piston XT/Saint/Zee. The finned XT pads don't fit, they foul the caliper sides slightly but the normal pads fit. Have just put some in to try out of curiosity. Might swap over some Shimano levers and see how they feel then.
Heard back from Bikester. They want me to return the fork to them, for them to send to Suntour to see if it can be repaired. Slightly disappointed if I'm honest, was hoping with a new bike they'd send out an exchange fork or damper. But then there's always the possibility that people say their fork is rubbish and it's just normal with lots of time and money wasted. I'm guessing by the time it's got to Bikester from here. Then to Suntour. Then looked at. Then returned to Bikester. Then returned to me that we'll be talking about a month. It's ridiculous to have a new bike sitting around which you can't ride and there's no guarantee that the returned fork will actually be usable, so I have a Zeb on the way. The Suntour won't be going back on so that's the end of the Suntour experiment.
In other not exciting news :
Swapped the right hand lever and microshift levers around and moved the brake lever further inboard. With the Tektro lever length that puts the Microshift more where I'm used to having the shifter and the brake levers in a far better place. Swapped on some loamlabs counterpunch bar ends/grips too as they've saved me countless times.
Pretty much did the same on the other side. Moved the brakes inboard, then the dropper (swapped positions) - so they're now where I'd normally have them using matchmakers or equivalent. This left space to move the M510 controller in slightly too as I've caught the buttons with the side of my hand a few times.
And finally .... views in the downtube - very neat !
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