You’ll have to force yourself to ride it just to make sure it’s ok for her, we’ll understand it’s just for that reason

I think because we ride different places we have much different bike use, my local is very much fast xc and as such I can take the manual bike or the eeb and get the same cardio workout over an hour. On the manual though loads of it is boring flat ish terrain but on the eeb the whole hour is ...

An avinox can be set to behave like a Bosch sx but you get the big battery and virtually no weight penalty. As pretty much every manufacturer has an avinox bike you can choose the bike you prefer. I get the SX motor if you want a light bike but why you’d buy a heavier CX motor bike I don’t know ...

Ride a well set up or lighter e-bike, my rail with its smaller battery feels a lot different to the bigger battery and that’s only 1.2kg different. Also feel better downhill being derestricted as there’s not that drag above 15mph which affects them a fair bit.
Of course the avinox bike is much ...

I'm thinking about hiring an eeb this week, but my shame factor is kicking in. We're over doing FoD Thursday for 3-4 hours on the evening and it's £35 for hiring for that time which is pretty decent money really. But can I face the walk of shame to go and collect an eeb... I dunno. But it will ...

Why isn't anyone using a Pinion then? (Yes I know a few are)

Its not like ebikers are short of a bob or two.


Can’t derestrict it reliably, I think I only know one person that has an ebike still restricted, 15mph isn’t enough 20mph would have seen plenty happy with that.


Two - my Rail is ...

weeksy wrote: Sat Jun 27, 2026 4:50 pm Why isn't anyone using a Pinion then? (Yes I know a few are)

Its not like ebikers are short of a bob or two.

Can’t derestrict it reliably, I think I only know one person that has an ebike still restricted, 15mph isn’t enough 20mph would have seen plenty happy with that.

They’ve been out a couple of years and so far so good, I can only imagine with so many jumping on the bandwagon it’ll all work out, my Bosch has been great but at 4 years old needed new bearings which I decided not to do and put a new motor in. I didn’t mind as it’s done every mile in turbo

Power aside the avinox delivery is superb and miles better than my Bosch, it takes measurements 42 times a revolution where the Bosch does it once. You can have zero overrun when you stop pedalling or adjust it to run on in increments. You can set max torque and power at loads of different levels ...

Course I do it’s what I plug in every night

Purist mtb’r ? You ride a steel frame 26” hard tail ?

Only lazy if you want them to be as we all know 😃

Had a good few rides on the avinox bike now, settled on a lower power setting of ‘only’ 1000w but with instant reaction to pedal movement and no run on when stopping pedalling. The top setting of 1300w with 1500w is too much apart from the steepest ...

It’s a Megamo reason

First proper ride today and a load of PB at local place. Ignoring the power it’s the delivery that is superb. Very natural feeling and nothing like my old Bosch motor. On the climbs I used full power but everywhere else I dropped it a level and made the delivery less instant, still 1000w but that’s ...

weeksy wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2026 5:47 pm

Couchy wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2026 4:05 pm Nobody needs 1500w and 130nm torque ffs……oh

That looks a VERY high front end?

It’s not on the flat

Nobody needs 1500w and 130nm torque ffs……oh

Never buy a used car from Birmingham, there’s a few other cities too to avoid unless it’s one of the national car supermarket places and even then buy with eyes open.

I have heard similar analogies from other sources - but folks want more power ...

Fuck knows why.
Unless you live in Morzine and don't want to pay for an uplift


Marketing... Pure and simple!

The people that are susceptible to it aren't those that have been partaking in whichever hobby ...

Tbh these days as above I’m running cheaper cassettes and chains and replacing both when worn, lasting around 1200 miles so a couple of times a year. Not riding in really bad conditions and always spinning at a high cadence helps life too.

The weekend riding also highlighted to me the Manual vs Eeb debate that's clearly still ongoing inside me.

When riding the long red it's an uppy downy bugger with long bits of draggy climbing thrown in.... I was absolutely destroyed by 2 Eebs on one of them, just 1 minute not behind me, next ...