I had a Motus with gen2 active line and a nexus hub. Only trouble was that between us we couldn't get up 1 in 5s and steeper - and there's a lot of them round Plymouth. So I upgraded to a Corratec with a Bosch CD and (accidentally as it's what the bike came with, not what I was expecting) a compatible enviolo hub.
3 months and 500 miles in, and I have to say I'm delighted with it. I honestly couldn't say if it's the new gears, the more powerful motor, the wide tyres, the spare battery I bought for it, or the "go faster" paint job but my cycling has been reinvigorated, no longer being frightened of steep hills (copd makes walking them no-no) and at 76 I'm even dipping a toe into mountain biking.
I'd say it took about a week for me to adjust to having continuous gears, and even now I tend to change up in steps. It's changing down, with the ability to continually balance cadence and knee pressure where it comes into it's own.
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Keep your toe out of mountain biking -- it's great fun but there's too much stuff to hit. Older (mature) bones don't like hitting stuff as I found out.Waterboy wrote: ↑26 Aug 2021, 8:59pm I had a Motus with gen2 active line and a nexus hub. Only trouble was that between us we couldn't get up 1 in 5s and steeper - and there's a lot of them round Plymouth. So I upgraded to a Corratec with a Bosch CD and (accidentally as it's what the bike came with, not what I was expecting) a compatible enviolo hub.
3 months and 500 miles in, and I have to say I'm delighted with it. I honestly couldn't say if it's the new gears, the more powerful motor, the wide tyres, the spare battery I bought for it, or the "go faster" paint job but my cycling has been reinvigorated, no longer being frightened of steep hills (copd makes walking them no-no) and at 76 I'm even dipping a toe into mountain biking.
I'd say it took about a week for me to adjust to having continuous gears, and even now I tend to change up in steps. It's changing down, with the ability to continually balance cadence and knee pressure where it comes into it's own.
I'd love a go on one of those enviolo geared bikes.
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Good to hear you like it.
I bottled out, decision made and money spent, I sort of had the idea I'd get used to it, but it was too big an investment to get it wrong, maybe next time...
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Thanks, Jonathan. The full auto mode presumably does away with the twin cables of the manual version? I like the idea of being able to dial a cadence too, provided it works as claimed.
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i have the enviolo solution and its great - however i need to adjust the cadence Ito force a gear change sooner going up hill. however in discussion with the, they suggest setting a higher cadence in the system which effectively lowers the gear ration when going up hill, effectively forcing a gear change sooner. overall really impressed (riding ice trike hd)
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I’ve had a manual Enviolo hub geared belt drive Kalkhoff e bike for about 6 weeks. It’s my first e bike. It’s my first with the continuous variable gears and it’s my first Kalkhoff. I’ve done 200+ miles. The gearing has taken the longest time to adapt to as it feels so odd being stepless but I really like now. I’m not sure I’d want it on a non e bike as it seems quite heavy but it complements the power assistance of a pedelec really nicely.
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Thereby defeating the point of an automatic. The reason you have to change gear going uphill is that optimum cadence is not a constant, it depends on your power output. The higher your power the higher your optimum cadence.
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ICE trikes are a built to last...stodd wrote: ↑26 Aug 2021, 11:44amSadly expected life of a bicycle has gone down a lot over the last decades. It seems to be even worse for electric bikes. Meanwhile, expected life of a car has significantly increased. So I'm not sure about the 'it wouldn't last as long', but I certainly agree with you on servicing and repairs.
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So we're Model T Fords. But you wouldn't want one now.[XAP]Bob wrote: ↑26 Nov 2021, 6:14pmICE trikes are a built to last...stodd wrote: ↑26 Aug 2021, 11:44amSadly expected life of a bicycle has gone down a lot over the last decades. It seems to be even worse for electric bikes. Meanwhile, expected life of a car has significantly increased. So I'm not sure about the 'it wouldn't last as long', but I certainly agree with you on servicing and repairs.
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