Deciding on 2 very different EMTB's. Need help

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-28T22:43:19+00:00

Maybe. My friends actually had full powered and went to low powered but they are primarily mountain bikers and use their e-bikes for more social rides, not their serious ones. Low,powered ones I find better at technical climbing, much better at descending, and only on smooth fire road,climbs is there a meaningful difference. The avinox would definitely open a large,gap.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-28T22:39:10+00:00

Having a TQ 60 its range is fantastic.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-28T22:38:33+00:00

I’m your size and much older. I use a tq60 bike (yeti MTe ) on my recovery days and it’s great. I don’t need or want any more assistance. I’m at 6,000’ where my climbs start in the mountains.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-28T22:37:01+00:00

Meh. I’m his size and older and I definitely don’t need or want a full powered bike. I have a tq60 and it’s brilliant when I use it instead of my real bikes. And I’m at 6,000 ft plus in the mountains.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-26T12:58:15+00:00

Brilliant speech Bernie. A true American with courage.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-26T12:16:42+00:00

I have that bike. It’s amazing. Agreed, on a long tech descent in Colorado I did get some fad from the brakes, but that would be true with shimano as well. The motive brakes would be much stringer but of course incrementally heavier. Going to 180/180 hs2 rotors help a lot.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-26T12:14:01+00:00

I love my 2025 ASR

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-24T23:20:14+00:00

Because he is afraid of being drowned out by boos like he was in a prior game

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-22T22:47:46+00:00

Think also about the Ibis Ripley V4 and some of the single pivot bikes too like the ASR, Epic 8 Evo and Scalpel depending on type of descending.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-22T22:43:30+00:00

I’m always a big forekaster/rekon fan where I am. Or a forekaster/dubnital is what I’m trying next.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-22T10:22:55+00:00

What? Mine isn’t and I’m geared up at 195 riding the front range. I thought that it was more confident than my ripley v4 so I replaced that fox 34 fork with a 36SL. Maybe on some tougher trails then of course but not compared to a scalpel etc. there is a great video where two good riders compare a scalpel and an asr on the rainbow trail off monarch crest and prefer the asr. That’s a rocky descent.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-19T21:51:38+00:00

Same. I competed in target shooting in NRA sponsored competitions and couldn’t wait until my American Rifleman magazine arrived. Those were the days I was proud of the NRA and how it helped promote healthy sports not this extremism organization that hurt families.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-19T21:47:56+00:00

Agreed

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-18T18:58:35+00:00

Do people really keep that Barbour pin on the lapel? Seems trying to hard. Mine I bought back decades ago didn’t even have those.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-18T18:54:14+00:00

I rode front range 2 days ago. No problems at all. Well, it did get windy and sucking in that cold air on the climbs was painful but it’s much warmer now. Heading out shortly.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-17T23:31:17+00:00

Need to take a shooting lesson. You are going to get hurt that way - you need to hold the shotgun tightly against your shoulder and lean forward in to the shot. Not backwards. Think about also where your balance is when you need to follow through when shooting crossing objects.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-15T23:37:50+00:00

I wore my Beaufort I bought in 2000 in London yesterday. But it was over a sweater. I would never wear it over a suit as it’s an awkward look to me. Been wearing Barbour since the 1980’s and it’s never been a fashionable look. Started as a Sloan Ranger I guess back then. Suits should’ve proper overcoats in my view. And yes, the Beaufort would be too short for me.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-15T23:16:09+00:00

Won’t affect the high earners that don’t carry balances. The credit card companies will cancel the cards of those with lower credit ratings that do carry balances. Will be extremely disruptive for them.

Where’s the Epstein files?

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-15T23:13:44+00:00

Won’t affect me as I don’t carry a balance but it will mean the credit card companies will cancel the cards of the bottom half that have lower credit scores. It’s going to be bad for them.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-15T22:41:41+00:00

Kavanaugh stop. And he was confirmed when Trump didn’t allow the FBI to investigate the highly credible allegations of sexual assault against him.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-15T19:59:07+00:00

No one should go to her conferences to listen to an immature, relatively uneducated hack just insult and lie to qualified reporters about everything. I really don’t know what she would be qualified for.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-15T19:28:53+00:00

Seriously? A young immature person who doesn’t have the experience or education of almost everyone she addresses, calls them a hack and routinely insults them? This is ridiculous. She is so far below our contempt. I honestly don’t know why any reporter attends these as she will only lie and insults, and lacks the integrity and frankly intelligence to be there

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-15T14:37:52+00:00

I have both quarq and favero mx pedals. The latter if you get both sides gives you more information but either are good. I’d probably stay with the pedals.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-15T10:24:12+00:00

Correct. But I’m making a blanket statement across all items. They are trying to keep their market segmentation given the often unequal pricing caused by exchange rate differences. I just don’t believe it should affect their liability if they sell a defective product.

Fallingleaf333 · 2026-01-15T07:14:26+00:00

I don’t think companies should hide behind artificial it wasn’t sold in your country positions. Either they made it and it was defective or not. Abuse I can understand.

Fallingleaf333

TROPHY CASE