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Q3. If you have multiple gearings on your cycle (e.g. front and rear derailleurs or derailleur plus a gear hub), what are they and how do you usually use them? Bonus points if your cycle has more than two gearings.

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Solarbird

4d ago

@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A3: In the strict sense, I don't - my bike is a 1x11. In _practical_ terms tho', being a Class 1 with variable assist, I kind of use assist levels as gears.

Assist stays off unless it's one of our Giant Fuckoff Hills _or_ I need to be somewhere as fast as I can manage.

There are eBike riders who seem to pick a physical gear and basically never leave it, using the assist levels in the same was as gearing. I can see that but that's gonna be really limiting your range so I don't recommend it.

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Axel 🚴😷🐧🐪⌨ | #WeAreNatenom

@moira @ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A3: Indeed, I use the #Velospeeder e-assist on my red-white Brompton also like a gearing, either for steep hills, or speed on flat or slight uphill grounds. Besides a mechanical bowden wire based switch which puts the friction wheels on the rim or pulls it away again, I also have a potentiometer with turn knob (too small to call it a wheel) on the handlebar where I can adjust how much the e-assist helps. (IIRC it adjusts the Watts used.)

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Axel 🚴😷🐧🐪⌨ | #WeAreNatenom 2d ago

@moira @ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A3 continued: On the Electric G-Line I usually chose the e-assist level at the start of the ride as you had to switch it a the battery. I nearly never turn it off as it's rather hilly here and the Electric G-Line only has 4 gears with only 150% of range. Since recently (only 1 ride uphill with trailer back from the LSB so far) I have an up/down switch on the handlebar, so I might switch the e-assist levels more often in future.