New Cervelo Rouvida [image] Rouvida E-Bike | Cervélo Cycles A new frontier.

[image] The First Cervélo eBike Changes from Road to Gravel In a Flash Cervelo enters the eBike world with a unique road/gravel design with a removable dropout to take your road bike to gravel geo. Est. reading time: 7 minutes [image] Cerv…

LOL…I love how Bike Radar focused on the flip chip, as if that was a main selling point of an e-bike.

They always talk up flip chips in their reviews but at the same time have acknowledged in their podcasts that vast majority of people will set it one way and never change it. The bike itself looks really clean. I’d think there is a really small addressable market for this specific type of bike thou…

Yeah, I suspect it becomes a 1-bike setup for most people. In this case (and maybe others) I see this more as a manufacturing choice that gives them the option to sell two bikes that use the same tooling. This invariably saves a TON of $$$ while giving them more ways to get to the desired ROI.

[image] tgarson: They always talk up flip chips in their reviews but at the same time have acknowledged in their podcasts that vast majority of people will set it one way and never change it Oh sure…there is value in mentioning the feature…but to lead with it in a headline about a new e-bike …

When changing inserts, there is also a firmware update that needs to take place, and this service must be performed by your local Cervélo retailer. :confused: Wonder what that means and if its significant. Seems silly to make changing inserts more of a hassle

Reading that… I am even more convinced this was a cost cutting measure from them vs a “feature” for customers to make swaps between use a justification for a spendy buy. The only way a swap and FW change makes sense is if they empower users to do it via a mobile app. Otherwise this sounds super la…

Wow yeah, that seems likely. I have a gravel-adjacent “all-road” bike with 2 wheel sets that I typically swap between 28c road tires and 38c gravel tires, both 700c. The entire point of that for me is that I can do the swap in 1-2 minutes tops and be on my way. I’m sure the geo is not perfectly opt…

Does anyone know the likely range of this machine? And/or if there is a range extender battery availalbe for it?

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JustinDoesTriathlon December 5, 2023, 8:32pm 8

Hopefully that’s a dramatic misrepresentation of changing a software setting otherwise that’s crazy.

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