Connectivity How These Crazy Systems All Speak To Each Other

GONE ARE THE DAYS OF JUMPING ON YOUR BIKE WITHOUT SOME SORT OF DIGITAL DEVICE HANGING OFF YOU OR YOUR BIKE.

FOR ME I TRIED TO REMEMBER THE LAST TIME. I THINK EVEN BEFORE MY NOKIA 3310, WE WOULD CALL OUR MATES FAMILY HOME, LANDLINE TO LANDLINE. ASK TO SPEAK TO OUR BUDDY AND THEN TEE UP A RIDE/TRACK BUILD FOR A CERTAIN TIME. WE WOULD SPEND HOURS AT OUR LOCAL, BUILDING TRAILS, RIDING, AND JUST BEING KIDS. IF WE WEREN’T HOME BY DARK, OUR PARENTS WOULD COME SEARCHING FOR US. THE NEXT DAY WE WOULD HEAD TO THE PHOTO SHOP AND DROP OFF OUR DISPOSABLE CAMERA TO GET DEVELOPED. I COULDN’T WAIT TO GET OFF THE SCHOOL BUS AND PICK UP THE PHOTOS. IT WAS PURE RIDING AND SHARING IT WITH YOUR CLOSEST FRIENDS. NO STRINGS ATTACHED. NO GRAM, NO FACEY, NO STRAVA. Nowadays, you need a checklist and half an hour prep to make sure all of your devices are charged, connected, paired, sync’d etc. Besides all the tech. I still enjoy how simple an E-bike ride can be. Charge the bike and go out for a hard hour of power.

Usually, if I am going for a 2-3 hour mission, that’s when I will prepare my devices. Everyone is different and I guess that’s always been the beauty of mountain biking. You can be different and set your own style of riding. You can head out with a full battery and nothing else or you can choose to connect to multiple devices and totally geek out on the data afterwards. It’s all cool. For me the technology that I am most excited about are tyre pressure sensors, motor temperature and battery temperature sensors as well as wireless shifting and dropper posts. I thought this was a good opportunity to break down how E-bikes work in simple terms, in a way that I hope is relatable to everyone, even if you have never ridden an E-bike before. All E-bikes run different control systems. What I’m writing is not the bible, but I hope it can give you a way to relate E-bikes to your own body.