Giant fettling today - new ebike has mobile phone app and uses the phone as its display so the first thing needed was a rather worrying download of new firmware for the ebike. A rather anxious few minutes but all went well. Then I noticed a loud rubbing noise as I wheeled it forward and did a short test ride to the end of the street and back which confirmed an intermittent rubbing noise which I immediately traced to the rear disc brakes and redid their alignment to no avail. So off with the wheel, ebike flippable once battery is removed, and the brake pads removed and yes one of the pistons was slightly proud. The tyre lever trick failed to budge it so off to LBS for the appropriate tool as this is my first bike with disc brakes. Wheel refitted now a continuous loud rubbing noise so redid the alignment of the pads again and again to avail. Then out of the corner of my eye I noticed a mudguard clip rubbing on the wheel.
Now quietened took it for a very short test ride as I do not get on with flat pedals and the SPDs have yet arrive. That showed the seat height was a touch too high. Back home a light bulb moment - the Defy has its seat post marked for your height so I know that is bang on. Used a 1m metal rule to measure the height of the top of the saddle on the Defy and the ebike adjusted accordingly. Bottle cage added, a cheap
Halfords alloy one but IME they do the job perfectly.
Time out from the bikes to wash a filthy car and then cabled up the Defys new rear derailleur for the third time. First time was using the previous derailleurs cable but not only was it fraying at the derailleur end I had discovered it was fraying at the hood to the point it took ages to extract it. The second cable I thought was fitted okay to cut but subsequent need to pull it tighter resulted in that fraying alarmingly. So it was indeed third time lucky. So here are the two bikes making the back yard look a bit like a Giant showroom.
The lack of markings on the ebike looks a bit odd to me - it does have Giant on the front of the head tube but in dark grey which makes it pretty invisible.
Very wary of spending any more time and money on it so do I buy another and flog off all the parts I do not need or do I buy one of these https://www.paulscycles.co.uk/3717/products/giant-entour-e1-disc-e-hybrid-bike-2019-steel-blue.aspx?
