900 mile review using the EDS OX with a removable battery.
Overall I am very pleased with the performance and battery life of this system!!!
I had one strange thing happen, and then one other issue I need to look into.
1. Before a multi-day ride, I left the bike sitting for 2 weeks with almost a fully charged battery. Tried to ride the bike and it wouldn't shift. Battery was drained. Swapped battery and it started shifting properly. (Makes me wonder if one will need to keep the new model fixed batter version, hooked up to its charger when the bike is sitting there.)
2. I decided to ride a 800K/500 mile bike-packing trip with 9000M/30K+ feet of rolling-hill climbing. Seemed like almost continuous shifting non-stop for 12 hours a day.
I was pleased to find that the battery lasted 3 days, before I decided to swap it out and install a fresh charged one.
3. After about 3 hundred miles, the derailleur stopped shifting crisply between several of the gears. (The bike suffered through rain, mud, dust, and a lot of non-stop shifting and it was working on a 53+ pound loaded-up bike.)
I still haven't looked into why it stopped shifting a few single cog/gears. I am thinking that I need to tune/adjust it by one or two pushes of the button in teach mode. Since I haven't looked into it in detail, it could also be a cassette issue. Shimano XT Cassette has about 4K miles on it with little cleaning.
