E-bikes give you the reward without the work. So I hacked my Specialized Levo to make me earn it: pedal hard to collect power-ups, then spend them on bursts of Turbo. It took some hacking, and probably the risk of smoking the stock TCU.
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This is too nerdy for me bro
Seth's buke hacks. Ahh, the good Ole days.
You might be the pioneer of mushroom mode. Earning your e-power to keep your fitness while riding your e-bike. You should patent it! Genius!
Clearly technology made you free! 😀
Everything in my world has a battery and runs on software. I ride my bike to get away from the digital domain. Embrace the simplicity.
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It's way out of your scope of work but you should try hack john Deere to help famers work on their own machine
Thats so good! haha
I love this idea. Adding games with biking is cool.
Mad respect! I’d love to ride that bike in mushroom mode 👍👍👍
I don't think that Nintendo No dying device completely failed, but probably helped developers realize that they should incorporate development cheat codes to be kept hidden inside the game as active instead.
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I would credit it as one of the led items further game file research and understandings, hidden stuff, custom game mods, into what we have today.
Seth I really appreciate the 1 0 hose bit I'm so happy you didn't just ask ai to spit out something awful but you took the time to 3d print some numbers and film it I see you I appreciate you
Whoa dude! That’s soooo cool!! Great job Seth I’m totally impressed!
My boy is wicked smart
How hot does the hacked battery/motor get on a summer day?
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Last time I checked in on your channel you hated E bikes, now you are making content, wow that sucks
You have to take it to the dealer like a real car??? Never will I look into a sorry E bike
super cool!
An e-bike with permanent mushroom mode is an ebike I'd agree to buy for my 13 year old son
Man. Wow. Awesome. Very inspiring. We need to do Shimano now!
Buddy of mine works at a bike shop and they've figured out a push button code that will raise the mph to 28, no programming needed.
Aventon please take notes. This would be so awesome to have.
Amflows could probably do that with just a software update which would be cool.
On the other hand I've not updated since the navigation patch as the next one was bricking batteries.
thats pretty cool to work for the mushroom/boost as a reward😄
Are you on mushrooms?😁
ChatGPT and Claude Code going crazy on this one
Now THIS is bike hacking!
Now hack Bosch gen 4 non smart
Yooo, we heard you like anti consumer planned obsolescence technology so we put it in your 5k bike dawg.
Hi Seth,
This probably won't reach you, but I have a 2018 Haibike XDURO Nduro 8.0 with the Bosch Performance Line CX Gen 2 motor.
I would love to see a video about this motor and what's possible in terms of hacking.
Since I do a lot of technical climbing, I really miss the "Extended Boost" feature from the Gen 5 motor. A little extra power (maybe just for a few seconds, so you don't fry the electronics?) would be nice too 😉
I'd also love to see the interval mode you made for the Levo, ideally with adjustable settings and the ability to customize the modes in which you do the intervals.
I probably won't hack my motor, but I'd love to see what's possible!
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Call it star power 👌
This could unlock a whole new sport, "limited-E-bike racing" or "Mario Kart E-bike racing" with power-ups, power penalties, or team components like power sharing. (You earn power, and your buddy can use it) or groupride. The leader doesn't get power, while the one in the back gets more
Now I want Mushroom mode on my Lectric bike. Seth get to hackin!
13:57 was scared for a second when you said app, but it's the good kind of app. The one that lets you change things the easy way, not make it work because of greed
Curious can an Aventon Ramblas be hacked for more power?
Any guesses when Specialized sends a cease and desist fo designing the bike UX they should have made?
I just threw up in my mouth a little typing "bike UX" but that's the world we live in now.
@4:30 I fully expected you to make a bracket when you let the funk out.
I could use this info when i go to build my own e trike tadpole I plan on going far beyond just a normal ebike. One thing i am planning is making it something that can be registered as a normal ev But even before that i want 1 feature for sure and that is a boost mode it is quite easy to get ebikes of any sort up to traffic speed the one issue is passing if your top speed is 28mph passing a slower car can be a bit of a chore so a short boost to say 35mph for a few seconds would be a god send for sure. Your mushroom mode is pretty much the perfect solution a short duration boost to pass
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The Mushroom mode is so freaking cool.