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The new Turbo Connect Display (TCD) is the best way to view data on your Turbo. It not only displays basic ride metrics (speed, cadence, power, battery level, and time), but it also lets you toggle between modes. Its design, meanwhile, is rugged and clean, and it has multiple mounting options for either road or mountain setups.

The new Turbo Connect Display (TCD) is the best way to view data on your Turbo. It not only displays basic ride metrics (speed, cadence, power, battery level, and time), but it also lets you toggle between modes. Its design, meanwhile, is rugged and clean, and it has multiple mounting options for either road or mountain setups.

The Turbo Connect Display (TCD) puts all of your key ride and bike data in one convenient location on the handlebars. Some of these metrics include: Speed (current, max, average), distance, riding time, cadence, battery level, rider power, support mode, heart rate, average speed, and a clock. It also lets you easily customize the five ride screens and the displayed data. Combine the use of your TCD with the Mission Control App and you have all the correct tools to personalize your Turbo experience.

The new Turbo Connect Display (TCD) is the best way to view data on your Turbo. It not only displays basic ride metrics (speed, cadence, power, battery level, and time), but it also lets you toggle between modes. Its design, meanwhile, is rugged and clean, and it has multiple mounting options for either road or mountain setups.

The new Turbo Connect Display (TCD) is the best way to view data on your Turbo. It not only displays basic ride metrics (speed, cadence, power, battery level, and time), but it also lets you toggle between modes. Its design, meanwhile, is rugged and clean, and it has multiple mounting options for either road or mountain setups.

The new Turbo Connect Display (TCD) is the best way to view data on your Turbo. It not only displays basic ride metrics (speed, cadence, power, battery level, and time), but it also lets you toggle between modes. Its design, meanwhile, is rugged and clean, and it has multiple mounting options for either road or mountain setups.

The Turbo Connect Display (TCD) puts all of your key ride and bike data in one convenient location on the handlebars. Some of these metrics include: Speed (current, max, average), distance, riding time, cadence, battery level, rider power, support mode, heart rate, average speed, and a clock. It also lets you easily customize the five ride screens and the displayed data. Combine the use of your TCD with the Mission Control App and you have all the correct tools to personalize your Turbo experience.

Specialized just released one of its most interesting electric bikes to date, the Como SL. The SL stands for “Super Light,” and Specialized is marketing it as an everyday commuter, perfect for zipping over to a friend’s house, picking up some groceries, or, if you really need to, carrying up a few flights of stairs. There’s even a hand grip built into the frame to help lift the bike when needed.

The Como SL is a slimmed-down version of Specialized’s Turbo Como, which is the company’s entry-level electric bike for commuters. The company is doubling down on a lot of the elements that made the Turbo Como so inviting to riders, while also adding a whole host of additional features — including aluminum fenders, a rear rack, and a front-mounted basket — without adding unnecessary pounds.

For the last week and a half, I’ve had the pleasure of riding the Como SL all over my neighborhood to see how it measures up — not only to Specialized’s other highly capable, extremely powerful (and at times very pricy) e-bikes, but also to the other lightweight commuter e-bikes that have been flooding the market.

Maybe it was the warming spring weather or the way the Como SL’s yellow paint job reflected the daffodils just now emerging from the ground, but I found this bike to be an absolute delight to ride. I did have some issues with the UX of the digital display, and the gearing left a little bit to be desired. But overall, the skill and craftsmanship Specialized put into the Como SL really shone through, and I think this will be a worthy addition to the company’s growing lineup of e-bikes.

Specialized may be based in California, but its design team is headquartered in a nondescript brick building in Cham, Switzerland. That’s where the company designs its Turbo-branded e-bikes like the Levo, Creo, Vado, and Como, as well as their Super Light variants.

To make the Como SL worthy of that suffix, the company started out by fully integrating the battery into the frame of the bike. Many direct-to-consumer (DTC) e-bike brands have unsightly batteries perched on the downtube, while other companies have tried to have it both ways by integrating it into the frame while also having it be removable. Specialized decided to make its battery both fully integrated and non-removable, placing the Como SL in the same category as companies like VanMoof, Ampler, and Gogoro.

“By integrating [the battery] we were able to make a really lightweight aluminum frame,” Dominik Geyer, head of business for Specialized’s Turbo brand, who is based in the company’s Swiss office, told me. “We have a system that is super efficient, that needs less battery cells [which] makes it lighter weight.”

Specialized says the Como SL’s 320Wh battery should be good for 62 miles (100 kilometers) of range, depending on the terrain and power setting. I found that while riding in the middle “Sport” setting, I burned through nearly 100 percent of the battery in less than 35 miles. That’s pretty standard for an e-bike battery, but Specialized does offer an optional Range Extender for $449.99, which the company says adds about 31 miles (55 km) of range.

Specialized says the battery can recharge from 3 percent to 100 percent in approximately 2 hours and 35 minutes. There’s a port at the base of the downtube where you can plug in the 48V charger.

Another driving factor was simplicity, Geyer said. Specialized wanted a bike that was easy to ride and even easier to maintain. The Gates carbon belt drive and internal geared hub motor speak to this desire, as well as the simplicity of the cockpit controls. “The bike simply needs to be a trusted partner in your daily life to get around,” Geyer added.

Still, the Como SL isn’t exactly a featherweight. It essentially weighs the same as the Turbo Como — between 47 and 48.5 pounds, depending on the frame size — despite all those new accessories. That means Specialized has found other, unique ways to shave off some of that bulk without compromising on what makes it so much fun to ride.

One of those is the SL motor, which tips the scale at 4.3 pounds (1.95 kg). Compare that to the Turbo Como’s motor, which weighs about 7.5 pounds (3.4 kg), and you can see how much work Specialized put into shrinking down the components in this bike. The custom SL 1.1 motor is developed jointly by Specialized and Brose, a German company that also makes e-bike motors for Harley-Davidson and others.

You’d think that by reducing the size of its motor that you’d be dealing with a less powerful bike — and you’d be right, to some extent. Specialized says the Como SL’s mid-drive motor has 240W of peak and continuous power as well as 35Nm of torque. That’s slightly less than the Turbo Como, which has a mid-drive motor rated for 250W of nominal power and 415W of peak and 50Nm of torque. Specialized says the Turbo Como offers riders four times their natural power input while pedaling, while the Como SL only delivers twice as much power.

Let’s talk about the digital display because this was my least favorite part about the Como SL. The LCD display is small by e-bike standards, 2.5 x 2 inches, or about the size of a pack of gum. There are only two buttons, left and right, which can be used to scroll through a half-dozen different screens showing speed, odometer, calories burned, distance traveled, and a timer. It’s a clean design, but I found it to be over-simplified.

Some of the controls are routed through Specialized’s smartphone app, Mission Control, which is paired with the bike via Bluetooth. I’ll be completely honest: I am not a fan of app-based controls for e-bikes. It was one of my few beefs with Gogoro’s Eeyo 1S, and the same goes for the Como SL. I understand that by offloading certain controls to an app, manufacturers can offer nicer graphics and more functionality while saving on the costs associated with the on-bike display. And you don’t need the app to actually turn the bike on; the button for that is placed on a nice rubber pad in the downtube, along with a series of blue light bars that indicate battery strength.

The Como SL doesn’t come with a standard phone mount. Although one could certainly be purchased separately, I’d struggle to find a place to mount it. The sloping handlebars would likely direct the phone’s display off to the side. And the LCD screen is mounted in the center, which would be another obvious place for a mount.

My last issue with the Como SL is the price. Specialized’s build quality is among the best in the industry, so you won’t be surprised to learn that this bike is very expensive. There are two versions of the Como SL: the 4.0, which retails for $4,000, and the 5.0, which sells for $4,800. Prices for e-bikes have been increasing across the board, with tariff exemptions expiring, but these prices certainly put the Como SL in the premium category that will be unaffordable to many people.

Specialized claims both bikes can reach a top speed of 28mph — which technically puts them in the speed pedelec category. However, on a flat surface and in the highest “Turbo” power setting, I was only able to get up to 24–25 mph. Not a huge deal, but it still left me wondering what I was missing.

The price may deter those looking for something inexpensive. But for fans of Specialized — or for anyone who’s interested in an e-bike from a trusted company with decades of experience in the building, selling, and maintenance of bikes, both traditional and electric, — the Como SL should be the perfect fit.

Update March 31st, 3:00PM ET:The Como SL 4.0 is $4,000, and the Como SL 5.0 is $4,800. A previous version of this review included incorrect prices due to a miscommunication by Specialized. As a result, we have reduced our score for the Como SL and have updated the review to reflect the correct prices.

Some of these metrics include : Speed (current, max, average), distance, riding time, cadence, battery level, rider power, support mode, heart rate, average speed, and a clock. It also lets you easily customize the five ride screens and the displayed data. Combine the use of your TCD with the Mission Control App and you have all the correct tools to personalize your Turbo experience.

The Turbo Connect Display (TCD) puts all of your key ride and bike data in one convenient location on the handlebars. Some of these metrics include: Speed (current, max, average), distance, riding time, cadence, battery level, rider power, support mode, heart rate, average speed, and a clock. It also lets you easily customize the five ride screens and the displayed data. Combine the use of your TCD with the Mission Control App and you have all the correct tools to personalize your Turbo experience.

Let me explain the feature you have been dissatisfied with: The fact the TCD-w 2 has to be wired results from the policy of Brose. Brose assumes some of their mid-drive motors can be Euro S-Pedelec type-approved (currently it is the Specialized 1.2s or Brose TF). S-Pedelec is required to have operating speedometer at all times, and that speedometer must not be tampered with. As a consequence, all Brose motors require a wired display to be present (to maintain the design integrity and simplicity). Now: What display (and controller) is used is just at the discretion of the OEM. That"s why there are the older TCD-w and newer Mastermind TCD-w displays: these are Specialized (not Brose) ones.

Now, the central location of the display on the stem: That is a Specialized choice. From my long riding practice with a TCD-w equipped Vado, let me tell you it appears to be the best and safest location for the display. I have survived numerous crashes with my S-Pedelec Vado and the original TCD-w is still there, intact. The central location makes it also easy to peek at the display as you ride without distracting the rider.

The TCD-w is difficult or impractical to be be stolen. First, the thief would need to remove the screw. Then, he would have to cut thick wires, rendering his loot useless. The optional wireless TCD display as found on the SL e-bikes is far easier to be stolen: Forget removing the TCD on your cafe stop, and the thief just needs a quarter turn to steal your display!

I agree the integrated solution for the TCD-w as mounted on a Specialized stem makes it hard to -- for instance -- replace the stem with something like a Redshift ShockStop. I guess it is still doable, as the ShockStop stem offers a Garmin Computer Mount (the TCD-w is Garmin mount compatible). If there is sufficient slack in the cables, relocating the TCD-w should be possible.

LED gets all the attention for video walls these days, but there are still retail projects going in that take advantage of the lower cost and resolution of narrow bezel LCD displays.

The 300 sq. meter pop-up in northern Germany took over the ground floor of an empty old hotel block, using displays to generate excitement for a range of bikes that are priced between $2,400 and $16,500.

Remarkably completed and opened in just over three weeks, the pop up showroom features 17 Philips professional displays, ranging from 24” to 75”, placed and mounted strategically throughout the store (including from the ceiling), ensuring maximum exposure and impact.

This includes high-brightness digital signage displays (Philips H-Line) placed in the shop front to captivate customer attention from outside the store, with the screens built for 24/7 use and capable of displaying content in any light condition.

Inside the store, a vibrant, 9-screen videowall (Philips X-Line, 49”) was installed to bring an immediate ‘wow factor’ to entering customers, with the store displaying inspiring and informative content in up to 4K, which can be managed and controlled entirely remotely. With PPDS’ failOver, the Philips displays will always remain active, with content able to be backed-up and available in case of a primary source outage.

To comply with Covid-19 regulations and to reduce potential concerns of returning customers, the store was also fitted with PeopleCount — PPDS’ exclusive digital customer entrance management solution, which automatically monitors and manages capacity, by using intelligent camera technology and a traffic light system on a display (Philips D-Line, 43”) to alert customers and staff when it is safe to enter.

Covid-19 compliant: PPDS’ PeopleCount solution facilitates easy customer entrance management, automatically controlled via the Philips D-Line display, reducing the need for door staff.

High-brightness street signage:High-brightness street-facing digital displays command attention in any lighting condition to boost store visibility and attract customers.

Touch-screen kiosk: Tailored customer service is offered by intuitive touch-screen displays that provide product information that is relevant to customer needs.

Vibrant videowall: Lifestyle content is beautifully displayed on a large scale videowall to create a memorable experience that perfectly displays product advantages.

As you can see from the photo, narrow bezel LCD can work just fine for video walls, given the right content and set-up. Seamless is wonderful, but that has to be balanced against total cost – especially in the case of a pop-up that may or may not be permanent.

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If you can characterize your life as on-the-go, busy, or not having enough time, Specialized made a bike just for you—the Turbo Vado 3.0. It"s made to accommodate busy lives that are always in movement, which is why they took their proven Turbo pedal-assist technology and accelerated it into the future.

The Turbo Vado 3.0 features a custom 250-watt motor and 460Wh battery that are fully integrated with the bike and specifically tuned for city riding, and in the case of the battery, it doesn"t require any tools for removal, so it"s super easy to remove from the bike for charging. The 3.0 iteration of the Vado"s battery is perfectly suited to urban environments and short trips. The tune, meanwhile, is meant to be as efficient as possible for quick, spontaneous efforts that are demanded when riding in the city. Specialized also made sure that it"s totally compatible with Bluetooth, so you can toggle between battery modes to increase your range in real time via the Mission Control App. There are three battery modes to work with in order to maximize the battery life, and with the app, you can even plot your course and the battery will adjust while you"re riding to make sure that you get through your ride on one charge.

- A custom 2.2-inch LCD digital display enables you to monitor all of your ride data in real time. It also connects the Mission Control App via Bluetooth, so you have full control over the tune, modes, range, and much more.

- Specialized made the custom 460Wh battery to be fully integrated with the frame, removable for easy charging, and lockable for added security. It can communicate with the display and has multiple modes to maximize the overall efficiency and range.