Recent content by Bakari45

My Urtopia Carbon 1s yesterday. I really like it. How is yours working out?

What I Like About the Urtopia Carbon 1s e-bike The lightweight carbon frame Because the bike weighs 35 pounds, it's faster than most other e-bikes. Unlike jerky cadence sensing, the Carbon's torque sensor enables super-fast speed adaption. I love how the bike gains momentum when I resume...

I feel you pain. It totally takes the fun out riding a bike. The repair guy replace the tube and also added some Slime Tube Sealant. Not sure how helpful the Sealant will be. The cost of the tire no more than a half a tank of gas, but it’s I talked to the repair guy yesterday about this, and...

Awesome, I’ll ask about that. It does seem like my back tire is pretty easy to get punctured.

Thanks for your feedback. So you change your tires when you’re away from home? I videotaped the guy changing my tire, and when I get some time, I’m going to practice taking off the back tire. It looks complicated, but I guess with enough practice I can learn to do it.

Yeah, I may have to learn to change my own flat, but my biggest concern is flats occurring when I'm miles away from home. It means I need to carry around an innertube, a pump, and a few tools to the carefully change the bike tire in typically lower light conditions. I need to find better...

The first was a nail puncture and the second was a screw nail. I videotaped the guy while he repaired the back tire, but it seems tricky to take off the tire on an e-bike. I'm not sure I want to hassle figuring out how to take it off tomorrow. I rather pay the $13 to quickly fix it so I can get...

No, I don't think the tire has puncture protection. I should look into that. Both punctures happened while riding on a city and neighborhood roads. They were significant punctures and I'm not if I could do a temporary fix. Maybe I need better tires.

I'm still pretty new to e-bike riding, and I'm wondering is it common to get a flat tire the first 30 days after I started daily riding, and then getting another flat two weeks after last flat was fixed. Both times I was miles from home and it was near sundown. There's no way I can fix a back...

So is the maintenance guy in my video lubing the chain? I’m not sure what the difference is.

Definitely a mirror. That makes my bike riding so much safer.

I’m not sure if video embeds can be done on this site, but I thought I share a 1 minute video took of my bike chain being cleaned. The maintenance guy (Trek bike shop) did a great job of explaining it. He said based on my much you ride you bike, to clean the chains like every 3 to 4 weeks...

Awe, thanks for letting me know it can be tightened. It never dawned on me to twist the knob on the handle. Duh. Lol. Road around this eventing, and the mirror stayed in place. Thanks.

Okay Okay I will. Should be up later this evening or by tomorrow.

Definitely check out good video reviews on YouTube and in this site. The video reviews were a lot more helpful than the bike store salesmen.