Recent content by Old-tool-guy

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I have the Fold1 which i am very happy with except for the range. The Fold1Plus solves that issue. I’m 260 on a good day and it doesn’t have any problems. I got this because of the low step-over height, and the footprint is smaller than my Ride1Up cruiser (which we really like). I don’t use...

That’s $25 canuck money, lots more in real world money, my piece of wood dowel was free. Why spend money when it’s not necessary? Actually you could use a piece of 3/4” dia sched 40 pvc pipe, the od is something like 1.05”.

Thanks but that doesn’t apply at all to my bike. . A is the factory handlebar bracket, it is permanently swaged into the stem B. I think when they did that, it swelled the stem slightly and that’s why i initially had trouble getting the extender bracket C to go all the way to the top...

I bought mirrors from velotric for my Fold1 bike, they work well but i am really concerned with the little bitty stem between the mirror and the part that goes into the end of the bar.

Out riding today, came up on a couple riding slowly down the path. Thought to myself … self, she needs a mirror. As i passed he4 i noticed she did have a mirror, a small round one … mounted at the middle of the handlebar.

Some people learn by making mistakes. Then again, some people never learn.

Huh. Well that makes me feel better … not the first person to need a bushing. I ordered one just so i will look professional 🤡 but I don’t have any doubts about the leather one.

So now the bracket is fastened to the stem. Looks great! Just what i wanted. Oops. So then i started on moving the handlebar to the extender bracket. Turns out i had ordered the wrong size, i got a bracket for a 31 mm handlebar but mine was 25 mm (more or less). Crap. And of course i...

Spoke … i did it … i ordered one of those brackets and installed it today. Almost worked. I started by removing the handlebar from the stem, and fitting the extender bracket to the stem. It was supposed to be the correct size, but it was a very snug fit, so i inserted a wedge in the bracket...

I like that. Thanks.

Here are sketches of both of my bars, the straighter one with the 4” makes me reach too far, I would like something around 7”. The width isn’t a problem.

Spoke … here’s 2 pictures. I think it’s because of the folding feature, the handlebar is a little narrow and doesn’t have much backsweep. And the first picture shows the concave part of the stem.

Sorry to have bothered you karen.

That’s actually not a bad idea, but the velotric has a non-round stem so i don’t know if it would work. I looked on-line at my local bike shop, they claim to have several in stock for decent prices, it would probably be worth a trip. Or … i could just cut about 4” off the longer bar, but that...