Rear Wheel Removal Tip

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This has nothing to do with rear wheel removal. It is a modified BLT called an LGBTQ because it has queo and guacamole, GQ. It has the energy required for rear wheel removal. That is brea melted into the bacon aiding the wheel removal process.
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Okey Dokey, won’t touch that with a 50 ft pole. Even if I could lift a 50 ft pole 😂
 
I once had to use a zip tie on a bike, bummer.
Nine inches is fine as long as she cannot reach all the way around it with one hand.
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Cat is out of the bag. Wife went into the middle bedroom. All she said was please clean it up and nothing about the tires. I guess she figured that was fruitless.
 
GMA52 said:
Cat is out of the bag. Wife went into the middle bedroom. All she said was please clean it up and nothing about the tires. I guess she figured that was fruitless.
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Here is a funny or not so funny one depending on how you look at it. My wife asked me (just before she left) “are you doing something with your bike? I see it is upside down. I said I am changing the tires. I thought you saw the tires when you went into the room then ask me to please clean it up. She said ‘ No I saw it was a mess and turned and walked out. 🙄🙄😁😁
 
Ok, I got the front tire replaced with the Kenda Cursor. That was a much better experience this time. I did like I did when I put the stock tire back on after that disaster of a tire attempt by having the tube inside and lightly inflated. I used a hair drier to soften the rubber and sprayed the beads. Use a bike/motorcycle tier bar on part to get it started and at one point just my hands. It is back on, had to adjust the brake unit on the wheel to reposition the brakes and it spins freely with no noise. I used the original tubes that have the Flat out in them and saving the 2 I bought for future if needed. I am very happy so far with the results. I will do the other tomorrow. My wife came home tonight instead of tomorrow and complained of the rubber smell (due to heating the tire etc) so told her I would finish tomorrow. My 26 x 4 knobby tires that came on the bike only have 60 miles or so on them and no punctures as I rode on street mostly so will keep them until I get to test ride the bike at some point this week then she wanted me to sell them. I may keep them in the box the Kenda’s came in for future used. You never know what tomorrow brings.
 
Ok, both are on. I had to remove the derailleur to get the rear wheel back on (as the axil sticks past the derailleur by over an inch (unless I removed the disc on the opposite side) and when I did the special nut shot off into oblivion so ordered more from Amazon. They came in late last night and got it back together last night. Test rode it several miles. These tires have better cornering traction and much quieter. I can take sharp curves better and at little higher speed. I hit the brakes hard and the rear no longer locks up like it did. Corners like my motorcycle did back in the mid 70’s. More stable. Due to better traction they reduced the speed by 2 miles per hour but I like it better. So nice now.
Not bad considering I am going to be 74 in June. Wasn’t easy to get the bike weighing 86lbs over on its back and back up by myself with 90% of my lumber fused with titanium screws and hardware.
 
Glad you're rolliń again and that you like them.
Typically a smooth tread will have a lower rolling resistance along with being quieter so if anything your speed should increase slightly. I wonder if the overall circumference of this tire is larger resulting in a lower speed reading.... but even then, 2mph seems like a lot.
You shouldn't have had to drop the derailleur... Typically it needs to be pushed to its fully sprung position which can be a pain in the ars to do while handling the wheel and a third hand can be useful. That said I've dropped my tensioner to make it easier to remove my rear wheel with the IGH so I know what your talking about.
Good job young man!
 
These tires do come to a more rounded point than the knobby’s that are more flat across so who knows. I can adjust for that in advanced settings so that will be my next project :)
I went off into sand in one spot as I always do due to the extreme 90 degree curve around a tree. I just cut across and it was no problem at all nor with going off into grass. The only thing I haven’t tried is wet streets.
 
Ok, two things…first the display has two graphs, one for remaining battery voltage and the other is for PAS level. I apparently looked at the PAS level and it was 3/4 full and I was thinking it was the battery voltage. The battery voltage was at the lowest level and the E-Bike barely made it up my inclined driveway and probably accounts for the 2 mile an hour difference, DUH. 😁 😁 Anyway I adjusted the tire size on the display in Advanced settings. Along with a couple others I will not mention. 😁They had the tire size on 29 and when I told them I set it to 26 they said “Oh no, put it back where we had at 29”. Apparently they were trying to compensate for their controller. I initially put it to 30 (max limit) and it slowed things down about 2 mph so I put it on 23 and now it pretty well agrees with the Garmin GPS Edge Explorer 2 but coming back up the elevated drive way (where usually has no issue. Last night I was mulling it over trying to decide which way to go and just decided to check the internet and of course one said raise it while the other said Lower the tire size in the Advanced settings for wheel size to 21 and the speed on on the speedometer red 14.5mph while the Garmin read 18mph so I raised it to 23 and right on the money now but it is set to 23 and both the Garmin and the Bike speed now match (probably off a little but who cares about 0.5 or less.
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LOL, You will not believe this but I only got 1 hour or so sleep last night but wanted to stay awake all day to do things on my E-Bike and start on a Battery monitor circuit that will read out all important data for the battery. Any way I nodded off to sleep several times writing the previous post and had do delete several places but apparently missed that plus I just added I was talking about the wheel size and it’s affect on the speed and speed readout. I made several corrections so please re-read it again and see if it makes more sense. Let me know if I need to add or correct anything please.
 
As long as your speedometer agrees with your Garmin, then you're good.
On my first ebike, I just entered whatever settings I had to, to get the speedometer correct, and my second ebike was close enough, so I didn't mess with it.


GMA52 said:
They had the tire size on 29 and when I told them I set it to 26 they said “Oh no, put it back where we had at 29”.
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The controller needs to know the actual diameter of the wheel.
I've got 26" X 4" tires, 27.5" X 2.8" tires, and a 29" X 2" tire, and they all have the same 29" diameter. (+/- <¼")
 
PCeBiker said:
As long as your speedometer agrees with your Garmin, then you're good.
On my first ebike, I just entered whatever settings I had to, to get the speedometer correct, and my second ebike was close enough, so I didn't mess with it.




The controller needs to know the actual diameter of the wheel.
I've got 26" X 4" tires, 27.5" X 2.8" tires, and a 29" X 2" tire, and they all have the same 29" diameter. (+/- <¼")
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I had to re-adjust the tire size to 27 get it close to the Garmin after charging the battery. I thought the diameter was of the peak point of the tire to opposite peak point of the tire. I do not understand how they all have a 29” diameter. Please educate me :)
 
On the more sophisticated bikes and/or bike computers you enter the circumference for the most accurate speed/odometer reading. You can get this from a tire chart or measure it out as it can vary with tire pressure.
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On the Bafangs I've owned the 26" and 650b(27.5") input matched the tire size and was equal to what a separate computer read for speed and distance.
 
I understand diameter and circumference but sketchy on actual wheel diameter and outer tire diameter as to which one the are setting wheel size on the display for the wheel size. I do not understand using 26” as wheel size if the diameter of the tire is larger. That affects the speed just as it would by putting taller tires on a car. Come to think of it. This tire is not setting any closer to the front fender than the old one that I can tell.
 
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