I finally took my ebike for a test ride.

[PedalUma]

I need to do a splice. I need to take out a female connector from a controller to a motor and replace it. I will show it when I do it. I am putting it off today due to a really good new dystopian Si-Fi novel. "The Felicity Complex." I just want to read it. I made a bunch of cash today anyway. When I splice, I cut cleanly with an extra 20mm of overlap. The wires get fanned and soldered. 2mm heatshrink goes over each. Then half go one way and half the other and larger marine shrinktube goes over the entire thing. I only stagger slightly inside battery mounts. This book will become a sanitized movie in a few years with all the good parts edited out, like the girl on girl scenes in the closet. @PCeBiker has very nice tires.

 

[PCeBiker]

When I splice, I cut cleanly with an extra 20mm of overlap. The wires get fanned and soldered.

I had to add quite a bit of length, so that gave me room to stagger each splice.
I cut the wires exactly to length with ~10 mm overlap of each wire that got stripped off, then the wires were twisted together and soldered.

2mm heatshrink goes over each.

I didn't need the 2mm heat shrink because my splices are far enough apart that they don't touch each other when folded over.

It helps to keep the outer shrink tube from getting all lumpy, and it's easier to feed through the outer shrink tube.

larger marine shrinktube goes over the entire thing.

I used double walled heat shrink tube with glue but only heated and sealed the ends where it overlapped the original cable.

I only shrunk the overlapping ends so my cable looks a little neater, and I can open it up easily if I need to, because the middle isn't glued.

@PCeBiker has very nice tires.

I bought a pair of Schwalbe Super Moto-X tires the day after I bought a Schwalbe Hurricane tire.

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I mistakingly thought that my Super Moto-X tires were only bicycle rated, but they have MOPED printed on them near the wire tire bead,..


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[PedalUma]

Those tires fly. I am stuck working on mostly sucky bikes. Next is another Ape-Ass, Aipas bike. I swapped the grips and gave it a push-in throttle. Then it got PickUp e50 cargo tires and a Bontrager saddle. Today it is getting quad hydros over the single pad movement cable brakes. Oh, and I ditched the plastic pedals. He wants to commute so flats are not an option, so it also has FlatOut.