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I have a geared rear hub motor, and wonder why one would need a mid drive on any bike? These hub motors have plenty of torque. I very seldom even use the derailleur gears anymore, just keep it in high. Maybe if you had a lot of steep hills in your area? The mid drives cost a heck of a lot more...

Copper and aluminum don't rust, so no worries. Just let it dry out and you'll be fine. The steel bearings are surely sealed.

I have a $600 Ancheer eBike w/ a 36V 8ah battery. I like it a lot, but would like more range. Realistically it will do 10 to 12 miles if I watch the gauge, something I dislike doing. To get more miles per charge, I'm gong to buy another battery like the one I have for $180, mount it on the bike...

Nice looking bike. That's my next upgrade, going from a frame mounted battery to one on the rear rack for the stealth look. I'm moving from New Mexico back to Tucson in a couple of weeks, so shoot me a line sometime and we can go out riding for coffee or something. I agree, Tucson has good...

Electric problems are not always easy to diagnose. There shouldn't be any complicated electronics in the lighting system, those things are simply on or off. When I was turning wrenches for a living, our mantra was to ck the most obvious things first. Is it all of the lights that are going off...

For street riding, I use the type below because they are super comfortable. Unless you're riding a mountain bike on off road trails, 90% of H-bars are designed the wrong way. Drop your hands down by your sides, then slowly raise them and see what position they're in. Then turn them to where they...

I'm waiting for a 3-D printed girlfriend. Could only be an improvement over the last three organic models I had.

I ride my bikes 7 days a week, no matter what month. It helps to live 50 miles from the Mexican border though. Moving to Tucson, Az in two weeks, and their winters are milder than here in New Mexico, but plan on being back in Florida or the Gulf Coast before next winter starts. Life is way too...

Move to Florida, the Gulf Coast, Hawaii or Az maybe?

A classic, cleanly built, well designed bike. Not excited about a front rack on the first pic (not fun w/ a load in it), but that's removable.

I see these big, heavy chains on bikes all the time, and laugh when I notice that they often have Dollar Tree locks on them! To me, these sort of things are just the wrong type of locks for bikes. Get a good Kryptonite U-lock or something similar and be done w/ it. Keep in mind that if someone...

Your experiences are not my experiences. Nearly everyone I talk to is aware of eBikes here in the US, and if anyone lives in a college town or biking cities like Portland or Tucson, everyone sees eBikes on the roads regularly. Buying a used eBike is no different than buying a used car...

I'm not at all offended that you deer hope, and I and the deer both hope you miss. Badly. Unless of course you want to give the deer a gun too, just to make it sporting and fair.

Exactly. It's up to the rider to decide whether to put in a lot of effort, or none. I swear, people put together studies for the craziest things. No study on earth can tell you how you do it vs how I or someone else will do it, and the way I ride my eBike or regular bike today will not be how I...

Yep, a bigger front cog will give you more top speed at the same crank revolutions. I wouldn't worry about hills since you have 8 speeds on the back. Just drop it in to one of the lower gogs for those. Might want to do some simple online calculator calculations on the difference in MPH if you go...

I would be careful using a torque wrench on a bike (retired dealership and race car mechanic here). Bikes have fasteners of varying quality and materials, mostly because things don't need to be torqued to anywhere near the same tightness as cars and motorcycles for obvious reasons. If you're...

Wow. It worked. Thanks Harry! It took 10 minutes to open the compartment, unplug the wire, and button it back up. Went out for a test ride and it sure felt faster. Came back, grabbed my smart phone and turned on the digihud app (great free app for mileage, mph, etc), and it showed 18-20 MPH...

I have a 2 year old Ancheer eBike that tops out at 15mph (on a good day). The one I owned before, which was exactly the same model, would do 19-20. I once saw something on the web that showed how you could run a jumper to a couple of wires on the controller connector to get more top speed, but...

Those are the ugliest bikes I have ever seen, and that's saying something. Look like they were designed by a robot for a robot. Or something.

I think they've already reduced the cost of the bike down to $39,000 USD for the lowest price version. The car starts at $1.7 million, but that's for the stripped down economy model. Not sure if you get a radio at that price. Replacement tires are a bargain at only $20,000 for a set. I stand...