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I always recommend to stay mindful of what is bad for the battery, and being thus informed, avoid doing bad things to it, unless you decide you want to. So as you say, you bought the battery to use it, and knowing the consequences of a hard DoD should not stop you from riding the crap out of...

As noted above, running the bike on a stand is a waste of time. I ended up deleting most of my post because I read what @il Munduato said and he did it more succinctly than I did. Watching the voltage is a smart move, but trying to derive range from that given all the variables isn't going to...

If you cut the bottom off of those torque washers, things will go from bad to worse. For starters, the washers are oversized and do not match your motor axle width. Small motors tend to use an M12 axle with 10mm flats on both sides (a very few have no flats at all and are meant to be held fast...

This is what Lawyer lips actually are on a fork that has not been violated. That hung-up washer in conjunction with the lips forms the safety feature. But I think more often than not only the lips are in use. You seldom see the pinhole for the washer hanger thinger.

Maybe, so long as you do NOT try and put a motor on the front wheel. Look at the pics of the sheared dropouts that @harryS put up. Thats typical. And also on a suspension fork, they were never meant to be pulled on. Only pushed into. A motor pulls on the fork and you can actually watch them...

They don't have to be. I have a tiny little helmet ("Take a Look" brand) mirror stabilized against my visor with velcro so its rock solid, and it provides a big screen TV of the entire road behind me in my upper left corner of vision. I hate riding without it I am so used to being able to see...

What I did was read the Nm which were easy to see, then googled "42 Nm to ft lbs". I couldn't tell if it was a 1 or a 7 either but I got the 4 and the 2 no problem.

You're being silly. This is not a subject that takes a brain surgeon or a Youtuber to tell you what to think to realize the sensible play. btw I use Wera torque wrenches except for that little multifunction roadside kajigger. Total overkill but I use them regularly. Again, most of the risk...

"it could be definitely is dangerous" :) You can try and save it yourself if you are on a budget and are willing to assume the risk with your eyes open, but selling it on to someone else is a big time liability risk. If replacing the fork, I dunno if you are up on that sort of thing but a...

Well, that bolt is totally NOT an authoritative source :-) Plus, it says max to 31 ft lbs, not 35. I've learned to go on the low side of 'certainty' when it comes to crankarms. When you tighten a square-taper crankarm, you are tightening a (relatively) soft alloy crankarm onto a harder steel...

Holy $hit I just watched that video and the torque washers are oversized. Probably 14mm flats meant for a really big direct drive motor in the rear. They provide no anti-spin protection whatsoever.

I'm coming into this party a little late. As @JRA originally stated, what you have is an ordinary bike where someone has welded on torque washers. Torque washers are a low-functioning way to combat motor spinout... they use that little tab at the bottom (the top on the bike as its sitting...

Also... You shouldn't need to for the most part. Almost all bike bolts are either M5 or M6. You want to match up with the generic recommendations for those bolt and material types. One example: https://www.fastenermart.com/files/metric_tighten_torques.pdf Good rule of thumb is M5 is 5 ft...

Nobody needs to keep up certifications on a bicycle, so thats not a problem. Use and caring for a torque wrench is also a non-issue. Just dial it back to its minimal value at the end of use. Beyond that, even with frequent use a quality wrench will last for many years. Even a Harbor Freight...

DT Swiss makes them in a wide variety of sizes. I have one for a 12x148 on the back of one of my Bullitts. It has about three threads sticking out the drive side. If anything I want it to have extra threads so it has some added fault tolerance built in. Getting a thru axle to fit that you...

Same here (i.e. background is road bike). And for some time ebikes were a rarity, with the riders in the local area being me, a ton of tourists on rentals and almost everyone else being a local commuting on an analog or a spandex fitness rider on same. Then maybe about a year ago I looked up...

The ones I have for a 2.5" tire are as thick as maybe five sheets of paper after about 4000 miles.

$hit happens. And you know this, like everyone else on the planet but again are just arguing for the personal enjoyment of it. I stopped counting at 112,000 lifetime miles, and that was in the 1990s. I realized that bragging about mileage was just preening where the only one who cares is the...

No thats completely wrong. I cruised on a commuter fat bike at that speed on absolutely flat ground. And of course any type of bike can avoid things. sometimes you fail though and it has nothing to do with the bike. Which is reality we all know. You are pretending otherwise to prosecute...

Never mind Trump. The ebike industry was already ailing something fierce. and we have already seen manufacturers go belly up this year. We'll see more, and it will have nothing to do with any tariffs. For example: Juiced Bikes went belly up just a short time ago. Yamaha just announced they...