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    Properly inflating tires

    Tires were actually 34 PSI when I filled them today, so they decreased by 10 PSI over the course of six days (and 10 miles of riding with 1,100 feet of vertical.) If that continued, I'd be worried, but my money is still on the sealant soaking in. Also interesting that both tires lost almost...
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    UPDATE on Aug 5, 2023 [#14][M2S] .. I FINALLY killed my ebike battery.. new info: times 3.. PickleBall info, too.

    This is fantastic stuff. Your posts are even more long-winded and OCD than mine, and certainly far more knowledgable. I use that term loosely. OCD can be really debilitating when it takes certain forms, but there's nothing unhealthy or unhelpful about what you're doing that I can see. What...
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    Properly inflating tires

    Yow. I hadn't thought about water vapor affecting tire pressure. Now I will. The Marin 1 (with TSDZ motor) is running way better tubeless-- clearly less rolling resistance, and just feels less skittish even at higher pressures, though that makes no sense, gotta be my imagintion-- but I have...
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    So what's your other hobbies or interests?

    Body boarding (less these days, due to health but mostly conditions at my homebreak went to hell), skiing (thought I was done, but had 5 great days last year) but mostly guitar, performing specifically, though like skiing, I only get about five days a year! I'm far left in the wide, far right...
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    Spring (and Winter) Maintenance - CHECK BOLTS on FS eMTBs~

    Just another reminder. I see my last one was over 6 months ago! Today was much better than 5/5/23 -- just one bolt a little bit loose.
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    Properly inflating tires

    I just went tubeless on the Marin Team-1 kit bike (finally got around to fixing that flat.) I asked about getting 2.1s for it, but the guy at the LBS said, "tubeless isn't popular now, we don't have a lot of stock. But if you find something that works, we'll help you find a good rim for it."...
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    Hey! Just saw this for some random reason. Suggestion: Post questions in the "Ask the...

    Hey! Just saw this for some random reason. Suggestion: Post questions in the "Ask the Community Anything" forum. I test-rode that particular bike, and while I don't know the answer to your specific question-- if there's some kind of way of resetting the power levels-- the problem is basically...
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    BT-E6010 battery w/ E5000 died 4 miles early w/ no reserve & no warning

    80-20% charging rule. Not charging the battery to 100% (except briefly, occasionally, when full range is needed) extends the life of the battery, even if it sits idle for a few days. My display does not have a percentage readout, I am only estimating percentage by the number of bars. The...
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    BT-E6010 battery w/ E5000 died 4 miles early w/ no reserve & no warning

    I know it's based on voltage, which is maddening-- particularly on a 17 miles into a 34-mile round trip, ascending a steep grade, when the bike tells me it only has 8 miles left, and I know based on experience it had over twice that much. Did you find that the range estimate (or number of bars...
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    BT-E6010 battery w/ E5000 died 4 miles early w/ no reserve & no warning

    Ooh, but a sour note today: I only got 28 miles from approximately a 90% charge (could have been anywhere from 81 to 99%) on Seeker's Shimano BT-E6010 battery. Last time I checked, which was about 700 miles and a year + ago, I was still getting around 40 miles with 4,000 feet of vertical...
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    The infamous Motobecane HAL E-MTB. I bought one…

    Ooh, but a sour note today: I only got 28 miles from approximately a 90% charge (could have been anywhere from 81 to 99%) on the BT-E6010 battery. What's worse: I had no reserve and no warning. Display was showing about 3 miles in HIGH, 7 in NORM, 9 in ECO. Again, just under 1,500 miles on...
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    The infamous Motobecane HAL E-MTB. I bought one…

    Wow, that's a long list of problems! You might have to replace the entire axle, hopefully that's possible and not proprietary. (I have WTB rims on my HAL Moto, and I do notice that the rear quick release seems to work lose about every 300 miles or so, but nothing as bad as what you describe)...
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    Quietest motor?

    I don't have much basis for comparison, but Seeker's Shimano E8000 is far quieter than the other Shimano steps motor I tried-- I forget what it was, one of the 85nm models, not the EP8. And it's a lot quieter than the Tongshen as well. I think it got slightly louder after the first thousand...
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    Winter Sucks

    Yeah, I guess some folks got injured-- and a TRUCK was damaged or swept away-- in a parking lot in Ventura. As I may have mentioned in some other thread, my homebreak is now almost completely unrideable. Last year, I think I got seven or eight days. This year, only three, and each day, I was...
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    A dream come true

    It does seem weird, though I confess I haven't heard a note of her music. I still perform occasionally, but I am absolutely ignorant about pop stars. It is kind of a studied affectation, I suppose. I do have one Lady Gaga song on my playlist-- I just happened to hear it on the radio and...
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    New Guy Here-

    Welcome! I have one of Pedaluma's builds half disassembled in my garage-- just a flat tire, but I was doing some work (that we'd planned) to improve the chainline before fixing the flat, then work and covid and the holidays caught up with me! Keep us posted on your builds.
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    I knew I was having a bad day.........

    I'm at that undignified age / state of health where sometimes, I'm the guy on the left, sometimes, the guy on the right.
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    Front page LA Times today regarding Ebikes

    I do appreciate the reasonable, non-hysterical tone of the tangent on firearms laws, and I don't think it's that far off topic. FWIW, I think this forum has come a long way since the vax / anti-vax hysteria phase. I'm tempted to unmute the two or three folks who I muted back then...
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    Just for fun...

    I have something similar, though it has a trigger-style ejector level that fans the credit cards. I have one beautiful black leather one, but I had to replace it with a more garish blue one because the black one is too hard to see. I will still use the black one for more formal occasions, if...
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    Shimano E5000 Seems Faster After 1,500 miles

    The pedaling style theory is reasonable, but I am actually going faster, too. My times are quicker-- not much, but maybe 20 seconds on a 20-minute ride. I thought that maybe it was tire pressure-- maybe my inflator was reading 50 PSI (I know, very high, these tires are rated for 60, though)...
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