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I cannot watch facebook, they want my birthdate to participate. I have noticed 6 speed Shimano broke the axle under my enormous 180 lb. No curbs, rocks or picnic tables jumped. 7 speed shimano the cone came unscrewed and allowed the balls to drop on the road. No locknut. I cannot tell deore...

With the winds we have here, I decided a front loader was a super expensive sail for my shopping problem. I ride upwind about 60% of the time. We have frequent high winds all fall+winter+spring. 28 mph gusts Sunday. The front loader turning radius is rediculous and the width is a problem on...

I use a 5 gallon plastic bucket turned upside down. Stored by the recycle bin outdoors. Those white plastic chairs post #4 are wonderful. I cannot buy one anymore. Plastic chairs are now Adirondack design for people with 2' wide hips, 300 lb, and thighs 20" long. I'm too short to sit in one...

My tires take enough of a beating as is. I looked at tire drive, chain drive, I decided axle drive was the most reliable. ebikeling.com sells a nice geared hub motor kit. https://ebikeling.com/products/750w-geared-ebike-conversion-kit $729 this week for the 13 AH 36 v battery. More for a...

I liked ebikeling.com the geared hub motor. I put it on the front to not mess with my 8 speed derailleur. If you have disk brakes, the rotor hides the motor somewhat. You see my battery hung off the front on my avatar left - the white triangle. Use a torque arm to not spin the shaft in the...

Many displays, as the KT, seek a contact closure between blue (electronic lock) and black (ground) to turn the controller on. Red power is not necessary until the display powers up.

In the city, I would ride around on my bike the evening before garbage pickup and pull the front wheel & skewer off a scrap kiddie bike. In the country, not as profitable. Although I picked up an oil drain pan I needed last summer for free - 3 of them actually, clean. 20 miles from the city...

The warrenty should cover this for 12 months. Buying a bike with a computer in the battery that must communicate with the controller or battery is asking for trouble. There was a Canadian vendor Bionx? that went bankrupt over this problem. Disconnect the battery and spray off the contacts of...

I am riding a selle royal explora which is pretty wide. It has rails with about 2" of front to back adjustment. It does not fit a seat post. You will have to find a seat post to rails adapter on some scrap bike.

That connector is weird. Controllers IMHO cannot be repaired even if not potted. I had one lasted 3 1/2 years, then lost contact between the PAS pickup and the computer chip. I could trace the signal onto the board from the wire, but the trace on the multilayer board was hidden. The pinout of...

Took the 5 lb ax to Home Depot today. Made the 3/8" SS 7x19 wire rope abandoned by Clarksville extend onto the sidewalk. Chopped it one time. One of the 7 bundles was severed. 6 of 19 strands of the next bundle were severed. 5 bundles undamaged. Ax suffered a dent in edge 2 mm long, .4 mm...

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If the 5 pin goes to the motor, then the 4 pin goes to the display/control on the handlebar. I have never seen that connector for the motor. I have never seen any controller compatible with the display/control. I you buy a KT, you'll have to buy a KT display to turn the controller on and off...

The cover appears to me to be totally unnecessary. Protects wires already in a wrapping. It looks as if the cover is too weak to take the weight of a battery. I would eliminate the cover and clamp around the downtube directly. You may put the steel band under the wires if you do not want to...

36 v 15 A, pretty common. Low brake pretty common. The red black to battery is weird, but you could cut it off and replace with two crimp on 4 mm bullet connectors or ring terminals if the replacement has that. The 6 terminal could be to a display but you did not say you had one. The 4...

A 2.4" tire can be bought 65 psi rated, so will roll easily. A 3" tire is probably 30 psi rated or lower, and will eat the watthours (energy). The two bikes you mentioned may have the same range, a rather short one. E-bikes in the <$1100 price class are IMHO built of the same grade of...

I find hose clamps rather flimsy for structural use. I cage the battery in a box of 3/4" aluminum angle. I use #10 SS machine screws and elastic stop nuts that don't fall off. Then I can attach the box to any strut with a 1"x8" band of #18 sheet steel with 13/32" holes drilled in it. I cut the...

Sorry this computer is too old to play video. Next time I go to Home Depot store, I will take my 5 lb ax hammer and try to cut the 1/2" SS cable laying on the sidewalk in Clarksville. Part of an abandoned road sign installation. This $167 tool can do the job with a sledge hammer and a hard...

I do not think any of us have any idea. One thing I am sure of, if you buy from ebay or amazon, "high quality" means there are no visible holes in the solid part. If you buy from modernbike.com or universalcycles.com certain brands are from taiwan or austria instead of *****. DTswiss spokes...

Used e-bikes can have flaky electrical problems that happen only sometimes. Often nobody can fix them. Yamaha is a good bike. OTOH a warranty that only works if you spend $500 in shipping is not worth a lot. Talk to the dealer about the possibility of him shipping free parts to you if you need...