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  1. PedalUma

    JACKS FOR EBIKE?

    Those ones for motorcycles don't work when there is a chainring. It is also important for the pedals to move.
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    Got my 15yo son the Wired predator. Did i make a mistake?

    Forgot to mention. Wheelies require a simultaneous tension balance between power and rear brake. So the kids remove the brake cutouts. It is a safety feature on hub-drive bikes that shuts power when the brake is applied.
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    Got my 15yo son the Wired predator. Did i make a mistake?

    The ones with mechanical brakes are total garbage. The ones with hydro can be worse. What kids do is flip the left and right brakes so they can modulate wheelies with throttle on one hand and rear brake on the other. But that puts the reservoirs upside down making an air pocket so the brakes do...
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    Got my 15yo son the Wired predator. Did i make a mistake?

    I reported it to Assembly Member Connolly. It will go up the food chain to the Apex Predator from there so these marketers land in jail. He wrote the California eBike legislation. Good point, there are some dads living vicariously instead of responsibly. Some do not know how to set the angle of...
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    Got my 15yo son the Wired predator. Did i make a mistake?

    I have seen it many times. It is not dads. Fathers do not do this to their sons. They know what it is like to have pimple hormones raging without a gelled frontal brain. It is single moms who get talked into it. Who is going to assemble it? A motorcycle shop will not service it, and it will need...
  6. PedalUma

    True Love in Color

    @stompandgo, see the thread 'Show Us A Tool'.
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    Got my 15yo son the Wired predator. Did i make a mistake?

    It is note worthy that the day before the purchase he took out a ten-million-dollar double indemnitee death with dismemberment insurance policy on the kid, and purchased a grave plot.
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    True Love in Color

    I am doing house calls by bike. It usually takes two trips. The first is to assess what tools I need to bring or parts. Folks with a home office often need to stay there during normal bike shop hours.
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    Got my 15yo son the Wired predator. Did i make a mistake?

    It is not a bicycle. The guy is doing 101 Kph without pedaling. That is half of terminal velocity in a free fall. It is like jumping off a nine story building and hitting the deck. 750W is the max for a legal assist bike in the US. This one is 9,000. The kid will die and so may others and not...
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    Got my 15yo son the Wired predator. Did i make a mistake?

    It is for private lands only, Utah ranch all off road. He will die or kill and that unlawful motorcycle will be confected as evidence. Have him first take the CHP class and pass it at 100% or no way Jose. Darwin Awards 67,32.0. Bicycles work pedals...
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    True Love in Color

    I am so much more conventional than I thought @PCeBiker.
  12. PedalUma

    Lugging a Motor, Why it's Bad

    I will live stream. It will mostly be NCA Division 1 Volley Ball players at first. Going mostly for either the Brazilian or Hollywood looks. Some are also beach volley ball players in the Summer off season. It is high demand, and someone needs to do this dirty work, like stepping up to jump on...
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    Lugging a Motor, Why it's Bad

    I have some unsightly hair and wrinkles down below, so I need that same hot wax treatment with Botox injections in all the wrinkles for the Cure.
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    True Love in Color

    I am working on nice XL Giant for a 21-year-old who is taking it back to college in NY. It is his main transportation. It is getting a tune with bunch of refinements and upgrades. He is slim 6'6" and 21 so he does not need an eBike. Analog is just fine. I am truing the front wheel now and it was...
  15. PedalUma

    Do All eBike Motors Have Issues?

    The heavy Aventon Adventure II had a harmonic issue only at 12.5 Mph. The fat tread matched the rotor frequency. There was noting adventurous about that bike. It was a fat trailer park leisure throttle bike sold as a 'mountain bike' because of the large heavy tires and pogo fork.
  16. PedalUma

    Lugging a Motor, Why it's Bad

    It keeps my chain from getting hairy.
  17. PedalUma

    What brake pads do I buy???

    I have high viz gloves that breathe and have palm padding. But that is not working on something.
  18. PedalUma

    Lugging a Motor, Why it's Bad

    Do you have access to a used peanut butter or instant coffee jar? You can heat your solvent to 40C and put on some Latin music with your chain in there.
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    What brake pads do I buy???

    I was eating my lunch with two female associates and somehow the topic of rubber gloves came up. I said that I can't because I need to feel what I am doing. They laughed for ten minutes.
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    Lugging a Motor, Why it's Bad

    I am learning that there are four types of hot wax treatments: Regular, Brazilian, Extended, and Hollywood. Now that I am all set-up in my workshop with my mini-crockpot, I can begin offering them.
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