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This fascinates me. The only "mainstream" ebike motor company (Bosch, Yamaha, Brose etc.) I've heard of suggesting "regular" motor maintenance is Brose, who suggest changing their drive belts around 10k miles or so. Or it coulda been 10km, I don't recall exactly. But I just checked Brose's...

JW if anyone knows if Haibike will bring Yamaha-powered ebikes back to the US market, and if not, why? Their 2022 offerings are severely limited to a handful of Bosch-powered models, especially compared to years past! I can understand this, given supply chain and shipping woes, plus Haibike's...

The Big 4 "mainstream" motors - Bosch, Brose, Shimano, Yamaha - are all designed for pedal assist use only. A crafty electrician/engineer MIGHT be able to find a way to add a throttle to them, but given the cost of replacing those motors if things went south, I wouldn't try it...

Hi Tom, it works if you work it so work it you're worth it!

Turns out the golf cart paths are pretty sweet on a drizzly winter's day with no golfers around!

Let the pictures do the talkin' 👍

Yikes

A photograph or make/model of the trike would help. If it's a 20" fat tire (3 to 4 inches wide), a typical 20" front-wheel ebike kit may not fit such wide tires. They usually come with rims under 30mm wide, and fat tires need 50+

Bolton's Hercules IS a Eunorau G20 - I unboxed one in and it had a Eunorau badge on it. It shipped from Eunorau's Las Vegas warehouse to Bolton, then Bolton sold and shipped it to us - they never opened the box... it was wrapped at least 20 times in cellophane and took a half an hour just to...

Are you under 300lbs between you (including stuff you might carry)? That's the total payload cap of the Cafe Cruiser

Check those passenger weight limits, which are often buried deep in the specs, if listed at all... On the new Cafe Cruiser, Ride1Up says 130 lbs

I rode Eunorau's G20 cargo for about 20 miles on some serious hills over a few rides, and it gobbled close to 1.5 full batteries with just me (185 lbs) on it. It's a bulky bike, but you'll want such heft to safely haul you and your wife... I'm not aware of many other reasonably priced (~$2k)...

Yikes! Sorry to say that you may have to scrap that fork. My trusted and extremely gifted bike mechanic has shared several tricks with me to DIY a lot of bike stuff, but always warned against doing my own fork replacement. Between precision-cutting, star nut and crown race stuff, it can be a...

What follows is a timeline of my how my MTB/eMTB habits started, but I also have a converted gravel bike (TSDZ2), a converted recumbent trike (BBS02), and a fat bike (2015 iZip Sumo w/TranzX, still going, pic below)... I was never into road-riding until I began riding ebikes. 1991, Bridgestone...

Looks solid and the value's there, but when they say "Install our passenger kit and add a passenger on the back while cruising around your town," they should add "300 lb total weight capacity." It's in the "Dimensions and Sizing" section below the component specs, but that's pretty low for a...

I was born with the hearing of an 80 year old, and have used hearing aids for 50+ years now. I've had excellent results from the Phonak canal aids I got from Costco nearly a decade ago, and the Rextons I replaced them with a few years ago (also at Costco). Both pairs were molded to my ears...

Gotta add the travel fee

I wonder how much he peddles that paddleboat for, and how many paddles those pedals propel. New Sphinx riddle: does one pedal a paddleboat, or paddle a pedal boat? The reward - a dozen rose petals (one rose is enough).

I've heard of this happening on several brands of eMTBs, so I reinforced my wiring

BUMP! Too much peddling, not enough pedaling.