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I bought ebikeling front wheel 2"x26" tire kit in 2018. Everything worked together. I got ~4500 miles out of it, 2 1/2 years, before the gears wore out. The controller lasted 6 years until a land on the pcb lost connection and it gave error 8 all the time (no PAS pickup). Turning the PAS off as...

I found a 500 w controller faulted out when connected to a 1000 w motor. Your results may vary.

You are. I put extra slack in my wiring harness, then just unclip the extra when changing a flat. Dont even need to nnplug the motor, just lay it on the ground. Do the flat, wheel back in fork, fold up the extra harness again. Coupla new ty-wraps are about 15 cents. Did not convert your own...

Grey metal, not steel. Pawls should wear round, not fracture. 99.999% of cheap parts are the former. Dealers will not allow you to know where the parts come from before you open the box and see the label, but grey metal from China has lead, tin, brass, copper, from the car batteries wiring and...

Nobody has ever tried to cut the cable or the Master lock. Wannabee thieves instead stab my tire with a knife. If I'm going to a high crime area, like across the street from the county jail, I use 2 cables, a half inch and a 3/8". The 1/2" I use an Abus 82/40 lock with a 12 mm rolling shank...

DT Swiss makes quality products. Good luck on getting an e-bike with one. E-bikes under $1800, 99.9% Chinese garbage sprockets freewheels/freehubs. Same garbage parts on unpowered bikes under $400.

I've found 6 & 7 speed freewheels & freehubs are cheap chinese garbage. Even Shimano. Designed to last 1000 miles until the bike rusts away in the rain. I broke a 6 speed axle with my enormous 180 lb body. No, I don't jump rocks & picnic tables. The 7 speed has no locknut on the internal race...

Batteries have an amp rating, usually not stated, typically 40-50 amps. You probably are thinking about the amphour rating, which correlates to range.

My Yube Bodaboda is made for women that size. See avatar left. Unfortunately they don't make them anymore. A little heavy at 70 lb. I carry 60 lb groceries home weekly. My pant legs are 27", my arms are 29" sleeve although I have a normal length back. I'm Native Am, not a dwarf. Liv and...

Tip forwards, has to be balanced by hands on the bar pushing back. It is more comfortable, but I gave up riding without hands 40 years ago. The stamped metal seat that curved toward the middle on my Mother's 1946 Firestone safety bike was the most comfortable, but nobody has sold a seat built...

Thin street tires IMHO are prone to flats. Last one I had went flat at 700 miles, street junk puncture. I run knobbies, and change them out when the knobs go under 3/32" tall. Usually less than one flat per 2000 mile year. I am also careful to reseat the rim if the schrader valve starts...

DD motors use double the watthours on hilly routes as geared hubmotors. IE half the range. Been there, done that. I find plastic gearsets last 4500 miles. No, I could not find any replacements either, for non-bafang motor. There are gears for sale on aliexpress, but the ads have no drawings...

Driving a schoobus in 1970, I saw a 90 cc motorcyclist try to pass a car in the middle. He went horizontal 3 feet off the ground, spun like a maple seed, and bashed his head against the fender of a car in the opposite lane. A good example of why helmets are important. But I did not buy one...

I find that among my friends who limit their exercise to perhaps walking their dog 100 yards daily, there are a substantial number of broken hips. I personally believe bone health is directly correlated to how much the user stresses them in their routine. With appropriate nutrition, of course...

Your test method without load is useless. Best test of a controller phase outputs is an AC current meter. They have a clamp that goes over the wire under test. I got mine for $29.95 at Sears (deceased). Test while riding the bike (difficult). New controllers can be had for $30-75, and I have...

I bought a Bell Super 3R MIPS helmet with "chin guard" to use at my brother's house in another city. The "chin guard" is not long enough to cover even my chin. The chin that is so short that caused 99.9% of single women to find me invisible. You want to eat solid food for 2 months after an...

I rode my ebike as primary transportation for 12 years to shop, meet, and work as a volunteer. The bike was secured to power poles, gas meters, cart racks, or live electrical conduits on the street. Instead of chain, I've used a 6' stainless steel sling with 1/2" cross section. So difficult to...

I always put anti-sieze on my crank arms. Something about them NEVER coming off until I bought a fiddly excruciatingly correct Pedro crank removal tool. Worn out cranks with 15 deg play would not come off my previous bikes. You can determine the crank has touched bottom by the rapid increase of...

Not wanting a huge fire between my legs, I bought 2 LIFePo4 batteries in 2017. Both were garbage. One dropped from 54 to 7.5 volts with loads over 75 watts, the other to 11.5 volts. The vendors are long moribund, but one was via Amazon and one was via E-bay. I bought a LiIon battery 1/2018...

I've run front geared hubs for 13000 miles. Although my Yuba had a steel front fork, I made a torque arm of 6" of bed frame rail, just one flat of it. I captured the end of the arm with a U-clamp of box fan shell around the fork in the pull direction. I ran motors of up to 1300 w off 48 v...