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When the white tires went flat on my step through bodaboda, I replaced them with black. The 19"x19"x10" panniers are too big for a woman. I use pool noodles for hand grips, the bright green ones. As I rode through a school yard, a 3rd grader on the playground shouted "Nice bike". The only...

Two controllers, two PAS pickups, two motors. Or one throttle perhaps instead of the 2nd PAS pickup. One battery if you so choose. I crimp on dorman ring or bullet connectors. Not the ****ese **** terminals. Dorman is from Taiwan. Or 3M, Panduit, Ideal, T&B or TE Connectivity real crimp...

Socket or rail? For rails I was fairly happy with $32 Evo Cruiser 260x210 mm, but $60 Selle Royale Explora is a little better. Both require a Cloud-9 11x8 gel pad to ride past 3.7 hours in comfort. The fat melted off my hips in my mid sixties. But not off my belly, of course. My seat post is...

A lieutenant in the basic ordnance officer's course with me told me the best home defense weapon is a Remington 870 shotgun. Load 1 birdshot to warn, 2 buckshot for the legs & balls, and then slugs for the torso. Slugs fall down after 100 yards. Reason not the semiauto Remington 1100, the...

I donated my knees to the US Army. I can walk about 1.5 mph, with moderate pain. I avoided a mid-drive for this reason, and only have a front geared hub drive. Rain takes out the throttle or controller, or motor clutch wears out, I just pedal home in twice the time. I ride places where cell...

One locks the suspension to carry groceries or camping gear. I replaced my car with an electric bicycle.

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...