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I have never used a torque wrench on a bicycle. 67 years and still riding. I have never stripped a bicycle axle thread. Having wheel nuts at the proper torque does not mean they are not going to come loose. The secret to wheel nuts not coming loose, is use two and counter-tighten them. If...

It took me a year and a half to figure out how to replace the wire harness to a Cutler Mac 12t. I built a puller to yank on the ring while the screw pressed on the shaft. No help. No useful videos on youtube, just something about it needs a torque arm to keep the shaft from spinning out of the...

Update, my hips were still causing serious pain if I rode more than 3 hours. My commute to summer camp is 3.7 hours. I was using an evo cruiser 218x260 saddle with 1 cm padding. I bought a pair of Bellwether 02 mens cycling shorts, which turned out to have a 1 cm plastic pad built into them...

I get to 30 mph quite often DOWN the 15% hills, so I feel no need for speed. I broke my jaw at 25 mph on gravel, so I only go that fast on perfect pavement on a dry day. Average about 8 mph over 30 miles & 77 hills, although at the end of the summer I can push it to 9.

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.