There is a plug to unplug the motor on he left side. Lots of good vidios on Youtube. Rad-mini has one almost identical to the XP. The axle bolt will come off without effecting the wire. Take photos of the location of all the washers and pay attention to which way to torque washer tabs go. That was the mistake I made. Do NOT take photos on the kickstand then turn it upside down to work on it.
Thanks!There is a plug to unplug the motor on he left side. Lots of good vidios on Youtube. Rad-mini has one almost identical to the XP. The axle bolt will come off without effecting the wire. Take photos of the location of all the washers and pay attention to which way to torque washer tabs go. That was the mistake I made. Do NOT take photos on the kickstand then turn it upside down to work on it.
Yes, $35 is the Amazon price in the States. The $194 is the Amazon Canada price which is why I mostly shop in the States. I once bought a backpack for $38 but the Canadian price was over $600!
Thank you!
Note that there are two arrows on the plug that point to each other. that's the way to align it up when plugging back in. I have a slick way of popping the wheel out of the stays that doesn't use a mallet. I'm going to be doing this same job tonight so I will post pictures tomorrow. But if you're in a big fat hurry, I can try to explain.
Part of the problem with my campus is that many of the academic buildings have rules specifically against bringing bicycles inside the buildings, which in my opinion is completely dumb. However, when it rains, a lot of students do it anyway and it becomes a "they can't stop all of us" thing. But for when it's not raining, that means I have to do the best I can with locking it outside.After getting flamed in a PM for MY choice of lock for MY needs, I will never mention locks again! Any lock can be broken into, you have to decided how much security is needed for your area. Do your collage buddies walk around with bolt cutters or die grinders? Or do they all watch out for each other? My opinion of locks, they keep honest people honest. NYC and LA are proving grounds.
And when the bike is a $1,000+ value, IMO makes no sense to buy a $20.00 lock. Invest in the best you can afford, unless you have all the money in the world to buy another bike, than go with a cable lock, me, I can't afford to replace the bike so I went with an Abus.
Not only that your college buddies aren't the guys walking around with the battery-powered disk grinders. It's the crackheads that stole the disk grinders that are the ones you have to worry about..
Several Youtube videos on locks. You can spend 1/2 the cost of the bike if you are in a high risk area, or judge how much security is needed in the area of your campus.
Follow the motor wire about a foot away and unplug the connector. loosen both dropout bolts and remove allen bolt close to dropout on non motor side. Put wrench on either axle bolt and gently hit with mallet alternating both sides until wheel is out. When putting wheel back on start with motor side barely in dropout and use a large screwdriver between frame and hub to get other side started. Work both sides in slow and don’t wedge screwdriver on brake disc or freewheel.
Get Kryptonite New York Noose 1213 and don't look back.
Yeah. I invested almost $200 in various locks. I got a chain lock for locking the front tire to the frame and maybe the rack too. As well, I got another, much more expensive Kryptonite Series-4 chain lock for locking the back tire to the frame and rack, and then a cheap Chinese folding lock for locking the seat to the frame so that doesn't get stolen (if you can believe it, I have had my seat stolen before. Crackheads are wild, but I doubt anyone will go to the effort to cut a lock just to steal a seat) as well as another, more expensive Kryptonite folding lock that I'll probably use either when I'm feeling especially paranoid, or just as a backup, but probably the former because to hell with getting a bicycle that I likely will have waited 2+ months for stolen.
What kind of tires are those?
Anything you use to lock your bike can be cut with power grinder. Any cable can be cut with small to medium bolt cutters. Any chain up to 10mm. can be cut with medium bolt cutters. What im saying is this chain cant be cut with bolt cutters that are under 36" long. Even with power grinder it would take two cuts , a lot of noise and sparks. Not easy task during day time on campus. Night is different story. I live in NYC and i never saw anyone cutting chains with power grinder during day time. Again night time is different story.
It doesn't matter where you are and what time of the day it is
That's the problem, in places like NewYork people don't want to get involved, they just walk on past, seen it done many times.
