eBikes

HeartyBeast, 10 months ago in E-bike batteries are a fire risk. Here’s how to protect yourself.

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steering clear of products that are too cheap and taking it seriously when your batteries look damaged or you ram your e-scooter into a tree.

megclaypool, 10 months ago in What are you riding?

I bought a Lectric XP 3.0 Step Through, but I found it too large and heavy, especially when I needed to lift it onto my car's bike rack. I also felt the brakes were inadequate for the weight of the bike. (Lectric sent out an email saying they would be upgrading everyone's 3.0 brakes to hydraulic for free...)

I ended up replacing it with an Evelo Galaxy SL. Unlike the Lectric's hub-drive motor, the Evelo has a mid-drive motor with a torque sensor, so it feels a lot more like a regular bike. It's smaller and much lighter. I also installed a 3.5" stem riser, so I get to rock a super upright posture :) My new Evelo was more expensive, but it's fabulous and I love it :)

Domicidal, 10 months ago in What are you riding?

Lectric XP 3. Yes, I recommend. It ships fully assembled, folds up for storage, and has plenty of power. Downsides are it's heavy and the key location is a little annoying. The range isn't amazing but it can be extended with a long range battery.

I love it for riding downtown for my lunch break and being able to leave the house without driving a car.

doingthestuff, 4 months ago in With my last bike ride into the office this year I am just over 3000 miles since February

Man I wish using a bike or ebike for my commute was possible.

Showroom7561, 4 months ago in Automatic bike transmission concept is wild and spiky—and could be a big shift

Hmm.

Shimano already has automatic shifting for e-bikes.

And Autobike has had auto shifting on regular bikes for over a decade.

Uranium3006, 7 months ago in What are your thoughts about using cheap ebike kits to turn a normal bike into an ebike?

I'm going to convert my bike into one when money allows

Uranium3006, 7 months ago in E-bikes must have number plates and insurance, MP and industry experts say

We shouldn't allow license and registration to become the norm

brillekake, 8 months ago in How do you protect your bike?

Insurance and biketracker (GPS stick locked inside handlebars)

eeltech, 8 months ago in Bafang motor, 1000W vs BBSHD

So apparently there’s no such thing as a 750w bbshd, what happens is they take a 1000w motor and lock/throttle down to 750w, maybe for legal/regulation purposes?

So what people do is the other way around, they purchase the ones sold as 750w and unlock to achieve full 1000w potential!

I guess in your case, are you sure it’s unlocked to 1000w? If so, you could in theory get the programming cable and lock/throttle it down to 750w yourself

Google search for “bafang programming”

Ginjutsu, 9 months ago in What are you riding?

Mod City +. Can’t complain.

username_unavailable, 9 months ago in What are you riding?

I have an Aventon Aventure with a battery blender & swappable 20 ah LiFePo4 with a 35 ah arriving this week. I’ve got an ebikeling 1200 motor watt & controller running through that battery blender ( so I can run both controllers with any 1 battery or 2 at a time. )

For cargo space I have the Topeak MXT rack & EXP trunk bag, and a Burley COHO XC single wheel trailer with their paniers & rack.

I don’t know what I would recommend except to someone else my weight ( I’m heavy ).

I would feel comfortable telling anyone in my family to pick the Aventon that meets their needs pretty comfortably - ( cargo bikes, folding , etc ).

irkli, 9 months ago in What are you riding?

I put a Bafang BBSHD motor and a dolphin type 17 ah battery on a 30 year old Trek 930 we had. Probably 300 to completely renovate the trek. Bought the lot from California-ebike.com. I recommend them.

I don’t intend to go fast. I wanted overkill for reliability. Only 100 miles so far, first couple trips pf adjusting etc, now it’s just great.

irkli, 9 months ago in How do you protect your bike?

Ask me in a year or two, lol… I just built an ebike and my local shop pointed out that Abus comes out with most of the good designs that kryptonite sells. I bought a 130 buck combination folding bar U lock.

A $20 kryptonite cable through the front wheel to the lock around frame wheel and parking meter etc.

Front wheel is cheap enough to replace.

Also gonna paint the motor and battery horrible colors so the quick -buck fuckwit theivesoght avoid it.

irkli, 9 months ago in E-bikes must have number plates and insurance, MP and industry experts say

Possibly, for extreme cases of speed or power.

More broadly, vehicles – all of them – should be taxed and licensed based upon POWER OUTPUT. 99% percent of ebikes, unlicensed.

Big fkn trucks, tax that sucker. Like Japan, below some threshold (around 900cc, 0.9 liter) the lowest.

Much fairer, inducement for manufacturers to make realistic cars, and options for people to buy reasonable cars.

Of you want 600 HP fine, you can have it.

martyc3, 9 months ago in What are you riding?

Aventon Pace 500.2 I bought it for the exercise, dealer support network, and modest weight of 52 lbs. After about 400 miles, I like it.