Search results

Spinalot, it isn't actually that hard once you've tried a few times. If you are right handed, then keep your spanner nearby to pick up with that hand. I don't have my bike here right now so have to try remember what I do ... Just use your left hand (with axle nuts just tight enough on both...

The gear cable can be tight to reseat in the hub - you need to have it aligned right to go back into its slot. See your other thread about how to reseat the wheel. Just watch your washers if you don't tighten axle nuts enough - if you ride with them like that they will wear and wheel will keep...

I need to pull mine back into them with the bike upside down pretty determinedly or the chain is slack. If it is slack the gears slip and grind horribly. It all sounds very much like the wheel isn't far enough into the dropout slots (back towards you when bike upside down). You need to pull the...

Spoken from the heart :( ;) ... I do sympathize now. Will rewire any new batteries and chargers "my way" from now lol.

Can you post some photos ? It took me weeks to get to understand how to easily sort my back wheel but I have a different model to you and am not 100% sure how closely the setups match each other. The mudguards don't need moving and you should have plenty of clearance - I didn't have any of...

Mike, the battery is fine - red is +ve and black is 0v. The socket accords to this. I've just had to swap the charger wires so blue goes to red and brown to black. No way round that other than to open up the charger and reverse the manufacturer's wiring within the body of the charger. 3-pin XLR...

I have a colour coded Neutrik male on the charger which only fits 3-pin XLR socket and has a special grey bushing to signal it's for my silver bike. You can see it in post 14. Can't be mixed up with anything else. I'm not opening up the charger to swap round the wires internally within it...

How's the chain tension, Spinalot ?

a true 'free ride' ... get it wrong though and you could snap right out of the saddle into the nearest cowpat ! :p

We know the battery charger's OK now. How would I know if I'd blown or damaged the BMS ? Would the battery just not charge at all ? ... and looking back over the post you did say to check with multimeter, explained how to do it and I seem to remember checking .... but from the misty haze of...

... and not to mention completely impractical having just about nowhere to mount any significant gear-carrying stuff. Unless you want a "Pi-mono pannier" at $295 (:rolleyes:).... and for all those thousands of dollars you still wind up with a front hub motor bike. Blimey !

Just thought I'd update this thread whilst I still remember and for future reference. After trying the charger on the battery following rewire and (eventually) getting out to test the working bike it was clear it wasn't accepting charge from the charger. To cut a story short, with d8veh's...

Maybe .... I have visions of cutting the circulation in my calves off completely ! Think I'll stick with the chainring bashguard idea - prospects of me putting my hand on a modified suspender belt gaiter-supporting kit on my way out of the house are about as great as my putting my hand on my...

I tried similar ones like that in the early days - and a pair of mini ones too. Unfortunately as I am very slim gaiters and the like never stay held "up" where they should be on me. Was always the kid at school whose socks slipped down. Nothing much has changed lol. Gave up on them and bought...

It just goes to show ... I feel that even about the Trek I just turned from a little over 10kg without puncture proof tyres / heavy tubes, SPD pedals and eBike bits to 24kg laden down with motor, BIG heavy battery and a bunch of extra fittings. I was expecting it to be awful to ride unpowered...

... could be ... and the signature might be an especially cunning decoy. Only one way to dispel speculation such as this ....

Easy fix for it is to rub standard vegetable soap (not hand soap) on the grease areas under the tap before shoving in the washing machine. It gets grease and oil out great, just as well as any stain devils type fancy stuff. My jeans were covered in oil on Tuesday - did this and there's not a...

I'm fine with maintaining my chain and it gets cleaned once a week. It was getting grease and road muck all over bottom of trousers brushing the chain / chainring that was problem. I hear what people are saying about tucking trousers in to socks - but sad thing is I actually only own one pair...

Getting used to using derailleur bike with exposed chain on more varied rides... it's fine with shorts so 95% of the time not an issue but if I do need to go somewhere on it in jeans or trousers, what do people use to stop getting oil all over bottom ? Not a fan of trouser clips - used some...

Lots of happy bunnies with their new bikes at the moment. Get next week out of the way and maybe the weather will cheer up a bit for some sunny Springtime fun. :)