Ever since I got my ebike I've been getting flats nearly every 2 weeks (compared to 1 in 10 years with regular bikes), probably costs me more in tire repairs than it costs a xar driver in gas for the same mileage.
Are all electric bikes like this? At the bike shop (didnt buy there, they're against ebikes) they keep telling me it's because my motor wheel by itself weighs more than a complete non electric bike (good thing they haven't seen the 120 pound bike!).
I also saw last time they put my tire pressure at 60psi, I assume to reduce the likely hood of a flat.
My flats are also all (it seems) pinch flats (not due to puncture but due to a shock on the tire from a bump or hole which cuts the inside air chamber).
Is there anything I can do? Do you also have flats this often? It may help to mention driving on road in Canada is more bumpy than most off road driving with all the enormous holes every 2 feet in the street.
My rear suspension spring is also a 100lbs/in which I think is much too strong, it's as if I had no suspension at all in the back due to the extremely stiff spring, my old bike had a 400lbs/in spring, much less than half my current one.
So what can I do to avoid flats? I try to keep an eye on the road ahead of me to avoid all those enormous holes but today I ran at 35 km/h into a HUGE hole the city had cut into the street with no warning signs or anything, both my tires popped the second they hit the hole, I had to walk miles back home with my 120 pound bike! It also wasn't a hole I could simply avoid, they had "carved" a sort of 1-2 foot wide, maybe 4-6 inch deep groove that crossed the street with very sharp 90 degree edges, my only option would have been to stop, but I was going at 35 and saw it at the last second, but the second I saw it, I immediately knew both tires would be slashed the next second, and indeed they were.
Is there a way to stop getting so many flats? Should I try inflating to 90 or even 120 psi? It seems like it would need at least that (what's the pressure supposed to be anyway?)!
Thanks
Are all electric bikes like this? At the bike shop (didnt buy there, they're against ebikes) they keep telling me it's because my motor wheel by itself weighs more than a complete non electric bike (good thing they haven't seen the 120 pound bike!).
I also saw last time they put my tire pressure at 60psi, I assume to reduce the likely hood of a flat.
My flats are also all (it seems) pinch flats (not due to puncture but due to a shock on the tire from a bump or hole which cuts the inside air chamber).
Is there anything I can do? Do you also have flats this often? It may help to mention driving on road in Canada is more bumpy than most off road driving with all the enormous holes every 2 feet in the street.
My rear suspension spring is also a 100lbs/in which I think is much too strong, it's as if I had no suspension at all in the back due to the extremely stiff spring, my old bike had a 400lbs/in spring, much less than half my current one.
So what can I do to avoid flats? I try to keep an eye on the road ahead of me to avoid all those enormous holes but today I ran at 35 km/h into a HUGE hole the city had cut into the street with no warning signs or anything, both my tires popped the second they hit the hole, I had to walk miles back home with my 120 pound bike! It also wasn't a hole I could simply avoid, they had "carved" a sort of 1-2 foot wide, maybe 4-6 inch deep groove that crossed the street with very sharp 90 degree edges, my only option would have been to stop, but I was going at 35 and saw it at the last second, but the second I saw it, I immediately knew both tires would be slashed the next second, and indeed they were.
Is there a way to stop getting so many flats? Should I try inflating to 90 or even 120 psi? It seems like it would need at least that (what's the pressure supposed to be anyway?)!
Thanks
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