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Stupid and simple idea but it could be the hinge on the handle, one of my (V brake) bikes needs WD40 on one of them a few times a year.
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learnincurve posted:Stupid and simple idea but it could be the hinge on the handle, one of my (V brake) bikes needs WD40 on one of them a few times a year. Work the brake caliper arms directly with your hand and see if there's an effort difference front to back. If they're the same, it's either at the lever or in the cable run. You could differentiate further by unclamping the cable at the caliper and see if only the first pull (that slides the cable up the housing) is slow, meaning the friction is in the housing, or if they're all slow, meaning it's at the lever.
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Sep 7, 2021 03:11
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Thanks! not a bike guy so I'll need to look those up and work my way through them. I did see some visible fraying maybe on the rear brake line, but don't know if that would cause the problem since it all sits outside the wire sheathing:
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Sep 7, 2021 03:59
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PageMaster posted:wire sheathing Cable housing. The cable having strands loose like that is a sign of sloppy assembly or a bad clamp design, but it should be fine to loosen the clamp and test a couple times. You could also try to twist the cable in the direction of the strands to get them tightened up.
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Sep 7, 2021 04:07
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That’s where someone’s adjusted the wire and nothing to worry about so long as the strands haven’t snapped, if you want to tidy it up then get pliers and twist but 9/10 that silver crimper thing will fly off. Most of my bikes look like that as it takes a while for the cables to bed in and I like my brakes on a hair trigger.
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Pucklynn posted:well, i put a deposit on a Tern HSD S+ so they'll ship it to the shop so i can take a look at it! pretty much everything else is out of stock until the end of the year at least and I don't want to lose the last bit of summer and fall if i can help it Okay, so I got my bike on the 25th of August and I'm completely obsessed with it. I've taken it up and down all kinds of crazy New York hills and it runs like BUTTER. The automatic shifting is really smooth and intuitive. I've maxed out at about 30 mph going down a hill! I feel like some kind of god on this thing! I'm waiting for some cargo racks to come in to really complete the set, but I'm 100% sold on biking everywhere for everything now, I'm sure my friends are tired of hearing about it. I haven't yet stopped long enough to take good pictures of it, but if there's any specific details you wanna see/hear about, AMA
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Turns out the thousands of extra dollars do make a better product. I'm trying to find a used first gen GSD with a solid fork. How does the bike fit for you?
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Sep 11, 2021 16:53
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kimbo305 posted:Turns out the thousands of extra dollars do make a better product. I'm trying to find a used first gen GSD with a solid fork. I have to drop the seat down to the absolute shortest height to ride, but it fits me perfectly. I'm able to ride pretty upright with the adjustable handlebars, which I find more comfortable my only complaint would be that the back half is heavier than the front half by enough that sometimes it attempts to tip over, but that's gotten better as I've adjusted to it
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Sep 12, 2021 04:53
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Pucklynn posted:Okay, so I got my bike on the 25th of August and I'm completely obsessed with it. kimbo305 posted:I'm trying to find a used first gen GSD with a solid fork.
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Good news: We've got possible progress toward an ebike tax credit! (doc) https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1436674529733001217 Bad news: https://twitter.com/Giampoli/status/1436699887119261703 For the country's major metro areas, this is prohibitive for anyone in the middle class. The means testing applied to cars is drastically more generous, suggesting that the folks calling the shots are still of the mindset that bikes are luxury items and cars are everyday necessities. While the latter is unfortunately true across broad swathes of America today, the whole point of making ebikes more accessible to all should be to supplant car usage! It's unfortunately unclear from the document exactly which bill this is a section of, but I'm hoping to figure that out and write my reps to see if things can still be amended.
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Sep 12, 2021 17:59
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Phase out starts at $75k AGI for single filers ($200 for each $1k of income, so gone at ~$82k) and $150k married filing jointly. Not exactly going to do much of anything for most urbanites that would be potential e-bike buyers.
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I rode in the Tour de Staten Island yesterday. I don't know how Transportation Alternatives managed it, but they put together a route that was almost entirely uphill and upwind in every direction. just kidding. It was beautiful and really well-curated. I rode the 35 mile course with a Bosch PowerPack 500 plugged into my bike. On the lowest assist setting, the range guess-o-meter was pretty confident I was going to get about 50 miles out of the battery. But with about 8 miles to go I was really dragging rear end, so I bumped it up to 2/4 assist. I finished the ride, and swapped in my PowerPack 400 to get me home. The beauty of taking an e-bike on a group ride like this is I could carry panniers full of spares and tools. I helped two riders swap tubes (because I guess nobody thought to carry tire levers?), and gave one rider the CO2 left over in a half-spent CO2 cartridge I had with me. I also punctured my rear tube, but being a slime tube it self-sealed. I was able to air back up pretty quickly and be on my way.
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Quick question for those who tinker/mod their bikes I've wanted to add a big battery to my bike, it's already got a 52v 17aH pack on it but with the more power-intensive controller and motor I've already added to the bike it's not going as far as I'd like. Found this battery pack, wondered if anyone's used or head of one of these? https://www.ebay.com/itm/154188690928
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Queadlunn posted:Found this battery pack, wondered if anyone's used or head of one of these? CopperHound fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Sep 27, 2021 |
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Sep 27, 2021 22:04
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I've been having a grand old time on my new Aventon Aventure, but 20 miles is generous on the range if you set the max speed past 30. Still, I've never ridden an ebike before and when the motor kicks in I feel like some sort of wizard.
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Sep 27, 2021 23:28
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How often are you getting it past 30?
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Sep 27, 2021 23:38
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It really doesn't take much, just a few seconds of acceleration on any road or path that isn't too curved. If the motor assist is running for more than 5 seconds or so it will be above 30 unless there's a serious hill.
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Sep 27, 2021 23:41
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Can we clarify if we are talking about 30km/h or 30mph 
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Queadlunn posted:
Apart from what copperhound says with extra impact protection that pack will work just fine, provided it has a form factor that works for you. There are only so many ways to array 18650 cells conveniently. I've bought a few similar packs over the years and put into diy plywood boxes that goes into the bakfiets. In my opinion it's worth it to spend a little extra on name brand cells since those have fewer quality control issues. If it doesn't say what cells they use it's gonna be whatever chinese cells were cheapest that day (they still might even though they claim to use Samsung/LG/panasonic but I've never been scammed this way). If just one cell out of around 100 or whatever fails prematurely you don't lose 1% battery capacity but some multiple of that depending on voltage etc, but it's gonna be a 10% hit or more (higher voltage pack is worse), plus the good cells in parallel to the bad one are now under extra strain and will probably fail faster too.
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CopperHound posted:Can we clarify if we are talking about 30km/h or 30mph The maximum speed is adjustable up to 51 km/h. e: On pedal assist. The throttle cuts out at 20 mph or 32 km/h. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Sep 28, 2021 |
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CopperHound posted:That looks like a pouch based instead of 18650 battery pack. That means you need extra mechanical protection to make sure an accident doesn't cause an uncontrolled release of a bit less than 1million Jules of energy. Invalido posted:Apart from what copperhound says with extra impact protection that pack will work just fine, provided it has a form factor that works for you. There are only so many ways to array 18650 cells conveniently. I've bought a few similar packs over the years and put into diy plywood boxes that goes into the bakfiets. In my opinion it's worth it to spend a little extra on name brand cells since those have fewer quality control issues. If it doesn't say what cells they use it's gonna be whatever chinese cells were cheapest that day (they still might even though they claim to use Samsung/LG/panasonic but I've never been scammed this way). If just one cell out of around 100 or whatever fails prematurely you don't lose 1% battery capacity but some multiple of that depending on voltage etc, but it's gonna be a 10% hit or more (higher voltage pack is worse), plus the good cells in parallel to the bad one are now under extra strain and will probably fail faster too. Thanks for the input! I was planning on building a polycarbonate housing for the pack anyway since I'm adding a big assembly to the underside of my Rad Mini 4. I'll keep looking for a better brand cell but finding 52v packs over 20Ah is a bit of a challenge right now.
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Depending on your ESC odds are your bike will work fine with a 48v pack too, which should increase the selection quite a bit. You'll lose a bit of performance though. Have you checked on Aliexpress btw? Last time I shopped from there the selection was huge. Otherwise I'm sure some spot welding shop would be happy to build you a custom specified pack if you manage to communicate your needs effectively. It's not hard to do a one-off if you have the equipment and they're all hand build anyway.
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Invalido posted:Depending on your ESC odds are your bike will work fine with a 48v pack too, which should increase the selection quite a bit. You'll lose a bit of performance though. Have you checked on Aliexpress btw? Last time I shopped from there the selection was huge. Otherwise I'm sure some spot welding shop would be happy to build you a custom specified pack if you manage to communicate your needs effectively. It's not hard to do a one-off if you have the equipment and they're all hand build anyway. The bike shipped with a 48v pack, I'm still using it as a backup for the 52v pack, made a on1-off-on2 switch harness for long rides. I want to stick with 52v if possible for the nice additional torque. Going a full custom pack is something I've been thinking of, still need to figure out if I can find a pre-made pack that'll work.
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Has anyone any experience of Swytch e-bikes? They're all over youtube ads, it's a battery pack and wheel that you replace your front wheel with. It looks ok and reviews are good except for communication, but I was wondering if there were any personal perpsectives. They operate a weird pricing model so I'm a bit hesitant to commit.
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Von Linus posted:Has anyone any experience of Swytch e-bikes? They're all over youtube ads, it's a battery pack and wheel that you replace your front wheel with. It looks ok and reviews are good except for communication, but I was wondering if there were any personal perpsectives. They operate a weird pricing model so I'm a bit hesitant to commit. You need to sign up for the pre-order to get the offer to buy them at £500 + the extras to turn it into assist Really good way of converting your existing bikes, especially as they have the 26” wheel option, you take the battery off the front and it just looks like a regular bike so you can leave it locked outside. If you are planning on getting a budget electric commuter then the current value for money one is the new Halfords electric commuter btw https://www.halfords.com/bikes/elec...hhoCHIsQAvD_BwE
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learnincurve posted:You need to sign up for the pre-order to get the offer to buy them at £500 + the extras to turn it into assist Cheers, I have the preorder available, and I have a cannondale bad boy 6 (I didn't name it) to put the wheel on. It's a better value proposition for me to do that I think over the halfords, as my company scheme won't allow me to buy from there. I'm just a bit nervous about it, I have two left thumbs and the fitting is a concern for me.
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Von Linus posted:Cheers, I have the preorder available, and I have a cannondale bad boy 6 (I didn't name it) to put the wheel on. It's a better value proposition for me to do that I think over the halfords, as my company scheme won't allow me to buy from there. I'm just a bit nervous about it, I have two left thumbs and the fitting is a concern for me. I'm getting one for minicurve for sure next round - they have a fitting video on the website showing your nan can do it, before you watch it take a picture of the gap between your crankshaft and the bike and measure it and that will tell you how to fit the magnet bits and which ones in the box you need to use 
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learnincurve posted:I'm getting one for minicurve for sure next round - they have a fitting video on the website showing your nan can do it, before you watch it take a picture of the gap between your crankshaft and the bike and measure it and that will tell you how to fit the magnet bits and which ones in the box you need to use Ah that's cool, thanks. I'll commit. Do you know if they're ever faster than the sample12 weeks? I imagine with shipping being what it is it could be mid spring at least before we get anything,.
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I think you had a better chance of early if you ordered yesterday so I’d go with the 3 month estimate. I’m getting one because mini needs a 14” frame and 26” wheels and at the moment with supply as it is it would be easier to fit the swytch to her heavy jr bike than attempt to find a reasonably priced ebike in that size for sure.
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What should I be looking for to carry me 25k-ish over gravel roads to cart my rear end down to the river and back with my fishing gear? I was looking at a RadWagon, but I have very little knowledge of these things and hope the hivemind can help.
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25 km round trip, or one way? A RadWagon would probably be pretty fine, especially at the lowest assist level. It claims a 45 mile range, but that's assuming a light rider doing a lot of the work. Look into a suspension seatpost if you're going to take a cargo bike on gravel for a while.
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If the only cargo is fishing gear and some fish haul, any cargo bike with 2" tires will be fine on most gravel.
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FYI I ordered the swytch, and it allows you to specify your speed (so 15mphEU/20mph UK) at checkout no matter where it's being delivered. Hurrah!
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learnincurve posted:Did you get the twist and go throttle version or pedal assist? Just pedal assist, I do want to cycle a bit. And not pay for the extras I suppose.
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Safety Dance posted:25 km round trip, or one way? A RadWagon would probably be pretty fine, especially at the lowest assist level. It claims a 45 mile range, but that's assuming a light rider doing a lot of the work. It would be 25k one way, hauling my tackle box, rod case, a folding chair and a cooler full of lunch and hopefully fish on the way back. I've biked my way there before, but by god the climb back up is a killer.
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The Pro's Closet has some minor deals of on lightly used ebikes. This is 23% off: https://www.theproscloset.com/products/2019-specialized-turbo-como-2-0-low-entry-650b-l The inventory sorted by price: https://www.theproscloset.com/collections/e-bike Nothing earth shattering, and nothing budget, but some stuff under 3k.
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Costco has the Priority Current at $2800 again, Enviolo hub. I'm tempted. Though some reviews say it really needs the Shimano hub. Academician Nomad fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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The next van Moof is going to be a $3600, 2wd, full suspension machine with a 31mph top speed*. Amazing. I'm really curious to see if that's going to spark any kind of change in the market. * or less, depending on where you are
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Safety Dance posted:The next van Moof is going to be a $3600, 2wd, full suspension machine with a 31mph top speed*. Amazing. I'm really curious to see if that's going to spark any kind of change in the market.
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