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    sturdy 26 inch rim recomendations

    My 5 year old daily commuter build, bent the rear rim. I need to find a new rim and I am looking for suggestions without breaking the bank.... here are the Details; Bike: Manhattan deluxe flyer 6. steel cruiser bike. Add on's: welded custom "book" rack from 1/2 mild steel tube. 26 lbs of ping...
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    atoema stuttering

    My atoema (2008) brushless sensorless motor, suffered a short in the phase wires. This blew up the original controller. I corrected the short and then rewired from the windings out through the axle with larger wires. I ordered up a new controller from HTB and then put the rewired motor and...
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    help needed with dead aotema

    After 3000 miles, my aotema kit has died. Symptoms before death. 1. Occasional loss of power. The power loss did not appear to be caused by bumps or turns or acceleration. I would be riding along and the power would just quit. Full throttle, part throttle, no pattern. 2. I was able to...
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    need help identifying this bike not electric

    Ok guys, I was helping out my mom, going through old scrap books etc and scanning them. This picture is from florida in the 40's, right after the war broke out. It was my grandfathers transportation from home to the base. Mom thought he built it, but I dont think so. He did build a bike from an...
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    where to buy a second ping charger

    I have a brand new 36v 20ah ping v2.5 battery that came with a very nice battery charger. I would like to have a second one, as a spare and to keep at work. Any ideas where I can find such a thing.... Dogman, if you want to chime in here with the brand, model etc of the sla charger that you...
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    ping 36v 20ah v2.5 questions

    After 2000 miles on lead and with Dogmans advice, I bought the Ping v2.5 36v 20ah battery for my we bl-36. I ordered the battery on 9/1 and the post office delivered it on 9/11. Very fast shipping!!!! Every thing is great, but I do have some questions. 1. What are the leds on the bms telling...
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    batteryminder desulfator real world experiance

    About two weeks ago, I received a batteryminder odb-36 charger and desulfator. My modified ev global was on its last legs with the 12ah agm pack I built about a year ago. I ran a couple of hundred trips back and forth to work on these batteries. At the end I could only get 4.5 to 5 miles range...
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    750 miles on a wildernes energy brushless 36 volt hub motor

    I bought a wilderness energy brusless, sensorless hub motor from ebay. its a daily communter on a manhattan flyer delux 6. 7.5 miles to work one way, 15 miles round trip. The original 12 amp batteries lasted about 500 miles worth. New batteries are 18ah. Re-enforced the bikes original rear rack...
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    controller and amps question

    I have just completed the build of an electric trike for my elderly mother. It does not go to fast, but thats a good thing!!! specs: Unknown spec rear, geared hub motor mounted in the front wheel (yes it was a tight fit and I did have to bend the forks). Very old design. Cast aluminum, 6 or so...
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    being polite on the road..question

    So, after my little experiance with the rude biker, I decided maybe I should talk to some of my co-workers who ride with various clubs... I came to understand that there are some nice ways to do things.. Of course this info is from guys who ride together. So, there is some jabs at each other as...
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    rude road bikers (ie lycra"s or clown shirts etc)

    Waiting at a stop light, in the bike lane. 6 or 8 other bikes in front of me, 2 or 3 behind me. Light is red. Along comes the clown shirted fixie riding macho man. He just goes by everyone else that is stopped and jumps to the head of the line. Then he balances on the peddles for a min or two...
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    lipo and daily commuting

    I have two ebikes that I swap back and forth for my daily commute of 7.5 miles one way, 15 miles total. I run three 12v 12ah sla's. I charge religiously asap at work and at home. I even charge inside overnight, as the weather is getting down into the 50's in the mornings now. I am starting to...
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    does or did WE have a bad rep and why

    Ive read lots of post about WE hubs being sort of the bottom the of barrel. Ive read about charger issues and controler issues, burnt out motors But, on the ohter hand, Ive read about the same things with all of the other brands. I run a WE BL36 with 500 plus miles on it. No problems. I also run...
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    would you buy a hub kit built in the USA

    We all know the quality control issues with kits from China. So, if an american Mfg made hubs, at a comparable price, would you buy???? also, what sort of technical specs would you like to see detailed in the sales literature??? I was thinking magnet strengh and composition, cogging force at...
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    analog amp meter and making a shunt.

    Having "hurt" one heinzman motor by running to much amperage, I would like to be able to monitor the amperage being sucked out of the batteries, once I get this motor repaired and back on the road. The motor in question is a 24 volt 30 amp max heinzman that I was running with a 36volt 35 amp...
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    how to lower the amp output of a controller

    I have a ct-312ct controller from a razor e300 scooter that I am going to install on my beater evg Ebike. The controller is 35 amp and the motor is 30 amp. So how do I lower the amp output of the controller. I am guessing that I will need to change the resistance of the shunt. So, if bridging...
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    The arrogance of bike shops

    Long story short, bent a rim on a WE brushless, 1 flat spot that spanned 2 spokes and a slight bulge where the brakes ride. I took the wheel and motor to the first bike shop, a local independent that’s been in Phoenix as long as I have (30 + years). They take a look at it and say...
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    Help received new WE hub, have questions about quaility.

    Ok, so I purchased a Wilderness energy BL36 kit from a seller on eBay. I got the kit today. The box is fairly well beat up by UPS, so I took lots of pictures of the damage. Now for the questions!!!!!!!!!!! 1. I checked all the spokes, 12 of them are so loose that you can rattle them in the rim...
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    24v controller running 36v what about low battery cut off??

    I have an evg ebike that I rebuilt with a standard Razor 24 volt 20 amp controller which has a 20 volt low voltage cut out. The batteries I am using are 12v 12 amp SLA's. The controller works great for this bike. The motor is a Heinzman with a 21 amp mfgr's rating, so the two live nicely...
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    EVG Ebike before and after pics, 36volts

    Well here she is, before and after pics. Most of what you see is homemade or re-used. BEFORE BEFORE, with my guard dog (LOL, she will lick you to death) The handlebar bag holds a third 12v12ah SLA (9 lbs), the 12volt charger (2 pounds), my bike chain (6 pounds) and the monster...
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    Help reading bike law codes in two cities.

    Hello all, Is there a lawyer in the house???? Wanting to be a good ebike citizen, I thought I should check the electric bike laws of the cities I bike through to get to work. The two cities are Mesa AZ and Tempe AZ. So a little internet research finds the attached laws. I numbered each line...
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    First ebike ride to work, I got stopped twice

    Rode my EVG ebike to work (6 miles) today for the first time. I got stopped by motorist twice, asking where they could get one!!!!!!!! 6 miles about 30 minutes drive time... Comming home in 114 degree heat, Very nice. My shirt was dry and I was cool all the way home... The motor was only about...
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    used evg 24 volt rebuild, heinzmann rear hub motor

    I found a brace of matching red EVG E-bikes on Craig list. For 200 bucks, they came home with me!! They had all their parts. 12 batteries and two battery holders / chargers, but there were some issues. 1. Bad controller. One of the bikes (the bad one) had a blown controller. Investigation...
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    where to buy

    With my bike pusher complete, I am on the Ebike bandwagon. The current stable of electric transport is as follows. 1. Zapworld.com Zappy scooter. This was a rescue from a thriftshop. New batteries, new bearings and a lot of cleaning and its a keeper. I use the Zappy work day from Home to the...
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    Bob's bike pusher trailer project.

    So after reading about Ross and his bike pusher, I decied to try my hand at it. The design criteria was to build it cheap, build it strong, build it so it could hold our insulated cooler bag so we could not use the car to run small trips to the store near by (less then 1 mile away) The...
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