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  1. LeftCoastNurd

    chain broke on brand new Shimano middrive...

    Something I don't think I've ever experienced before in 40 years of riding bikes... brand new Motobecane Adventure hybrid with Shimano esteps mid drive and 9 speed Shimano derailleur. I'm cruising easy in 5th gear or so on a level bike path, and suddenly the chain broke and deposited itself...
  2. LeftCoastNurd

    Rebuilding a lion pack.,

    My wife's niece has a cargo ebike she loves, and rides daily, taking her kids to preschool and running errands around Coronado, but the battery is not holding a charge very long any more. It is a 36v 9ah pack that slides into the motor control module, all integrated into the rack. Googling...
  3. LeftCoastNurd

    little person bike...

    My wife's sister is a 'little person', aka a dwarf. she has extremely short upper legs and arms, she's not quite 48" (122 cm) tall overall. When she was in her 20s, I found a kid's bike, and fixed it up for her, put better wheels on the frame, put a bigger chainring on the small kid cranks...
  4. LeftCoastNurd

    TSDZ2 won't fit through my bottom bracket ?!?

    I started a conversion of my 2011-ish Globe (Specialized) Vienna 02 700c hybrid, got the old cranks off, and removed the bottom bracket, and was trying to install the motor assembly, and it won't fit through the 68mm bottom bracket, there's a ridge in the maching in the middle of the bracket...
  5. LeftCoastNurd

    A new 700C hybrid 'city-bike' build w TSDZ2

    I'm 66 now, and out of shape, but always liked bicycling... 8 years ago, I built up a 700x32 3x8 geared bike as a fast comfortable 'city bike'... It started as a very cheap NOS (Specialized) Globe Vienna, but I changed the bars, stem, cranks, cassette, and tires. and seat+post. and some...
  6. LeftCoastNurd

    handlebar controls and shifters and brakes

    so on both my conversions, I've had quite an issue integrating a rear trigger shifter on the right bar, with a throttle, and a v-brake lever, seeing as how most all v-brake levers are setup for 2-finger.... when you add a throttle, its a mess. reaching that right side trigger shifter...
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