I recieved mine earlier this week, but kept forgetting to post up pics and details (too many things going on, and my brain espeically memory for this kind of thing isn't working as well as before this past few weeks). PIcs are just attached in bulk to the end of the post, not inline (so apologies for the "mess").
The box appeared mostly intact on the outside, but was a bit beat up. The problems begin on the inside, however, because there was no packing in the box to keep the wheels from bashing each other up hard, and causing some significant damage to each other. There were bits of cardboard that looked from the axle-sized holes in them, and deep imprints of various motor, hub, and spoke bits, to have once been placed between the wheels, but had long since passed out and collapsed into cardboard comaland at the "bottom' of the box, along with some ziploc bags of hardware that were mostly closed, and one piece of black plastic.
The black plastic bit had broken off of one of the shifting plates on an IGH hub. I can probably glue it back on to repair it, but even a modest attempt at packing the wheels as if someone cared would probably have prevented the breakage in the first place.
The next worst damage was the severe bashing and probably unfixable bending of one of the disc rotors on one of the motors. Without using the calipers, just checking by eye, it's something nearing a centimeter out of true.
Next is some severe cable damage to the motor wiring on one of the hubmotors, which is often seen on poorly mounted hubmotors, but in this case I can see marks in the jacket that indicate an axle end struck it at least once, and probably ground on it for a while, or repeatedly, or both. I'll have to open this one up to pull the wiring inside and cut the damaged part out and splice it back together.
After that, it's a bunch of bent and bashed spokes in the wheels. Might not be enough damage to make them unsafe to ride, but it certainly put them all out of true, and will require retensioning and retruing all four wheels. Didn't expect to have to do that, but at least I know how.
One of the hardware bags contained three (?) disc brake calipers; I suppose the third is intended as a spare. Another bag contained all of the mounting hardware (axle nuts, lockwashers, torque washers) for the hubmotors. Anothher bag contained most of the mounting hardware (axle nuts, lockwashers, torque washers, and part of the cable-fixing / adjustment bits) for the IGH's. That bag was the least closed of the three, so perhaps the other piece(s?) snuck out during the destruction derby ride everything went thru on the way here, due to the lack of packing and care by the shippers at Batteryclearinghouse.
Plenty of other bashmarks in various places on the wheels, mostly around the middle where axles struck as they partied in the box on the way here.
Haven't tested anything yet, but I expect they'll all work, despite the damage.
Only one wheel came with a Schwalbe, the other three are Kenda "moped" tires (though I don't know any mopeds that use 26" wheels, so...I don't believe it. (and I don't really trust Kenda tires anyway, but they *are* all in virtually brand new condition, and still even have the "hairs" on them for the most part, along with teh molding line in the center of the tread area, so I'll use them till they wear out. )
I had intended to use these (especially the IGHs with the drum brakes) on the large duallie Mk IV.5 trailer, but forgot that the trailer was built for four front wheels, and these IGHs are common rear wheel spacing of 135mm (unlike the other SA IGHs I have that are the same as the front spacing, 110mm I think). So I will have to modify the trailer frame to use them. No biggie, just adds more work to the pile. :/
Optionally, I have two regular bicycles that could use these, unmodified.
One is a complete Nishiki bike that I don't use because it isn't powered and I really can't ride any useful distance under pure pedal power anymore, at least not on something that isnt' a trike that I can just sit there in a super low gear and keep cranking very slowly but still move a little bit, without straining my joints. It's a little tall to straddle these days, but I could use it for a backup bike. Id' rather use the Trek that fits me better, but that one uses very narrow rims, might even be a larger diameter, so wont' fit the rims on these wheels (could relace...but not sure I want to get into that).
The other is a cruiser frame with a built in (welded) rear rack. It's not a great frame, but it's lower and I could ride it, and it has a rack I could put panniers on easily enough. Would need to add disc brake caliper mounts to it's fork (the one in the pics is not for the bike, was just used to hold some other wheel in it at some point for I think a truing).
I'm not sure now which one to use these wheels on. I do still need four matching wheels for the trailer, with brakes...so I'm going to check with BCH, despite their lack of caring about the condition of their customers' purchases, and see if they still have four more IGH wheels for really cheap, just to use for the trailer. If so, I'll probalby get them, and hope they arrive in better condition than this set (possibly, just because they wont have the heavier hubmotor pair, and will just be the four IGHs).