Zoot Katz
100 kW
Resting in pieces. Resulting in puzzlement. Ruminating imminent purchase.
My all-time favourite whip cracked. It's bye-bye le Béte. Routines change when your Xtracycle busts.
This dumpster based, sweet riding cargo longtail limo has carried me 21,377 km since being electrified mid Sept.2008.
It's been upgraded along the way and now is on the third controller and third pair of batteries in the X5304.
The second controller still works but was replaced with a sensorless one when the halls finally crapped out in March this year. The rim has been cracking in a worrisome manner since last November. The headset and BB need replacement, something felt loose, yadda yadda. I've been procrastinating it as a winter project.
Removing the first flat in over 3 years on the Big Apples (inner tube stem separated) led to discovering the snapped tang on the dropout of the Free-Radical. I'm guessing thats why the Snapdeck had recently been shifting forward and squeaking. Judging by that, the thing has probably been fukt for about three months and it has kept on rolling.
Kudos to Xtracycle anyway. At half price on craigslist, I'm satisfied with the service I'd gotten from it. Now it's time to make some choices and try to figure out my next longtail.
Obvious easy way is to have the X 5304 re laced, halls and bearings replaced. Get a new Free Radical kit and do the rebuild like the old one. The Free Radical is probably due for a redesign (Leaper 26?) but I can't wait for that. The X5 never really fit easily into it but I don't want whimpy bike.
Maybe an Edgerunner running a HS 3548 at 48V could scratch that same itch.
My all-time favourite whip cracked. It's bye-bye le Béte. Routines change when your Xtracycle busts.
This dumpster based, sweet riding cargo longtail limo has carried me 21,377 km since being electrified mid Sept.2008.
It's been upgraded along the way and now is on the third controller and third pair of batteries in the X5304.
The second controller still works but was replaced with a sensorless one when the halls finally crapped out in March this year. The rim has been cracking in a worrisome manner since last November. The headset and BB need replacement, something felt loose, yadda yadda. I've been procrastinating it as a winter project.
Removing the first flat in over 3 years on the Big Apples (inner tube stem separated) led to discovering the snapped tang on the dropout of the Free-Radical. I'm guessing thats why the Snapdeck had recently been shifting forward and squeaking. Judging by that, the thing has probably been fukt for about three months and it has kept on rolling.
Kudos to Xtracycle anyway. At half price on craigslist, I'm satisfied with the service I'd gotten from it. Now it's time to make some choices and try to figure out my next longtail.
Obvious easy way is to have the X 5304 re laced, halls and bearings replaced. Get a new Free Radical kit and do the rebuild like the old one. The Free Radical is probably due for a redesign (Leaper 26?) but I can't wait for that. The X5 never really fit easily into it but I don't want whimpy bike.
Maybe an Edgerunner running a HS 3548 at 48V could scratch that same itch.