el_walto said:
I started one at http://ebikeinfo.ca but have not had time to organize it yet.
If anyone wants to edit it, go ahead. It does not currently require any registration, and I'd like to keep it that way. I plan on adding some "cookbooks" for picture uploads and captchas shortly.
It's just so good and logically written. I don't think I could possibly add any quality to your work there.
The Beginner's Guide is faultless in every respect.
I have an eZee front. Took a header at twenty. Steel fork, steel dropouts. When the bike struck the curbing in the round-about,
that sudden shock to the eZee, spread the steel dropouts of the Sun Kruiser branded cruiser coaster brake bike.
When I get it back on the road (have been sidetracked for more than a month with other issues, I must fit it with a torque arm, preferably two.
It would seem advisable, even on a steel fork, even with a relatively tame eZee (36V), that the torque arm is going to be useful in a collision situation;
I have busted wires (I hard-wired the motor, discarding quick disconnects. So, a few of the wires are probably busted inside their insulation, as the axle wound about one and a half times, in the dropouts.
Bought a new fork for this particular bike, no problem, from the LBS that sells this Miami-based "brand", imported by the large and famous J&B importers.
It is a very good bike for two bills. But I will not run it again until I have at least one torque arm;
Point: it might be a good idea to include with every kit, a torque arm.
Am torn at this point, which torque arm to get: the one from your firm (can two be used?)
Or there is one from Amped Bikes that lookes beefier yet. And no "hose clamp", which is sort of unattractive, yet practical.
Summary: you've don't great work there already. I think the resource, built in with sales info, is just great.
I'm a big fan of the firm, as you know. Thanks. I love the C.A. and the eZee is my not-regretted choice. It purrs and it pulls from a standing start,
and the thumb throttle is just excellent in feel and modulation.
example, about a week or so before I crashed this bike, my fault that was.
All from your firm, other than the Ping battery.
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"clean and simple and 20mph--works for me, no front brake on purpose, no hills here
and I can stop almost on a dime by back pedaling and leaning back. Not for hilly areas, of course,
nor for 25mph and over, speeds."
Important addendum of recommendation: that eZee wheel kit is premium priced. You get
what you pay for, as the old saying goes.
That Weinmann (sp) rim of the eZee is "double walled" strong. The tire used, and still just fine: Bontrager Big Hank,
front inflated to a mere 10PSI, because, on my implementation, the rider weight (less than 150 lbs) is so heavily biased to the rear.
No steering or stability issues. THAT WHEEL took a direct frontal impact at fully 20 mph into a standard height concrete curbing.
The bike flipped, of course. I went flying into the relatively soft dirt, thank that luck, and only got road-rashed on a palm. No head injury;
only some minor bruises.
The WHEEL did not bend. The tire did not pinch-flat. In fact, the eZee wheel with my-choice of that Big Hank, runs perfectly true,
not a bit of bend or strain suffered in the terrific collision to the curb. The motor ran after the accident, about five hundred feet, towards home,
then I noted the wound-up wires and turned the bars hard one way or the other. Motor quit then, as a wire or two broke inside the insulation.
No problem to repair the torn wire or wires (hard wired, all of it). AMAZING to me that the wheel is perfectly round and true, after that great crash.
I'm...infamous for not knowing a basic thing: do not ever pedal through a tight circle at speed, where you are leaning a cruiser or other bike at an
acute-enough angle, that the inside pedal touches asphalt. POGO, I went, and BAM the curb, and the bike flipped on over =me=, yet was still perfectly
ride-able back to the house a half mile away. Quality rim/wheel and a big, soft tire, must be why I did not ruin the eZee, period.