Recent content by orcasprout

Hello Leffex, Thanks for prompting me to update. Whew, its a LOT! Spring is here, garage is FULL! I was able to obtain liability insurance! It's kinda "soft" (non-admitted and restricted) but after ~1 year of looking it was a welcome expense (ironically). I'm feeling like this can fly. Its the...

Update from me: I feel like the slow season never happened. I'm busy with taxes, marketing, networking, B Corp initiatives, and THEN the garage! Each cheap internet bike that comes in is a nightmare with some unknown. Hours of labor later, it turns out the ground pin on a JST was loose and then...

Thank you Lan Man and Riding On. My friend, my age (55), has prostate and bone cancer. He's not long for this world either. Lan Man, I'm sorry to hear your news, may your remaining days be filled with joy and gratitude! Thank you for the advice, I'll incorporate it for sure.

I feel like I never stopped, but I'm a one-man operation. People ask me how business is going and I say, "I'm going as fast as i can, which is very slow, which is all I can handle." (did i say this above already...I must be old) I have a battery builder here in my region and we are partnering...

Love your vocabulary Mindgames! I use that term daily in my eBike repair business. I wonder if Chat GPT/AI can be employed to do all the documentation "dirty work"...hmmm. I could absolutely use an updated wiring/compatibility sticky/wiki. I imagine if we had a vulcan mind meld with some of...

Sounds like you've got your ES certification protocol written. I can see why a UL cert is kinda pricey.

This news is personally and professionally fascinating to me. I often compare value propositions against my desires (wait, you mean they're not the same?!!!) and I'm super interested to observe the ways a, "...streamlined, circular, and affordable ecosystem would propel this market's...

Love this, it says so much about "merchandise" these days... Could this also be a fully charged battery? (despite the alligators/tape/helping hands connections) Good idea Yup, that's right, "does anyone know a shop in (insert location)". UpWays has access to a large upcoming (hopefully...

I heard these snippets, they resonate. Alas, good luck, enjoy!

I love this! I like the black frame/sled skis. I'd not want to run it on a mower deck, I appreciate the call-to-attention about complexity. Its easy to get too far over one's skis! Ha ha! How about 2 rear Grin wheelbarrow motors (with an axle I'd say), 4 scooter tires (in short-neck head...

This keeps me up at night. I'm in a location that in a lot of ways is the "middle". Lots of people here (>800,000) but built around the automobile. Quaint downtowns with lots of varying and interwoven density/infrastructure. I live on a very busy two lane east-west arterial. There is almost...

I wonder what "closing the circuit" means for kj34nck5 As a new-ish ebike repair and build guy I see the trees/forest but find the "woods" starts the moment I think I know what I'm doing. I'm super glad to be learning and overcoming. It's a lot of work and requires a bit of, hard-to-muster...

Hi leffex, I'm goin' into winter mode here. Bookkeeping, marketing, inventory, insurance shopping (again), and building. I have a Sur-ron upgrade for a 19 year old kid who spent $2500 on 72V 52Ah battery and ASI BAC4000 (360Amps!). He was doing the conversion with his dad and they got gunshy...

I feel like I'm missing something, but as a (very new and humble) eBike shop owner, I think I'd create the patch cable with Andersons. Carry the 30, 45, 50, 75 Amp connectors and crimp the power leads. Use the rubber boots and maybe shrink wrap them. Basically create the dongle on the spot...

Thank you Utah, I COMPLETELY understand and share your skepticism but I've got no choice but to run this to ground. I'd never forgive myself if I didn't try. I'm always looking for the pivot and value proposition. In my business networking circles I was recently proved wrong about another...