E-S Stealth Electric Bike Owners

[robohead]

Ok, what was the reason for that answer. Did they provide any specific reason. If it doesn't fit it can ALWAYS be made to fit.

I am guessing that Stealth has changed the Hurricane Seat since it's first design. I emailed Stealth about it a couple of years back, I cant remember what the specifics were, but I remember some modifications to the Bomber frame would be needed because of how the seat angled away from the frame and lined up.

Probably so I'm sure it could be made to work, but I don't have time for all that jazz. If it was an easy swap in I'd be all over it. All I got back was this from Stealth.

"Although the frames look the same, they are actually quite different, and the Hurricane seat is not compatible with the Bomber frame."

 

[Samd]

Well, my dad accidentally grabbed the throttle on my stealth causing it to land of its left side bending the left crank. I took it off and did the best I could with bending it back in a vice. It definitely feels crooked now.

Where can I source new pedal crank arms?

Haha, another ES user came to visit recently and his son bought his little fighter. Same deal, twist throttle grabbed and his fighter tried to mate with the rear of my week old Prius. Shattered plastic everywhere. I finally got the new tail light fitted this week. I shift a lot of thumb throttles.

 

[one4torque]

Stealth 'tales from the trail'.... This weeks highlights...

1. 1st rider of the day gets to clear the trail cob webs and gets to nurse spider bites.
2. Rode over my first snake yesterday on a tight grassy section, by the time I see the big black snake front wheel is on top,,,,,, lift feet and apply all the watts I can!!!!
3. Tip of the week::: remember to cut power when try to lift bike over concrete barriers...... Goes like this. Step1... Lift heavy rear tire onto barrier, step2 left hand hold rear tire right hand grab bars by throttle... Lift..... Applies full throttle sucking left hand into spokes.. Bike falls off barrier onto shin..... Remove left hand from swing arm and spokes. Regroup. Nothing broken good news.


Lining the dream!

 

[1abv]

Well, my dad accidentally grabbed the throttle on my stealth causing it to land of its left side bending the left crank. I took it off and did the best I could with bending it back in a vice. It definitely feels crooked now.

Where can I source new pedal crank arms?

I made a tool for this must have bent my cranks back in shape at least 6 times.
Do a search in this forum for " bomber board" it will come up. Works for me every time and feels perfect.

Robohead, I got the same response from stealth a while ago as well. They Were not specific why just said it would not fit

 

[Rix]

Stealth 'tales from the trail'.... This weeks highlights...

1. 1st rider of the day gets to clear the trail cob webs and gets to nurse spider bites.
2. Rode over my first snake yesterday on a tight grassy section, by the time I see the big black snake front wheel is on top,,,,,, lift feet and apply all the watts I can!!!!
3. Tip of the week::: remember to cut power when try to lift bike over concrete barriers...... Goes like this. Step1... Lift heavy rear tire onto barrier, step2 left hand hold rear tire right hand grab bars by throttle... Lift..... Applies full throttle sucking left hand into spokes.. Bike falls off barrier onto shin..... Remove left hand from swing arm and spokes. Regroup. Nothing broken good news.


Lining the dream!

Here is another tip, if running the Adapto Max E and conducting throttle calibrations with 8+kw of power, have the rear wheel off the ground Holy$h!t when I hit the save profile button, my bike took off like a bat out of hell in the shop with out me on it. Good thing I have been hitting the iron hard, or would have lost it.

///Edit, btw, the manual says this happen advises to have the rear wheel suspended. I get the dumbshit of the day award.

 

[one4torque]

Will keep that in mind when I graduate to adapto POWer.

 

[Hyena]

Holy$h!t when I hit the save profile button, my bike took off like a bat out of hell in the shop with out me on it. Good thing I have been hitting the iron hard, or would have lost it

These are the lessons we have to learn the hard way. If you haven't done so already, you'll only ever try to catch a falling soldering iron once too. :lol:
I've had the runaway bike thing happen to me a few times over the years - mainly unexpectedly from other faults than adaptto programming. Sometimes when other people randomly decide they'll give the throttle a twist!! My least favourite was when I was in front of the bike wiggling around looking for a loose wire that was causing intermittent throttle cut outs. Evidently I found it and the bike elected to launch off at full throttle. I grabbed the bars like holding a bull by the horns but it pushed me backwards, doing a burnout along the floor and pinned me against the wall with the front wheel coming to rest thoroughly buried between my legs like I was a human bike rack. The 24" knobbies chewed up my inner thighs a beauty but I guess I'm lucky it wasn't a 29er front wheel with skinny tyres or it might have been an involuntary sex change :lol:

I always hang a rope around a beam in my garage and lift the the back end the bike off the ground when doing this stuff now. Tuning fast wind motors sees it pulling around like an angry dragon on a chain but it can't go far

 

[Rix]

Holy$h!t when I hit the save profile button, my bike took off like a bat out of hell in the shop with out me on it. Good thing I have been hitting the iron hard, or would have lost it

These are the lessons we have to learn the hard way. If you haven't done so already, you'll only ever try to catch a falling soldering iron once too. :lol:
I've had the runaway bike thing happen to me a few times over the years - mainly unexpectedly from other faults than adaptto programming. Sometimes when other people randomly decide they'll give the throttle a twist!! My least favourite was when I was in front of the bike wiggling around looking for a loose wire that was causing intermittent throttle cut outs. Evidently I found it and the bike elected to launch off at full throttle. I grabbed the bars like holding a bull by the horns but it pushed me backwards, doing a burnout along the floor and pinned me against the wall with the front wheel coming to rest thoroughly buried between my legs like I was a human bike rack. The 24" knobbies chewed up my inner thighs a beauty but I guess I'm lucky it wasn't a 29er front wheel with skinny tyres or it might have been an involuntary sex change :lol:

I always hang a rope around a beam in my garage and lift the the back end the bike off the ground when doing this stuff now. Tuning fast wind motors sees it pulling around like an angry dragon on a chain but it can't go far

Yah, a 29" wheel would have equated to a really bad day. Glad that wasn't the case. Damn that would have sucked. As far as the falling soldering iron, I have a 70/140 watt weller, it was cool at the time as I hadn't pulled the trigger. :lol: As far as getting the wheel off the ground, I am employing my DIP/PULLUP stand for such tasks from now on.

 

[one4torque]

Im glad im not the only plonker mechanic!

....

Im in the midst of moving from 26 mikes to 6.5 miles from work...... So im thinking of building beta w a commuter theme. More to come. I will need ultimate reliability, no flats, battery has to stay in my backpack (cant leave battery in pkg gar, and want to top off chg during work day).


Back to reg program as they say. $)

 

[biknut]

Im glad im not the only plonker mechanic!
...
Im in the midst of moving from 26 mikes to 6.5 miles from work...... So im thinking of building beta w a commuter theme. More to come. I will need ultimate reliability, no flats, battery has to stay in my backpack (cant leave battery in pkg gar, and want to top off chg during work day).
Back to reg program as they say. $)

Something about like this perfection no doubt.

 

[1abv]

The night rider….. that is his name….

the night rider…

Remember him when you look at the night sky

Take your hat off….


NAME THAT MOVIE!!!

 

[Hyena]

The original Mad Max! I watched it just recently actually. I'm not sure I'd actually seen it in its entirely before. I was only a baby when it first came out and didn't realise that the first one wasn't set in the post apocalyptic setting that I was familiar with in the subsequent movies.

On a related note, I was at the Sydney premiere for the release of the new movie last year.
Navigating the crowd on ebike, of course

[youtube]b1eHU_s3CJ8[/youtube]

 

[Rix]

Like your video Jay, BTW how far do you live from the Opera house?

 

[Hyena]

Hey Rix,
I'm about 30km / 20mi from the opera house. I'll be doing an ebike photoshoot for those F bikes that aren't stealths :wink: in there in the next week or 2 so you'll soon be see lots of pics around some iconic Sydney locations

 

[1abv]

Nice catch and nice vid man!!! Its been ages since I was in sydney rollin on my RGV 250! Brands Hatch baby!! love that place…….Mad max, thats gotta be up there on the list of greats! Those cars look sweet in person I'm sure...

On another non related note had a question 4 the group. So when I'm riding I'm pretty constantly between 90c-115c. w ferro fluid which is light years ahead of OEM cooling. Im going to check out full liquid cooling on my bike soon but wanted to see if there is a significant difference between something like a Cromo and the stock. All I'm trying to of is find a more powerful (torque) motor than the stock bomber motor, Something that the temps won't be as high. lighter weight is a bonus. If there is a difference are we talking double the torque and ability to take abuse w the Cromo? Is the difference nominal or slight and this is just the limit of hub motor bikes? etc... Im looking for torque. very very very rarely am I full throttle at 50 mph. What I wold hate to find out is I do a full motor swap and it was barely noticeable.

Thanks in advance fellas… more movie quotes to come...

 

[Brute]

The night rider….. that is his name….

the night rider…

Remember him when you look at the night sky

Take your hat off….


NAME THAT MOVIE!!!

I`m a fuel injected suicide machine ,I am the rocker , I am the roller , I am the out of controller .

 

[Rix]

Hey Rix,
I'm about 30km / 20mi from the opera house. I'll be doing an ebike photoshoot for those F bikes that aren't stealths :wink: in there in the next week or 2 so you'll soon be see lots of pics around some iconic Sydney locations

Next month I will have you some high quality pics of the Army green Beta and Alpha together as well for you. Would have it now, but the forks are off the Beta getting revalved and STILL waiting on lipos from China. On another note, I will be at the Tesla event in Reno on 7/28/16. Stealth will have a booth with bikes from the Truckee Dealer for test rides and I will be hanging with some of the crew answering questions about rider/bike set up. JK won't be there as he is else where. Pics to follow.

 

[FL bomber]

I'm having a v3 mxus laced in 17 inch HHR from motobikeWheels I want to connect two stock connectors what are they called XT160 and the 5 pin?

 

[robohead]

Stealth finally got backed to me regarding the cracking in the frame near the seat post. They will repair it and paint it. But it's shipping etc is 100% at my expense. And quite franky to tear down the bomber to just it's sub frame and ship it to AU from the US and back @ ~45 days each way makes it not worth my time for what is essentially a flaw in design, manufacturing and craftsmanship on Stealth's side. So while the lifetime warranty on the frame sounds nice and all. It's totally useless because I could buy another frame for probably near the same it's going to cost. Major loss in respect for Stealth

 

[one4torque]

I hear you robo. From a logistics perspective... probably just cheaper to have you local jobber weld up the frame, the custom paint what-ever color you want.
The life-time warranty is probably more applicable to local aus blokes

At least until we get a sig presence in the usa with some spare frames/vboxx/etc..... to swap out for warr claims.

Sorry to hear of your troubles. This is not a low dollar hobby.

 

[Rix]

I cracked my sub frame seat triangle a 2 years back on Bomber #143, Stealth sent me a new one at no cost to me. I didn't even have to send my old one to them. Not sure if there is a mis-understanding, but if it involves just bolting on a new seat frame triangle, that shouldn't cost anything. Now I understand if the frame needs to be restored and has to be sent back as a whole unit, yah I would have to pay shipping one way. I expect that. Robohead, can you post a pic and clarify what the problem is?

 

[Rix]

I hear you robo. From a logistics perspective... probably just cheaper to have you local jobber weld up the frame, the custom paint what-ever color you want.
The life-time warranty is probably more applicable to local aus blokes

At least until we get a sig presence in the usa with some spare frames/vboxx/etc..... to swap out for warr claims.

Sorry to hear of your troubles. This is not a low dollar hobby.

We are about to have a new Stealth HQ here in the states, specifically Pocatello Idaho, I should know more after July 28.

 

[robohead]

I cracked my sub frame seat triangle a 2 years back on Bomber #143, Stealth sent me a new one at no cost to me. I didn't even have to send my old one to them. Not sure if there is a mis-understanding, but if it involves just bolting on a new seat frame triangle, that shouldn't cost anything. Now I understand if the frame needs to be restored and has to be sent back as a whole unit, yah I would have to pay shipping one way. I expect that. Robohead, can you post a pic and clarify what the problem is?

Here they are. in super fk*ing high res. Mine is #145 and oddly this cracking is what made me opt to go the NYX route. A new frame would probably be a problem for them because our older ones used the CA and it looks like they switched that to another interface when they started calling it the B-52.

 

[Rix]

I cracked my sub frame seat triangle a 2 years back on Bomber #143, Stealth sent me a new one at no cost to me. I didn't even have to send my old one to them. Not sure if there is a mis-understanding, but if it involves just bolting on a new seat frame triangle, that shouldn't cost anything. Now I understand if the frame needs to be restored and has to be sent back as a whole unit, yah I would have to pay shipping one way. I expect that. Robohead, can you post a pic and clarify what the problem is?

Here they are. in super fk*ing high res. Mine is #145 and oddly this cracking is what made me opt to go the NYX route. A new frame would probably be a problem for them because our older ones used the CA and it looks like they switched that to another interface when they started calling it the B-52.

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let me make an inquiry

 

[robohead]

I cracked my sub frame seat triangle a 2 years back on Bomber #143, Stealth sent me a new one at no cost to me. I didn't even have to send my old one to them. Not sure if there is a mis-understanding, but if it involves just bolting on a new seat frame triangle, that shouldn't cost anything. Now I understand if the frame needs to be restored and has to be sent back as a whole unit, yah I would have to pay shipping one way. I expect that. Robohead, can you post a pic and clarify what the problem is?

Here they are. in super fk*ing high res. Mine is #145 and oddly this cracking is what made me opt to go the NYX route. A new frame would probably be a problem for them because our older ones used the CA and it looks like they switched that to another interface when they started calling it the B-52.

[ijpg[/img]

let me make an inquiry

Sure. Otherwise. Vintage bomber for Sale (blowout special) or go with SamD's suggestion on FB to simply spot weld at an exhaust shop which would probably cost less vs shipping one way.