What Have You Lost From Your Ebike?

[Reid Welch]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXHcqnk3hnU

I made a rough, high speed run through the bumpy, sunken park.
That night I went to turn on the new blinky light...but there was nothing there but the black backplate!
The snap on guts/light were GONE.

Fifty shillings reward! :lol:

(the shocks of rough riding are more than just happy thrills, dammit!)

 

[Zoot Katz]

I once had a rear blinky pop off its mount and hit the street intact. Its clattering alerted me to its departure so I pulled to the side of the street, stopped and turned around to go back for it. It is a wide, low volume, residential street with parking permitted on both sides. There were no cars parked. I'd dismounted to wait for an approaching car before retrieving it from the middle of the road. The driver slowed somewhat and then steered directly for the light to deliberately crush it.
I guess I shouldn't ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity (blonde in a Mustang) but that's what it looked like to me.

For submarine service I'd suggest taping the joint between the two parts of the blinky body.
I'm only half wet so found clear surgical tape holds things together and keeps the moisture from fritzing the blinky until it's dried out.

Someone I never met lost a shorty pump with the brackets that were supposed to be attached to the water-bottle-cage bolts.
I later lost the flat cap off the hollow handle end of that pump. A plastic champagne cork replaced it better than new.

 

[Reid Welch]

Hasn't anyone lost a battery or other essential item?

I recall now the blue Currie Mongoose cruiser. I upped it to 36V by adding a third SLA. The only place to put this was on a cantilevered ALUMINUM rear, seatpost rack (panniers were not in the equation. The rack was rated for 15lbs.
The battery weighed less than that by considerable.

It, the rack, lasted about two hundred miles. Then as I hopped the bike s l o w l y up over a curbing,
snap! went the cantilvered rack. The battery and busted rack fell to the side and dangled by wires.
I was at a shopping center, lucky me...so I bought a roll of duct tape and patched it up for a slow and gentle ride home.

Anyone lose a motor and want to tell about it? A wallet? I lost my wallet last week. No more carrying the wallet in the rear jeans pocket.
It was returned by a Samaritan. No cash inside, which was OK because that's the way it was when I went riding! :wink:

 

[Zoot Katz]

By riding a bicycle I've certainly found more stuff than I've lost.
I've found useful tools, cash, matched pairs of gloves!, hats, a windbreaker, bike parts, audio devices, cell phones and wallets full of cash and plastic.
Anything identifiable was returned to its owner and sometimes I was graciously rewarded.

Things that I've lost and were later returned or retrieved are more thoroughly appreciated now.
However, I spend entirely too much time searching for misplaced, or cat displaced, items.

Many of the things I've found that are in daily use are discards rather than lost items. . . this lamp, desk and keyboard tray for instance.

 

[dogman dan]

Lost the wallet that squeezed out of my hip pocket while flying a hot air balloon once. Fortunatey I was flying low, and could tell the chase crew which clump of weeds to look in. :lol: I've lost a few rear blinkies, and use real cheap ones now that cost a dollar. they either fly off the back rack or lose the lens. I also tend to lose little caps on the ends of handlebars.

 

[Joey]

About 10 lbs.

Joey

 

[Doctorbass]

About 10 lbs.

Joey

lol! ... was it still in no pedal mode?

 

[Reid Welch]

By riding a bicycle I've certainly found more stuff than I've lost.
I've found useful tools, cash, matched pairs of gloves!, hats, a windbreaker, bike parts, audio devices, cell phones and wallets full of cash and plastic.
Anything identifiable was returned to its owner and sometimes I was graciously rewarded.

Things that I've lost and were later returned or retrieved are more thoroughly appreciated now.
However, I spend entirely too much time searching for misplaced, or cat displaced, items.

Many of the things I've found that are in daily use are discards rather than lost items. . . this lamp, desk and keyboard tray for instance.

YOU are MAGIC

Ten minutes ago, just obtained:

On my way home from the store: there it was, a perfectly good 12" crescent wrench in the roadway.
I drive with my right hand only; I'm left handed and this wrench will not only serve to see that my hub bolts stay tight (they are locktited),
but it MAKES A DANDY turn signal that no car dare ignore. It gives me lots of reach!

Ha ha ha! Note for this timer-taken picture, I was spinning the front wheel. Note the safety aspect of lighted valve caps.
At night, they are a bright green blur, impossible to not see. Green is the most visible colour.
I wear white or yellow jerseys on my bike rides. Better to be seen by. And the "turn signal"? It is going to be grand for
fixing soccer moms from scraping by my bike! It's just a tool....not a weapon, Mr. Po-Po.

 

[Drunkskunk]

I lost a girl once off the back of my bike.
She landed on her tail. later I discovered she had a crack in it.

 

[Reid Welch]

Re: What Have You Lost From Your Ebike?

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http://www.endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10295

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[Zoot Katz]

Re: What Have You Lost From Your Ebike?

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Be careful going to shorter cranks or you might lose your knees too.
Cranks on 26" cruisers are usually 175mm for a reason. Coasting is part of the ride and the frame generally has a slack seat tube and lower BB than a MTB. They're not ridden like criterium or track bikes.
Ideal crank arm length is a function of femur/tibia ratios by some theories.
If you're comfortable with a kiddy crank, go for it.

 

[Anonymous]

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[needWheels]

I once lost one of the blinkly rear lights but after that I made an investment in a roll of high quality duct tape and a box of those plastic strip ties

So now everything attached on my bike has a strip of duct tape behind or underneath it or a plastic tie through it as a failsafe.

Sure it's not pretty but it also makes the bike look less worthwhile to steal.

On my last bike I managed to snap the bolts that held the rack because I was carrying like 100lbs of stuff constantly but thanks to those plastic tie failsafes I made it home with it still attached.

 

[Reid Welch]

Re: What Have You Lost From Your Ebike?

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Be careful going to shorter cranks or you might lose your knees too.

I'm not going to live so long to worry (SLE), plus I have electric assist.
I am not a bicyclist at heart. I'm an ebiker, an older one. Not wiser, just older and nearer the finish line.
My knees will outlast me just fine.

Thank you for your good guidance, nonetheless,

R.

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Zip ties are good as an adjunct. People, they are no good for securing heavy, uncushioned loads like batteries:
they will instantly fail upon sharp shock loads. OK for blinkies and for wire ties, but not for heavy loads.

my experience,
r. with good knees so far.

 

[swbluto]

I once was holding a blinky on the front of my bike by use of a rubber band attached to the handle bars and the rubber broke and the blinky fell to the ground and my front tire graciously rolled over it. Parts went flying this way and that way but, most importantly, I lost my batteries! Those were expensive rechargeables, too! So I raced home, got my well-lit ebike out and searched and found it in an adjacent field.