eBike DeMotorized
Channel: danielvincentkelley
Date: 14/11/2018

My ebike battery lasted less than a year, arriving to the situation where it holds a charge for less than 1 mile range. I didn't have the excess cash this month to replace the battery, as I had to buy a more than $500 refrigerator which was a far higher priority. The fridge is working nicely incidentally. 

Anyhow, I decided I had to do SOMETHING about transportation, so instead of replace my bikes battery, I replaced the wheels as they were what was slowing the bike down otherwise, apart from not being able to power the motor, the rear wheel was super heavy not merely because of the wire coils and magnets in the motor, but also I had to replace the inner tube with a rubber wheel as the inner tube kept bursting due to the poor rim design which did not snug the wire bead of the tires very well, kept hemorrhaging tires for swift bursting. 

Eventually I got sick of swapping inner tubes on the thing and just replaced it with a solid rubber tire, which has poor mobility due to it's softness as compared to an inflated tire and it's weight due to it's composition. So, to ride it without power was going to take some adjustments, particularly to that rear tire. 

So I bought a pair of rims which came yet assembled with brake discs and a gear cassette and quick release axles. And of course I had to buy tubes and tires and put those on. And then of course I had to put the whole shabam on my bike and then I had to adjust the rear deraileur to work with this gear cassette and I had to adjust the brakes to not bite on these new brake discs so tight, so as to get the wheels spinning well. Mission accomplished, the whole thing came together nicely. 

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