What did you do to your EBike this week?

[alleeex]

Fitted a set of forks I nicked off the other half - his brand new Manitou Dorado Pros .

They’re goooooooooooood.

 

[RustyMTB]

Got the underused normies out for a wash & brush up.

 

[VWsurfbum]

Got the underused normies out for a wash & brush up.

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I had a lurcher once.

 

[RustyMTB]

I had a lurcher once.

Hey, we're on the same factory team now. See you in Bielsko-Biala.

 

[Bear-uk]

I took my old bikes Gen 2 Bosch motor too bits so I could fit a different electric motor to it as the one in now is very noisy.
And now it doesn't work with any assistance, although everything seems to be working and no error codes.
That'll teach me

 

[Stihldog]

Stupid-expensive ... and a bit more!

There could be another option now.
I haven’t worked out the pros and cons yet. Perhaps more feedback will follow.


I fitted the Reverb AXS 170mm to my medium Rail. The price was crazy $$$.

This may be an economical option for the Fuel EXE. I can keep the existing 170mm Bontrager dropper. I’m not sure of the price yet but it is a Canadian product. It seems to fit a few different models of droppers.

 

[steve_sordy]

During a recent ride I bottomed out my Fox 38 fork. So I decided to add back one of the tokens that I had removed earlier.

Easy job, made possible by the use of a 32mm 1/2" square drive socket that I bought when I got the fork. Sockets normally have a chamfer on the inside to avoid hitting a fillet on some bolt heads. But that reduces the amount of material in contact with the very shallow faces on the nut that needs to be removed from the fork. Use of a socket with a chamfer has a high risk of rounding off the aluminium flats on the nut.

Special chamfer-free sockets cost a lot of money. I bought mine for a few pounds and ground off the chamfer. It took me a few mins to remove the material and a few more to tidy it up by rubbing the socket over a whetstone in a figure of eight pattern. I removed the sharp inside edge with a small file.

 

[Tyjay]

During a recent ride I bottomed out my Fox 38 fork. So I decided to add back one of the tokens that I had removed earlier.

Easy job, made possible by the use of a 32mm 1/2" square drive socket that I bought when I got the fork. Sockets normally have a chamfer on the inside to avoid hitting a fillet on some bolt heads. But that reduces the amount of material in contact with the very shallow faces on the nut that needs to be removed from the fork. Use of a socket with a chamfer has a high risk of rounding off the aluminium flats on the nut.

Special chamfer-free sockets cost a lot of money. I bought mine for a few pounds and ground off the chamfer. It took me a few mins to remove the material and a few more to tidy it up by rubbing the socket over a whetstone in a figure of eight pattern. I removed the sharp inside edge with a small file.

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I used something like this https://epicbleedsolutions.com/prod...GaE1XCGjDpMCsjPfpw4Ly_fjFlJnTkQ7aQCKC3uQkEuJr

lost it and bought a chamfer less one socket
now have Rockshox so don’t have that problem
but there incase I ever change fork

 

[steve_sordy]

I used something like this https://epicbleedsolutions.com/prod...GaE1XCGjDpMCsjPfpw4Ly_fjFlJnTkQ7aQCKC3uQkEuJr

lost it and bought a chamfer less one socket
now have Rockshox so don’t have that problem
but there incase I ever change fork

A great idea, but still a lot more expensive than a socket. What I found when I did mine yesterday was that the various cables get in the way, so the ability to use my ratchet drive made the job very easy. The thick handle also helped apply the pressure. Not sure why they need such a high torque, it must be to get an air tight seal. I know that because I didn't tighten up enough the first time I did a token adjust and the fork slowly went down over the weeks. Why not use an O ring to get a good seal.