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Let's start a list. I need a lot of tips 😁
My own tip would be get a good sturdy plastic crate or box. You'll need to rest your bike on something the extra weight is too much for most bike repair stands
the extra weight is too much for most bike repair stands
My £12.99 eBay special would beg to differ.
@doomanic let's see a picture then.?
I was inspired to get a plastic box after watching some guys fixing bikes at the recent Scottish Six Day Trials.
Don’t jet wash it.
“Don’t jet wash it.”
Don’t wash it but keep the chain well lubed (cleaning if required). And check your brake pads more often.
check your brake pads more often.
Amen to that.
Check chain wear more often!
Mine had been the most reliable bike I own actually...although it's the newest by quite some way, so components are better nowadays I guess.
After seeing a few horror stories about getting through expensive cassettes every few hundred miles, I rotate 3 chains like I used to on a road bike. Over 2,000 miles in, original cassette and all working well 👍🏻
Pads I check often.
Check chain wear more often!
You always learn that after the first chain explosion on an ebike 🤣
Ebikes are a maintenance nightmare, i tend to focus on preventative maintenance on the motor/battery terminals/etc, so removing the covers, checking the bolts, cleaning it up and making sure that water ingress or dust isn't an issue, putting some anti-corrosion spray/compound down, etc, etc.
The rest is just checking the state of the kit on the bike, it does take a beating, i find dropper posts need more TLC, same with wheels, drivetrain is just about praying it'll last long enough!
the extra weight is too much for most bike repair stands
My Aldi special copes fine with my 24kg Levo
Don’t wash it but keep the chain well lubed
Yep, leave any mud to dry and brush off, wipe down with a damp cloth if you really want it looking clean
Have friends who will hose their e-mtb's down after every ride, even when those rides are only two days apart!
Always check the bike is charged the night before a ride, nothing worse than turning up to a riding spot to find you have little to no battery charge!
To those hoisting them up on bike stands, onto what are you putting the clamp - as in on the dropper post(seems a bad idea to me(possibly irrationally), or the top tube ?.
I’ve got a bench mounted stand bolted to one of the racking uprights. Holds a very heavy bike
Cheers doomanic
@dyna-ti I almost always clamp on to the top tube then slide the box in below the motors bash plate to take some of the weight.
Levo SL, carbon, Park tool stand and clamp on the Reverb. The forces on the post from the clamp are a lot less than those when riding it.
Set a simple timer running for 4hs to charge immediately after use and restart if need be. I avoid leaving them on charge in the garage overnight after three house fires in local garages.... charging ebikes.
Majority of charge done while I am up and around. Top up in the morning.
To those hoisting them up on bike stands, onto what are you putting the clamp
Clamp the dropper post, this is pretty much how all bike shops put bikes in stands, this is because most frames have various different shape top tubes which dont always fit in a normal clamp securley, plus there is a risk of clamping too hard on a carbon frame and causing damage, they would rather damage a £200 dropper than a 3k frame
Same here. Extend the dropper and clamp it. Soft cloth in the jaws. Top tubes and seat tubes are too awkward, both the shape and shock mounts/linkages in the way.
Don't do it that often, wheels are usually off as I'm dropping the forks.
Thanks for the answers all. I did think it was pretty ok to suspend by the dropper post, because if you think about it, most riders weights are more than the bike itself, so the weight is being placed on it the other way around. It just always seems unnatural to me to have the post clamped and the weight of the bike putting bending forces on it.
Im doing a wheel/mech/brake change so will have a bit of weight taken off it for the most part, and i should probably remove the battery too.