Carrera Crosscity Folding Electric Bike - BACK WHEEL MASHED

[dannyglancs]

Hi

I'm after some advice.

The rear wheel of my Carrera Crosscity Folding Electric Bike has a buckled rim (beyond repair as very badly damaged). The tyre and or innertube popped.

The motor works fine. I would like some advice on anywhere that would be able to swap the motor on to a new wheel for me and likely costs. I'm based 30 minutes from Manchester near Blackburn.

Thanks

Danny

 

[matthewslack]

Say £30 rim, £20 spokes, £50 to £100 for the build and you won't be too far wrong.

Alternatively, identity the motor make and model, look to see if a new motor wheel is cheaper, sell existing motor on eBay.

I'm not in Manchester...

 

[sjpt]

Or maybe now is the time to learn wheel building. Daunting, but not that difficult once you get into it. Then you'll have Matthew's ay £30 rim, £20 spokes and £0 for the build. And more confidence going forward keeping the wheel nicely maintained.

 

[thelarkbox]

Rebuilding a wheel - Thanks to youtube step by step vids is so easy I mastered it within a week, and it only took a week due to my errors in spoke ordering (thanks amazon prime..) - However online spoke calculators do exist to stop you making my mistakes.

You will make mistakes and have to start again, but its only 30 mins or so to lace a rim up with a little practice.. - i got lots of practice,....

you can true the wheel in your front forks sitting on a bucket to do this did give my knees a stretch but a few breaks to put the kettle on and wander about a bit solved that difficulty, so tricky bits are getting the right spokes and perhaps your knees if like mine they get a bit stiff after ten minutes squatting..

worth the £50-100 saving if you ask me.