NYC Mayor Eric Adams Makes an E-Bike- and Fire Safety-Related Announcement

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[saneagle]

All sounds fairly balanced and reasonable to me - maybe a little over the top re no extension cords because he recommends charging outside. Maybe their should be a certificate of competence to repair or inspect batteries or even to handle them with different levels for users, technicians and businesses. I don't normally support such things, but I think it would help.

One problem is that ebike batteries are quite expensive, so nobody wants to lose it when replacements are hard to afford. Hardly anybody interferes with laptop and tablet batteries or even their Dyson ones.

 

[soundwave]

as a bosch dealer did you post batts from the shop to customers or just get magura to send it to the person that bought it.

as the 2 i have bought the shops wont post them and had to collect them and last year i found one down south and said would put it in a van and take it to a more local store in Hereford driving near enough past my house and cost me 30 quid to go get the fkn thing.

 

[saneagle]

as a bosch dealer did you post batts from the shop to customers or just get magura to send it to the person that bought it.

as the 2 i have bought the shops wont post them and had to collect them and last year i found one down south and said would put it in a van and take it to a more local store in Hereford driving near enough past my house and cost me 30 quid to go get the fkn thing.

I wasn't a dealer.I just did the repairs. We didn't have many battery problems with the bikes we sold. We had some customers that brought in old bikes for repair, some with battery issues, which I repaired if I could. Some even had lead batteries. I remember an Oxygen battery was replaced and a Gtech, when they sent replacements by post. I can remember disassembling three Bosch batteries, but I can't remember where they came from. Theye're difficult to get apart without leaving marks. I think i was given them by different people. One was scrap with all cells at zero, one had a one bad cell-group and the other had all good cells, but a faulty BMS. I've done a lot of repairs to bikes and batteries outside the shop. I never failed to repair a bike that someone brought in, and I had just about every type of bike and every type of repair, from bikes that had been in the canal to guys just wanting their hub-gears greased. The best thing was getting the secret codes from the manufacturers.

I still repair the odd battery, but I won't get involved in sending them anymore. If someone wants to send me one and organise its return, I'll repair it but only in special circumstances, like when i feel sorry for them. I've never charged anybody ever for any work or repairs I've done on ebikes, though sometimes people still give me something that I didn't ask for or expect. I think that includes people reading this.

 

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see you cant do anything like that anymore in these shops its bin it and buy a new one if some one rolled up with a mid drive or hub motor i dont even think they have a multi meter to test anything


they would sell more of those with bbs hd and 15-20ah batts than any other bike but nope!!!

Gloucester Store | The Electric Bike Shop

www.theelectricbikeshop.co.uk

 

[saneagle]

see you cant do anything like that anymore in these shops its bin it and buy a new one if some one rolled up with a mid drive or hub motor i dont even think they have a multi meter to test anything

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they would sell more of those with bbs hd and 15-20ah batts than any other bike but nope!!!

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Gloucester Store | The Electric Bike Shop

www.theelectricbikeshop.co.uk

I was at Earnshaws in Huddersfield a few years back. They had a massive pile of Bosch motors in their workshop that they had taken out of bikes and awaiting replacements. They seemed to be pretty competent.

 

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peter is over run at ebike motor centre they cant fix them fast enough he on a trip round Europe atm on a 7000km motorbike trip getting a eu parts hub sorted and every one possible on board over there and get the company to the next level and get parts out of them esp brose and bosch shitmano can go fook them self and ebike shop.

he does a course in every motor but its not cheap esp this time of year as can also do board repair on some controllers now esp gen 2 bosch.