About This Site
This new site has two primary purposes. First, it’s an exercise designed to help others develop their own WordPress websites. And second, it’s to communicate to aspiring DIY e-bike builders my best practices and resources that can help them successfully build an e-bike without spending a fortune.
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Doylestown, PAContact
ratelectricbike@gmail.com- Single-speed for Red Rocket
- Velotric Fold 1 – small but mighty
- Fatty III is ready for electrification, finally!
- Calculate time to charge
- Tools for the ebike builder/assembler
- A word about Torque – ’cause it’s important!
- A bike rack to consider for your Velotric Fold 1
- Aventon Ramblas knocks it out of the park!
- An almost perfect step-thru e-bike
- There’s a NEW E-Bike Shop in Town
- Why did I buy a Himiway Cruiser?
- E-Bike Presentations
- A Quest to find a perfect 4″ Street Tire
- Where to get your Aventon E-Bike Serviced?
- TAP versus TOD, should you care?
- An E-Bike for My Wife
- Fatty III-ish – Northrock XC00 Unboxing
- The E-Bike Rack I DID Buy!
- Slides for ‘Biking Trails in Bucks, Montgomery Counties & Surrounding Areas’ – CLR Spring 2023
- Fatty II
- Build #2 Gets a New Frame
- Build #1 Gets a New Motor
- The E-Bike Rack I Would Buy!
- Local Support for Your E-Bike?
- Build #4 – A ‘Fat Tire’ E-bike
- E-Bike Battery Tech – What’s Next?
- E-Bike Tech – Introducing Skarper
- Electrify my trike!
- My job is done here!
- Some display and battery advice
- I’m done with front derailleurs
- Give Me A Brake
- Wheels, Tires, and Tubes, Oh My
- Securing Your E-Bike
- Bicycle Racks (for e-bikes)
- PAS & Throttles – What you need to know
- Going Places
- Emergency Repair Kits
- E-Bike Presentation
- Build #3, Test Drive 2
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Why did I buy a Himiway Cruiser?
Reason 1: Because I sold my latest fat-tire creation and am currently experiencing fat-tire e-bike withdrawal symptoms. Reason 2: Because the moment I was searching for a solution to my ‘condition’ I saw a discount on the Himiway Cruiser I … Continue reading
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E-Bike Presentations
Following are two presentations delivered to members of the Center for Learning in Retirement program at the Delaware Valley University on February 26, 2024. E-Bike Presentation Bike Trails in Bucks County Updated E-Bike Presentation for CLR (9/23/2024)
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A Quest to find a perfect 4″ Street Tire
Have you found any e-bikes with 4″ (fat) tires that aren’t ‘knobby’. What’s with that? Considering that most of these bikes will never see dirt or sand, wouldn’t a quieter ‘street’ tire make more sense? So I have been on … Continue reading
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Where to get your Aventon E-Bike Serviced?
Here’s a list of bike shops in our area that service Aventon e-bikes: Notes: Circle Cycle is listed on Aventon’s site as a shop that will receive and assemble your new Aventon e-bike. However, I don’t know what level of … Continue reading
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TAP versus TOD, should you care?
Perhaps you have had an opportunity to read my previous post entitled “An EBike for My Wife” where I talk about her new Aventon Pace 500.3 Step-Through Ebike. Prior to taking this bike out for a test ride this morning, … Continue reading
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An E-Bike for My Wife
As you may know, I really like building e-bikes. Well, when faced with the prospect of creating an e-bike for my wife, I took the easy way out. I purchased a factory-built e-bike. More specifically, an Aventon Pace 500.3 Step-Through … Continue reading
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Fatty III-ish – Northrock XC00 Unboxing
This is an ‘-ish only because this XC00 is not yet ready to be electrified. It’ll stay a plain old fat-tire bicycle for a while, and what a great bike it is. I bought this bike a while back, while … Continue reading
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The E-Bike Rack I DID Buy!
Not long ago, I wrote a post entitled ‘The E-Bike Rack I Would Buy!‘. That rack was the Hollywood Racks Destination E Bike Rack for 2 e-bikes. It’s a great rack with a loading ramp and everything. Even the weight … Continue reading
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Slides for ‘Biking Trails in Bucks, Montgomery Counties & Surrounding Areas’ – CLR Spring 2023
This is a 3-session seminar being offered by the Center for Learning in Retirement at Delaware Valley University during the Spring 2023 semester. Slides in .PDF format will be provided below prior to each session. Slides for session 1 of … Continue reading
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Fatty II
Oh, how I miss my Northrock XC00 e-bike conversion! A friend asked if I would sell my Build #4 fat-tire e-bike (aka Fatty I) to him, so I did. Then I waited for Costco to put the XC00 on sale … Continue reading
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