Like the title says. My friends all got ebikes but I just cant afford the few hundred dollars on a whim. I didn't want to be left out of our group rides so I rattlecanned an old trek black and taped some plastic to the frame that kind of looks like a battery pack.
I've been hitting the spin bike a lot more and making humming sounds when we go ride but I'm not sure how long I can keep this up. I almost got dropped last week after they unrestricted the speed controller, and they're planning a really hilly brevette for this weekend. I'm not sure what to do
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laundry pin a playing card to the spokes and pretend you have a motorcycle
@peepeehands love sucking peepee
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I would put a motor on it then
Check out this chopper I made one time
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I wonder if these engine enabled velocipedes will catch on
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Forsooth, perish the thought!
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Where's the Awooga horn, Cobes?
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Mine didn't have a horn
but it did have a faulty killswitch that sent me headlong into the neighbors fence.
If cobes tightened the clutch on his it woulda ran
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One time when I was a kid, I was riding my bike down a hill and my handle bars came off. I ate shit and started crying lol.
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Lmfao I woulda cried too
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That exhaust
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lmfao
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Steal one of theirs, delete all numbers/barcodes/markings, change things, dress it up. If questioned, you got a really good deal from a guy moving states on short notice who saw you biking. Then have fun with them thinking you're too stupid to recognize fencing. Should it be ID'd as the stolen one, maybe they'll let you have it out of pity.
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simply release a greased pig in your marks house two days after the initial ties. The ruckus and distraction itll cause, will cover your tracks
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Just whip out the fricking good ole' "black man stole my bike" excuse and then go full bike cuck.
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Just get friends that aren't gay.
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Illegal in canada
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You can get an ebike kit for an ordinary bike.
I bought one of these https://www.swytchbike.com/ but there are chinese kits on amazon I would do if I had more time, like these: https://www.amazon.com/PEXMOR-Electric-Conversion-Controller-Throttle/dp/B0BVM3J5KD
Edit: Oh shit I just learned they have engine kits for like $100. Shoulda done that, that would have been so cool.
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Get a BBSHD and a battery if you can fit it. Did a conversion with one, and it was a lot of fun. Got my bike up to 40mph on a slight downhill
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Are BBSHD's all 1000W? That's crazy.
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they safely go up to about 2500watts depending on your controller. mine was stock tho
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The motor is easy it's just the batteries that are crazy expensive here
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I know you can make a battery kit with 18650s but you need a special spot welder. /r/18650masterrace is my new favorite subreddit
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They are super cheap on ali.
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Customcucks take them out of your package. We tried importing some and it's like a 30% success rate with no refunds
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darn that sucks. everyone i know uses ali and I havent heard of problems as long as you use the companies that have been around forever with tons of reviews.
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You should go goomble in a fricking casino
It's either meant to be or not 50/50.
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they know it's not an ebike.
just join the rest of us in the future and get one. get an aventon and be a cool kid like me.
the other day i was on the local bike trail and it has like a 45 degree hill because the people who made it spend zero time thinking what it'd be like to bike on it. so i'm cruising up this hill without standing up off the seat and there's a kid at the top looking at me all :o and when i got to the top he said HOW THE FRICK DID YOU DO THAT so obviously i said
powerful legs. 
with a straight face and blew his mind. i shouldn't have followed that up with 
nah it's an ebike 
and just left him forever thinking i was the coolest strongest most buff dude who ever lived.
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Isn't aventon out of business or is it just their fixie department
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if they went out of business it's news to me. i got a new battery from them early in the summer.
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RIP to a man who flew too close to the sun
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what happened
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Mine
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why would you ever get a fixie, is it just lower weight?
Do they still have a freewheel/clutch? Seems unsafe if so
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You get it because it's unsafe, dweeb. Although, you should be strong enough to lock the back tire, just in case
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idk mountain bike is more fun. You choose how difficult the ride is by the difficulty of the terrain, this is just like artificially making it more difficult for yourself.
I can see the appeal if its you're trying to save weight, and you can do that thing where you stand in place on the bike. Also I assume the chain comes loose less often cause no derailleur.
But really I could not do the shit I do on a daily basis without a freewheel (because of clearance of the pedals with the ground/the curb), and it is very liberating to just glide with your feet on the pedals.
Part of me really wants to have one of those really lightweight foldables though.
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The momentum from the bike moving makes losing the freewheel negligible, most fixies have a high bottom bracket to clear the ground.
They're not great for long distances, and to be fair I havent had one since I entered my 30s because they are shit on the knees in a headwind
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No freewheel. You pedal forward you go forward. You pedal backwards you go backwards. Gives you insane amounts of bike control and balance, like riding a unicycle.
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It's fun
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Those toe clips
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If true this is the most ridiculous thing I've read all week
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Just trash their ebikes in a covert op at night and then act all sad that you wont be able to make the bike tour but you understand
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get a swytch converter pack or get a cheap
crappy 
ebike from costco
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Where tf did they find hills around here?
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+/-25m elevation over 150km is NO JOKE
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First you had the motorcycle.
Then you had an r-slur come up with the idea of a motorcycle but r-slurred, and the moped was born.
Then you had an even bigger r-slur who came up with the r-slurred moped. That is the ebike.
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I love mopeds. But ebikes don't have to be registered and they don't need their points adjusted. But they also don't sound like an angry lawnmower. It's a draw
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I have an electric lawn mower. It is very quiet. Probably the best thing about it.
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Copypasta?
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No it's just my disastrous life
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Cuck fanfiction
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E-bikes are for fatty-fatty-fat-fats anyway.
Never seen a fit person use one.
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