The LBS where I volunteer, recently obtained several discarded Stromer E-Bikes...yes, these were dumped at the local refuge center! These are $4,000 bikes ea.; tossed among the garbage, buried under piles of trash (how they wound up there is another story). Many of the aluminum frames were crushed or destroyed, but the shop managed to rescue twelve nice orphaned frames, eight motors and a sundry of miscellaneous parts.
The owner of the shop had no interest in fixing up the bikes (because almost every part is proprietary and could be an expensive proposition) Instead he asked the volunteers to stripped them all down for their components. Everything was pulled, every wire cut from the frames at the digression of the volunteers.
As the months passed, the bikes sat derelict in the backyard of the shop...I thought I would at least try to get one back on the road…little did I know what I was getting myself into? There are so many nuances and so much to understand, i.e., different motors; front, rear, or middrive – some with controllers, some without! Different displays with different cable ends...torque sensors for PAS or POD! It was a bit daunting and challenging for a novice like myself, but I did managed to assemble two of the bikes with the assistance of the guys at my LBS.
The owner of the shop had no interest in fixing up the bikes (because almost every part is proprietary and could be an expensive proposition) Instead he asked the volunteers to stripped them all down for their components. Everything was pulled, every wire cut from the frames at the digression of the volunteers.
As the months passed, the bikes sat derelict in the backyard of the shop...I thought I would at least try to get one back on the road…little did I know what I was getting myself into? There are so many nuances and so much to understand, i.e., different motors; front, rear, or middrive – some with controllers, some without! Different displays with different cable ends...torque sensors for PAS or POD! It was a bit daunting and challenging for a novice like myself, but I did managed to assemble two of the bikes with the assistance of the guys at my LBS.