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Sounds like it thinks you are holding down the right button. Either stuck button or wiring??? Have you tried smacking it to make it behave? Sometimes machines will respond to fear rather than kindness. Casually mention e-waste disposal companies when you walk in the garage to see if it...

Thanks. Actually found a set at Liquid Performance.

It’s usually a broken wire bond to a single cell. So, for instance, if one of the 6 cells in one p-group has a broken wire bond, then the other 5 are providing the power expected of 6 cells. Assuming you can balance that p-group to the same level as the other p-groups in the module, then those...

MultiTool can show you which cells in the battery are causing the imbalance (which triggers the code 36). However, the tool won’t let you reset the code. There are other codes you can reset, but code 36 isn’t one of them. And, yes, you can continue to ride on a code 36 battery, you will just...

I feel the same way when I ride my internal combustion bike and feel all that lovely heat escaping out the exhaust pipe. Or when opening the gas tank and smelling all those precious, hydro-carbon fumes wafting uselessly away into the ether, unable to fulfill their preferred, fiery fate of...

It’s like that famous Greek dirt bike rider, Pythagoras, once said: “It ain’t the reach to the grip that lets you rip; It’s the use of the hypotenuse that lets you cruise.” Okay, I know it probably rhymed better in the original, 6th-century BC, Greek dialect. But the point is that the distance...

Ryan Kluftinger of FortNine posted an interesting video about the new Can-Am electric motorcycles. Some interesting powertrain innovations. But I was hoping that BRP could have taken some of the Alta tech they bought and improved on it a bit more.

Stage fright?

Maybe some kind of electro-magnetic interference from the electric motor, which is near your boot? Maybe tape it to your front fender or fork, and gain another foot or two of position advantage to the front of the bike.

Is that a huge battery, or are those just tiny feet?

Sometimes, inebriation leads to inspiration.

Engineering at its finest. I would have given extra credit if the solution involved an old beer can, a stick, or some form of pool noodle. But at least your fix involved a zip tie, one of the holy trinity of backyard engineering solutions (zip tie, duct tape, WD-40). Keep it simple, I always say.

It is difficult to hear the electric bikes coming from behind. Sometimes when I’m coming up on someone on the track or on the trail on my Alta, I will yell out something useful like “On your left!” But, because my brain can only do a few coherent things at a time, my mouth usually spits out the...

There’s always good old safety wire to hold on the grips. That’s what the pros do. Takes some practice, but you can always redo it if you screw it up. Lots of tutorials on YouTube. If the grips are not glued on, I usually use compressed air to remove and install the grips. Pro tip: Using...

Found one in SoCal.

In case anyone has a set of the stock SM wheels just laying about, let me know.

That was probably one of the laptops that I setup for a number of users. I just picked that password as an homage to Faster Faster, Inc., aka Alta Motors.

A 122 error means "AC Voltage Low". I think what might be happening is that the adapter you have is giving you the correct pinout connections between the J1172 and the 5-20r, but the internal charger is not communicating with the charging station. Therefore, the charging station might not...

It looks complicated, but I’m pretty sure that’s just a picture of where the base plate of the pre-famulated amulite is connected to the hyperencabulator. But Stark is really going for the old-school look of the retroencabulator without employing the asynchronistic flux of quintupular spurving...

Lithium batteries definitely do not work well below 0 degrees Celsius. They won’t really charge and they have almost no range. You might want to check out the series “Long Way Up”, where Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman ride electric Harley Davidson Livewire motorcycles from the tip of South...