… contemplating my 20s14p p42a ebike 
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I feel like the line between e bike and e motorcycle has been thinning out. I’m gonna transplant this and a 1000w hub motor onto a mountainbike. Can’t go that crazy lol.
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speaking of e-moto, I pulled a perfectly good frame for a Honda CR125R out of the scrap yard the other day. All aluminum body, still has front end, just missing motor/trans and rear wheel. Pretty excited to electrify this bitch! 
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I’ve been looking for the past month or 2 for a bike frame still nun, I’m jealous
might need to try this option
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I switched the hub on mine from a 500w to a 5000w 
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I missed those cheap bafang hubs from bch. Would’ve bought 2 and gone AWD
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They took them off their site right before they moved. I bet they still have em if you call them or send them an email. Unfortunately these are front hubs so unless you custom machine a new axle, it’s not possible to use one in the rear on a bike.
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Oh shit ok. I actually want a front hub as it won’t require me to move the cassette anyways. I don’t have the tools for that and I’m trying to make it as cheap and simple as possible. No 2wd tho oof
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What up with those pillow packs?
Just pedal while you accel 
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yep I went up a hill nearly impossible to pedal up even with an extremely nice Enduro bike, on a pretty low end mountain bike with the hub attached.
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I completely forgot I already had nuts for these hubs that came with them 
I looked back at a photo I took and saw them in the background. I’m sure I’ll use them one day.
Wait this isn’t the BCH hubs thread…
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Looks like they still have them but shipping is a killer. I’ll bet they’d make you a good deal though, especially if you buy two, and mention the forum. They’ve had them for a while, so I’m sure they’d be happy to get them out of the warehouse.
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Wait, you got nuts? I thought they were supposed to come with nuts but I didn’t get any. Can you post a pic of your nuts to share with the group? I’m curious to see if they’re normal nuts or some exotic nut variation. Don’t be shy. 
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Full nut shot incoming.
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Originally I believe they were selling them with a front and rear wheel, and I definetly need both. (1 motor)
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They were… You could pick between a motor hub and unmotorized hub combo or 2 powered hubs.
Left nut flipped over
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Pretty sure there’s a link for the nuts he uses in that jehu video. He says he ordered from McMaster
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Yeah they’re just m12 fine threaded
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Haha well, this is a metal scrap yard, not a vehicle one… and I happened to find it tossed in the “steel” area while loading up a ton-ish of structural steel… Lets just say I probably shouldn’t have just “tossed” it in the back of the 'burban and paid roughly $0.20 a lb for it… I buy so much from them that they just weigh my truck going in, and weigh it coming out, charge me for the addition with nary a question.
That said, this place, as lucky as we are to have it, everything to them is straight scrap. If it’s magnetic it’s steel (even if it’s inconel, 400 series stainless, or pure nickel, if a magnet sticks, it’s scrap steel), if someone rolls up with a trailer load of NOS Bridgeport mills (as an example many will understand, but it’s usually much worse than this), it’s scrap. If you aren’t there to stop them, they’ll pick them up with the claw or knock them off into the same pile as 50 year old rusted out washing machine. However in their defense, if you say “hey hey I want to buy that at steel sale price” they’ll go out of their way to help you load it. I had them cut a 10’ section off a 30" tall, 1" flange bridge I-beam once, from a 40’ long piece. Dropped it in the back of my pickup and off I went, front tires barely touching the ground lol.
(Actually, it’s worse on small machine tools like a Bridgeport, they’re just mainstream enough that inevitably some employee of the yard lays claim to it, puts a tarp over it, and everytime you ask to buy it, they say “Oh no, sorry, so and so wants it” until the tarp rots, the ways, table, spindle all seize up from rust, and eventually it gets tossed in with the rest, like some cruel joke to remind you, it’s all scrap to them.)
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