Well, I figured part of the reason the hub motor assembly is so heavy is is that the tires are solid rubber. Seriously, solid.
I’m going to try to swap them out for standard tires using the runflats I talked about here
On the good side the final spring steel has arrived
which means the only thing between me and a spring steel eMTB suspension is a whole lot of time in front of a manual mill. The downside is that this steel is too thick to cut on the Barbie Saw that I was using to cut the samples.
So I’ll have to load up a chopsaw with a metal cutting blade to get through them which will make a lot of noise and a lot of sparks. And make the shop smell funny.