Anyone bought tyres for their Vectrix in Melbourne? Need a rear at 12,000km. No idea where to go. I assume removing the wheel is quite different to a normal scooter, so someone who's already had the experience would be nice.
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Hi Aircon
The Pirelli tyres are quite available, I just asked my local bike shop and Juppy had them in within a week. Your tyre lasted well, I usually get about 6000km from a back tyre.
To remove the back tyre/rim:
1. Before you lift the bike, crack the 13mm nuts around the hub on the brake-disk side(RHS) of the back wheel.
2. If you don't have a centre-stand, jack up the bike with a car jack and then use a sturdy full-width block to rest the bottom of the bike on, as close to the back wheel as possible. You may need someone else to help balance the bike as you jack up and chock the bike.
3. Remove the two bolts and lift the brake calliper away.
4. Undo and remove the bolt at the bottom of the RHS shockie.
5. Remove the chrome plastic cover at the axle. 3mm? Allen key required for grub screw below and to the right of the cap.
6. You will need a large socket (30mm) to remove the nut on the RHS of the axle. Remove the spring and flat washer behind the big nut.
7. Undo the four 13mm nylock nuts and washers which hold the RHS of the swing arm on.
8. You should be able to swing the shockie and brake calliper away to enable the removal of the RHS of the swing arm. You will find a small saddle which retains the brake line to the swing arm, leave this on, the whole lot will hang no problem.
9. Fully undo the nuts which retain the wheel rim onto the hub. Make sure you mark the position of the rim to keep balancing as good as it can be.
10. You should be able to move the rim/tyre out from the bike now.
Reverse the process to put the bike back together.
Cheers
Paul
step 6 is 27mm nut on my bike.
I happened to remove the wheel yesterday for a tyre change :-)
when you put it back together please note 2 things:
1) its all aluminium so use a torque wrench!
2) the wheel nuts need to go on with the round side first. dont mix them with the nuts of the swingarm!
before step 1 remove the 2 (gray) plastic covers which cover up to the swingarm. it is only 2 screws and it makes it much easier to jack up the bike and work on it.
Once you go EV, Gas is history!
Thanks for the tips guys. I found this from Oobs...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1ID3qUTYBU
Paul, What is Juppys?
Aircon, are micheli Tyres avaiable?
I use
front: Michelin gold standard (discontinued), 26.000 km on it.
Rear: Michelin City Grip, 11.000km on it.
http://www.michelin.es/moto/michelin-city-grip
I have two Vs, one has Michelins and one has Pirellis.
The one with Pirelli's rolls into corners like a fighter jet comapred with the one with the Michelins, but the Michelins last a lot longer.
I would be very carefull letting a Bike shop near it.
I did it once and when I had to take the the back wheel off a few weeks later all the fasteners were torqued up way too tight(rattle gun I suspect)..
So I just take the wheel in now days, get them to fit the tyre and balance it, and refit it myself.
Once you get the big socket to fit the rear axle, its easy and its a good time to give the area a good clean.
Thanks for all the tips guys. I'll start asking around tyre places to see who's got what.
On an unrelated note, I've noticed an odd thing with my charging. Over a period of weeks, a full charge gives a lower and lower voltage at the end until yesterday, I have red light at 10km into a 20km trip. I made it ok. Of course everything was reset to zero with the red light coming on, and after I charged it it showed 147v, rode the 20km back and still had 132v, which would have been enough to ride another 20km.
Question is, why is every charge resulting in a lower and lower final voltage, which doesn't 'reset' until it's ridden to red light? After that, all is normal again....until next time.
I think it is due to under-estimation of the self-discharge-rate.
This information may be used entirely at your own risk.
There is always a way if there is no other way!
The Laird's firmware fixes that
btw - I'm renting out my usb-CAN adapter for $10/week plus postage to Australian customers
on another note,
I've used Pirelli's for every one of my 4 rear changes and 3 front changes.
My normal bike tyre place were happy enough to fit them.
I think there is a video on youtube showing mostly how its done
Matt
Daily Ride:
2007 Vectrix, modified with 42 x Thundersky 60Ah in July 2010. Done 194'000km
I always thought it charges to a particular voltage OR 30ah, whichever comes first....but there are other variables too? geez.
I would have been tempted if I hadn't read the instructions and realised how over my head I'd be attempting it!
Sounds like Pirelli is the go. I found the video......I think I can manage the work myself, and I'll feel a lot more comfortable doing it than letting a tyre shop do it.
Why can't it just charge until the battery reaches whatever its full charge voltage is, or 30ah, whichever comes first? Why add all the other variables?
I've got one price for my tyre so far. $90 fitted.
Which brings me to the next question. Wouldn't it be nice to have software that will allow you to dial up what maximum speed you want and what voltage you want to charge up to? Then you could put in whatever type/capacity battery you want and programme accordingly.
Hi Aircon
Juppy is the proprietor of my local bike shop.
My bad, 27mm it is.
Cheers
Paul
That's what it does, and thats the problem.
The charger puts back in what came out when you were riding plus some to account for self discharge, unless pack voltage reaches target before then (which sets the fuel guage to full) or the pack temperature goes too high.
The problem is, the extra bit of charge put in to cover the self discharge, isn't enough.
With the official Vectrix firmware, you can't use voltage as a reliable fully charged indicator as the charge rate is too high.
The Laird's version of firm can and does though, which is one of the reasons so many use it.
Matt
Daily Ride:
2007 Vectrix, modified with 42 x Thundersky 60Ah in July 2010. Done 194'000km
Hooray! I did it. I don't know why I was terrified...it couldn't have been much easier.
Yes, sometimes it is simply necessary to get your hands dirty and DO it in order to loose the fear of fiddling with your ride :-)
My rides:
2017 Zero S ZF6.5 11kW, erider Thunder 5kW
Hi, I'm not a Vectrix owner but I do like the look of the bike. I'm new to motorbikes, I have an Erider 8000w in Canberra, I currently have 7000km and both tires look fine. Paul above said he usually gets 6000km out of a rear tire?
Sorry to be a pain, but could you upload a photo of the *old* tire tread so I can compare, because my tire treads still look and feel pretty deep and I just have cheap no-name chinese tires. I've never had a road registered bike before and thought tires would last 50,000km like a car tire? Whoops. I guess not.
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eRider 8000w Scooter - PDT Version
72v 50AH CHL battery
350A Sevcon controller
24km: Delivered - 24 September 2011
2490km: Installed dual 35w HID lights Bi-Xenon Projectors - 27 November 2011
8313km: Installed BMS -
I threw it away, sorry. It had 11,500km and was still roadworthy. Tyres on scooters and motor bikes don't last very long at all....at least that's my experience. The Pirelli is a pretty soft tyre...but that's just how I like it.
E-Rider has a new outlet in Victoria st North Melbourne.....there's a new model coming out at the end of the month. I'm going to check it out and either buy one OR do a Li conversion. I'm down to a range of just under 40km now.
Would that new model be THIS one?
My rides:
2017 Zero S ZF6.5 11kW, erider Thunder 5kW
No. This one. http://www.erider.com.au/prod42.htm
Ah, so nothing really new, just the Thunder, in pdt spec. They have been advertising Thunder for years already, so "new" is pretty relative in this case...
My rides:
2017 Zero S ZF6.5 11kW, erider Thunder 5kW
They certainly claimed it was all new. American design/made. Not chinese like the previous versions. Proper BMS and based on a Sachs chassis or something.
Time will tell.
Oh my - American-made... Let me guess: Sachs rear dampers is what it will be. But Sachs is a German company. PDT is a company from Israel, not the US.
Yes, time will tell...
My rides:
2017 Zero S ZF6.5 11kW, erider Thunder 5kW
*shrug*
Only repeating what the guy told me. I'll report back when I check it out.
I was less than impressed with what was under the skin of pcarlson's scooter.. I'm hoping this new one will be better made. Unlikely to be up to the standard of the Vectrix with its aluminium swingarms, brembos and marzocchi suspension, but hopefully better than square section steel.
I probably shouldn't hope for too much at $7600 ride away though...should I?
Almost got caught out by the self destructing side stand syndrome! The bolt holding it on was so loose that there were only a couple of threads left holding the nut on!!
Check it guys!
The only thing that gave it away was that the return spring started hitting the bolt head when I pushed the stand down.
I consider myself very lucky for finding it before it was too late, and very stupid for nothing checking it months ago, when I read about the problem on here.
Hooray for me....I'm no longer a bathot virgin! (only took 3 years) My poor little scooter was sitting out in the sun ALLLLL day...and it was 40 deg C in the shade...and then I had to charge it. Battery temp got up to 49 deg by the time it finished at 142v, and when I turned on the ignition, bathot came on. By this time it had cooled to 35 deg, and by the time I got home after 20km @ 80kph the battery temp had cooled to 44.
Also, can someone please tell me if this is the charger than can be programmed with the laird's software or not?
yes that's the one that can be re-programmed
Daily Ride:
2007 Vectrix, modified with 42 x Thundersky 60Ah in July 2010. Done 194'000km
Well, I'm feeling a bit stupid. Why, you ask? Because I just did something to my Vectrix that I should have done ages ago which has transformed the whole ownership experience.
I met LithiumVectrix (Paul)months and months ago. He'd done a Li-ion conversion to his bike with a 90Ah battery. I'd always wanted to do it to mine, but the only person doing the conversion was antiscab, and he's 3500km away! So that just didn't seem practical. Luckily for me, Paul is in Melbourne and only 30km from where I am and he decided to share what he'd done to his scooter.
Anyway, I finally decided to bite the bullet and get it done, but with 60Ah instead of 90, as I knew that would be more than enough for me.
So, thanks to the ingenuity of Paul and the software cleverness of The Laird, I now have a scooter which I STILL love riding, but now it's 50kg lighter, and has a range of a worry free 140km of mixed speed riding (probably more if it was all suburban speed). Apart from more storage, what more could I possible want?
Anyway, many thanks again to LithiumVectrix and The Laird, because between the two of them, they've give my scooter a 140km range and still plug and play charging, and for the encouragement and assistance of antiscab and Stuart (not sure of his name on here)
btw, i still have my old battery if anyone wants to buy it. It was still capable of 40km or so, so it wasn't too bad.
140km!! Really?!
My eRider 8kw scooter now has 9750km and both tires still look and feel brand new. Over 8mm of tread easily. Still capable of 60km flat out and 80km "eco" driving. My CHL batteries are going great! 72v 50Ah (24 cells). Last range test showed 50.98Ah so that's still 102% capacity after 9000km+. That was BMS shutdown 2.5v though.
I think I would need around 72v 100Ah to get 140km. You said you got 60Ah cells. How many cells did you stuff inside that bike! I'd love to see some photo's :)
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eRider 8000w Scooter - PDT Version
72v 50AH CHL battery
350A Sevcon controller
24km: Delivered - 24 September 2011
2490km: Installed dual 35w HID lights Bi-Xenon Projectors - 27 November 2011
8313km: Installed BMS -
This is LithiumVectix's conversion for his bike here...but mine is similar.
http://www.evalbum.com/4465
I'm not surprised about the mileage you're getting from your tyres. Your scooter is much lighter and has much less power. Also, the tyres fitted to the Vectrix are quite soft and sticky.
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