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  • Repairs
    • How to Remove Tubeless Tires from the Rim
    • How to Perfectly Align Bicycle Disc Brake Pads in Just Seconds
    • Guide to 9 common roadside repair mistakes.
    • Ten Reasons To Go Tubeless
    • How I Eliminated Bicycle Flat Tires Forever!
    • Disc Trucker Build
    • Bafang E-bike Conversion
  • Motivation
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  • Maps
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    • How to Get Free Maps for Your Garmin Device
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  • Health
    • What’s in your wallet?
    • Sunscreen 1st
    • Substitute for Sunscreen
    • Black Flies, Mosquitos and Chiggers, Oh My!
    • How I Eliminated Leg Cramps
    • Serious as a Heart Attack
  • Tips
    • 10 Tips for Cycling a Century (100 miles) in One Day
    • 9 Ways to Avoid Getting a Sore Butt While Riding a Bicycle
    • A Spoonful of Mustard
    • Eliminate Hand Numbness
    • Secret Healthy Cookies?
    • Have a Coca-Cola
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    • Cycling Across California, USA
    • Cycling Across Arizona, USA
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    • Cycling Across Louisiana, USA
    • Cycling Across Mississippi, USA
    • Cycling Across Alabama, USA
    • Cycling Across Florida, USA
  • E-bike Guide
    • E-bike Benefits
      • E-bike Slackers
      • E-bikes Improve Fitness?
      • What’s not to like about e-bikes?
      • Can You Get a Workout on an E-bike?
    • Selecting the Right E-bike for You
      • #1 Consideration When Buying an E-bike
      • What E-bike Class is Right For You?
      • What E-bike Class is Right For You? Part 2: Speed
      • What E-bike Class is Right For You? Part 3: Range
      • What E-bike Class is Right For You? Part 4: Use
      • What E-bike Class is Right For You? Part 5: Weight
    • E-bike Batteries
      • Choosing an E-bike Battery
      • What Does it Cost to Charge an E-bike?
      • E-bike Battery Care for a Long Life
      • Three Little Known Secrets to Increase E-bike Range
      • E-bike Range Test
    • How Much Power Does Your E-bike Need?
    • Why I Ride an E-bike?
    • How to Build an E-bike
    • Build or Buy an E-bike?
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How to Build an E-bike

Cannondale bike conversion to E-bke

My step by step conversion of an old 1997 era Cannondale Headshok road bicycle into a pedal assist electric bicycle (pedelec) using a Bafang 750W BBS02 mid drive motor kit.

  • The Bafang Kit
  • Out with the old
  • In with the Bafang
  • Mounting the Battery
  • Bafang Cockpit
  • Completing the Bafang Conversion
  • Bafang Test Ride
  • Bafang Chainline Problem
  • Loose Bafang Motor
  • Bafang Integrated Lights
  • Moving the Bafang Battery
  • Thumbs Ups to Bafang

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