someone tell me i need to stop looking at fb marketplace. I got my work cut out for me. oigh

i got another scoot in my back seat. I should get that out. fuuu.

Sold my favorite e-bike today. I rode it around my city and had a really nice time with it, up until it stopped working [luckily] near my home. I thought the motor cable was bad but after replacing it the problem persisted and the display even gave me an error at that point!

In any case, I was lucky to sell it for the same price I bought it.

More room in my patio, now. PSYCH! I unfolded a bike from my trunk and put it there. I don't think I want to work on it at all, tho. SELL TIME!

I could probably fix it, but I need the space more so.

FUCK

my actual e-bike, the one I loved and had so much hope for. I consider it dead.

mainly due to frustration; the plate enclosing the controller stripped a screw and I can no longer access it, which is where most of the important cabling exists.

I tried drilling the screw out and my drill bit snapped. yay shit bits from china for super cheap.

I'm trying to sell it for what I got for it and I think my honest description is scaring the normies away, which is to be expected.

It's all I talk about, scoots and ebikes and stuff. I don't want to talk about work. I got nothing else, really, aside from family stuff that I really can't complain about. anyhoo, I think I just-- well, this is shouting into the void about stuff only one guy at work is also interested in, with a few nice echoes back :)

I think I fixed the hub motor of the only actual ebike i got [i got totes full of scoots, but only 3 true ebikes have passed through my patio]. Bought a new cable. Two actually, coz i think my job might be super easy with simply replacing an extension vs. splicing a plug to bare wires. ugh i hate splicing it is so ugly, and this is coming from me, who builds crap for pure function. I guess a neat splice is function tho.

and I just gave one away to a friend's kid who's birthday is in a week, and he has a brother, so his parents will buy that one, and given that the birthday party will happen next week, maybe I'll be able to sell the third to a parent at that time. we'll see!

I'm glad I built the batteries for the razor scoots ahead of time; I guess I'm used to procrastinating and doing everything up to a point. However in this case, there was no deadline so I guess procrastination was never in the equation.

In any case, 3 razor scoots for kiddos are for sale. hopefully i can drop them fast so i can make room.

my weird LED light strip post should make a bit more sense now; I got rid of another scoot, so now I need to clean up and sell 3 lil kid razor scoots that I built batteries for, so those are superior to the existing batteries that are dead.

and once THOSE are done, and I frankenstein a scooter to working condition, I can make my daily ride an actual daily ride with a 5kw motor and a 72v motor.

it's still a lot of work.

my first as in, this was the first one I ever owned.

just sold my first electric scoot.

The buyer seemed excited about it, esp. since the rear light stopped working on it when I used this for testing other controllers.

After several headaches, I got this to run the headlight as well as the rearlight at once, which is what the customer wanted.

Horn broke somehow, but whatever! I gave him a grace period. He gave me a 50 buck tip. I gave him the option to take the tip back XD

blaze TV yt channel is full of BULGING FUCKS

"OH! I want to put LED lights on my scooter!"

"Oh! I need to either get my UV flashlight back, or make one from the random LEDs I have!"

"I wish not to bother my methfriend for my flashlight back! I will continue with making a functional UV flashlight!"

" I have all of the components, I just need to 3d print a housing!"

"I will need to use uv resin to build this, so I will model and 3d print a body for a smaller UV flashlight that I can make!"

THIS IS EXHAUSTING :D
(and I love it)

at least I can open the windows tonight.

IT IS TOO DAMN HOT IN SOCAL TO EXIST OUTSIDE.

All existing outside-ness must take a break until... what, tuesday? F this so much.

If any of you have any thoughts on Beau is Afraid, feel free to share them! My own vacillations on what this ought/would/should/could be/been/have been is just all over the place. I tried watching it a second time and the boat was something I definitely noticed 😛

this is the scoot I bought!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5YCJ9S2

In further news: I got a brand new ride!

36v, but I bought this specifically because it has SUSPENSION and 14 in wheels, which means I can replace the drive wheel with MY drive wheel.

That is to say, a 350 watt hub motor with a 5,000 watt hub motor. right underneath the seat is a good spot for the new 72v battery, and the controller can go wherever.

This thing will hopefully be my new work commuter as it will save me 160 a month on gas, more or less.

I functionally liquidated assets to gain $700+, hooray.

I am currently bound to work to make 120 more, and it is too damn hot to work :( the customer is super chill and patient though, but ugh, I'm reluctant because disassembling this scooter and reassembling it is so excruciatingly exacting and requiring a very specific order of handling parts in a very specific way.

but I need to do it :(