Unboxing:
Please make sure that you installed your wheel spacers, they go on each side of the hub.
BEFORE RIDING
- Charge your battery
- Go over all the bolts before your first ride, especially the axle bolts, headset , stem & top cap Click here to see how to adjust the headset & stem.
- Check if both brakes work fine and if the pads dont rub too much on the disks. If the brakes are spongy or if you have too much drag you will have to so a brake adjusment or bleeding.
- Check the tire pressure, too low and you can pinch the tube or rip the valve off due to slippage. Too much pressure and it wont ride good off road.
- Move over to the rear and check if the rear axle is solid & suspension components are secured. If the rear shock is loose t then you much tighten the nut to the torque spec (it's written on the nut)
- Check Spoke tension and recheck them after a few rides, they can come loose and you can rip nipples out of the rim or worst. If unsure how to properly tighten spokes and true a wheel, please take the wheel to a trusted local bike shop.
- Check the front fork and rear shock, verify that it has proper sag, if not add or remove air in them.
General info
Display is a special display that works only with this bike, no other display will work for it. It uses CAN communication so it will not work with any BBSxx / Ultra series display.
This display also has a USB port, a nice surprise. To change the basic settings of the display hold down + & -.
There is a key to lock/unlock the battery from the frame. The position of the key does NOT affect power. Please note that we do not currently have spare keys so take care not to lose the key.
We recommend to store the key at home in a safe place. Without the key you can not remove the battery.
Please be careful when turning the key. It may make it drop out without much warning once you have turned the key, so be prepared for that by holding the battery as you turn the key.
Rear sprocket has 12 gears but is limited out so only 11 are used, as the 12th gear may skip due to chainline. You can adjust this to use this gear by changing the limit screw on the derailer but please note it will make it intermittently a bit noisy in this gear.
The battery is charged with a standard barrel.
This means you can use something like the solderless barrel in conjunction with 48v Advanced Charger or 48v Mini to charge the bike if preferred over the included charger.
This bike has a temp sensor and high temp cutoff to prevent damage to the motor/controller.
At high temp it will scale back the power. If heat continues to rise, it will briefly shut down to protect the internals.
The chainring of this bike is a standard 32T 4 bolt 104 BCD Narrow-Wide chainring. As such there are many aftermarket rings available for it if you want to go with a larger chainring, 38T will fit, 40T could fit depending on the brand you get. But 42T will likely rub on the chain stay! You can change the chainring without removing the chainring spyder. A 38t will raise the top speed to around 28mph
Combining the front 32T and the 11T rear you should be able to reach close to 22mph at over 100rpm (crank rotation), See below spreadsheet of the speed in each gear VS various cadence RPM
Troubleshooting
Green harness wire that goes into the back of the display needs to be shoved in really hard (triangle shaped higo), if you are having trouble turning it on be sure to check this and the other connectors.
Additionally, check the connectors as they exit the motor housing (see below for a picture)
The on off button on the remote needs to be held really long time at the remote. The on/off button is on the right next to the grip, near the +/- and this button needs to be held down a fairly long time, more than 5 seconds.
Make sure the button on the battery has been pressed so the battery is ON.
This is the battery, showing a standard led power readout, on/off button, and barrel charge port.
The bare motor.
Removing the motor is pretty easy, no special tools required.
Remove bash guard (4x hex bolts )
Remove plastic cover on non drive side (3x torx bolts T10)
Remove chainring bolts (not necessary to remove spyder )
Remove the 3 mounting bolts (5mm hex and 10mm socket.
Motor will drop down . ( 3 plugs go into the side of motor)
The connectors directly on the bare motor. Check the connection here during troubleshooting in addition to the harness.
How to remove the chainring bracket from the motor:
This is recessed so a typical ring spanner will not work. A socket style bottom bracket tool for screw in bearing cups does the job. A chain whip is needed to hold the chainring when removing the locking nut. This tool will work. The lockring is reverse or right hand-threaded, so you must turn it clockwise to remove it.
DISPLAY
This is the selector on the handlebars. Hold down power button for 5 seconds to turn on.
Here is a manual on how to use the M600 dashboard, just click on this link to open the manual. Thank you Brad for making it!
Advanced controller programming:
This drive cannot be programmed like the other Bafang mid-drives unfortunately. It uses the Bafang dealer tool called the BESST. If you get your hand on it with a dealer license you can but you wont be able to change anything as you would need the firmware file. So don't buying one!
Also changing the controller will require a BESST tools with dealer access to calibrate the new controller to the motor
Customer reviews and unboxing videos:
Dan's unboxing:
Brad's unboxing:
Brad's dropper seat post fix :
Brad's size comparison to a 26" standard MTB
Dan's noise testing
Dan's friend test ride
*Staff note: the videos we linked are from some customers of ours (Dan and Brad), they were not paid or asked to do this, we simply reached out to him to ask permission after the videos were posted on youtube.
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