Barries ebike, a Giant Trance developed worrying noises about three weeks ago and he booked it into a bike shop that specialised in Giant bikes for repair. The motor was still under warranty and in due course a new motor was sent from Giant to replace the faulty one. He received a call mid week to say his bike was ready and he duly went and picked it up and arranged to go out with Clive and myself for a trip in the hills last night. Barrie and I cycled down to Clives house and it was when we arrived that Barrie discovere he couldnt unclip from one of his pedals. After a lot of faffing around during which time we replaced his pedals and he used a pair of clip in shoes he borrowed from me, but without great success... the mystery was deepening!! He struggled on our Pentland Hills ride to unclip and about two miles from home one of the pedals totally unscrewed itself from the crank and was still attached to his shoe! That was when we finally diagnosed the problem which was that during the repair rebuild of his bike, his cranks had been fixed onto the wrong side of the replacement e-motor with the result that the pedals were back to front resulting in the difficulties he was having clipping and unclipping, so simple but yet potentially very dangerous when riding the bike. Surely no experienced bike mechanic would make so simple a mistake.... or would they? If anyone reading this has heard of this before I'd be interested to hear.
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