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xvbill:
The ocean green colored frame u see above is not paint its a vinyl wrap. Just like the vinyl wrap on cars, i just decided to do a wrap, cus i wanted to yry out different stuffs, just a curious guy. But u need heat gun or hair dryer with enough heat to enable laying of the wrap. Iys a 3M vinyl wrap

Yea i know the wrap. I know i still have a heat gun in nigeria and tools to wrap a car with. Before i left i was so interested in auto tuning and upgrades so i just wanted to start from somewhere but i guess the dream died quickly. Besides everybody now does that. But i think a hair dryer is good enough too but i am not sure to what extent. The heat gun has power of over 800watt while hair dryer is like 200 or so. I think the best thing next to wrapping is dip spray. It works the same way the only thing different from it is that the spray is liquid and when it solidifies, it sticks to the body of the sprayed item. And it can also be torn off when no longer in use. I used that for my fork and it worked good but somehow i was not satisfied with it so i tore it off..i would post the picture one more time

xvbill:
Original bike color was red, so i decided to strip it down to raw metal and then painted it matte black and silver

Oh wow. How did you do this?

xvbill:
Hi nice restoration project
I also ride BMXs and i also like trying out different cosmetic upgrades. Here are some of my work

Ah ahn. I thought it was only me. Erm what did you do exactly to ths bike?. Was it green before then you changed it to black? I love it but its too small for me and i dont like bikes without mudguards. Especially for naija. E go cramp your style. Even here. During the rainy season. Its very shitty.

Na with heavy heart i dey write so. I tried to install the speed sensor on the pedal but firstly i needed to take out the bottom bracket and put the speed sensor ring into it. But the bottom bracket itself is a super tough one as i dont know what tool exactly it is to use to take it out. So today i decided that i would be taking the full bicycle ti a repair shop to see if they can just do it with their tools and i pay them rather than stress myself getting a tool i might not use. I went to the first bicycle shop but that guys story would not be what i would be discussing because he is not relevant although he did not get it done for me.the second shop i went to, i quickly discussed what i wanted and the person there told me that i have a really old bottom bracket and they dont have the tool there and if i want to order it, its a different case and that the second issue was that i couldnt have just come from no where like that to request for a repair that i would need to book an appointment.

Okay, we havent gotten to the point of booking the appointment i am asking if i can get the tool to unscrew it. He asjed someone to check a catalogue and he later went to the pc and typed a few things and told me to order it would cost me 200chf. Thats 70k for just unscrewer. He was like its a super old bottom bracket ans its no longer in use. He also suggested that i got a newer bottom bracket and the wrench tool for aroubd 50chf. Over 17k. I wanted to go with that option until they started talking about not fixing e bikes until they get authorization from the company. I am like, " are these ones okay?" Anyway, the idea was for me to get the new bottom bracket and then the unscrew the old one for me until the idea of the e bike thing came in and also the booking of appointment and stuff. So basically, they said they cant help me just like the same thing the first shop told me.

Sometimes you just wish you were back home where you can get anything done at ur own pace and convenience. Anyway, i was not able to get the tool or book the appointment or anything just because its an ebike and they cant touch it. I tried to explain to them that i am building it and he confirmed he was aware of that. Sometimes the way these white folks think. They never want to think outside the box and its always surprising to know how they actually did get developed. Most of them are like this. The system they know is what they stick with. I still ask myself how they got developed.

Pic of bottom bracket coming soon

Princelegacylemoha:
You are good to go with this

Thats a normal bicycle converted to an ebike

blaquemyc:
for Naija now na one week one saga

Lmao. I swear!!!

legendarystar:
with prayers and determination it can just start from u

Lol. You better focus on yourself. I am not interested.

because of 32m naira. Everybody eye dey chook! Nigeria and greediness like bread and butter

blank:
@ Uboma, Davide470, can this thread be stickied and the heading modified to something appropriate like a scammer caught, a notorious scammer exposed, etc?

Also, if his first post can be modified to include his original post. I think someone quoted him. Then his monikers should be banned for life.

Moderators should start looking to ban IP addresses rather than monikers. It doesnt make sense to just ban moniker when the person can come back with a new one. Its almost impossible coming back from a banned IP especially if the person isnt IT savvy.

Anabell2:
Another username of the Scammer https://www.nairaland.com/owonoko


Who are the idiots sending me messages asking for financial help from Lagos, Nigeria

Pls STOP it. You haven't eaten for 'years' yet you have money to browse nairaland

Example 1



Sent: Friday, July 01, 2016 at 6:28 PM
From: jumpes85@gmail.com
To: "Annabel xxxxx" <xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: pweedie would like to send you a message
Ok. Don't let me bore you with a long details. I need your help financially . I wouldn't have said this atall if I could help myself wit it somewhere else. I don't mind any amount u can help me I really wan to use it to buy some food to eat. I saw how matured you are thru your post dats y I approached , pls don't take this a wrong way. If u can't assist me I would truly understand. Thanks



From: "Annabel xxxxxxx" <xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 19:30:33 +0200
To: <jumpes85@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: pweedie would like to send you a message

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Bleep OFF![/size]



Sent: Friday, July 01, 2016 at 6:40 PM
From: jumpes85@gmail.com
To: "Annabel xxxxxxx" <xxxxxxxxx>

Sorry I asked in the first place. Hv bleeped off.

Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

He doesnt have money to eat but maintains a blackberry with BIS. Lol.

legendarystar:
...... if only Igbo's, Hausa and Yoruba's could have a united front, I see Nigeria going places.

Off topic but super apt. But i see this not happening ever

vanquay69:
Nigerians are the most respected Africans, only problem is we have a few errant jews dragging the Green white Green through the Mud

Mumuni alao. Its the so called jews doing big things internationally for these women.. olodo

Propropro:
This man likes camera too much. What's the big deal in visiting a sabmiller that is not even known beyond igbo land while we have Nigerian breweries and Guinness in the southwest

My their talk you shall know them. Awon haters oshi. Is guiness nigerian?

This e money room is very life threatening. You cant play too rough there otherwise those chuku go cut your life short. Make person no go nack head for the frame when e dey play love ooooo

Yorubas can sell their birth right just to stoop low to someone they believe is above them in the social strata.

Qmerit:
He looks like a soldier, but what matter is what has being his contributions to his people and Nigeria in general?

I think he was one of best Gov while serving as a gov in Kano state.

You are too confused. You better have breakfast!

midolian:
hmmm..but some wives no be like that o. Though another mum can never be gotten while another wife can.. but mama don old na. Why u no go allow flood end her suffering for ds world? #justasking


Big question this is. Hahahaaha.. Most of them wld like her to let her parents die in this situation. That is when you ll be hearing sweet words like "honey, remember the times we have spent together..remember the kids"... Mehn, An average human being is selfish.

Its a very "dilemic" situation. We should pray we dont find ourselves in such positions

midolian:
hmmm..but some wives no be like that o. Though another mum can never be gotten while another wife can.. but mama don old na. Why u no go allow flood end her suffering for ds world? #justasking


Big question this is. Hahahaaha.. Most of them wld like her to let her parents die in this situation. That is when you ll be hearing sweet words like "honey, remember the times we have spent together..remember the kids"... Mehn, An average human being is selfish.

Its a very dilemic situation. We should pray we dont find ourselves in such positions

Next up is the chain itself. Had to go to the grass to get this done. I did not want it to stain the main house.

I dont get. What is goals about this? Goals for the boy to impress with gwagon or goals for the girl to receive car whenever her bfs offend her? I dont get..

gear selector fixed.

this next part is what scares me the most. the gear system. i don know why. This would determine the ride-ability of the bike and if there has been mistakes here i would have to find solutions. so i have to get this part well. most of the drive train is messed up with grease so firstly the gear selector had to be cleaned. i used nail polish to do so and its an equivalent or better than Petrol.

Then moving to the left side of the handle bar, i had a bit of problem there. This was because the middle of the handle bar itself is a bit bigger than the left and right side of it. So i tried to install the Function control for the LCD on the left side but the grip of the control in my opinion was too small to go way close to the LCD to create space for other components. So in real sense, there is one more thing extra on the left than right side of the handlebar.
I fixed the left gear, the throttle and the new brake but the problem i had was that there was not enough space for the grip to sit properly. So this makes the handling of the bicycle uneven and also creates more space at the edge of the grip and this doesn't really have a good feeling of handling


I went to the do-it store to get something i could put in the edge of the handlebar that makes it hold the grip. When the grip itself is fully held by the iron on the handle bar, its easy to adjust the screw and fasten it to have a firmer grip. This wasn't the case as i was feeling some emptiness inside the left grip.

There was still another problem even after getting a round wood and thought that the wood would create some feeling of fill on the handlebar and grip. But this wasn't the case because that wood needed to have a hole inside of it that would enable the grip cover stay firm. But this was not possible and i did not want to stress myself. So what i figured was to try to push everything a bit more to the right to give the grip more room.

After shifting it as much as I could without breaking anything, there was little room left and it was a bit better than before. but the grip cover needed something firm to hold on to. Fortunately, the old grip was foam mixed with rubber. (I have no idea what it is. But that is how it felt like). I wrapped it around grip cover and stuck it in. It worked and I was able to screw the grip and it was very fine.

I tried to fix the new leather grips for the right side and it went in good. However tightening it was a problem as i did not have the tool to do that. I needed a smaller screw driver which i did not have. I had to go get one. It was not so expensive but i was annoyed spending that money on a tool when i thought i have it all already. But looking on the bright side, it belongs to me now.

Spanner was useless. I bought a size smaller. The second picture with the round thumb control is the throttle. It basically controls the speed at which you want to go with your thumb. It functions the same way the throttle in any normal car but it has stages at which the thumb control hangs on. and this is to enable the rider focus on control of the bicycle while maintaining a certain speed rather than leaving a thumb on the control just like the way it is on the car. When you need to increase or reduce it, just press the control one level higher or lower.

There is an old post concerning my handle bar and how i got the components on it fixed.

The first thing i ever mounted was the bell. Its a smaller new bell compared to the big old one there and this gave it alot of space to put other things. The good thing about this bell was that it was not expensive at all. $0.55 dollars got it for me. Approximately 200 naira or less. One other good thing about the bell is that its the type i see on modern bicycles. So yea, it did catch my fancy. But as a result of flipping the bicycle over to work on somethings, it has some scratches and i would be spray painting it again just to make it look pristine.

So after i fixed the LCD which was the second thing on the bicycle, i had to fix the right gear system and the left gear system. This did not give me any problems at all.

Pictures i would put up would follow a chronological method according to the way i structured this write up. Next up was the brake system. The good thing about the brake handle is that instead of it just being a normal brake, it has a power cut function that stops the motor on the bike from spinning when you press on it. So there are two things here. It sends signal to the control box to stop sending power to the motor and in the same vein, it stops the tires from spinning. Before now i was wondering how the rear tire that has a spinning motor would know when to stop spinning when you press the brake and until the kit came i could not figure it out. So this way, there has already been a pre-designed brake clutch that would replace your normal brake clutch .makes sense.

But before 83 you hve been kiiling abi. Oya police om come and do your work

I think i would be doing some touch up spray painting when i am done with all the main fixes. Im seeing some scratches as a result of handling and i just want a perfect job

Front and back brakes done. These brakes gave me a tough time. I spent literally the whole of saturday and some partd of sunday trying tofix just the front brakes alone. The back brake was different. But it took me atleast 3 hours to fix. It was easier considering a bit of experience i already had on the front brake

seedgreen:
you truly understand the politics.....Trump will never be US president.

Shebi thats how they said Buhari sef could not win. nothing is impossible anymore

olayinka807:


OMG!! YOU NEED TO SEE WHAT WIZKID WAS CAUGHT DOING WITH JUSTINE SKYE IN THESE OTHER PHOTOS >>>

http://www.9janewsarena.com/2016/07/wizkid-his-new-bae-justine-skye.html


Dis Wizkid guy sha.....!!

We are not opening your website. This una trick don too old. Find another one!

Fake yeezy. Fake dollars. How come they all are facing up. What are the odds. Lol

Iceeydee:
Why are you not wise?

Is it difficult to buy rat poison outside in a kiosk nearby?

Or better still she could have planned it since she knew the both of them would attend the dinner.

There is a clog in your cerebral cortex which is blocking your reasoning.

This was the reason i did not reply you. Because you proved how mentally incapable you are. You are forgiven though.