ELF Restoration

Walk-around overview of the ELF showing and describing all the things I needed to fix to get it working.
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[@khandam7709]

A new single custom wheel with super thick and strong 21mm axel hole, tire, tube and disk break rotor is easily $300-$400. One can buy a nice new bicycle for that. This needs to be totally redesigned using more common bicycle parts that are not custom and expensive.

[@chocolatechiclid7654]

This is the new old school VW beetles of the 21 century

[@miguelsalami]

Very Nice restoration! I'm looking for a project Elf to do the same with if you know of any let me know. Sadly Organic Transit went bankrupt in 2019 & was sold at Auction to oil & gas company Petro Sun. I'm hoping another Visionary like the Elf's creator Rob Cotter opens a shop here in the USA to carry on his dream.

[@user-du1jb9pz8m]

🔌コンセント式の🔋電動式自転車の3輪か4輪のどちらかですか❣️免許が不要なら是非ともget欲しいですね🎶❣️

[@egovorch]

I found your video really informative on the battery issue. The ELF company recently went under but I found a used one for a good price but I was wondering about the battery issue. Can you give some insight to what kind of battery you used and the connectors? It has not been determined yet how (if at all) any current ELF owners will be able to get parts/batteries for any future needs unless a buyer comes in a buys up the parts/brand and continues the service end of the process. Any help you could provide would be great and I was also wondering if you still had the ELF since the original video was made in Jul 2018....thanks for those really informative videos!

[@rollandelliott]

any 48v ebike battery will work. Some people replace the SBS50 connector with a XTC60 connector which are easier to unplug

[@popeyegordon]

The 1000 ELF owners have good web support, mostly with 3 Facebook groups. The private owner group is a huge archive of 7 years of troubleshooting, repairs, upgrades and battery replacement options. The company dregs are up for auction, it may come back. There are few parts that are totally custom and even those can be fabricated. I'm in year 6 with mine as my only transportation.

[@khandam7709]

their own web page states only 700+ customers with 850 sold. www.organictransitassetsale.com/ obivoulsy some bought more than 1, no where close to 1000. some of the early ones are now broken with a bad battery and solar panel so even less on the used market.

[@popeyegordon]

@@khandam7709 Actually it is close to 1000, closer than to 500. The first Kickstarter models are still going, it is absurd to suggest the vehicle is junked when the original battery dies! I'm on my third battery in year 6 because Florida heat is hard on them, no 7 year old batteries are still in service nor were they expected to be. The original aluminum backed 100 watt panels were started a year after first production, an upgrade from 60 watts that was less useful. Unfortunately the aluminum back panels have a failure rate of about 30% after a number of years because the bend is more than they can take prolonged. No one had any way to foresee the chosen panel would develop so many open solder joints. Our huge private group of 500 owners on Facebook figured out the easy fix was to tape or glue a plastic backed 100 watt flex panel over the original riveted one, this works well. Some ELFs are never plugged in to charge in the South. Mine charges at 70 watts the entire time it is in the sun so I return home with an almost full charge on my daily shipping trips. The market for used ELFs is active, about one a week. My group is vary aware of the few that are scrapped for parts, no more than about 20 total are scrapped after collisions. Three ELFs completed 4000 mile journeys, one wrote a book about it, one made a movie that is here at KZbin - Sustainable Joes.

[@khandam7709]

@@popeyegordon their own web page states only 700+ customers with 850 sold. www.organictransitassetsale.com/ it is not 1000, you have zero data showing it is 1000 either, so why misinform?

[@LivingWellLifeHacks]

Cool project! Which year and model is your ELF?

[@elfelectricbike]

Living Well Life Hacks It is a 2FR. I don't have the original paperwork since it is second hand. By the SN, it was apparently in March 2016. Probably version 1.8.

[@narendarb2927]

How much cost