Hi Pepper!!! Welcome to the board. If you can plumb and wire your house you can do motored bikes! The public library should have bike maintenance books, and perhaps a small gas engine book so you can get some basic knowledge of maintenance, preventative maintenance, and repair work.
I look foward to reading of your adventures...
Rif
I appreciate the encouragement, but right now all I am is DIScouraged. Got the bike today. Let's say I'm not at all happy and I certainly am no where near actually using it since I can't figure out how to put it together. I mean it when I say I am not mechanically inclined. Apparently electrical and plumbing make sense to my pea brain, engines and putting stuff together...well, I'm clueless.
Having zilcho experience doesn't help. I can't even get the handlebars on as all the cables are in the way. Can't get it to the stem position where it would be usable.
I must say I am shocked the most that there were NO written instructions on how to put this thing together or on how to actually use the drive system (rollers, engagement lever, kill switch, throttle, riding guidelines. etc) . Sure there is your standard manufacturer manual for the bike and for the engine, but that stuff is so generic as to almost be useless and once you take out all the lines of text in other languages, you don't have that much info.
There are some other issues, but I won't post them till I've given Dimension Edge a chance to straighten them out.
Sorry if this sounds so negative. Was anyone else this lost and confused when they actually got their first motored bike?
And yep, I am a girl and yep I have cried today over the sheer frustration over this bike.
Pepper