Battery Disposal; Precaution And Procedures; Emergency Equipment And Knowledge; If You Get A Flat Tyre - ezee Sprint 2008 User Manual

(G) For every 50 hours of riding. Take your bike to your dealer for a check-up.
5.2

Battery disposal

Depending on the way your battery is treated and on the number of charges you have made, your
battery will begin to deteriorate. At this point, the battery will lose its capacity rapidly and cannot be
recovered by refresh charging.
Think to the environment when you dispose of your battery. As regulations for battery disposal may
differ from place to place. Check with your local town council or eZee dealer.
6 Precautions and procedures
6.1

Emergency equipment and knowledge

Its always a good idea to go for a bike ride with the following emergency equipment and
knowledge.
• Allen wrenches 4mm, 5mm and 6mm, used to tighten various clamping bolts that may
have loosened.
• Patch kit and a spare inner tube.
• Tyre levers
• Tyre pump or cartridge inflator with correct head to fit your tyre valves.
• Identification (address, phone number, insurance company, emergency contact, blood
type, medical allergies and conditions)
6.2

If you get a flat tyre

(a) Familiarize yourself with wheel removal (see section).
Let all air out of the innter tube (see section).
Remove one side of the tyre from the rim by inserting a tyre lever in between the rim
and the base of the tyre's side wall ("bead").
Pry the bead away from the rim by pushing down on the tyre lever.
Take another tyre lever and pry the bead off the rim approximately 10-15 cm
(four to six inches) away from where you started. At this point you should be able to
begin levering the bead off the rim so that the entire circumference of one side of the
tyre bead comes off the rim.
(b) Remove the inner tube. Remove the valve from the rim's valve hole, then remove the
inner tube.
Carefully check the outside and inside of the tyre for the cause of the puncture (thorn,
glass shard, nail etc..) and remove the object if its still there.
If the tyre is cut, line the inside of the tyre around that area with something that will
resist the inner tube forcing its way out of the cut when inflated: a spare patch, a piece
of inner tube, a business card etc..
(c) Either patch the tube, or use a new inner tube.
(d) Before replacing the new/repaired inner tube, put just enough air to give it some shape.
Then starting at the valve, slip the exposed tyre bead into the rim using downward
pressure. Make sure the bead seats down below the valve's rubber base.
16