Reverse E Trike Assembly: How to Assemble Your New Electric Tadpole Electric Tricycle

Hey everyone, I'm Dustin, CEO of sixthreezero and today I'm going to walk you through the assembly of the Two Front-wheel Reverse E-trike. Now this is how your e-trike will show up. The box weighs 89 pounds and it is 36 and a half inches wide by 30 inches deep and 22 and a half inches tall. Now we have them up on these removable feet. That's how we will transport it to you. All right, so from there, just gonna pop your box open. You can use a box cutter, a scissor, or whatever you have that's convenient. And then you have staples on the top. So when you pop the box open, be careful to not get your fingers caught on the staples. All right. All right, now your trike will be in here folded up if you want to come and we'll show you a top-down view of how it's going to look. Okay, so this is how it will arrive in the box. You have a box here. And this is going to contain a lot of the smaller components. So here, you're going to have your charger, you're going to have a tail light, your pedals, a tool to help with assembly. We're going to set all this to the side right back here so we don't lose anything. That is my recommendation. And we will go through all those as we need them. Now, these two plastic pieces, these black pieces, are caps for the rear axle or for the side axles in the front to just make it look nicer. So we're going to set those to the side as well. You have some instructions here, as well as some instructions for the display and the motor. And an Allen key tool right here as well. So I'm gonna set that to the side. You can see the charger is in here. And right here is your rear tail light. Okay. So we won't need those immediately. So we're going to leave those right here. All right. And now you can see you've got your seat here. We're going to go ahead and cut that, the zip tie off to remove it. There are two zip ties. And then we can set this to the side right here as well. Okay. Now you've got your rear rack right here also. So let's go ahead and cut that. And just be careful when you're cutting not to slice any part of the bike. Okay. So let's go ahead and set our rack to the side as well. Okay, now from here, we are left with our trike. So there's a few zip ties we're gonna have to cut to remove it. So again, be careful. These are our two front fenders. So we'll also set these to the side as well. Okay. Let's go ahead and cut that. Cut that. And let's see. Got another one right here. One more here. And I think that may do it. Okay, one more right here. There we go. There we go. And now we can get our handlebars free. Perfect. Okay. Now, from here, I recommend keeping the box intact in case you should need it in the future.

One option, if you want, is you can cut the front of this, and it makes it easy to slide out. Or, again, if you wanna, and you could also re-tape the box at that point, or if you wanna keep the box intact, then we're gonna wanna lift it out. All right, so if we just wanna lift it all out at once, I'm going to keep this here and I'm going to grab from the frame here and try to keep your handlebars close when you lift. Let me go ahead and slide this. All right, let's take this piece of cardboard out and make that a little bit easier. There we go. Okay. Now we have a little more room in here and from here. There we go. And I like to have a mat here to put it on to work on it. And let's just pick up our garbage. Okay. Now, the beauty of this is it's pretty intuitive for the most part. So, go ahead and take this packaging off. Okay. Now, you can see right here it's folded in half. So, it's really easy. Let's put our handlebars over here. Okay. From here, Oh, I missed a zip tie actually, which is why it's not unfolding. So make sure as you're going through an assembly that if you don't cut all the zip ties, it'll be more challenging or you'll find restrictions. Okay, now, I think we got all the zip ties. So from here, I'm just gonna unfold it. Like so. Okay, now, on this latch right here, this will need to be lifted for this to go into place. Okay? Then, from there, you're going to flip it over here and clamp that down like so. And now you've got your front wheels down. And from there, we can put our kickstand down. So it's going to make it a lot easier to work on. So I'll take a few more of the packaging off here. Now, I like to leave the majority of the packaging on while I'm working on it just to prevent damage. Because you don't want to scratch it. Okay, now moving on to the handlebars. You can see there's a slit right here on the bars and Inside the tube here. There's a notch. So these will need to be lined up right there and at that point, the handlebars can slide in. Let me loosen that. There we go, okay, and then this can slide up. Okay, now I can already see one thing we have to fix as well. Okay, so now that these are in this bolt Right here will need to be tightened if that is not tightened The handlebars are going to move while you steer. Okay, so this is a six-millimeter Allen key. And what you want to do first is you want to line up your stem. Okay, so it's straight and then once you find the position, bend it down. Okay, and then come in here and tighten this. Okay. Okay, now let's just check it before I do the final tightening. Okay, so that looks good, let me just make sure. That looks good to me. Okay, fold this down. Now we're going to come in and make sure that this is tight. Okay, there we go. Now that won't move. Okay, now we can fold this backup. Now you'll see here, that this won't go all the way down. If this is not down all the way. So if this is here, it's gonna try to lock, right? So push that.

Then from there, once it's lined up, you're gonna push this up. And this piece right here needs to slide over the quick release to ensure that it's in place. Okay, now, right here, setting the height of your handlebar is a quick release, okay? So, you want to hand tighten this screw side on the right here, and then you want to come over here and clamp. Now, you have to find a point where, there we go, it's tight enough, but not too tight. So I could probably get that a little tighter. Okay, it should be fairly difficult, like that, to clamp down, and that will ensure you have it tight enough. Okay, now from there, we can go through some other basic things. We can put our seats in right here. Now the seat is a double seat clamp. You can see this bottom one controls this tube here and this tube goes inside this bigger tube. We can actually, now the same thing here as well. You want to make sure the opening of the clamp is lined up with this slit here. Okay and then tighten that and see if you can get it hand-tightened from there. And then again, get our seat straight. And this should be relatively difficult. To clamp it. Okay. This one. So you can, play with either one of these. You can see we get a lot of extensions out of the seat post. So you can, you know, raise and lower the bottom one or the top one to find the right seat height for you. All right. Now from here, let's just go ahead and put the pedals on. Pedals are relatively simple. On the inside of the axle of the pedal, there's going to be an R or an L, which will indicate which side they go on. So here's our L pedal. And we're going to put that in here. Now, both pedals tighten by going forward. OK, so the left pedal is tightened by turning to the left, which is the reverse of what it typically is. Okay. So just hand tighten these down as much as you can. And then from there, this is a 15-millimeter. So you're gonna insert your 15-millimeter in here and crank this down. Okay. Okay. Nice and tight. Okay, now we can move on to... So these, let's just do this right now too. These two caps, as I said, are actually for the rear axle. And they just go on. They're just decorative pieces to make this look a little nicer. So throw those on the back axle. Okay. All right, now from here, we can go ahead and install our rear rack. Okay, you've got quite a few pieces for the rear rack here. So we're going to start with this black piece, okay? Now that's going to go with the big hole facing to the inside, okay? Let me show you. Like so, like this, okay? And then we are going to take this washer and this bolt. Okay. Okay. And then we're going to put this and then we're going to come on top here and put this bolt through here and tighten that in like so. Okay, we'll have to speed this part up. Okay, so we'll put this in here. Okay. And then we will need to get our Allen key, which looks to be about a five. Okay. And then we will tighten this in.

And you're going to want to push this all the way to the edge here, okay? So as wide as it will go. Okay. Now you can see what it looks like. And make sure it's straight. It's a little bit crooked. Let me just adjust that. All right, now we're gonna do the other side as well. So again, big hole to the inside, come on the top here. Take your five-millimeter Allen key, and start turning that. And let's just make sure that's nice and straight. Okay. Now we've got those two in there. Now from here, we're going to take this big bolt and put it in like so. Okay. and we are going to take a washer and a nut, and we're gonna put that on like so right there, okay? So let me go ahead and... Now this is also the five-millimeter Allen key and I believe right here we're gonna need smaller than that. We will need a nine millimeter. And Oh, no, it's a 10. Okay. It's a 10-millimeter. All right. And just for reference, I'm referencing our assembled one here. So if you see there, we want to have this out about like that, okay? So I'm going to come here. Put Allen's key in there and then tighten this down. Okay let's just see. Okay, now, I'm gonna leave this a little bit loose actually until we put our arms in because our arms are gonna feed in. They're gonna feed in like that, okay, so once we put that in. So you're gonna want to leave it a little bit looser than I even did so let's get our let's get this in the right spot here. Okay. So. Sorry. One. Let me see here. Let's compare it to our finished product here. Yep. Okay. So like that. All right. So leave this loose enough that you can get this through. I'm going to loosen it just a touch. Okay, there. Now we've got some play. All right. Perfect. And we're going to want to attach this onto the frame before we tighten that down. Okay, so we'll do the other side as well. So we're going to come in here, put this right here. Like so. And put your washer on. Tighten and then, so I'm actually just going to leave it right there. I'm going to leave it nice and loose. Put this through, okay? Now once I have it in here I'm going to tighten it down just a touch so this doesn't fall out. A little bit still a little more. Okay, we can actually just leave it like that. All right, now from here, I'm gonna come over to our bike, and let's go ahead and remove this. And remove that, okay? So this is going to just set on like so. Now you can see the bolts are already on here. So we're going to want to pull those out. And actually what I'm going to do first is take these two bolts out of the frame here. Right here. Okay. And from there, I'm going to put that in just very loose, and I'm going to do the same thing on the other side here. Okay. Like so. That's okay. So we can get that in there. Okay. Now from there, we can feed this into where we want it to go. Now I like leaving everything loose because then it just makes it easier. We're going to finally tighten everything at the end.

Okay. All right. So let's take these bolts out of the frame down here. And let's do the other side as well. Okay. Now we're going to feed that through. And again, I'm just going to hand-tighten this back on. Okay. Okay, that one's in there. Now let's come to this side. Okay. Alright, now that's in there nice and loose. Okay, so now I'm just going to come... I need to loosen this one just a touch... So let's just loosen that. Okay. Now. All right. So we're going to need to feed both of these through here at the same time. So let's see. Get them all lined up. Okay. And then from there, we'll push this through. There we go. All right. Now, once you got them both in, you want to find your parallel point and we're going to come in and tighten this down. There we go. Looks good to me. Okay. So the arm is nice and tight. Now let's come over to the other side. Right here. Okay. Now let's just make sure these are nice and tight. Okay, all right. Now from there we can come back and fully tighten all these other bolts with our four-millimeter so it's a four-millimeter Allen key for these and a five-millimeter Allen key for everything that's on the actual rack itself okay? All right, come down here to this one. Perfect. Let's come over here. Okay, and our last one down here. Okay and now you can see nice and secure you can lift this up. And put things on here. And looks nice and parallel as well. Right now you can also check your rear fenders. They come tightened on from the factory, but if you want to just come in here with your four millimeter and actually this one was a little bit loose, just go ahead. Sometimes when you hear noise from back here, it can be the fender rubbing. Let's check this one as well. That one's a little bit loose, not as bad. So we'll just tighten that down and we're good to go. And while I'm down here, I can just show you on the pedals as well how these fold. You just press in and then they fold up. So if you're transporting it and then for it to come out, you just fold it down. So again, press in, fold up, and then it folds down like that. You also have these black caps that came with it. You can put these over the bolt here. These are just decorative pieces. Makes it look a little bit nicer. Okay, now we're gonna do actually our rear tail light before we move on to the fenders. Now the tail light is not connected to the electronics. It's a standalone tail light. You're going to want to pull this out to activate it. And you can see you can turn it on and off. But again, it's not a brake light. It's not going to be connected to the brakes. But still nice to have if you're doing night riding. So this is a pretty basic installation. There are two nuts on the back here I'm going to take those off along with the washers.

And we're just going to insert it through like so on this back tab here. You see that. And from there, I'm going to go ahead and just put my nuts back on. Okay. All right, now you can hand tighten that. And to further tighten, let's go ahead and see. This is gonna be an eight-millimeter. Bolt. And I was going in the wrong direction. There we go. And just tighten that down. And just do both sides. There we go. Okay. And again, if you want to go out for a ride, you can turn it on at night. Just leave it on and turn it off when you get home. Okay, now let's move on to our fenders. So here are both of your fenders together. And let's go ahead and pull these out. Go ahead and put that right there. OK, now let's slide up here to the front. All right. So to install the front fenders, you're going to see there are two bolts right here on the inside. So we are going to remove those. OK, here's one. And the other one is actually holding on to the brake so let's go ahead and pull that out and actually our smaller Allen key would probably work better for this Okay? Okay, so I grabbed the smaller Allen key so it's a little bit easier just to twist in here. Okay. So that should get that out. Now we can loosen that. Okay. Now, you're going to want to find So this is going to slip in like so. So you're going to want to have, this is going to be angled a little bit forward on the side it goes on. So you'll slip it right in, okay? And from there, you'll line up these holes. And you'll go ahead and hand-tighten one in. Hand tighten the other end. Okay. And then from there, we will come back with our tool. Now this is the five-millimeter Allen key as well so you know I'm gonna hand tighten this one a little bit more. OK. Now, from there again, just come in here and tighten. I can see better on this side. OK, make sure you get that nice and tight. Do the bottom one as well. Okay, and fender should be. Now you can also just kind of, these are a little malleable, so you can kind of bend it to get a good position, the right position, but that looks pretty good on that side. Alright, so now we're going to repeat the process on this side as well. Alright, so you can see in here, we'll go ahead and... Actually, this one's loose enough for me to get out with my hand. Okay. Okay. Okay, we got both of those out now. Now we grab our fender, and it's going to slide right into that space. All right, now we got both those tight you can see fenders are good to go. Now from there, we are all set. Everything's installed and ready to go. So let me go ahead and move all my tools out of the way here. Okay, now, for the gears and the brakes, we have a separate video for adjusting disc brakes and for tuning the seven-speed derailleur, which we'll share with you. So if you wanna see those, we will send along the disc brake. Now the disc brake adjusting, you can see you've obviously got three disc brakes here, two on the front, one in the rear.

Now, the gear should actually come pre-tuned from the factory and the brakes should as well, but we always recommend having a professional take a look at the brakes and if you want to come up here I'll just walk you through everything really quick. All right, so your power button's here. Now, you can see it doesn't turn on. That's because you will need to flip this switch right here. And then from there, you can turn on your electronics. We'll also send along a separate video for how to fully operate the display. You have your throttle here. Up here you have your gear. You press in here to shift up. You press here to shift down. Your keys will be hanging up here like so. The charging is as simple as plugging the charger in right here. And then you'll plug it into your wall to charge. You can remove the battery, bring it inside, or you can charge it like that. And then, of course, we have to put air in the tires. And then I'll take this for a quick test ride. So the tire pressure is marked on the side here. So on the rear tire, it's 40 to 60 PSI. If you don't have an automatic pump like this, it's a definite really good investment. Okay, I'm going to there at 45. Alrighty. All right, the front. All right, the front tire is labeled the same, 40 to 60. All right, so from there, we can take our maiden voyage. This is a little high for me, so let me lower this down. Okay, and I like the handlebars up a little higher as well. Pull those up. Alrighty. Okay. Now remember, this trike won't balance without you holding the handlebars. Put it in one. And we're off and running. And I can test the gears. Five, six, seven, yep. All the way down to one, so all the gears are pre-tuned. Now, one thing I will say is because you have two brakes here on the front, if you notice that the brakes are pulling to one side, it's very important to have the brakes adjusted equally on both sides or else one side when you brake will pull more. That's why I'd recommend if you can't do that yourself, take it to a professional. They can dial in those brakes to make sure that they are properly adjusted. So just a note, if you do feel that nothing's wrong with the brakes, you just have to adjust them so they have equal braking power on either side. So the braking power feels all right, but I would adjust the front just a little bit. We'll send along a video on how to do that. If you have any other questions at all, please reach out to us at theteam@sixthreezero.com or call us at 310-982-2877. Thanks again don't forget it's your journey, your experience, enjoy the ride.