[ Liberty Trike Intro ]

Welcome to the Liberty Trike Unboxing and Assembly video. We're going to show you how easy it is to take your Liberty Trike out of the box once it's delivered and put it together yourself.

For this you are going to need zero tools. In fact the hardest thing about it, will probably be taking, all the packaging off, you'll see once we open this box. So without further adieu, let's get right into it.

[ Music – No Dialogue ]

Okay, like I said, the hardest thing about unboxing and assembling the Liberty Trike is taking all that packaging off all the parts. Now that we have all the parts laid out, I'm going to show you how to put this together.

So, the largest part is obviously the rear of the trike. Now you have this stand and this stand is going to help you with this I want you to pick up the rear of the trike and place this stand right under here, in the front of the frame there, before the hinge, okay and that's going to give you a nice three point stance, on the rear of your frame, keeping it in place.

Now you have a clevis pin in here,
you are going to pull that out of the rear of the frame, we are going to set that aside for a second. We are going ahead to grab the front half of your Liberty Trike frame, put that up here. We are going to get this out of the way, okay. And what we are going to do is, lining up here, on the front half with there rear half, okay and once I have that lined up, I'm going to be able to take that clevis pin and put that right in the top. When you get that side of the hinge lined up, you get that in half way.

Now at this point, you can remove the stand and put it over here. Now you want to keep this out of the way, for the folding, but this clevis pin has to go through the bottom hole as well. I want to put my hand underneath, I'm going to push and I'm going to push down on the pin where you are going to get the pin all the way in, you should be able to see that on the bottom as well.

Now, you want to lock this hinge in place, at this place it's folding. You want to take, this quick-release, work that up and down and get that in like that and then lock it into place like that. The next part is, you want to make sure that the wheel is straight. Now your wheel is straight If your fender is pointing to the back here like this, so make sure your wheel is on straight.

You want to take your handlebar, pick that up and we're going to insert right here in the front. You want to make sure your brake cable and mechanical cable is bowed out and nothing is impeding that and then you have your electrical cable, I'll show you what to do with but just get your handlebar in there and then go ahead there's a quick-release here, you can go ahead and close that.

We'll do the final adjustments on the wheel in a second. So now you have that done, we're going to make our connection on electrical. So you have an electrical connection here and this is for your components in the front, which would be your brake, your throttle and your LCD.

Okay, you want to take a look down there, make sure none of the pins are bent. You want to line up your arrows and you want to push this together, very snug. Make sure there's no daylight. Now you are done with the front of the trike.

Now the next thing is going to be your seat, so you can go ahead and pick up your seat. We are going to take that, we're going to place that into the seatpost into the stem and then we are going to lock that up and we can do final adjustments later.

The next part is, you are going to take your basket. Your basket goes on in the back here and you have a couple of wing nuts and washers, you want to remove those, counterclockwise. Once you remove those, you can put your basket lay that on top and find those threaded holes underneath, line them up. Now you are going to take, a wing nut and a washer, you are going to put that on your wing nut and carefully find the threading and turn that clockwise to tighten it up. You'll do that with both. Hand tight, you don't need to over do it and that should secure your basket.

You can go on and do final adjustments meaning your seat height and your handlebar height and make sure your handlebar is aligned with your front tire. So you can go do that with these quick-release.

That's pretty much it. In a separate video, we will show you how to turn your trike on and some of the initial operations. One more thing here we want to do is, once you have your trike together, we want to come down to the bottom we want to connect your power, okay. So we have one connection down here. This is a thread connection. So you want to look at it, line up arrows, make sure you are putting it in the right way, there's only one way to do it and then turn that little thread, the aluminum threads, lock that into place, that goes underneath your trike frame. You have a cable in the back here and that's going to plug into your battery face. Push that in snug.

Now your Liberty Trike is together, it's ready to go. The next part, we'll show you how to turn this on, how put the key in and get riding.

[ Liberty Trike Intro ]



Hi, this is a Liberty Trike. It's a great way to get around, enjoy the outdoors, it's easy, and it's fun, and I'm going to show you how to get going on your very first ride.



So before your first ride, you want to check a few things. You want to make sure your brakes are working, obviously, go ahead and test those out. You want to make sure your are seated properly, all your adjustments are done, and that your tires are inflated to around 35 PSIs; also, don't forget to bring your helmet.



One of the first things that you want to do is make sure that your key is in the ON position, that it's parallel to the ground. Okay, now that you have done your safety checks and your ready to ride, the position on the bike you got it fit for you.



The seat is where it needs to be; you got your helmet on, we checked our brakes and our tires, you are ready to get going here. The first thing you are going to do is power ON the trike. To power on your trike, you are going to the "i" button on the left-hand side of the handlebar, and you are going to hold that "i" button down for a couple of seconds. Doing that is going to power on the LCD screen in front of you. And what you are going to see first is the twenty-five flashing. That twenty-five is an indicator, it's telling you that your brake may be on. If that's the case, grab your brake lever of the left-hand side and you are going to release that brake lever, and that will go away.



Before you ride, it's very important that you know how to stop. So stopping your Liberty Trike, you going to do that in two ways. You have a front brake, which is here on the left side. You are going to grab that with your left hand and pull on the lever towards you. That's going to actuate your front disc brake. Now the other brake you have is in the rear. So if you go to pedal backward, that's going to stop that. That's like an old-school coaster brake, right we're all familiar with that. Now one key tip in this area is when you go to stop, I don't want you to put your feet down. I need you to trust the brakes on the trike, go slow, trust the brakes, DO NOT put your feet down. If you put your feet down, let's show them what's going to happen. Put your feet down and your rolling, and you can run over your calves that way. So insider tip, don't put your feet down when you are stopping. Make sure you use the brakes; good idea to use both the rear coaster brake by pushing backward and your left front hand there; using them in tandem is a great thing to do.



The next part of what you are going to do here is your going to want to put this in what's called Level One. Now level one is easy to get into; it's going to be on your screen; you can see right here we have zero. one, two, three, four, five. That indicator is your Level Assist; it's really a percentage of your top speed. Think about it like this, twenty, forty, sixty, eighty percentage of one hundred. So we got zero, which is nothing. We got one, two, three, four, five, twenty, forty, sixty, eighty, one-hundred percent, the top speed.

Now that we are ready to go, we are going to get ourselves into level one. So you are going to look at the top right-hand corner of this LCD that you are looking at right now, and with the plus and minus, you are going to take that up or down; you want to land on one. Once you get there, the lowest kind of starting speed assist, you are going to have on the Liberty Trike.



Now you are in level one; you want to make sure your left hand, front disc brake is off; your feet are up, and now you are ready to go. The way you are going to go is by turning the throttle here, which is controlled by your right hand. You are going to turn that throttle with your two front fingers and your thumb like a motorcycle. REV...REV...



You are going to turn it in towards you by bending your wrist. That's a variable throttle; the more you twist, the more power that you are going to have and the faster that you are going to go. A lot of our riders, from a dead stop they, want to use that throttle to get going, and then they can start to pedal as well.



It's always a good idea to pedal on your first ride; pedaling will actually help you balance your Liberty Trike. So you are going to do that, grab your throttle, to get you going as well. Again we are in level one for safety, and that's where you are going to do this until you get more familiar with your riding your trike.



There's one more aspect of this that we need to let you know before you go on your first ride. On that throttle, on the right-hand side, you do have a little red button there, as part as that throttle. It is popped out; you can see it's protruding from the throttle, and that means you are in forward.



So when you twist that throttle, the Liberty Trike's motor is going to go in a forward motion. Now if you hit that button and press it in, it will stay collapsed and that is reverse. The reverse function on the Liberty Trike is 3 mph, speed limited. So if you ever want to go in reverse, come to a complete stop, push that button in so you are in the reverse mode, and twist that throttle in the same way, pulling towards you, and that will give you reverse mode. Now one safety feature here is if you hit that (red button) while riding, the trike will unresponsive until you come to a complete stop, and then it will find its way, depending on the button, forward or reverse. So you want to be aware of that as well.

So now you know how to control your trike, you know how to get going on your first, off-the-line start here, with the throttle and the pedal combination or whatever is comfortable for you.



Why don't we try that? Remember to push back here for your brake for your rear, and up here is your front coaster; stay in level one for safety, take turns very slow, very important, and don't put your feet down.



Ready? Ready! Alright, let's see you go!

[Liberty Trike Theme Music]

Hey everybody, Jason here from Electric Bike Technologies. Making this video for you today, just to go over charging of your Liberty Trike battery. Give you some quick tips and just you know make this is straightforward for you. So here, we have the Liberty Trike battery 36v 8Ah battery, that comes with your Liberty Trike, and this is the charger that comes with your Liberty Trike as well.

So, to charge your Liberty Trike battery, you can plug this in goes into a normal us standard wall socket 120 volts input, and on the other side of this, you have a connector here. This is called an RCA type connector, now this plugs into your battery here, so in the back of this battery. If you flip the handle which allows you to pull this out of your trike, you're going to see a port and so you just plug that right into your port right there now you can charge this on or off the bike. I'd suggest turning the battery off, I don't think it really matters but anyway that's how you're going to charge it.

Physically this charger has a couple of indicators, it has an indicator light here and, on the back, on the label, you'll see what those indicating lights mean. So, if it's blinking green it's going to be, you know, it's not sensing the battery or it's not plugged into the battery, yet if it's charging it's going to be red, and if it's full it's going to be green.

Okay, so very simple that's in your manual as well so let's talk about you know best practices for charging your battery. So, you want to charge your battery kind of like you charge a cell phone and there's only two things that will hurt this battery so let me tell you the two things not to do. Number one, you don't want to run this battery down to zero and then park it and leave it. Okay, you don't want to let it sit empty for long periods of time, that's like the battery cells would dry out and that's not a good place to be. It needs to have some energy in it, so you never want to do that and leave it dry for long periods of time. On the other end of that, you never want to put this charger on this battery and just leave it on for days or weeks at a time. Okay, so you don't want to leave it on indefinitely that would also hurt the battery's health over time. If you've you know some people will do that with a laptop, actually, if you ever had that experience where you use a laptop as a desktop same kind of battery and if you leave it plugged in all the time and it's on all the time eventually, if you go to take that laptop and you want it, you'll find that the battery capacity has
diminished a lot and that battery will run down. So, for the health of the battery, don't leave this sit dry, and don't overcharge it leaving the charger on indefinitely.

Now, I want to tell you this question always comes up, you know, "can I go out for a ride and ride it a couple of miles, and then you know do I have to charge it right away?" There's no memory effect in a lithium-ion battery like this so yeah you can go out and spend half the pack right and then do it again the next day and then charge on day three something like that. That's not a problem for partial and charging this on a partial
really, you know people say well does that count for a life cycle? There's only a certain amount of lifecycles the answer is no. I mean it all kind of mashes in together and I really wouldn't worry about it on that level. So, as a general rule, charge when you're done riding, charge to full and then remove the charger from the battery and unplug the charger from the wall.

As well now, on to that, there's a special situation here and it has to do with the way that batteries are made and the makeup. In here, there's a bunch of little cells, they look like double “A” batteries. Now here's what I want to talk about it's called a "Maintenance Charge", or a "Balancing Charge" and you should do this maybe, every couple of weeks. Once every couple of weeks and what it is you're going to charge the battery to full. You're going to see the green light come on and you're going to leave it on, there at least, for let's say another 3 hours. The reason for this is that every cell in here has to be charged to full and that's going to take a little time. I like to use the analogy of a champagne tower. If you have champagne glasses stacked up and you're pouring the champagne in, you pour it in that top glass and it overflows, right, you have to keep pouring and some will overflow before all of them get a chance to get full – a lithium-ion battery is like this. It’s only as good as its weakest cell. So, I hope that makes sense you have to balance, you have to just make sure that every one of these little cells that make up this pack are full now. I want to say something important, we used to say that this, you know you could do this overnight or anything like that, a lot of people aren't doing that anymore because when you're charging lithium-ion, you know for all kinds of reasons, people want you to be at least near the pack. Okay, that's the safest way to do it really is to pick a time when you can be around. You plug this in, it gets to full and then you got 3 more hours, where you know, at least you're awake, you're in the house and you know just in case, I mean on the really off chance, you know, the industry is growing, so fast and it's and it's really important so not overnight but an extended charge. Once every couple of weeks is really what we would recommend.

That's pretty much it, for the battery, I mean unplug everything when it's done. You know have fun with it, that's it we're wrapping up. I hope these tips, help you understand batteries. Really, not that complicated, you have any other questions, you contact us, thanks.

[Liberty Trike Theme Music]

Hey everybody, Jason here from Electric Bike Technologies. Making this video for you today, just to go over charging of your Liberty Trike battery. Give you some quick tips and just you know make this is straightforward for you. So here, we have the Liberty Trike battery 36v 8Ah battery, that comes with your Liberty Trike, and this is the charger that comes with your Liberty Trike as well.

So, to charge your Liberty Trike battery, you can plug this in goes into a normal us standard wall socket 120 volts input, and on the other side of this, you have a connector here. This is called an RCA type connector, now this plugs into your battery here, so in the back of this battery. If you flip the handle which allows you to pull this out of your trike, you're going to see a port and so you just plug that right into your port right there now you can charge this on or off the bike. I'd suggest turning the battery off, I don't think it really matters but anyway that's how you're going to charge it.

Physically this charger has a couple of indicators, it has an indicator light here and, on the back, on the label, you'll see what those indicating lights mean. So, if it's blinking green it's going to be, you know, it's not sensing the battery or it's not plugged into the battery, yet if it's charging it's going to be red, and if it's full it's going to be green.

Okay, so very simple that's in your manual as well so let's talk about you know best practices for charging your battery. So, you want to charge your battery kind of like you charge a cell phone and there's only two things that will hurt this battery so let me tell you the two things not to do. Number one, you don't want to run this battery down to zero and then park it and leave it. Okay, you don't want to let it sit empty for long periods of time, that's like the battery cells would dry out and that's not a good place to be. It needs to have some energy in it, so you never want to do that and leave it dry for long periods of time. On the other end of that, you never want to put this charger on this battery and just leave it on for days or weeks at a time. Okay, so you don't want to leave it on indefinitely that would also hurt the battery's health over time. If you've you know some people will do that with a laptop, actually, if you ever had that experience where you use a laptop as a desktop same kind of battery and if you leave it plugged in all the time and it's on all the time eventually, if you go to take that laptop and you want it, you'll find that the battery capacity has
diminished a lot and that battery will run down. So, for the health of the battery, don't leave this sit dry, and don't overcharge it leaving the charger on indefinitely.

Now, I want to tell you this question always comes up, you know, "can I go out for a ride and ride it a couple of miles, and then you know do I have to charge it right away?" There's no memory effect in a lithium-ion battery like this so yeah you can go out and spend half the pack right and then do it again the next day and then charge on day three something like that. That's not a problem for partial and charging this on a partial
really, you know people say well does that count for a life cycle? There's only a certain amount of lifecycles the answer is no. I mean it all kind of mashes in together and I really wouldn't worry about it on that level. So, as a general rule, charge when you're done riding, charge to full and then remove the charger from the battery and unplug the charger from the wall.

As well now, on to that, there's a special situation here and it has to do with the way that batteries are made and the makeup. In here, there's a bunch of little cells, they look like double “A” batteries. Now here's what I want to talk about it's called a "Maintenance Charge", or a "Balancing Charge" and you should do this maybe, every couple of weeks. Once every couple of weeks and what it is you're going to charge the battery to full. You're going to see the green light come on and you're going to leave it on, there at least, for let's say another 3 hours. The reason for this is that every cell in here has to be charged to full and that's going to take a little time. I like to use the analogy of a champagne tower. If you have champagne glasses stacked up and you're pouring the champagne in, you pour it in that top glass and it overflows, right, you have to keep pouring and some will overflow before all of them get a chance to get full – a lithium-ion battery is like this. It’s only as good as its weakest cell. So, I hope that makes sense you have to balance, you have to just make sure that every one of these little cells that make up this pack are full now. I want to say something important, we used to say that this, you know you could do this overnight or anything like that, a lot of people aren't doing that anymore because when you're charging lithium-ion, you know for all kinds of reasons, people want you to be at least near the pack. Okay, that's the safest way to do it really is to pick a time when you can be around. You plug this in, it gets to full and then you got 3 more hours, where you know, at least you're awake, you're in the house and you know just in case, I mean on the really off chance, you know, the industry is growing, so fast and it's and it's really important so not overnight but an extended charge. Once every couple of weeks is really what we would recommend.

That's pretty much it, for the battery, I mean unplug everything when it's done. You know have fun with it, that's it we're wrapping up. I hope these tips, help you understand batteries. Really, not that complicated, you have any other questions, you contact us, thanks.

[ Liberty Trike Intro Music ]

Hi everybody, this is Bob Irving from Liberty Trike. I happen to be one of the shorter people that work here, so they picked me to do this video about rider height on the Liberty Trike.

The way to adjust things for a Liberty Trike is, you open the seatpost clamp and you wiggle it down to whatever height is appropriate for you. If you require it to go lower, all you have to do is speak to us because we can trim back these tabs here on the basket, so the seat could go even lower. Every Liberty Trike seat has a minimum insertion point. The height can be adjusted all the way to right there. Now the seat back is adjustable. You undo it here, and you can adjust it up, or you can adjust it down. It's a little stiff; just make sure you tighten it back up when you get it to the height you want.

To adjust the handlebars, you will need a six-millimeter Allen wrench and a thirteen-millimeter socket wrench or box end wrench. You simply place it over here. You take your Allen key, you insert it, and you loosen this up. To move your handlebars backward closer to you or forwards further from you. You have to make sure, though, that you tighten it back up when you're done. It will say on the website that the ideal heights are for people that are four foot eleven to six foot one. We have had people that are taller, and we have had people that are shorter. The best thing for those kinds of questions is for you to give us a call and talk to one of our customer service agents. Thank you very much.

[ Liberty Trike Intro Music ]

You can adjust your Liberty Trike's handlebars up and down and back and forth.

First undo the handlebar clamp. This will allow you to
move the handlebars up and down but make sure to
keep at least two inches in the frame. We recommend extending about a hands length for stability.

Once you have your desired position, tighten the
locking clamp. If your locking clamp is too loose
turn the adjustment knob clockwise to tighten
it down, you should feel more resistance.

To adjust your handlebars forward and back.
You'll need a wrench and a six millimeter Allen key.

Place the Allen key in the top bolt and the wrench
on the bottom and turn counterclockwise to loosen.

Once you get it loosened, you can adjust forward and back. We recommend a comfortable arms length where you can easily reach your brake and throttle. Make sure not to lock your arms out all the way, you want a comfortable bend. Once you find your desired
position, take your Allen key and wrench and tighten it back down clockwise and make sure to swivel your LCD back into the proper place.

Hi Jason, here from Electric Bike Technologies. I want to talk to you about Liberty Trike and primarily about pedaling. We get this question a lot, "Can I still pedal?" The answer is absolutely Yes! Pedaling is encouraged, pedaling is good for you. So, here's the deal, the Liberty Trike is assisted, and it's throttle only. There's NO pedal assist on the Liberty Trike.

So, the two systems of driving the Liberty Trike, number one would be the throttle and that's the front wheel. You turn that throttle and that front wheel turns, and it will pull you. You'll notice that nothing happened to the rear of the bike, pedals didn't move or anything else. Now for pedaling. When you turn this crank with your foot power, you get that one wheel on the back right wheel turns so you can pedal and propel yourself with the rear wheel just like a regular trike and you can get some exercise, but you can also use that throttle to start to supplement in any variable degree you want while you're pedaling. So, it's both and it's front and rear wheel drive in that way, okay. So, now you know, we want you to pedal, pedaling is encouraged, you can use the throttle anytime and in any ratio between the two drive systems. So, hopefully, that answers your question. If you have any other questions, contact support@libertytrike.com. Thanks!