My 1.5 year old Abound

[Benjamin in WPG]

I bought an Abound 1.5 years ago from a larger Canadian on-line dealership. Shipping took three days to Manitoba.
There was a 500 dollar discount for Canadian purchasers.
It arrived undamaged, and I had it assembled within thirty minutes.

I found out about a week after that Aventon was offering a free second battery as a sales incentive for American buyers, so I tried registering for that offer. Aventon wanted me to provide the serial number and a scan of the sales receipt. After completing the registration, and getting approval, I found I wasn’t eligible for shipping to Canada. I changed my shipping address to a parcel service on the USA side and they sent shipping confirmation for that address. A 120 km drive, and paying the taxes and duties got me an $800.00 CDN battery for 80 bucks. I’ve since installed the Aventon Aventure front rack (I preferred the ”cow catcher” look), the two cavernous Aventon Abound panniers (I can carry six cases of beer), a Topeak E-Xplorer trunk-bag for the second battery and adapted their qwik-trak rail, a thud-buster long travel suspension seat post, a front and rear pointing action camera powered by an external 12volt/16 amp-hour battery, a modified Hella FF75 fog light with H7LED bulb and a 11/28 7-speed rear free-wheel (no more clown peddling at full speed)

This winter, it got studs and pogies.

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[Benjamin in WPG]

My partner rides a Radwagon 4.
We have each of them well kitted, the RW4 is as stable as a rock with a load on, my Abound is not stable - you can't ride hands-free without it developing a speed wobble.

 

[Benjamin in WPG]

This is its most recent with the trunk bag, aux accessory battery in the front box, plus cameras and the thudbuster seat-post

 

[Forrest Baum]

This is its most recent with the trunk bag, aux accessory battery in the front box, plus cameras and the thudbuster seat-post

Whoa, can you say more about your cameras/battery setup?

 

[Benjamin in WPG]

Whoa, can you say more about your cameras/battery setup?

Of course
I have two Akaso EK7000’s, one on the bars pointing forward, one on the rear rack looking rearwards. Both are wired via USB to a custom made 3S-5P battery 12 volts/16 amp hours through a switch. I run the cameras in “dash cam mode” so they start recording as soon as I turn the switch on
The front box contains that battery (secured inside by Velcro), and I installed a USB socket through the wall of the box for me to plug the two cameras into. The battery is also used to power my aux headlight (the Hella FF 75 with a retrofitted fan cooled H7 LED.) I can run the headlamp for about 7 hours on a charge, plus keep both cameras activated at 1080p 60fps (or 4k at 30 fps)
I’m not great at post production, but the cameras are mostly there to record my inevitable death when a car hits me. I can do a small picture in picture in post production and present something like this little clip