flat tire, wheel not true, what a day!

Flats in general are not predictable, assuming you are riding the right tires for your conditions and have the pressure in the correct range. (Or you have a fat bike )

It is possible that the rim tape wasn’t installed properly at the factory or got moved when the tube was installed. Combined with the spoke issue it resulted in pinch flats – or the loose spoke issue alone was the main culprit. My hybrid went through a spate of similar flats early last year until I put on new rim tape. No flats since then. I like the self adhesive Velox cloth rim tape. The factory thing that was installed on my hybrid wheels was basically a large thin elastic band that moved around easily.

Normal for a wheel with hub motor – if that’s what you have, don’t know too much about the bionx kit. The spokes that come with the motor kits are generally low quality and need constant adjustment, in my experience. It takes a couple hundred miles before the spokes settle in, if you adjust them properly. I had so much trouble, I replaced the rim and spokes with better quality sapim spokes. Also, get real rim tape and not that little strip of rubber they use.

By the way, how do you like the bionx kit?