Day 9: Static tests of the suspension with a rear-mounted battery: with me sitting in the seat, there’s about 0.5 inch (1.2 cm) of vertical travel available. This corresponds to about 30 lbs (133 N, or 13 kg-force) of force. That doesn’t feel like enough of a buffer.
So, instead, I’ll be mounting the battery on top of the rear rack. As a future upgrade, I’ll mount it under the frame, just in front of the rear wheel. (1/2)
Day 10: I made the extension cables for the throttle and brake. These use standard JST-SM plus, yay open standards! Each cable is multiple wires all in heat shrink tubing for cable management reasons.
After, I installed these on the bike, along with the battery <-> motor controller. I slid them into some spiral wrap, which looks quite nice! 😊
Now that's what I call a Cargo Bike - this CaGo from Denmark is now available here - if #ebikes are the future for #urban travel, then this must make a strong showing for the #delivery part of that idea.
Upgrading my recumbent to electric night 1: motor is installed! Still some tweaking to do - re-aligning the brake pads, namely. But, that’s a good start.
Yes, I did spend extra on a black motor with black spokes. I also got a black motor controller. I need the color scheme to match.
Day 2: spent a couple hours trying and failing to adjust the disk brake. I'll get it... I hope.
Also removed the cranks, bottom bracket, and so forth to install the torque sensor (which replaces the bottom bracket). Unfortunately, I don't have a chainring that'll fit this setup, and I forgot to order one earlier, so more wait...
I also modeled up a way to mount the display near the front of the bike.
hi #BikeTooter - what electric bike (if any) would you recommend to an adult who learned to ride fairly recently? Lives in an urban setting, looking to do leisure/fitness riding mostly for now. Fairly cautious rider. #EBikes
Lots of errands today, finishing with full panniers from grocery shopping topped off with a case of wine. 🍷 (UPS missed me a couple times, so I had them hold it at a nearby store)
Can everyone on #BikeTooter agree whether we're using the plural form or the singular form for hashtags? Or can Mastodon core give us a feature that enables smooshing hashtags together if one is the plural form of the other?
There is not a path to reduced #ClimateChange emissions and a sustainable #transportation system that allows our species to survive #GlobalWarming while maintaining #CarSupremacy with its glut of empty passing lanes and free #parking where all options to choose #eBikes or #transit have been cut off by walls of traffic (cars always either at a standstill or moving at deadly speeds, averaging 20mph.) Many people need to change their plans and stop driving, many car lanes need to be repurposed.
What is with this plate on the REI #eBikes for the motor controller compartment cover? The edges aren't sealed at all and the tapped steel flat bar floats in there with the controller hooked to both ends, like this is just to clamp it in place. The center screw doesn't thread into anything except the plate and then it touches down on the controller, plus had this red grease only on it. I'm concerned that water is going to get in, since there are no gaskets and it faces up. #BikeTooter
Verkehrsministerium: Fahrradblinker sollen für alle erlaubt sein
Egal, ob mit Motor oder ohne: Das Verkehrsministerium will künftig flächendeckend Blinker an Fahrrädern zulassen. Bislang geht das nur für spezielle Modelle. Eine Pflicht soll es aber nicht geben.
@acdha@peterdutoit no sector's emissions are going to completely stop overnight but my point is that we need to compare the amount of actual reduction for the time period in question, and I haven't seen any analysis of 2020 emissions that got this right. Most are comparing the whole year to 2019 and concluding that we're powerless to stop #GlobalWarming, when the reality is that people could just ride #eBikes to the grocery store and the oil industry would collapse.
The NJ legislature just passed a bill requiring low-speed electric bicycles to be registered with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission and to be insured.
Somewhere, either a fossil fuel lobbyist or an insurance industry lobbyist got his wings.
Why is the UK govt taking so long to sort out legislation for escooters?
Why do escooters get treated so differently to ebikes as well? Fundamentally, they're the same thing, just one has a seat. The van both be modified to be illegal. They can both be ridden illegally.
Yet ebikes are already covered by law and escooters are not.
UPDATE with more details on #Boston's new #ebikes: they're available to ride now, and you'll find them at several stations around downtown this afternoon.
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@roezone@BrentToderian ITYM one of the few DIY ones. It's not "luck" that I chose to get battery motor & frame separately or can replace any one of them. I remain unimpressed with bosch / shimano #eBikes, but I can see why bike shops won't deal outside of that supported yet locked-in scheme, they're not electrical technicians and most don't want to be. Meanwhile manufacturers want to be exempt from #rightToRepair, and there's still very little open source controller specs & software options.