Somewhere, I have a sheet of neoprene rubber that I'm going to cut pieces from to put between the bracket and the bike, but I don't know where I left it at the moment
Right now is a time when it would be really nice to have a milling machine. But I don't, so I'm going to have to make something to hold the battery by hand
@MLE_online Ah! That makes sense 👍👍👍 I was thinking the tubby container looks pretty cute and would look cool on the front. Mechanical sensibilities had not occurred to me!
@MLE_online this whole project is lovely and very impressive.
It makes me wonder if a kind of scrap heap challenge build a real working e-bike from mostly scavenged parts adult night class could well be very popular. I’d do it, if I could find time and it existed nearby.
It would seem like a lovely entry to having the courage to tinker and try stuff out, which seems to have become more intimidating to me sometime in the last 25 years.
What you said about tinkering being intimidating is why my friend Sam and I (previously my friend Roger and I) were hosting take-aparties. A lot of people are intimidated to take things apart, and we wanted to give them a place to do it without worrying they were going to mess something up.
@MLE_online that’s a cool name 😆! It seems like the kind of thing that ought to happen near where I live (it’s that sort of place, I think), but I’ve not heard of it.
@ArchiteuthisFlux If we lived in a less insane country, people would look at such a bicycle and say to themselves, "It must not actually be a pipe bomb if it's labeled like that" and it would cause no stir whatsoever
Like more of a fin shape so to speak for the battery?
If you don't mind the heightened danger, your phone should give you a pretty good speed reading assuming it's using the GPS and not guessing positions from cell towers.
@VE2UWY Probably something rectangular and less voluminous. The bare battery pack is like 60x68mm by about 10 inches long, so I could make something less bulky for it.
Once I get the bike more put together I'll double check the speed using my phone gps. Or maybe my actual GPS unit
@MLE_online Union Cycliste Internationale, the organization that says what race bikes can and can't have on them, and has inspectors who check to make sure nobody's cheating. They're the people out there with heat cameras looking for hidden electric assist electronics.
@BsCreativeLife 15 mph. I thought it was going to top out at that, but after returning home, I discovered that I was only in speed 3, and that there are two sport speeds above three. So, it goes faster. I will try out the faster speeds after I get the electronics more securely mounted. I don't want anything falling off while I'm flying down the street.
What motor is that? I'm thinking about converting mine and checking possibilities. What I would really love is to have regenerative brakes or some other form of generating power when going downhill, but that doesn't seem too feasible right now..
@MLE_online used to know a 'playground mom' that was a fabric artist. can't remember her name. but basically, she crocheted all the time. so she decided to make covers for abandoned things here in NYC. a bicycle was her first project and i wonder if this is her work (this was like 20 years ago, btw)
if you do a DDG of 'crochet bike' you'll find a lot of funky stuff.
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