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I got my test stable laid out and ready for action, snapped a few pics and thought I'd share them.
In the foreground, note the electric bike seed - the 350w rear puma motor that I am still (^@#$%!!!!) trying to get laced, or get around to lacing myself.
Leftmost is a Tidalforce S-750x with the rare factory B battery. I bought it unridden (the pedals were not installed, and shrinkwrapped together) and took it for one ride. It is a nice bike but it is a pristine example of top-of-the-line TF, perhaps the last of its kind in that condition, I think I am going to archive it for now.
You can probably tell from the rear tire that my daily commuter is next, a Tidalforce io (beautiful frame) with an adjustable stem, s-750 handlebars (about to be replaced with an On One Mary), Thudbuster, CycelAnalst/shunt, and 25ah of LiMn in a saddlebag. It gets me to and from work, home for lunch, and a nice cruise along the beach with AH to spare, other than a 32+mile range-test cruise, I haven't had to use the TF hub battery in a long time. This ebike has a great matte red finish that glows rather than gleams, and the raised 'io' logo contrasts nicely, too bad it gets too dirty to appreciate. It is a very early production model, but I bought it with 59 miles on the cateye, which died at about 200 miles due to an overclamped cable. The hub battery is good for 6.3ah and has about 50 cycles through it.
Next is my first TF (well, 2 weeks before the red io arrived), a silver-green Tidalforce io step-through. My wife is 5 feet tall, and by under-slinging the seat clamp I was able to just make it low enough for her. I also rotated the handlebars downward for her a-la-original-harleys to give her a better angle on the grips. This bike has a noticibly weaker 'turbo'but noticibly stronger 'standard' mode, so my sub-100lb wife rides it in standard all the time, whereas I need the stronger turbo on the red io for my 250lb frame. As you might imagine, she gets a LOT more range from the hub battery than I.
Next is an xlyte 5305 on a TidalForce s-750 frame project. As you can see the frame is still in the factory padding, waiting for me to stop riding my io and spend more time finishing it up.
Next is my 2nd ebike, which I used for a lot of NiMh testing - leading to my conclusion that I NiMh bike would be too complex for me to market, leading to my excitement about stable lithium chemistries. It started with a standard xlyte 407 and ended up a second-generation xylte 409 with freewheel cluster and an offset case to eliminate the need for dishing. This second generation 4-series holds promise.
Last is my Panterra Fusion scooter. It does about 22mph with 60lbs of SLA, 48v17ah, and tese scooters are known do 28-30 at 60v25a. I have messed with these hub motors a lot on another project, and I hope to mod the controller to 84v40a, replace the SLA with 84v20ah of Li??, and I should have a 45mph scooter.
Click on the pic for a high resolution version.
In the foreground, note the electric bike seed - the 350w rear puma motor that I am still (^@#$%!!!!) trying to get laced, or get around to lacing myself.
Leftmost is a Tidalforce S-750x with the rare factory B battery. I bought it unridden (the pedals were not installed, and shrinkwrapped together) and took it for one ride. It is a nice bike but it is a pristine example of top-of-the-line TF, perhaps the last of its kind in that condition, I think I am going to archive it for now.
You can probably tell from the rear tire that my daily commuter is next, a Tidalforce io (beautiful frame) with an adjustable stem, s-750 handlebars (about to be replaced with an On One Mary), Thudbuster, CycelAnalst/shunt, and 25ah of LiMn in a saddlebag. It gets me to and from work, home for lunch, and a nice cruise along the beach with AH to spare, other than a 32+mile range-test cruise, I haven't had to use the TF hub battery in a long time. This ebike has a great matte red finish that glows rather than gleams, and the raised 'io' logo contrasts nicely, too bad it gets too dirty to appreciate. It is a very early production model, but I bought it with 59 miles on the cateye, which died at about 200 miles due to an overclamped cable. The hub battery is good for 6.3ah and has about 50 cycles through it.
Next is my first TF (well, 2 weeks before the red io arrived), a silver-green Tidalforce io step-through. My wife is 5 feet tall, and by under-slinging the seat clamp I was able to just make it low enough for her. I also rotated the handlebars downward for her a-la-original-harleys to give her a better angle on the grips. This bike has a noticibly weaker 'turbo'but noticibly stronger 'standard' mode, so my sub-100lb wife rides it in standard all the time, whereas I need the stronger turbo on the red io for my 250lb frame. As you might imagine, she gets a LOT more range from the hub battery than I.
Next is an xlyte 5305 on a TidalForce s-750 frame project. As you can see the frame is still in the factory padding, waiting for me to stop riding my io and spend more time finishing it up.
Next is my 2nd ebike, which I used for a lot of NiMh testing - leading to my conclusion that I NiMh bike would be too complex for me to market, leading to my excitement about stable lithium chemistries. It started with a standard xlyte 407 and ended up a second-generation xylte 409 with freewheel cluster and an offset case to eliminate the need for dishing. This second generation 4-series holds promise.
Last is my Panterra Fusion scooter. It does about 22mph with 60lbs of SLA, 48v17ah, and tese scooters are known do 28-30 at 60v25a. I have messed with these hub motors a lot on another project, and I hope to mod the controller to 84v40a, replace the SLA with 84v20ah of Li??, and I should have a 45mph scooter.
Click on the pic for a high resolution version.
