Hyena's e-bike builds (now with HD video)

[Hyena]

Here's a short clip of some footage I recorded about 6 months ago with a little turnigy mini cam (put my a over the time/date stamp)

It's nothing too exciting but the ending is funny (and there's even a kangaroo in it for you northerners to marvel at )

[liveforphysics]

That was a great ending!

I also duely marveled at the roo.

[AussieJester]

That was a great ending!

hehe yeah ... for a change he goes off backwards instead of over the bars HiGHSiDE StyLiN.. good show Hyena

KiM

[drewjet]

Nice video, thanks for sharing. Maybe now you can upgrade to be backside Hyena

How did you mount the cam? I like the angle from down low better than a helmet.

[dogman]

Better to wheelie off than highside for sure. Lay it down all day, but for highsides I try to do it in soft sand. My last highside was into rocks like tennis balls. Ouch ouch ouch, ha ha.

Love the vid. I gotta come up with a mount like that for the cam. Cool to see the front wheel in the pic.

[AussieJester]

Nice video, thanks for sharing. Maybe now you can upgrade to be backside Hyena

hehehe ...

KiM

[chroot]

Is just me? It seems your front suspension too stiff because it only show little motion up-down on rough ground. My ebike's rockshox 289 140MM travel suspesnion fork so plush but can put stiff by turn knob. Just wondering. BTW awesome video!!

[Hyena]

Nice video, thanks for sharing. Maybe now you can upgrade to be backside Hyena

Dear god, don't give AJ any more ideas

Chroot yeah the front fork is pretty stiff - it's a dirt jumper frame so I suspect it's meant to be stiff for landing jumps - plus it's old. I have some marzoochi bombers with ~200mm travel and they're much nicer over the rough stuff.

Camera mount wise, I was playing around with some metal and wood poles - the turnigy cam isn't very wide angle so I had to have the camera about 2 feet off the side of the bike to get that angle of the front wheel. It was also down fairly low. At one point it came loose from bouncing over the rough track and was actually dragging through the long grass looking back up past my leg and across the front wheel and handlebars. The angle looked cool but it was too shakey to be useful. I must confess, although it looks like it I didn't actually come off on this occasion The front wheel came right up and the camera hit the ground (the arm on the back sort of acted like a like wheelie bar) so I just stepped off. But it looked good. hehe

Once I get some more time I'll make a good video with lots of different camera angles.

[chroot]

Ah gotcha, Love your wheelie and becareful where you land on the ground. Hope it's not gravel trail

[GCinDC]

Camera mount wise, I was playing around with some metal and wood poles - the turnigy cam isn't very wide angle so I had to have the camera about 2 feet off the side of the bike to get that angle of the front wheel. It was also down fairly low....

Do you have a photo of this mount? How far did it project?

I find that the farther out from the bike I mount, the shakier it gets, and it's already pretty shakey...

Good that the metal or wood pole dragged in the grass instead of rocking back through your spokes...

[Hyena]

No photos, it was thrown together on a sunday arvo and I chucked it after I was done. I'll make something else up over the xmas holidays and post pictures.

I had an amusing encounter yesterday but unfortunately didn't have a camera rolling.

I had the day off work yesterday to work on my new house and snuck out for a ride at lunch time in national park down behind. Unlike the rest of the national park on the opposite side of the road this smaller section is down behind residential streets, accessable by a few cul de sacs at each end and largely only known to the locals who live there. I've only twice seen other people down there and I suspect the couple I came across yesterday weren't expecting to see anyone there in the middle of a week day either.

As I came up the track I saw someone in the distance with red undies on. They had their back to me, it was hot and they had short hair so I thought it was a dude in speedos at first. As I got closer I saw it was a chick with no top on! I frightened the shit out of her, over the noise of the ciccadas she only heard the sound of my tyres on the gravel right at the last second and screamed, flashing me her tits as I blasted past her!
I looked back to see her covering up while still screaming and some dude off to the side of the track I didn't see previously. Where's the helmet cam when you need it!

[AussieJester]

No photos, it was thrown together on a sunday arvo and I chucked it after I was done. I'll make something else up over the xmas holidays and post pictures.

I had an amusing encounter yesterday but unfortunately didn't have a camera rolling.

I had the day off work yesterday to work on my new house and snuck out for a ride at lunch time in national park down behind. Unlike the rest of the national park on the opposite side of the road this smaller section is down behind residential streets, accessable by a few cul de sacs at each end and largely only known to the locals who live there. I've only twice seen other people down there and I suspect the couple I came across yesterday weren't expecting to see anyone there in the middle of a week day either.

As I came up the track I saw someone in the distance with red undies on. They had their back to me, it was hot and they had short hair so I thought it was a dude in speedos at first. As I got closer I saw it was a chick with no top on! I frightened the shit out of her, over the noise of the ciccadas she only heard the sound of my tyres on the gravel right at the last second and screamed, flashing me her tits as I blasted past her!
I looked back to see her covering up while still screaming and some dude off to the side of the track I didn't see previously. Where's the helmet cam when you need it!

ROFLMFAO...they were prolly your new neighbors to buddy hehehe... Poor wiminez finally agreed to her boyfriends constant request for a
some sexin in the Natinal Park and you in one foul swoop have dashed this poor pricks hopes of it EVER happening again teehehehe

KiM

p.s more detail on the titties please size, hang, nipple size and colour Was she a looker or the dingo ugly type?

[beast775]

nice video angle,to many things to make fun of in this post so im gonna skip it .

[Hyena]

more detail on the titties please size, hang, nipple size and colour Was she a looker or the dingo ugly type?

I'd say perky 12Bs with 20c coin sized pink nipples - not that I was looking I think she was probably reasonable looking under the screwed up screaming face

[AussieJester]

more detail on the titties please size, hang, nipple size and colour Was she a looker or the dingo ugly type?

I'd say perky 12Bs with 20c coin sized pink nipples - not that I was looking I think she was probably reasonable looking under the screwed up screaming face

That a boy, i still have hope for you yet Hyenaz

KiM

[Hyena]

And on an every so vaguely related note, check your nuts!

I just ducked out for a quick ride after work, hoping to catch the bushland shaggers(tm) at it again
I was hitting some hard terrain at pretty high speeds and my spokes were starting to complain. I got back onto the road on the way out and found several of them to be quite loose but the biggest worry was when I leaned on the wheel the whole thing shifted about 2mm in the drop outs!

I dont know how long they've been loose for but I've been silly to bash around a 2500w motor in an alloy frame anyway.
So this is another timely reminder fellas, check yo nuts!

[GCinDC]

Ok, I give up.

How did this nut 'work its way loose'? Was it not propertly tight? Or did you build the wheel partly, then set it aside and forget about it?

Any feedback from the girl who bought your old one?

How's the house? New 'hood? Any more frisky neighbor sightings?

[Hyena]

The wheel was an out of the box 9C, I had bashed it around a little and the spokes were quite noisy so i tensioned them back up. I suspect the nut coming loose was a combination of rough offroad use and regen with no torque arms. Yeah, sloppy of me, especially on an alloy frame but I'd only intended the motor to be on for a quick test. That quick test ended up being a few weeks worth of riding, then putting a few thousand watts through it and bashing it around over rough terrain.

The new house is sweet, heaps of space and backing directly onto the national park is awesome. In the reserve along side my house I have a small "offroad test track" with a few jumps courtesy of the neighborhood kids and at the end of the street is the main entrance to a big fire trail which goes for miles. Alot of the terrain is very rough and steep and I have to crawl down it so I don't come off (most of the track is covered in rocks the size of tennis balls and it's so steep in parts that you're almost going over the handlebars just sitting on the thing) but the rest of it is a blast. I really must get around to making a video when I get my next big poweful build sorted.
No more encounters with mating wildlife, although I haven't had a chance to get out much. I suspect that sighting was a one off!
I'm making some good progress setting up my workshop and gear. My garage looks like a refuge camp though!

As for the girl that bought my norco, she's had several issues with it. I got a call on the first day after her friend took the front wheel off to put it on the roof of his car, then squeezed the hydro brakes and locked the pads together. Then 2 flat tyres in the space of a week (I had one in 12 months prior to that) I then got a call that the watt meter had stopped working the day after I sold it to her so I paid for a replacement myself only to find out later she accidently grabbed the throttle while walking it through a shopping mall and it flew through the air and plowed into a wall. Finally she said it was unreliable after riding in pouring rain and the power kept cutting out and she wanted her money back. I told her to bring it to me and I'd fix it (thinking it was probably a loose or wet connection) to find that she'd some how broken the charger (by shaking it around in her bag?) and the reason it was cutting out is because the battery was dead flat and it was the controller LVC tripping! That was a few weekks ago, I fitted a new watt meter and repaired the loose wire in the charger and haven't heard from her since. This is the downside to selling ebikes, especially when I'm not making a big mark up on the parts price to cover the cost of "warranty issues". This was a bit of a one off though, I normally just hook people up with kits that they can fit themselves.

[Hyena]

Update on the girl who bought my norco:
She just texted me saying she had to sell it because someone at her work kept slashing her tyres 3 days in a row.
WTF !? Jealousy ?

[thewmatusmoloki]

I sold an e-chopper with a rear hub to a guy 2 years ago.
Everytime he gets a rear flat tyre I get a call to see if I can fix it. I did the first few for free.

But now I charge a carton of tooheys for a rear flat repair

Bring on the puncture's !!

[amberwolf]

Update on the girl who bought my norco:
She just texted me saying she had to sell it because someone at her work kept slashing her tyres 3 days in a row.
WTF !? Jealousy ?

I'm guessing it's someone that dislikes her, rather than jealousy, based on the way she's treated you. She probably treats everyone around her like that, and if so, they probably don't like her. I wouldn't.

[Hyena]

I referred her to get any future ebike related stuff done by alswiseowl here on the forums, who recently got a job in an ebike shop. I'm happy to throw the business their way and happy to not do it myself!
She was a nice girl just incredibly unlucky or careless...

In other news, I went for a ride on a trail I havent ridden in a while, I was belting along at about 50km/hr and saw this huge rocky outcropped that had been exposed with the recent rain. It was down hill and over the rough surface I didnt have enough traction to brake hard enough so I just stood up and rode it out. I hit the equivalent of a gutter height rock square on followed by a dip then another one. I yanked the front wheel so it didnt take too much of a pounding but hit the back HARD, fully expecting it to buckle the rim. It didn't but destroyed the tube putting 2 10mm long splits in it (same spot on both sides of the tube). I was miles from home in the national park and it would have been a right bastard to push all that way. I had a pump and some patches but it was too big for the patches. Fortunately I also had a roll of duct tape (never leave home without it ) and was able to patch the tube well enough that if held about 15-20 PSI. I pushed the bike out of the bush onto a near by road then took it easy on the smooth surface and was able to make the 6km trip home. Hooray for duct tape!

[Hyena]

Uh oh, trouble in paradise. I got a shipment of lipo today, my first order from the new HK Aussie warehouse. Sadly I have a DOA pack. Apparently HK aren't accepting returns to the NSW warehouse despite it having been open for a few months now. Their answer to how long until they can take warranty claims is "soon" so I'm going to hang onto the pack and see if I can return it "soon"

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In other lipo related news, I nearly had an KFF incident last night! It was bound to happen sooner or later, in this case I was being lazy using aligator clips jammed into andersons to quickly test a controller and forgot to disconnect them at the pack end before disconnecting at the controller end. The brushed past each other and WHACK. No burns to my fingers, that's just black powder from the vaporised connector.

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[deVries]

In other lipo related news, I nearly had an KFF incident last night! It was bound to happen sooner or later, in this case I was being lazy using aligator clips jammed into andersons to quickly test a controller and forgot to disconnect them at the pack end before disconnecting at the controller end. The brushed past each other and WHACK. No burns to my fingers, that's just black powder from the vaporised connector.

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That's an excellent split frame picture that shows "Thee! Warning!" what might happen to the right side while viewing/doing the left side...

Love your duct tape posts...

[gtadmin]

Uh oh, trouble in paradise. I got a shipment of lipo today, my first order from the new HK Aussie warehouse. Sadly I have a DOA pack. Apparently HK aren't accepting returns to the NSW warehouse despite it having been open for a few months now. Their answer to how long until they can take warranty claims is "soon" so I'm going to hang onto the pack and see if I can return it "soon"

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Ah sh*t Jay And my finger was poised to click on "buy now" too. Hope it gets sorted "soon"