Endless Sphere

Mike to answer your question on coasting after full speed and how easy to pedal assist to full speed here is what I tested today...... On dead flat aground pedalling fairly hard the bike getts up to 43 km no problem. Once the drive cuts out at this speed you can feel the bike slowing because the mot...

I will keep you updated Mike on your questions. One option (sounds a little crazy however) buy two complete drives with two batteries and go the dengfu route. Still cheaper than a specilized or the German stuff and you have a throttle to boot.

Hi Mike I am thinking back to when I first got the bike when I was on pavement with hills to ride down that would let me feel if it coasted after max speed and letting gravity take you even faster . I think it coasted just fine after the max speed was reached but its been a while. I am in Arizona ri...

no plus side Andy, waste of paint.

Yes I agree with bigwheel, this bike looks kind of dorky complete with kick stand. Real mountain bikes dont have kick stands. Complete with that steep seat tube, the bike just looks like a wall mart special in every way.

Thanks for posting that Bigwheel.Looks like you are leaning towards the Samsung 14s pack, do you know for a fact we are OK to run a 14 s pack. Has bafang given you the thumbs up for running higher voltage than the 54.6v that the bafang packs give? Keep us all in the loop please on any info that you ...

Thanks for this Andy. You may be correct but who knows for sure. Dengfu stated it was going to be sourced from Bafang but now that I see the BAfang badge on your pack maybe you are on to something. It appears you also have a throttle on your bike based on battery can bus appearance. Can you tell us ...

Update on the faulty replacement component I have been expecting. delivery today .jpg Screen Shot 2019-02-01 at 1.42.13 PM.jpg Screen Shot 2019-02-01 at 1.41.51 PM.jpg I am not even sure if this was sent from Dengfu or Bafang but they sent the wrong assembly. They know I have a throttle but sent me ...

Yes that was my first thought also, the keyway. I have sheared this on a mac and it can even work for a while under small loads depending on how its sheared and then it will finally fail totally.

HI Bigwheel and Wheelepete.....to try and summarize my thougths on this drive and bike and if I am satisfied at this point... 1. The bike handles well, and in my opinion has a worthy frame design with decent components (good enough for me) 2. I could not replace this with anything else store bought ...

HI Wheeliepete. The thin red, blue and black wires are all part of this can bus stuff. Screen Shot 2019-01-03 at 9.45.57 AM.jpg not sure if this picture helps but all pain in the ass fancy cabling running throught the frame so (I am told) the throttle can comunicate with the rest of the system getti...

HI Wheelypete, not sure which two little wires you are talking about. Can you be more specific please? Vividguy if you are wanting a thottle to work on a home made pack I will say good luck. I would never tackle such a project when Bafang is talking about can bus with battery to throttle ( is still ...

HI Vividguy,one of the three pins are for suppling power to the throttle and I am not sure what else the other two are for.I think the M600 battery supplies around 4 or 5 volts to the throttle directly from the battery not the controller like other systems. When I was trouble shooting my battery iss...

Interesting "wturber". So basicaly nothing new then as far as how Arizona will treat ebikes for off road. I notice in your Profile that you are in Fountain Hills. I am in Mesa right now for a bit and have found some very amazing trails that are ebike freindly. Not sure if you have rode the "Wild Hor...

https://www.azleg.gov/viewdocument/?docName=https://www.azleg.gov/ars/28/00819.htm A freind just pass this info on to me. Also here https://bikerumor.com/2019/01/04/friday-roundup-az-trails-open-to-e-bikes-deals-more/ is someones take on it all. Not really sure if this is anything of importance as "...

fix2.jpg fix3.jpg fix1.jpg Good news. Rewired and resoldered the xt connector to the 5 terminal assembly. Made up a 5.5 mm female barrel connector to step up to a xt60 connector and gave the pack a 10 second wake up call with the charger through the discharge port. Thank you Jason, your the man. Ne...

YIKES lr.jpg Yikes! Pulled back the hot glue and the only thing holding the positive battery leed in place was the hot glue. I am not very impressed. Actually there is not enough solder on the bare wire to even hold all the bare stands of wire together, blobs of solder attached to the side of the p...

HI Andy Maybe my previous post was a bit confusing but no, the xt connector I cut off has good conectivity from its red wire end to its brass connector. The issue is now going FROM the male terminal that slides into the battery female AND the end of the red wire I have just cut. Yes I am sure you ar...

cuts in wire.jpg Interesting... I cut the xt60 connector off so when the xt60 pigtails arrive tommorow I will be ready to solder on the new pig tail assembly. To my surprise the end of the red wire comming out of the xt60 shows good conectivity to the positive brass connector. So now I am thinking ...

xt60.jpg Thanks Animalector, yes I checked for connectivity and Positive brass connector on the xt60 is not showing connectivity. Negative connector is fine. I have some new xt60 pigtails on order so I will replace this faulty xt connector in the next few days. A friend also suggested something I t...

HI Vividguy, glad to hear you will have M600 also on the road pretty soon. Good to see others in the club. We may need each other:) -Just want to give an update on bike status. All was well after a 10 mile ride the other day then to my surprise I could not get the system to power back up after the r...

HI Fijibrad I find the 14ah gives plenty of range. It pointless to say howmuch range as things depend so much on speed, weight of rider, hills or flats or how you choose to use the throttle. Even using the throttle with pedal assist will hurt your range a bit so too many things to sift through to gi...

OK good news, I soldered on a female 3 pin connector to match the new M600 connectors onto the old Luna twist throttle I had and it works way better than the thumb throttle. Easy to smooth it out even using the power level 5 so this is good news. At this point I see no need to alter any programing i...

Thanks Amberwolf, good advise............wayne

HI Tom I dont have access to a accurate scale now as I am in Arizona. I calculated before I think that the bike will weigh in just a little under 50lbs with the 13s4p pack. I would be surprised if its more than 50lbs. Tom I would not say that the throttle is bad its just not as tunable as the HD1000...