Recent content by greenspark

My first post on this thread was number 66, a very long time ago. Now, I am posting number 4,436 and reflecting how much has changed since those early days. It's over ten years since I went to Suzhou to visit the Bafang factory to sort a CST motor issue (a manufacturing defect they did not...

The spark was not the charger. It was reassembling a bike where the final step was to plug the battery cables into the BBS02. The first time it sparked and I instinctively pulled back. Figuring I was going too slow, I tried again, controlling the instinct to pull away, and it turned into an arc...

Instead of adding a hub dynamo to my ebike, I decided to try one of these new 36-72v headlight/taillights. The good stuff seemed awfully expensive, better to try the cheap Chinese stuff first to make sure it was the right way to go. Here is my report. I went on to AliExpress and bought an LED...

Army surplus with zip ties Saddle leather - homemade

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/bik/d/santa-rosa-kona-mountain-bike/7214766180.html Kona Mountain Bike - $750 (santa rosa) https://chico.craigslist.org/bik/d/chico-specialized-mtb/7218236015.html Specialized MTB - $400 (Chico)

Back in January 2013, I was visiting the Bafang factory when Yonree showed me a new prototype - the BBS01. Riding it in suit and tie in freezing weather, I asked him to sell me the first production model when it came out. Three months later, they sent me serial number 17, which I wrote up in...

In Jan 2013 I visited Bafang and test drove the first prototype BBS01. Had to buy one. In April, they sold me serial number 17. I documented my experience on this forum, and folks found it helpful to get the information out. After 6 months testing, I put together a buying group and bought 27...

2014 purchase 750W BBS02 - one of the first from Paul at EM3EV.com. Paul's 52V battery, C695 four button display. Runs like a champ and Paul has been great on support (we put together a buying group of 27 motors that demonstrated to entrepreneurs that NZ was a great place to open a shop for...

Just got a Brompton off our local auction site. Have not collected it yet. Has anyone installed a Bafang BBS01/02 Mid-drive motor on a Brompton? I know that front hub motors have been used, but I would prefer to have the motor drive the gears.

31 Pages of comments, so I only read the first and last page. We are asking for the findings of those 31 pages to be summarised into known faults, perhaps as a new sticky when it is compiled. In January 2013, we visited the Bafang factory to sort out a CST issue, and their rep showed us the...

We are in correspondence with Xofo now, will provide updates as we progress.

If we, as the forum, were to formulate a simple set of regs that were measurable, and begin a drive to have them be global, that's how we get what we want. Problem is to ask "what should it say?" That's step one. Step two is to form, or find a global organization, that becomes the advocate...

The title of this thread is "How would you write ideal ebike regulations". If regulations are based on protection, then we need to forget walking, biking or motorbiking and encase ourselves in airbagged cars. But they are not. They are written by bureaucrats whose natural tendency is to...

What I am saying is simple: Push the envelope, screw up, and the papers will report that it was the ebike motor's fault, rather than say: woman driving with 10% vision stupidly turns in front of a truck and killed herself". She pushed the envelop and now the minions in Wellington are trying to...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/10629760/Woman-killed-riding-modified-e-bike Woman killed riding modified e-bike A coroner has raised concerns about modified electric bicycles after an Ashburton woman died in a collision with a truck. Ashburton rest home worker Donna Lusty died on May 22...