Recent content by Hangdog98

I'm using the Keyde motors in 2WD with what appears to be lowish amp delivery. It's no good for single track. On the types of uphill challenge faced on even mild singletrack routes the front spins out and the rear bogs down and overheats. I should have listened to the experts, volt up and gear...

My front motor is a 180rpv Keyde and my rear is a 160rpv. I specced these by guesswork thinking that I'll want the front to have less torque travelling at the same speed as the rear because it has less traction available. The keyde has 5 different amp settings and I run the front one-click less...

My solution for small motors is to use two! I've set up a 2WD Keyde MTB. The bike is for hills so the rear is 160rpm and the front is 180rpm. It spins the front on loose gravel at the highest setting during climbs but that can be dialled back. So far this rig rides well on the easy fire roads...

The relative safety or non-safety of bicycle helmets is an entirely different issue to that of compulsory use. If you want to wear one, good for you. Buy one and wear it. If you want to wear a helmet whilst showering or Nordic walking, good for you, I don't care. Wear a diaper to the movies if...

Then whose safety do you have a vested interest in? Do you work for a helmet importer who is desperately trying to lobby Government to adopt foreign helmet laws based on falsified statistics? Are you a champion of the 'less astute' who require your intervention to protect them from people like...

Helmets. The same safety nonsense can be said for pedestrians and car drivers. When they start wearing helmets on a trip to the store, so will I. I wear a helmet when I race but not during recreational riding. I strongly object to the State making laws to protect me from myself. I cannot fathom...

Me too, I'm holding off until the entire kit is available from LightningRods. Maybe you could run a http://www.kickstarter.com campaign to ge the capital together for the first batch

I want to make a dual Q100 road bike but the shipping costs from BMS Battery have gone waaaaay up. I'm in Sydney Australia which is relatively close to China and they want $500+ just for shipping to send two wheel kits @ $126 a piece. The total was nearly eight hundred and fifty bucks! I tried...

Does this include pedaling whilst riding around corners? Should one then take care to choose a bike frame with a high bottom bracket and short cranks so as not to ground a pedal and highside oneself into the scenery? Perhaps another solution might be to employ the White Industries freewheel as...

Subscribed :D Started reading the thread as I was going to bed, couldn't put it down and stayed up to 2am to finish it. I've nearly hit the 'but-it'now' button twice on this thing. I feel confident to go ahead now. I hope I have something to contribute when I tweak my set-up.

Harassed to death for not submitting to the will of a bureaucrat. A pensioner suffered a heart attack after he struggled with police who stopped him for riding his motorised bicycle without a helmet, a Sydney inquest has heard. Gheorghe Lisita, 63, from Claymore in Sydney's southwest, died...

My friend just returned from Austria where in our conversation he mentioned that the train lines have no fences around them and he could see the train running alongside the roadway as he drove along. His immediate thought was how dangerous that must be to have railway lines without fencing...

A 1kW ebike ridden to work uses considerably less fossil fuel than a toyota Prius for the same journey. Not kW for kW, not km for km, but journey for journey. Yes, a 20kW motor, either ICE or electric may be shown to use similar amounts of fossil fuel for the same journey (when you completely...

Sorry Joe, I didn't even know you existed. I'm sure your social media marketing attempts on the various blogs will yield many customers. I hope you and your bikes do well even though you only make a tiny profit for all the reasons I discussed with others. @Sancho's Horse... "phantom menace"...

Can anyone confirm that a PEM ~ hydrogen fuel cell sufficient to convert enough hydrogen to electricity to power an average car still requires tens of thousands of dollars of palladium or platinum? (or some other precious metal) Also, I'm led to believe, though yet to have confirmed, that a...