Recent content by stemwinder

Here I am quoting standards to a guy who obviously sets his own standards. I googled some of your machines, I was especially impressed with the SB Cruiser trike and the piano hauler, Awesome. A big quill in you hat. :wink:

I've been very busy on everything but my bicycle. I had a wonky LAN card that took awhile to get replaced thanks to COVID19. Now that what I call versatility.

On the stem expander, it has been a standard as long as I've been around mountain bikes to not locate the expander near the threaded part of the steerer. At the time I found the fork, I searched for a reasonable excuse to not follow that standard but found none. I did find one detailed...

That would be one way of doing it there are a fair amount of threadless forks around some with both rim and disk brakes that I could weld a threaded tube on. I don't dislike rim brakes in fact in many ways I prefer them but there is the odd occasion that disk brakes would be preferable. Other...

My bike has a 1-1/8" threaded steerer tube the exact length of which I've misplaced but it was slightly longer than the more standard 200mm. I found a fork a year ago that was slightly longer but it had too much thread. I've never really thought about converting to threadless, I guess if I want...

Both times I hit something once an alder stump hidden in the grass and once I clipped a very visible rock.

https://www.glowwormbicycles.com.au/products/ezee-battery-flat-pack I see what you mean the rack associated with the link above makes mine look likes its made out of tooth picks.

My bicycle is a 1990s rigid 26" with rim brakes, Bafang G310, 48 13 is my highest gear and I don't plan on changing that. Weight 200 lbs. I have been looking for a fork with disk brakes but haven't been able to find one for less than $400. The reason for the motor kit was to do the Myra Canyon...

I'm not sure where I got my numbers, interpolating something I found on this forum based 15 km/h I came up with 40 km range. I guess sooner or later I will find out.

In the day light everything stacked up the on the 8-9-10 speed hub with 4.5 mm spacer exactly the same as the cassette itself did on a 7 speed hub. Except for the rivets on the back of the cassette interfering with the spacer, I have to file a groove in the spacer or find a correct spacer with...

What your saying then is if I want to have a battery in this lifetime I'm better of buying the ezee flat battery and put up with the extra weight when I'm packing it.

I didn't mention that I don't want a down tube battery. Any battery I get will be strapped to a rear rack. What I started out looking for and still am was a pair of 48 volt 7 or 8 amp hour flat batteries so I could go with something light when I wanted and have the range when required. Maybe a...

Ha! Ha! Yes the two words don't go together very well in English. I was more imagining a 50HP wok.

Thanks all for your replies First my knowledge when I posted was that I've put 7 speed cassettes on 7 hubs and I've put 8 speed cassettes on 8-9-10 hubs but I've never put a 7 speed cassette on an 8-9-10 speed hub. I'm only going by Sheldon who says that a 4.5 spacer is needed to put a 7 speed...

When you do something often enough eventually it becomes a low level brain function and there is no thinking involved, hopefully if I was working on connecting cells I would remain in a higher level of brain function. You make a lot of good points and your advice does not go unheeded. I don't...