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  1. ThirtyFerretsInAManSuit

    Why are you here?

    Everybody who uses the road makes it slightly harder for everybody else to use the road; electrobiking seems to minimize the trouble I cause other people. Bikes are tiny and unobtrusive, they don't protect me like a car would so I don't get complacent and hit people, noise pollution annoys...
  2. ThirtyFerretsInAManSuit

    Poll

    1. Door prize. It only takes one. 2. Car drivers who don't know how to turn left (we drive on the left). With a bike lane, only about 30% of drivers will correctly give way when turning through it. Without a bike lane, only about 70% of drivers will correctly keep to the left and let me pass on...
  3. ThirtyFerretsInAManSuit

    How would you write ideal ebike regulations

    If you want a sensible ebike that can climb and tow trailers but not go dangerously fast, you don't really need to limit its power but you do need to limit the speed it can assist you to. You'd want a hall-sensored motor to measure speed, so that the rider can't just move a magnet out of the...
  4. ThirtyFerretsInAManSuit

    E-S Stealth Electric Bike Owners

    How did that poor bike get stolen? Was it a house burglary or was it taken from a car park or something?
  5. ThirtyFerretsInAManSuit

    bit of a stupid question but....

    Actually helium atoms are smaller than hydrogen molecules. This isn't to do with the temperature he keeps his nitrogen at, it's about the thermodynamics of the process of inflating the tyre. As the gas enters the tube, it does work on the side walls (pushing them out) which means the gas loses...
  6. ThirtyFerretsInAManSuit

    E-S Stealth Electric Bike Owners

    Here's my story. I got knocked off my bomber by some guy who doesn't pay enough attention when he drives. Took the hit on my right side from the front of his car, I was doing ~45km/h and he was doing ~10km/h. This is really bad for one's control and sent me to the asphalt face first, and also...
  7. ThirtyFerretsInAManSuit

    E-S Stealth Electric Bike Owners

    Allex, Your bike is probably correctly set up with the Rshunt value at 0.98, and the 'twitchy' acceleration may just be a quirk of the new CA's PID control that I guess you're not used to because you've been running it under an abnormal condition. If the real Rshunt is 0.98 but the CA is told...
  8. ThirtyFerretsInAManSuit

    E-S Stealth Electric Bike Owners

    Looking at the options, if we try to choose a HPC Wolverine that's as close as possible to the Bomber's performance, it turns out to cost $8699 US. Since the exchange rate is now about AU$1.00 : US$0.90, that makes it ~ AU$9670 anyway, which is almost the same as the Bomber at AU$9900. The...
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