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  1. SamSpeed

    Front or Rear Drive??

    Got one of each ( so I did not reply to the poll ). First build was front wheel -- my thinking was simplicity of installation. That was 3,000 miles ago and no complaints except for jumping curbs. Second build was for my wife -- one consideration was the ability to take the bike on the Max (the...
  2. SamSpeed

    What about an Endless-sphere wiki?

    This be a great idea. There is a wealth of great information here but it is not organized. There is also some not so good information, and lots of opinion -- and even more questions asked over and over. I'm a bit of a Wikipedian. My first edit was years ago when I spotted a hilariously...
  3. SamSpeed

    Help me write the ES wiki https://endless-sphere.com/w

    Ok, I'll help. It's a great idea! I've built 2 bikes and could not have done without ES. But it might have been a good deal easier to have a more concise resource, like a wiki. Just made two edits tonite. I've done a bit of work with Wikipedia so this is real familiar. To anyone wishing to...
  4. SamSpeed

    bike crash video

    Dogman, I kindof winced when I read that right of way thing. It might be more proper to say something like "you might have the right of way, but don't assert it and don't expect the other fellow to yield just cause the law says so. Don't push your luck, in other words". Having said that, I've...
  5. SamSpeed

    Whats a good meter thing to get??

    Cycle analyst is a cool thing. If you wanna know what's going on electrically, they tell the story. Had mine for little less than a year, shoulda got one sooner. I find that monitoring the wattage, the voltage drop and comparing that to speed and road conditions helps you develop a good "feel"...
  6. SamSpeed

    LiFePo4 Batteries: Care and Feeding For Beginners

    Here is a candidate for yet another rule -- Don't drop it. My experience had to do with dumping a new Ping battery on the ground at 20mph. It was held onto the rack with a loose bungee chord. It survived, sortof. I got home, but all eight corners got rounded off when it hit the pavement and...
  7. SamSpeed

    i want a bike that can do wheelies !

    Whatever you do, don't put the motor on the front. That won't help you at all.
  8. SamSpeed

    bike helmet with face shield

    I like the concept. Now that I've been riding an ebike with generally faster speeds than before, I've become more sensitive to little things like bugs in my teeth. But here's a story -- Once upon a time I was riding my favorite road bike at a good clip around dusk. Getting dark and going fast...
  9. SamSpeed

    Accident this morning

    I wear a helmet all the time now although I've never really used one. Yet. I remember way back they would sell you these bicycle "helmets" that were nothing but strips of leather. Always thought that was a joke. Never had one until about 10 years ago I was riding through these woods down a hill...
  10. SamSpeed

    Just took a header at 20mph: All's Well (nearly)

    Ouch ouch. Oh man, I've done that. Twice. Never went for that inside pedal up business. That means coasting. Always like to power my way out of the steep turns. I once got clipon pedals (with that extra clearance) just to indulge that bad habit. Now with my ebike it's a different story. Glad...
  11. SamSpeed

    which of these throttles to pick???

    This is opinion of course... I have a thumb throttle, and like Dogman in some other thread, position it so that at full throttle, the thumb is in a natural grip position. The intended position for these things seems to be to have the idiot lights visible. In that position, the thumb is in an...
  12. SamSpeed

    nipples....nipples.....more nipples.... UGHHH!!!!

    Hey biohazardman, I have that same problem and was thinking about the same solution. Could you say more about what kind of bit and procedure you used? I was thinking of a countersink bit, or I could grind a regular bit to try to match the angle on the nipples. The rim is from Wilderness Energy...
  13. SamSpeed

    ebikes.ca phone saying "out of service" - anyone else gettin

    Nothing wrong with the folks at Renaissance. Notice they publish store hours in their local time. Even then, they might be to busy to answer before the machine picks up. Be patient, keep trying. I had two pleasant phone conversations with those folks this afternoon.
  14. SamSpeed

    Do the Girlie thing and use a bell...

    Be careful with "on your left". It's fine with other bikes but folks who don't know the jargon might not respond the way you'd like. I've seen meandering pedesterranians spin around *to the left* in response and get right in the bike's path.
  15. SamSpeed

    Changing a tire, is there a certain way tube should be?

    And make sure the tire goes on the right way. My tires have a herringbone pattern. I put one on backwards once and was it ever noisy. Surprised me, never knew it would make a difference. I like that idea of aligning the label with the valve stem. Never thought of that.
  16. SamSpeed

    Ever been chased by a dog while riding your e-bike?

    No but I had a short-legged dog named Biff that I clocked at 35mph. He loved to run. But I was once caught by a cat. Just riding by minding my own business when this fool cat ran out from between two parked cars, freaked out and clamped onto my leg with all of his claws. With the cat fully...
  17. SamSpeed

    The real argument against Direct Drive Front hubs

    This thread had caught my interest, or more accurately my concern. I've never gone over the handlebars, but have seen it happen and it ain't pretty. So I did an experiment. I have an Aotema front hub. If it's open, or disconnected, there is very little rolling resistance. I can peddle pretty...
  18. SamSpeed

    Could you power a small car on two X5 motors

    Gotta question. How would you balance the power between the motors? Seems that if it was not close to perfect you'd get a steering effect. I've thought about building a trike with two motors and seems it'd have the same problem.
  19. SamSpeed

    I don't like hub motors - (crappy ones)

    A couple weeks ago John in CR said -- "... silent operation will be hard to give up." I second that motion. My non-geared hubmotor makes the only the slightest of sounds under power. I've only tried one non-hub setup -- a BMC motor -- and the noise was intolerable. At least to my sensibilities...
  20. SamSpeed

    Testament to Ping's Infragility

    Link, told you not to ask. But since you did... It was careless anxiousness. I had strapped the battery to the rack in a very temporary way with bungee chords. Yeah, I know not the best of ideas, but I wanted to make it go. Weather here was nasty and I made just a few rides. One day it was...
  21. SamSpeed

    GoPed electric assist kit

    Steve, very clean design. It probably won't be competitive in a roadrace with other ebike solutions, but may compete well in the marketplace. Although the price does seem a little high. But it interests me. I'd like to be able to take my bike on the public transport -- light rail -- and my...
  22. SamSpeed

    Testament to Ping's Infragility

    Followup: not quite so infragile. Well, things did not turn out so well. My original post was mainly based on baseless optimism. It's true that it worked pretty well for the next few days, but things deteriorated gradually. I'd been busy with other things, the bike did not get much attention...
  23. SamSpeed

    Grease

    I used vaseline once for a freewheel. This was around 1975 and my brand new 10speed was very noisy coasting. Clicking drove me crazy. Thought about it and figured that the key was to get light grease down to the all the parts that really counted, and pack it in. So did this -- warmed up the...
  24. SamSpeed

    How well does your E-bike work at -30 celcius?

    That's way too cold. But I went for a ride in Oregon just before Christmas, and it was down to about -6 and icy. The front wheel drive, well two wheel drive actually if you count the pedals, worked very well. Did a lot of sliding but managed to control it well. But I killed my controller! Bike...
  25. SamSpeed

    being polite on the road..question

    A story about car doors. I learned to ride in Chicago around 1963. Streets were all full of parked cars and I was always aware of the possibility of someone opening a door. So one day I saw a car pull to the side to park well in front of me. This was a 4 lane 35mph street. My intuition said he...
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