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  1. Hangdog98

    2WD (Two-Wheel Drive) FAQ

    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...
  2. Hangdog98

    2WD (Two-Wheel Drive) FAQ

    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...
  3. Hangdog98

    Hub motor wires, no hollow axles please

    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...
  4. Hangdog98

    Got pulled over today

    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...
  5. Hangdog98

    Got pulled over today

    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...
  6. Hangdog98

    Got pulled over today

    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...
  7. Hangdog98

    GNG, 1000W 48V BB-drive, $400

    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
  8. Hangdog98

    2WD (Two-Wheel Drive) FAQ

    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...
  9. Hangdog98

    GNG, 1000W 48V BB-drive, $400

    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...
  10. Hangdog98

    GNG, 1000W 48V BB-drive, $400

    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.
  11. Hangdog98

    Got pulled over today

    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...
  12. Hangdog98

    Got pulled over today

    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...
  13. Hangdog98

    Got pulled over today

    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...
  14. Hangdog98

    Got pulled over today

    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"...
  15. Hangdog98

    Got pulled over today

    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...
  16. Hangdog98

    Got pulled over today

    Punx0r: We generally like to consider our governments to be incompetent, but I really doubt it's beyond their ability to devise a tax system for road-going EVs to replace liquid fuel tax. Hangdog98: No it's not beyond their ability to create another way to tax us but the cost of setting up...
  17. Hangdog98

    Got pulled over today

    Actually, you're not clear because you failed to understand my comments particularly your confusion about conspiracy and "big oil". Many Governments rely heavily on petrol taxes to fund themselves. EV use equals lower petrol/diesel consumption and lower tax revenue. My Government is trialling...
  18. Hangdog98

    Got pulled over today

    There are well and truly enough laws to cover penalties for the mythical teenager on his overpowered eBike scattering the hypothetical pedestrians across the footpath. What isn't sensible is the proliferation of laws to prevent this hypothetical event from happening despite there being no...
  19. Hangdog98

    Got pulled over today

    So whilst going for a ride today on my 'illegal' electric bicycle I got cut off by a pimple faced teenager driving a 307kW car with three of his idiot friends flailing their lightweight heads about whilst listening to the 3000W music system installed in this overpowered, over-tyred, over-priced...
  20. Hangdog98

    Got pulled over today

    Sunder, I respect your views but I must disagree on those points. I left the Cops to work as a consultant to an insurance firm specifically for third party personal injury insurance, specifically motorcycle claims and collision re-enactments, and had access to the data both from the law...
  21. Hangdog98

    Got pulled over today

    What a terrific discussion. It demonstrates the beauty in which the Government creates its arbitrary rules knowing they'll be championed by those with limited vision to give them validity. Firstly, for full disclosure, I don't believe in man made global warming or that CO2 is a pollutant...
  22. Hangdog98

    Link Suspension Forks Info Wanted

    Re: Link Suspension Forks Info Wanted
  23. Hangdog98

    Link Suspension Forks Info Wanted

    Really? :roll: :roll: :roll: Progressive springs are whatever you make them to be. You can start off hard and get harder. If the current spring set-up is causing too much dive under brakes then THEY ARE TOO SOFT FOR YOUR WEIGHT. find out what rate they are (pounds per inch or Kg per cm) and...
  24. Hangdog98

    Link Suspension Forks Info Wanted

    If fork dive is a problem, then before you go fabricating a new anti-dive fork you might want to consider installing harder springs in your tele fork and making the corresponding adjustments to your dampening. Foale's work is well regarded but not followed much in the real world, as in; Nobody...
  25. Hangdog98

    Link Suspension Forks Info Wanted

    LOOK also made some of those forks with a Fournales air shock and carbon legs. Pretty funky.
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