qwerkus said:
Anyone tried to convert one of these:
Probably not the best shock design, and not the biggest triangle - but hey: this frame is just screaming to get a battery, don't you think ?
We picked one up cheap last week for $200 from a guy who does the bike circuit.
Every component is hammered... but it survived.
That was one of the first years they had disks - so they still have the mounts for non-disk... which is useful.
Yesterday we put together 4pcs 30C 6S hobby king (kindly donated by a former Zero Employee)
Rebuilding the rear shock today - blown out blown out!
Juicy 5s must be disassembled, cleaned, flushed
All the gears need to be re-corded or tended to
Light bike
Wiring the batteries S then P. . .
Using Anderson PP45's
So it can be run @ 12S 5AH or 12S 10AH (lady friend needs a bike she can get into the back of the Runner)
As for all my other ebikes?
Stoked a guy on Craigs List by giving him everything I had
Kona Stinky & pile of replacement parts and tools. . .
So I am starting fresh.
Going to go to the "Santa Cruz Bike Church" to borrow some of their tools (I dropped off all my Park tools there some years back)
Bike Church is RAD. . . like having a high end bike shop where you can just walk to the back and use the tools*
In other news
Santa Cruz rolled out the Rental Ebikes this week.
Pedal assist @ $2 / 30min then $4.20/hr after that
City painted green lanes all over the place (SOME VERY POORLY THOUGHT OUT - like... Opposing Traffic!?!?!)
But progress is happening here.
Back on topic
Yes - Full Suspension for the win EVERY TIME
It is safer and more comfortable
First time you get squirly at 35mph you will understand. . . . . . . .
"You need to be able to hit a bump, pot hole, or a curb and pull it off"
Front hubs are all I have laying around
This bike has a removable (presumably 9mm>) skewer up front
Instead of angle grinding that out and fixing with a torque arm I am going to steal Justins prototype motor and just bolt it in. Comes with some monster torque arms. Light motor but very loud - needs to find its resonant frequency and dampen it. Should be easy enough.
New Subject
Since separating my shoulder I have been a little more careful (but not much).
Going to put my trike back on the road - but need to adapt a front hub to the rear to do it (make due, learn something)
It wont pedal - but I dont pedal anyway. . .
New Subject
2 weeks ago on a Sunday in Santa Cruz
Between Sea-bright Beach and Down Town
We counted MORE ebikes than Pedal bikes!!!!
~6/7 ebikes for every straight pedaler
(EDIT: 6/7 Ebikes for every 5 pedal bikes)
Few hub motors - 1 or 2
Mostly mid-drive
Mostly professionally built (COTS item)
All on and off trails and roads
About 1 in 3 jamming (above 20mph)
Most just assisting (350W?) old couples on the bike paths
(YEA - old people riding ebikes instead of being rocked on prescription pills and watching CNN!!!)
Until next time
On Adventure
-methods
P.S.
I have laid out ~10 PCB boards in the last month or three so I am fresh.
If any contributing member needs something thrown together I am happy to do it free of charge as payment to the community.
I use Eagle PCB and cut FR4 at OSH Park
I can start a layout for you, set your net rules, pull your air wires, make it AutoRoute in a useful way. . .
I can send you a finished BRD that you can just enter into OSH and have boards in a week
I can do a short run
I left at least 20 people hanging on the HVC Breaker V2 . . .
(Never went into production. Got into a divorce and hairy startups instead)
Lately I have grown an erection for RYOBI tool packs
I buy them dead at the fleamarket, open up, balance, add an Anderson pigtail, put back into service
If anyone wants to do something around that "standard" I am very interested.
18650's. . . Or just the plug adapter (gutted) with Lipo pouch taped on
We have everything running on 5S over here
The used tools (drills, weed wackers, etc) sell for nothing at the Flea Market
Everybody wants the Makita and DeWalt - Ryobi is free for the taking!!
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