Ebike in the snow....so much fun!

[lostrack]

Here's what I did today. There's a combination of Matt's slipper clutch, no tread on the tyre and an unprecedented 8" of snow overnight in the UK!

woohoo

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[rojitor]

Are those snow tyres? Your ride looked very stable.

 

[Brentis]

Great vid. :wink:

The "Beast" is lookin' good.
Cant believe you have more snow in London, than we have here,
the traditional snow belt of Ontario.
Have fun.
Ride safe

 

[miro13car]

I love how my ebike plows effortlessly through 20cm snow covered lawns with all those drivers looking at me from cars like I were alien.

 

[Planky]

The Beast goes really well in the snow, looks like great fun.
Congrats on getting it running so sweet.

The snow did not make it further south, just rain

 

[knoxie]

awesome bike awesome video top notch, is it sensored? control seemed very smooth, they are good fun in the snow arent they

 

[lostrack]

awesome bike awesome video top notch, is it sensored? control seemed very smooth, they are good fun in the snow arent they

Rojitor - the tyres are standard downhill tyres, front is very knobbly and square, back used to be - is almost completely tubular now! Super tacky tyres wear fast.

Knoxie, did you enjoy the snow??

Sensor less seems to work fine, not much to compare it to. Something on the throttle did crap out after this vid, went WOT and then stopped, wierd.

Snow is great. The bike seems to level itself very well under power so it's just a game of hanging on and pointing it in generally the right direction

 

[knoxie]

It sounded like it lost sync in the video at one point or it may have been the clutch slipping? so you using a castle for speed control? HV160? it sounds pretty quiet and the performance looks great, looking forward to seeing more videos from you, make em in HD so I can watch them full screen on my new Sony internet enabled TV! the snow was fun but only for me and my 2 year old son, we were making a snowman although I have to ride to work in the slush in the morning on my ebike, got some big nobblies on so wont be a problem.

Your bike is cool and you can ride too, get us some more vids as soon as you can

 

[biohazardman]

Great bike and great vid! Looks like fun for sure. I bit it bad in snow at 20-25mph a few weeks back. Streets looked slushy but only in the car tracks so more in the middle of the road than yours did in the vid. Snow did cushion things some though but still have some recouping to do yet. You have a knobby up front I do not may have made a difference.

 

[dogman dan]

Bike looks fun as hell in all conditions. Love the bystanders WTF? looks. What? no crash? Can't blame you though, I bent up a good crank and broke a go pro mount drifing my bike in the snow. Snow looks fluffy, but the frozen asphalt underneath was still iron hard.

 

[lostrack]

It sounded like it lost sync in the video at one point or it may have been the clutch slipping? so you using a castle for speed control? HV160? it sounds pretty quiet and the performance looks great, looking forward to seeing more videos from you, make em in HD so I can watch them full screen on my new Sony internet enabled TV! the snow was fun but only for me and my 2 year old son, we were making a snowman although I have to ride to work in the slush in the morning on my ebike, got some big nobblies on so wont be a problem.

Your bike is cool and you can ride too, get us some more vids as soon as you can

Nice TV!

The noise you heard was the chain coming off..! It bent a chain link slightly between the disc caliper and the chainring, and then started skipping. Probably a stiff link.
I couldn't be arsed with the render time for HD so put it on youtube SD. I have the full res file if you want it.

Nobblies are the way forward for slush!

 

[lostrack]

Bike looks fun as hell in all conditions. Love the bystanders WTF? looks. What? no crash? Can't blame you though, I bent up a good crank and broke a go pro mount drifing my bike in the snow. Snow looks fluffy, but the frozen asphalt underneath was still iron hard.

Looks like a few people had nasty falls. Ouch :? You bent a crank?? Must have come down to earth pretty hard. Even worse you got it on camera! (I don't want to see my crashes over and over...tend to delete them and focus on the positive)

The snow was the dry, fluffy type, now it's turning to slush. It was suprisingly easy with the bike, obviously you're not leaning into turns, but with all this power it just righted itself. Taking the power off during a turn would have been a different story.

EBIKES FTW. This was my first real run Love it.

 

[Scottyf]

Looks great. That's the thing with electric. If you was going that on a petrol bike you'd get in all sorts of trouble.
Electric everyone is just intrigued by it all.

Good work

 

[knoxie]

Hey i bet you love it!! i loved my first ride back in 2002, crikey 10 years ago now, you sure will have a lot of fun on that thing, I was super exited when I got my bike to go from 16mph to 22mph ha ha, well the difference was getting overtook by some cyclists to pretty much keeping up with cars and never being overtaken by any cyclist up any hill which was the main reason i uprated the bike in the first place (getting passed on my old lead acid std ebike up a hill by a lycra) even alberto contador with all his drugs pumping though his veins wouldnt catch me up a hill now

 

[The Mighty Volt]

I remember my first real run on an ebike, first proper run {my first experience had been 20Ah of 36v Cammy LiFePo4 and some hubs} was with an X5305 at 72v, A123 and an 18Fet controller in a BMX format.

The best part of the experience? Not the acceleration, not the speed, not the torque, not the hillclimbing......the stares The sheer, shocked, disbelief. I love it.

 

[MadRhino]

When you have it as an exception, the snow makes for a fun ride. Even for us who have it all winter, the first snow is fun. Yet when you have to ride it every day, and the dirty slushy salted streets that comes with it, the fun fades quickly. My bike is dirty as hell all the time and requires more maintenance in a week, that it does in the whole summer. I hope for the spring soon, I want to speed on the dry pack wearing an open shirt. :wink:

 

[lostrack]

I remember my first real run on an ebike, first proper run {my first experience had been 20Ah of 36v Cammy LiFePo4 and some hubs} was with an X5305 at 72v, A123 and an 18Fet controller in a BMX format.

The best part of the experience? Not the acceleration, not the speed, not the torque, not the hillclimbing......the stares The sheer, shocked, disbelief. I love it.

I totally agree. We were getting neighbours who had never spoken to us come out and ask questions about it. It's really cool.
Plus the fact that you know you have everyone's attention, so to give it a bit of throttle as you go by
I can't wait til summer, ride around and see the surprised looks, ha!

RC motors are probably better for this effect.

 

[knoxie]

+1 on all the comments so far, I dont get so many looks as my bikes are fairly stealthy being hub motors although the KMX kart does get some looks I think most of them are not because it electric but its because its a tadpole trike and its unusual, your bike will get heads turning because of the whine of the motor no doubt about that, it also accelerates like a scalded cat too

I know that you are running one of matts slipper clutches on this rig? which should help out the controller, I hope your controllers survive and it will be interesting to see how you get on with it, I am amazed at just how quickly you got the bike sorted out too, the video looks great and has had a lot of hits already, I am looking forward to seeing more videos from you, maybe a nice close walk around the bike and the tranny, be interesting to see you hit those jumps too! hey at least it wont be a problem getting back up the slope