bigmoose said:It needs those little hand grip streamers in multi/rainbow colors to blow in the wind!Then it's purrrrfect!
+1 on the streamers!
Imagine the look on the face of a hardcore lycra as you pass going up a hill. Drinking a beer no less.
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+1 on the streamers!
Imagine the look on the face of a hardcore lycra as you pass going up a hill. Drinking a beer no less.
Stochastic
100 mW
Well.... I was doing some sweet burnouts around the shop and the next thing I know the tire is rolling down the road. haha 
The drops easily bent back without breaking off and the torque arm came off with a little "finesse".
Looks like I need to build some custom torque arms like on my face smasher crobike. 8)
Streamers are coming soon.
Definitely going to try and pass some lycras... now its time to get a gopro.
-Matthew
The drops easily bent back without breaking off and the torque arm came off with a little "finesse".
Looks like I need to build some custom torque arms like on my face smasher crobike. 8)
fechter said:bigmoose said:It needs those little hand grip streamers in multi/rainbow colors to blow in the wind!
+1 on the streamers!
Imagine the look on the face of a hardcore lycra as you pass going up a hill. Drinking a beer no less.
Streamers are coming soon.
Definitely going to try and pass some lycras... now its time to get a gopro.
-Matthew
Spicerack
10 kW
Stochastic said:
That sounds awesome. If I may make a couple of suggestions- you'd need to be wearing one of those '70 skateboard helmets and be doing a slow "ghost" pedal as you go past them.
I can't wait!
bigmoose
1 MW
Matthew, was that you riding it in the video? I'm looking for streamers here in the dollar store for you, but no luck yet...
Pinch type torque plate and your good! The pix I posted with the streamers also had a "dolly seat" behind... perhaps a teddy bear tie wrapped on facing backwards would add to the "persona" of this unique ride!
Pssst you guys in CA are so creative! Still pondering the video's Luke posted of the circle 8 track on Holloween where the observers chucked pumpkins at the contestants... Oh and the bike that was 10 feet tall... and on it goes.
Pinch type torque plate and your good! The pix I posted with the streamers also had a "dolly seat" behind... perhaps a teddy bear tie wrapped on facing backwards would add to the "persona" of this unique ride!
Pssst you guys in CA are so creative! Still pondering the video's Luke posted of the circle 8 track on Holloween where the observers chucked pumpkins at the contestants... Oh and the bike that was 10 feet tall... and on it goes.
Lebowski
10 MW
bigmoose said:
I once throught about a teddy bear on my FXB but I would have a knife sticking out of the bear with some red paint all over
Bummer on the dropouts. You need some serious clamping force for those. I hope you didn't destroy the motor wires.
Back to cosmetics; the ammo can looks somewhat out of place with the rest. Some paint that matches the fenders might be nice, or perhaps some Hello Kitty stickers.
Back to cosmetics; the ammo can looks somewhat out of place with the rest. Some paint that matches the fenders might be nice, or perhaps some Hello Kitty stickers.
TheBeastie
1 MW
I couldn't help but LOL on this comment, yeah never mind that the dropout was designed for a little girls weight in mind.. "its the motors faultfechter said:
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Jozzer
100 kW
Good work boyz - love that bike!
Stochastic
100 mW
Yep that's me.bigmoose said:Matthew, was that you riding it in the video? I'm looking for streamers here in the dollar store for you, but no luck yet...
Good place to look for the streamers.... I'll have to look at our local dollar store.fechter said:
The motor wires are fine luckily. I think if I make some torque arms similar to the ones I made for my crobike it should be alright.
I'm thinking a nice purple would look good on that ammo can... lol
nicobie
100 MW
I still am liking the idea of a reverse wheelie.
Switch the phase wires around and stick the batteries on the fork and you'll be good to go.
Switch the phase wires around and stick the batteries on the fork and you'll be good to go.
nicobie said:I still am liking the idea of a reverse wheelie.
Switch the phase wires around and stick the batteries on the fork and you'll be good to go.
Some controllers even have a reverse switch.
Let your buddy ride it and don't tell him you reversed the motor
Just make sure the video camera is rolling.
grindz145
1 MW
Looks like you need some good old fashioned box wrench torque arms...
maybe:
http://www.endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12500&p=545492
that was a good steel wrench, only maybe 2kw peak, with "regular" cheap torque arm on the other axle end.
http://www.endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12500&p=545492
that was a good steel wrench, only maybe 2kw peak, with "regular" cheap torque arm on the other axle end.
liveforphysics
100 TW
Whoa. Am I seeing a HD magnet being used as a retention function to keep the open jaws of the wrench from sliding off the end of the axle?
That wrench was over-hardened. I've seen that a few times with jaws on older wrenches. Toughness is the ability to deform under stress and not fail, hardness means you deform less for a given amount of stress, a wrench maker needs to walk the balance between those two when they do finish metal treatments, or you end up with jaws popping off etc.
To get back to the topic though, seeing the carnage on those front fork dropouts makes me happy. Mechanical carnage pictures from real-world failures are like my favorite genre of art.
That wrench was over-hardened. I've seen that a few times with jaws on older wrenches. Toughness is the ability to deform under stress and not fail, hardness means you deform less for a given amount of stress, a wrench maker needs to walk the balance between those two when they do finish metal treatments, or you end up with jaws popping off etc.
To get back to the topic though, seeing the carnage on those front fork dropouts makes me happy.
Mechanical carnage pictures from real-world failures are like my favorite genre of art.
Hyena
10 GW
Amber is that a hard drive magnet sitting in there ?!
Surely it's not there with the hope it's magnetic properties would hold anything, and in any other case the magnet material would be too brittle to take any sort of tension...
So ghetto :lol:
Edit: beaten by Luke!
Surely it's not there with the hope it's magnetic properties would hold anything, and in any other case the magnet material would be too brittle to take any sort of tension...
So ghetto :lol:
Edit: beaten by Luke!
The magnet was there because for whatever reason, they help trigger certain traffic light sensors that do not otherwise respond to bicycle-sized objects (but they have to be at the right height, and I have to ride directly over one of the slits in the road made for installing the coils, most often the center one). it's between the wrench and the fork to help prevent vibration from ltting it rottate around the fork and jamming betwene hub and fork or ending up inside the motor.
I moved them to the BB later, but presently can't be there because of the Thun sensor for the CA v3 (whcih I am still trying to get to work).
No, I was using a hose clamp to hold the wrench at it's far end, and that remained nice and tight. But the one on the other side of the axle had broken, allowing that end to wiggle with accelleration and then regen braking. Eventually, you see the result above. The other arm pic is at the link above that pic.
Still, it helped prevent my hweel from rolling down the street.
I moved them to the BB later, but presently can't be there because of the Thun sensor for the CA v3 (whcih I am still trying to get to work).
No, I was using a hose clamp to hold the wrench at it's far end, and that remained nice and tight. But the one on the other side of the axle had broken, allowing that end to wiggle with accelleration and then regen braking.
Eventually, you see the result above. The other arm pic is at the link above that pic. Still, it helped prevent my hweel from rolling down the street.
Stochastic
100 mW
I thought about using an open ended wrench like others have done but I decided to break out the files and this is what I have come up with so far....
After a couple hours of filing to perfection this is where I called it a night.
I'll finish it off tomorrow night and start on the other side... :lol:
-Matthew
After a couple hours of filing to perfection this is where I called it a night.
I'll finish it off tomorrow night and start on the other side... :lol:
-Matthew
methods
1 GW
grindz145 said:Looks like you need some good old fashioned box wrench torque arms...
zip tied brakes?
Box end wrenches?
Damn bro - you are taking it way back
hmmm - looks like there actually was a bolt in there - not pure zip-tie holding them on
And as for box end wrenches... been many versions of those
But that was really nothing... how about welding in the kitchen while my wife sleeps on the couch in the living room?
And more to the point - yea... that is a kitchen made out of 2x4 and OSB sheets. The wife and I had it for 2 years. The floor - it aint white because we though it looked cool. That was to seal in the wretched smell of cat urine
But since we are going WAY back to the days of ZipTies and Box end wrenches....
My very first ebike - complete with the 7240 white board controller
which of course later ended up looking like this
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that was back when we really had to mod our controllers... pull all the fake ass fets, swap all the caps, mod the regulator - too bad I was not using a fuse
I will leave with the fact that I made my wife swear to "support the Electric Revolution" in our wedding vows.
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grindz145
1 MW
methods said:
That shit is frocking classic. The distillation of a movement.
Stochastic, with those filing skills, can you widdle me something out of a tree trunk? I've always wanted one of a polar bear, with realistic urine-fountain type action. PM me...
methods
1 GW
Yea that sounds great.... a hand carved wooden bear that sprays urine. I would actually purchase bear urine online just so that mine could be 100% legit 8)
Every morning let it piss on my shoes so I could go around freaking out dogs. "there be bear in them woods!"
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Every morning let it piss on my shoes so I could go around freaking out dogs. "there be bear in them woods!"
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Hyena
10 GW
LOL, when I was diagnosed with the big C last yeah I joked that I could sell my piss online to people who wanted to cash in all their sick leave at work and go on holidays. Either regular or the premium range for added dramatic effect, which was bright red from the chemo drugs :lol:methods said:
(seriously that stuff was nasty, if I pissed on anything it had to be thrown out and the toilet had to be flushed twice afterwards then bleached straight away
)Wait, what were were talking about before ? :lol:
Stochastic
100 mW
grindz145 said:Stochastic, with those filing skills, can you widdle me something out of a tree trunk? I've always wanted one of a polar bear, with realistic urine-fountain type action. PM me...
I'll have to build a prototype fountain with a 3D printer first to make sure it will function correctly... then breakout the files and chisels and put in a few hundred hours and it would be a work of art... fully functional pissing bear.
lolFill it up with my piss that way in the morning it can "piss excellence." :lol:
methods
1 GW
I just pissed excellence a few minutes ago.... comes with the territory of being the big-shot international playboy that I am 
Later I may shit gold nuggets.
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Later I may shit gold nuggets.
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liveforphysics
100 TW
methods said:I just pissed excellence a few minutes ago.... comes with the territory of being the big-shot international playboy that I am
Later I may shit gold nuggets.
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If you shit a gold nugget I would be getting a call to help you dig up your septic tank and build a filter to find it.