Hello everyone, This is my first post here, and I want to begin by thanking all of you ... Lightening Rods, Spinning magnets, Christerjung, skyungjae, Justin (I watched about an hour of your lecture on hub motors and I didn't even own one at the time) anyone who shares that amount of knowledge and expect nothing in return is aces in my book. And so many more I can't think of all the names right this moment and for that I'm sorry. but so many of you have added so much to this forum, I always felt that when the time came to add something that I needed to start with a big, big "Thank You!" to everyone. Lightening rods is the man... if you have a gng kit and don't have his slides yet, you simply need to order them, unless of course you enjoy buying $7.00 belts frequently (polybelt.com) they work every bit as good as the gates belts, actually in my experience they have lasted longer, but I also got better at driving as time went on.
Second I'm a GNG gen 1 guy, I bought the kit when the original post on it was about 8 pages long, it was originally installed in its stock fashion on a Wally world mongoose XR-200. Heavy but it did the trick. I completely ate the bottom bracket threads within the first 400 miles... however that was more my fault than the bikes. After lock-tighting that sucker back in I put another 800 miles on the Goose before putting it on my new toy a Haro shift R-3, and it has been upgraded with both of lightning rods sliders and a 128 mm isis 4848 cyclone crank. It did take some playing with to get it to fit. And I'm pushing some limits with the amount of BB spacers I used but. as of last night It was mounted and just about perfect. WOW the difference a real bike makes is insane.
I saw some of you would like to see the setup with the slides. I don't have the pictures right now and keep in mind most of you should order the 140mm kit, I figure 12mm difference divided by 2 = 6mm on each side is the difference, as you will see if you keep reading my 128mm bb is shimmed 6mm, 4mm in the BB, and 2mm on the spindle. Tonight or tomorrow I will post some detailed pictures of what I've come up with using both the cyclone crank and lightening rod's slides.
Right now all I can do is give to some advice., with no pictures for you (think soup nazi)
. As others have mentioned it is all about playing with the washers and bolts until you don't have any clearance issues. and fine clearances most likely will not work very long. For instance my crank came with the three chain rings, I removed the inner gear and all washers from the chain ring. this left me 2 4848 chain rings. Worked great and I could really fly on 48v while I peddled, but my chain just barely rubbed the swing arm. Now google the haro shift so you can see why. its rear swing arm is not a typical triangle.i replced the 48 tooth inner chain ring with the smaller ( I believe its a 34 tooth). Now my clearance issue was fixed but the chain mine was way off.
So I went to a LBS and the tech gave me... yes gave me 2*2mm BB shims..... THANK YOU Orange Cycle on Edgewater in Orlando, I will be back... anyways by putting the 4mm worth of shims, taking both spindle spacers that come with the crank, and putting them on the chain side, the chain line isn't perfect but it's really really close. More importantly my clearance is pretty good at the moment, we'll see what time does to it. My first ride with a proper tuning was last night. 11.4 miles of bliss
. I'll post more soon, pics and all. I hoped that helps some body.
Somebody I was chatting with sid the cyclone cranksets don't hold up, I'm sure I'll find out but I was curious what you boys have heard, so far I love it, It makes gng's stock kit seem well primative.
Dear moderator/s I haven't read the rules and I'm not going to either... I'm an outlaw
( does this forum have 1 percenter badges
).... so if I broke rules any sorry. I'm sure you'll let me know.... oh yeah thank you as well.
