Hello Folks
Well after a bit of an incident with my bike flipping up and over on me at the weekend I decided to add in some safety features! now more than happy with the top speed of my bike I actually am being more careful now about safety.
I picked up one of those cheap Mini Motorbike Emergency stop buttons off ebay, I have positioned it right by my left thumb so I can hit that quickly should my throttle stick or short out (this has happened before). This is wired in to the brake circuit of my xlyte controller and works superb.
Also I find when I go out on long rides that my wrist aches as I have to hold the throttle just so to achieve the best compromise between speed and range, this can be painful on 40 mile rides so I decided it was time to slow things down :lol:
I picked up a good quality waterproof potentiometer and made an interface plug and socket to fit the pot between the positive feed and the throttle, so now I have a nice potential divider, I can ride along and tweak the throttle to the speed that suits me, then I can just leave the throttle wide open with no worries.
This is a modification that I have been meaning to do for a long time, so glad that I have done it as when I am running 60V on my bike just a slight blip in the throttle can make the power jump by up to 800W or so! not good on transmission, batteries or controllers so this will help there as well, its not really designed as a throttle smoother its a pure throttle limiter.
It was cheap to make, I used some conduit clips to make the bracket and some heatshrink and hot glue to waterproof it all, it should be good for ever.
Here are some snaps, I now officially have no room left on the bars! ha ha.
Have a good week
Knoxie
Well after a bit of an incident with my bike flipping up and over on me at the weekend I decided to add in some safety features! now more than happy with the top speed of my bike I actually am being more careful now about safety.
I picked up one of those cheap Mini Motorbike Emergency stop buttons off ebay, I have positioned it right by my left thumb so I can hit that quickly should my throttle stick or short out (this has happened before). This is wired in to the brake circuit of my xlyte controller and works superb.
Also I find when I go out on long rides that my wrist aches as I have to hold the throttle just so to achieve the best compromise between speed and range, this can be painful on 40 mile rides so I decided it was time to slow things down :lol:
I picked up a good quality waterproof potentiometer and made an interface plug and socket to fit the pot between the positive feed and the throttle, so now I have a nice potential divider, I can ride along and tweak the throttle to the speed that suits me, then I can just leave the throttle wide open with no worries.
This is a modification that I have been meaning to do for a long time, so glad that I have done it as when I am running 60V on my bike just a slight blip in the throttle can make the power jump by up to 800W or so! not good on transmission, batteries or controllers so this will help there as well, its not really designed as a throttle smoother its a pure throttle limiter.
It was cheap to make, I used some conduit clips to make the bracket and some heatshrink and hot glue to waterproof it all, it should be good for ever.
Here are some snaps, I now officially have no room left on the bars! ha ha.
Have a good week
Knoxie