I've had an idea for an electric mountain bike in my head for a long time. I don't mean a bike with a bunch or crap stuck on it. I mean a whole bike designed around being electrically assisted. I've read my eyes out on here and it's definitely influenced my design. I wanted my product to be on the road so bad, I posted the whole basic idea, including pics on several forums. This has been a few years ago and the threads have gone to forum heaven but I just wanted SOMEONE to build what I was seeing in my head. I got a ton of people saying, "If you build it, I'll buy one.", but no one wanted to put the money up to have them built and I'm more of a mechanic/fabricator than a business man so I haven't been able to build anything yet.
Times have changed. I presented my idea to the right person and I now have two small scale investors. So here I am, redesigning everything because I can actually make it a reality now. Being that this has become a for profit venture at this point, I won't be able to post the build thread here until everything's done and settled. What I'm getting at here is that this site has become absolutely priceless to me and I'd love to work with a few of the guys on here to really build something. Right now, my budget only covers parts and tools and I'm doing the work in my spare time. Once I start making a little $$$, I'd love to donate. Is there an address where I can send a money order? (Banks/credit cards/paypal=evil)
Once this prototype is up and running and hits the market, I'm hoping that my financial situation will change drastically. Once that situation has changed, I will be looking for other projects to support, other inventors to set free financially and so on. I don't even like the concept of money but it's come to the point where I need some to get something done. Having stockpiles of cash is much less important to me than furthering the technology that's seething out of this forum.
I also need a BMS but haven't been able to find the right one yet. We need a new rule on here regarding thread hijacks and staying on topic. In the threads with the really cool stuff, there's ten posts that are relevant, and a hundred people blathering about totally different topics. I've been on the computer soooo much lately, it's frustrating trying to wade through everyone's genius barfings to get to the real info. It's my only problem with the way things are around here. Maybe if someone like fetcher comes out with something neat like a bms, it can get posted in a sticky thread that only fetcher can make posts in. Then we could start another thread titled "discussion of fetchers new bms". That way the real info is together and coherent. Just a thought.
I don't like ads. I'd love to contribute if it can be done through snail mail.
