throttle will be a motorbike-style twist for power
so you could hold it on while braking, or it may be a brake lever replacement so you hit thebrakes and it kills the motor, or even does regenerative braking
Anothe rdownside - increased mass on the front axle
batteries are heavy, although this does lower it quite well.
Waterproofing is always an issue
Solid tyre/tube means a harsh ride, which will have a lot of vibrations
@Mσᶎ it was one of my best bicycle trips probably. Very hard because the peninsula is literally made of young volcanoes and therefore there's no single flat place, but the views you get and the experiences with locals who are incredibly positive and open are worth it.
Have met several other cyclists who were going into opposite direction. One told that he saw a guy on a fixie unloading from the boat who was going to do the very same trip.
@SuspendedUser The mud/much one was the first thing I thought of. "motor only works on fine days on smooth roads" is not the best ad. I also wonder if you did an emergency stop or hit a pothole on an unsupported part of the rim what would happen. Especially if you were moving quickly at the time.
I suspect the lack of spoke holes will help the overall strength. Is it a normal rim that is undrilled or a special rim designed to track on the rollers.
Spoke holes don't affect strength a huge amount, at least on modern rims with both offset drilling and decent depth. I assume they have worked this stuff out and tested it, but I'd still like to see someone on a BMX track with it. The video does show a beach ride, snow and someone going off a kerb, so it might actually be up to it. But then they start out with "500W for 250 miles" which... well, let's just say it's an absolute revolution in battery energy density.
Assuming 30mph, that's 8 hours or 4000Wh, compared to a standard bike battery which is typically a tenth of that, but also twice the size and weight. So that's the part I'm actually excited about, because even a 10-fold increase in energy density would have a huge difference.
The actual text says "20 miles per hour for 20-50 miles", which is about 1000Wh, only 2-3 times as good as the best ebike batteries anyone else sells. It'll be interesting to see what actual performance is like once reviewers get their hands on them.
it's more distance/speed*power... and trying to make sense of what they're claiming.
eBike battery life is very much about how much the rider pedals, I just like taking the piss out of people who claim that "36V 6AH" (their actual battery) will deliver anything like their promises.
So - can I have an opinion on this? My I have a flashing light on my helmet (square pencil beam in video) and a solid one on my handlebars. Are they too bright ?
I politely feel that while they are not dim they are also not bad enough to warrant being yelled at by a bus driver out the open door of his bus while he drives.
You can see in the video how bright they are. My normal posture puts the flashing dot on the ground, and it only rises when I lift my head. Yes I am tall, 185cm.
Unrelated to this, but I run 5 rear lights.... three little red blinkies (one of which is on the helmet rear), a red torch that shines downward at an angle of 20 degrees off the vertical purely on the rear cassette and roadway, and an illuminator inside my grellow-coloured vest pocket - this looks yellow from the outside.
yeah - I figure that if a front dies I'll notice, but I've had situations where even two rears have gone out in the same ride and I didn't see. No rear lights is a bit silly.
There are a couple of guys at work who have their lights on every time, even in bright daylight
@ynnekkram Sweet! New Frame time! I guess you didn't see it developing... would have been interesting to know if it was sudden failure or gradual deterioration
@ynnekkram looks a bit second hand :( I suspect it's in a good place for a bit of TIG welding, steel frame and all.
@Criggie I'm with Batman on this, flashing front is not ideal. With a helmet light you can sweep it across people you're concerned about, so flashing isn't necessary. And you do have to be careful not to blind people. Remember that heavy vehicles generally have big mirrors with big field of view, and the drive can't adjust them from inside. So if you're shining stuff at their mirrors, it's going in their eyes. This is not like !!*!* cagers with their "everywhere is in my blind spot" bullshit.
FWIW I just have front and rear dyno lights plus a rear flasher, and occasionally use my backup handlebar light on flash mode when I'm in a particularly ugly situation round dusk crossing heavy traffic. Or the two roundabouts close to work where motorists are supposed to give way to me but often "don't see me"
But that's a ~5 year old, 2AA light, so even its "super-flash" mode is peaking at 80 lumens or less.
I need to replace it as well, it's started sulking when I try to turn it on, I suspect the flexible rubber covering the switch has let water into the innards.
