Recent content by paultrafalgar

Kalkhoff Pro Connect - Some data Here is a snapshot of a spreadsheet I made of rides on my Pro connect. Sorry, the headings are cut off. They are: A B C D E F G H Date | Points | Miles | Ridden |Ascent|AmpHrs|AmpHrs/Mile|...

Re 1.This would affect long trips as much as short ones surely? I do in fact charge immediately on return. Re.2 ditto i.e. this doesn't explain why short trips use pro-rata 4 times as much power. My suspicion is that there is something wrong with the metric "watt-hours/mile/ft ascent" but I...

BikeTrips On my Kalkhoff Pro Connect Here's a later version (part of a bigger spreadsheet). Sorry, the column headings are chopped off, the columns are: Date Points(in Fugawi) Miles Ridden(vsPlanned) TotalAscent(ft) WattHrs WattHrs/mile WattHrs/mile/ft(of ascent) There is a graph of...

Power consumption versus weight and total ascent Having bought a Kalkhoff Pro Connect on the 1st March, I read this thread (all 14 pages) with great interest. I attach a small spreadsheet of my rides intended to gauge power consumption. The results made me wonder if the battery capacity was...

Knoxie Snow Electric KMX For those who haven't seen it, here's Knoxie's beautiful video of an electric KMX in the snow: Snow KMX Electric Bike

Thanks for the response, I had given up hoping anyone knew:( I can't be the Paul from BVWS because I don't know what it is! I can't get anything from googling "Mecro Luton" so I guess they are defunct. I don't understand the difference between roller chain and bushing chain, can you...

Looking a the left hand edge of your photo I am puzzled. The chain appears to end and be zip-tied to the frame!? Does it go under the cross-member or what? Usually a picture is worth a 1000 words, but not this one :)

I'm planning to adapt a Currie Electrodrive. I need to know the chain size that it uses. I'm being told by some that it's 6mm and by others it's #25. Can someone please tell me definitively what size it is? Thanks

NuVinci + integration of motor and gear Here: http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/electric-bicycles/654-light-fastest-climbs-mountains-pretty-efficient-3.html?highlight=NuVinci#post8895 you say: Current "new" ideas like the NuVinci/Swizzbee etc are in my opinion over complex and/or doomed to...

NuVinci: Pudding the proof of? Flecc, thanks for your prompt reply. Since I sent my first post I have read a lot of your comments about the NuVinci and you seem to be not very keen on it. For example, in your post here...

I've had a Trice T recumbent trike for a few months. I would like to fit power assist and was thinking of using the Cyclone motor driving a NuVinci hub with LiFePO4 batteries. However, I'm now picking up bad news about the Cyclone and am wondering if I could use a Currie motor adapted to drive...