Recent content by Sarge1892

in my opinion if your gonna get 9into tinkering and modifying your bike you should get yourself something off the shelf in a more open format avoid the fancy mtbs with the built in batteries and go for something with a external shark or behind the seat style battery you can ride that around for...

you know they do make a device for military humvees that protect it against rpg's if a RPG is detected within a safe zone of about 3 meters around the humvee it deploys explosive counter measures to destroy the rpg perhaps we can adapt this technology to work on cars if they come within half a...

tiptoe carefully through a childs room full of legos slowly then sprint through you'll feel the difference

well I've never had a parked car shove me into the kerb or run me off the road when I was filtering through traffic at 3mph I have however had plenty cars overtake me and almost slap me with there wing mirrors as they pass me at 30 mph

depending on what you want in a bike you can get folders that have all the benefits of non folders like folding mountain bikes and such typically they just fold in the mid frame there not as compact as say a brompton but half theresize when folded that being said how committed are you to...

you know i just got to thinking isn't it funny how no one complains about mobility scooters which are usually driven by senile idiots who think they can do stuff like drive on motorways

honestly when a motorist says tax bikes and make them get insurance its usually because there envious that they have to pay those things to sit in there multi tonne fossil fueled arm chairs and don't think its fair the reality is tax is based of vehicle weight (bigger weight more damage to road...

I always find this ironic the tax is one thing and honestly is never going to be a issue 20 quid tops as for the insurance I've been looking into this and the funny part is for as dangerous they think we are our insurance is some of the cheapest you can get I think a quote I got was for 1200...

well that's where the law is on your side we can use traffic case law to help us there has been plenty of cases where speeding tickets have been successfully contested because they police either used a uncalibrated measuring device or a non certified method to judge your speed for example...

batteries most the time are easy to replace they fall into several catagoes and are fairly standardized 1 battery from 1 type should fit another from the same type even the behind the seat batteries are all the same battery with only minor non consequential differences (2 vs 3 pin) controllers...

yup and if he does not have a rack there's companies who make racks that mount only to seatpost which will carry a battery just fine topeak make some nice ones but just looking up seat post rack on amazon will show some other options otherwise if your issue is getting onto the seat with your...

avoid 13ah if you want 30+ miles of range idk what mix of pedaling and motor assist your planning to use but id say start at around 20ah if your planning to do all pedal assist and 30ah if your doing all throttle the way batteries are priced you will spend the biggest chunk just getting ANY...

id ask a few more questions 1 is this to be used fulltime for commuting or just when the weather is nice if full time you might want something with a little widertire tread than say a brompton to handle rain and even snow a little better 2 do you have ANY intentions of using public transport...

from what I've seen its generally 2 groups of people I see getting there stuff confiscated 1 suron or suron style ebikes my guess is that either A they are the easiest bike to spot at a glance that is 100% not legal or B given the demographic and the behavior I've seen there the most likely to...

that's good to know what is the restrictions for l1e? a project of mine is to do a fully custom build ebike at some point I was going to go msva route but I might look into l1e if the restrictions aren't too bad in the end although at present I don't think my 350w will pass even if ironically...